grahame galleries + editions

Stand 1 – grahame galleries + editions / numero uno publications

Joseph Beuys
Filzpostkarte, 1985

Felt postcard with screenprint. 10.5 x 15 x 0.9 cm. Edition Staeck in an unlimited edition. May be ordered

Joseph Beuys
Holzpostkarte, 1974

Postcard on spruce-wood with screenprint. 10.5 x 15 x 3.3 cm. Edition Staeck in an unlimited edition. May be ordered

Christian Boltanski
SCRATCH, 2002

A ‘scratch it’ book. Only by the slow and boreing process of scratching to remove the silver surface are the shocking images revealed. The process is something akin to dragging up forgotten memories. Five pages covered front and back with a silver surface. 15 x 22 cm. Unlimited edition. may be ordered

G. W. Bot
Black Swan, 2007

Black Swan has the text of a Russian poem (with English translation) by the Russian symbolist poet K.D. Bal’mont who visited Australia in 1912. He was so struck by the destruction of the country by white Australians in the quest for economic prosperity that he wrote this poem as a warning to white man to think and take note of what Australia is, before destroying it. In 2007 little has changed, except for the worse. The book, made as a family history, honours two people who lived and made a contribution to this life, two people who made up the family I belong to, who valued the beauty of the word and the kingfisher, rather than the destructive greed of economic rationalism. Linocuts with handwritten text on BFK paper, unique (sold). Edition with letterpress: edition + artist book studio 2007 ANU, Canberra. Signed and dated. 18 x 46 cm. Self-published in an edition of 15. $5,000

Louise Bourgeois
Ode à la Bièvre, 2007

All 25 colour pages of the original fabric work by Bourgeois are reproduced. 52 pp, 25 full page colour reproductions with text by the artist. 28 x 40 cm. Zucker Art Books in an edition of 1800. $185
And a limited edition: containing two signed and numbered photographs entitled The Garden in Antony, 1921 and The Bièvre River, 1951, printed on Verona paper and mounted on 300 g watercolour paper. Hand bound with distressed linen. 30 x 41 cm. Zucker Art Books in an edition of 95 plus 25 artist proofs. May be ordered.

Darren Bryant and Joanna Kambourian
44 Solutions (Vol 1), 2007
A new, crisp, white, starched and ironed shirt is presented for sale. Its inherent qualities, how it is folded and labeled presents a model for marketability. Like a history lesson, this uniform is prescribed to its wearer. The battle for history continues… Boxed, white cotton long sleeved shirt, digital prints. 34.7 x 26.7 x 6 cm. Unique. $330

Angela Cavalieri and Peter Lyssiotis
1316 – Book 2, 2007

Book 2 is a further response to Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”, in particular to “Purgatory”. In Book 1, the artists confronted the problems raised by the circle as a narrative devise. Here, they used the triangle (the summit of Mount Purgatory) as their guiding design principle. Linocuts and screenprints are accompanied by handwritten text in paint, ink and pencil. The photographic images have been printed on Epsom 10,000, using its archival process. Loose-leaf book is housed in a grey linen Solander box. Published by Masterthief in an edition of 10 plus 2 a/p. $2000

Jan Davis
GOGO GIRL, 2007

Could be viewed as the sad life story of a busy woman or an invitation to take time to reflect. Hand-stamped. 12 x 13 cm. Published by numero uno publications in an edition of 5. $165

Jan Davis
the garden book, 2000

The garden book documents the life-cycle of a flower. The book was made as part of the Candide’s Garden series where the artist was experimenting with the relationship between the garden bed and the white page, between planting rows of seed and writing lines of text. The garden book documents the sown seed, the sprouted seedling, and the full blooming flower, which ripens into a fruit. The book concludes with the seeds scattered by the breeze. Sometimes the plant is an altered photographic image, or an ink and brush drawing, and at other times rows of the letter ‘t t t t t t t t’ parade like freshly-sprouted seedlings, or the letter ‘o’ wafts randomly across the page as seed does across the sky in late summer. Signed and dated. 12 x 20.3 x .8 cm. Self-published in an edition of 10. $165

Carolyn Dodds
Backyard Allegory, 2007

Woodblocks printed in black on Chinese paper As the personal is political, so the everyday can be seen to be redolent with deeper significance. I’ve been using scrap timber in my work for a while, firstly using frottage, then sketching on small pieces and making woodcuts: some of these blocks were already cut, but when Noreen told me about this book show I realised that I’d started making this book without realising it. Folding book 14.5 x 19 cm (14.5 x 138 cm open) Edition of 5 plus 1 trial proof and 1 artist proof. $420

Noreen Grahame
Lessons in dictation, 2007

The absurdity of the dictation test as proscribed in Section 3(a) of the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901 is evident in the farce surrounding the 1934 Eugon Kisch incident. Kisch, a Czech national and a communist, was invited to speak at a meeting organised by The Movement Against War and Fascism. Wanting to prevent him entering the country and speaking, the Australian government of the day, ordered he undergo a dictation test in Scottish Gaelic, a language they were sure the multi-lingual Kisch would not know, would fail and then be deported! Recent discussions about reviving the dictation to prove eligibility for Australian citizenship indicates we have not learned this lesson of history. 12 pp, 24.7 x 19.5 cm. numero uno publications hand writing on slate printed offset. Edition of 100 plus 10 ap. $55.00

Noreen Grahame
Monsieur Le Président, 1995

A protest flip book about the resumption of French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The word ‘non’ gradually gets bigger as the reader flips the pages until it almost shouts “NON, Monsieur Le Président”. Also comes for southpaws. Signed. 14 pp. 3.5 x 12 cm. Laserprint. numero uno publications. Open-ended edition $11

Noreen Grahame
Mein Lieber Herr, 2005

The typical Ja, Ja, Ja! until it become tja, tja (oh well!). Signed. 14 pp. 3.5 x 12 cm. Laserprint. numero uno publications. Open-ended edition $11

Noreen Grahame and Jan Davis
the case of the extremely glad gallerist, 2001

A flip book for galleries, artists and others who are red blind. From ‘The Comments Series’. 24 pp, 9 x 12 cm. numero uno publications, signed and numbered in a edition of 200. $38.50

Noreen Grahame and Jan Davis
the case of the extremely sad gallerist, 2001

A flip book for galleries, artists and others who remain ever hopeful. From ‘The Comments Series’. 24 pp, 9 x 12 cm. numero uno publications, signed and numbered in a edition of 200. $38.50

Juli Haas
Birds of a Feather, 2007

Open the red flock and black ribbon covers to reveal a bizarre night scene consisting of feathered and insectile forms with human features flying through a night landscape. Floating amongst the creatures are an assortment of proverbs, rhymes and lines from songs. Despite the individual aspect of each feathered creature, they all share and spout the same popular notions ,songs cliches etc. Drypoint, watercolour lace and feather. Concertina format. 28.5 x 15 x 2 cm. Unique. $990

Juli Haas
The Oyster Book of Lessons from the Memory Room, 2007

Here is an historical treasury (tastefully embellished) and filled with words of wisdom gleaned from times harking back to the era of our great-grandmothers. These lessons from the memory room will provide guidance for the modern young woman. 29 x 35 cm, black flock covers bound with ribbon and gold embroidery thread. Self-published digital images. Edition of 30 $770

Jan Hogan
Trembles at thy Touch, 2006
The cover is soft cloth made from an old skirt I always wore when walking in summer. Each page has been drawn on Gundaroo Common, a site that I walk on most days with my dog. The drawings are done with my fingerprints and allude to the sense of touch but also to the passing of time. The fingerprints are rubbed back with an eraser and begin to shimmer, looking like figures emerging or disappearing into the field of vision. The work acknowledges the Indigenous presence in the land and allows the environment to influence the mark. As the drawings were done during the drought they convey the dry expanse of the paddocks and the tenuous state of the land. Drawings on single sheets sewn together in a Japanese style binding. Signed and dated. 14 pp. 21 x 20 2 cm. Unique. $330

Jan Hogan
Presence, Gundaroo Common, 2006
Each page of Presence was done on Gundaroo Common, a 200-acre plot of land put aside for villagers to raise cattle on. The artist walks on this site each day and this work is about her journeying across the land and a contemplation of who may have been here before her. She wishs to acknowledge the Indigenous presence in the land as well as the settlers who have shaped the current environment. Each page in the book is a rubbing of the land as she travels across it. The paper records her fingerprints and the dirt from the common. It holds traces of the undulations in the land and glimpses of the layers of occupation. Her fingerprints become ghostly reminders of people or landforms as they are erased and covered again. European bound covered in a remnant of Buckram with stitching running down the front cover echoing a fence line around a site of land. Signed and dated. 14 pp. 22 x 31 x 1 cm. Unique. $330

Jenny Holzer
Wood Postcards – multiples

Lack of Charisma can be fatal
Fathers often use too much force
Abuse of power comes as no surprise
Torture is barbaric
Money creates taste
You are caught thinking about killing anyone you want
Murder has its sexual side
Private Property created crime
The beginning of the war will be secret
The breakdown comes when you stop controlling yourself and want the release of a bloodbath
Men don’t protect you anymore; Raise boys and girls the same way
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid
In a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy
You are guileless in your dreams
9 x 14 cm.

John Honeywill
Memory Maps, 1993

The fading memories of a father who passed away twenty-five years ago and a mother’s memory affected by Alzheimer’s disease emphasise the tenuous hold on the source of memories. Honeywill’s book explores these links with the past through ‘the residual feelings that remain from memories that are lost. With extract from a short story ‘Water in the Wires’ by Ross Honeywill. Screenprinted images and text. 15.2 x 20.5 cm. Signed and numbered. grahame galleries + editions in an edition of 100. $99

Roni Horn
Index Cixous, 2005

120 Seiten with 65 Tritone and 15 colour imges. 14 x 20.5 cm. Softcover in slipcase plus C Print 19.2 x 13 cm. Signed and numbered. Published by Steidl Verlag in an edition of 100. $770

Robert Jacks
Rubber Stamp Books

Twelve Red Grids hand stamped New York 1973
Twelve Drawings hand stamped New York 1974
Color book hand stamped New York 1975
1975—1976 hand stamped New York
Lines dots hand stamped Austin Texas 1976
Lines dots number two hand stamped Houston Texas 1977
Dots hand stamped New York 1978
Vertical & horizontal hand stamped Melbourne 1978
Red dots hand stamped Sydney 1979
Black lines hand stamped Sydney 1980
Green Lines hand stamped Sydney 1981
Right..left hand stamped Sydney 1982
30 pp, 11.5 x 12.8 cm.
Self-published, New York, Houston, Austin, USA; Melbourne and Sydney, 1973 — 1982. Unknown edition. Singles $275 Set of twelve $2750

Alison Knowles and Michael Phillips
A Common Boat, 2004

A collection of print ephemera, collage and illustrations related to legumes, specifically beans. Material gathered, edited and collated from the archives of Alison Knowles and Michael Phillips. Printed single colour, green/brown ink, red card cover (French fold) with full colour dust jacket. Numbered.128 pp. 24 x 17 x 1.5 cm. Self-published in an edition of 1000. $55

Bruno Leti
The Cross and the Matrix, 2006-2007

Journal / Diary of Leti’s Creative Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria. We follow the artist’s journey of contemplation during the Fellowship. Laser prints of works – paintings, drawings, photographs, sketches, texts and monotypes – made during this period. Signed. 26 x 18 x 4 cm. Binding and slipcase by Harry Mainnie. Self-published in an edition of 20 (19 plus one unbound). $1350

Peter Lyssiotis
7 Disrupted Interviews With History, 2007

Photomontage began with John Heartfield and George Grosz in Germany as a response to the rise of Nazism. Heartfield’s motto, “Use photography as a weapon” is the guiding principle behind 7 Disrupted Interviews With History. On the one hand it is a critique on the death while in police custody of Molrunji Doomadgee, and on the other a celebration of the Noongah peoples’ successful native title claim in Western Australia. 22.5 x 15 cm. Photomontage. Masterthief in an edition of 25. $660

Ron McBurnie
A walk along the edge of Mundingburra
Townsville, Queensland, self-published, 1996. Inkjet colour prints.
The Mundingburra by-election in early 1996 was indeed a controversial one for Queensland. I live on the edge of Mundingburra. This book documents a walk that I made down my street and along its border. Colour inkjet prints from photographs taken by Glen O’Malley. This book follows in the footsteps of Ed Ruscha. Perfect bound with Arches Rives cover. 146pp, 14.5×20.5x.3cm.
Edition: 10
$770.00

Jennifer Marshall
Object Drawing – a fragmented history lesson, 2007

Some material evidence for a nineteenth century Australasian Maritime History. The artist has explored bits of worm-eaten, cracked and split material remains of wooden ship figureheads from wreaks held in Tasmanian museums. The endpapers provide the first clue and lead to the first lesson, which begins with some unidentified shapes that are gradually revealed in the first drawings (offset etchings) to be fragments of images of women. The second lesson repeats what has been learnt but reveals more. Some prints have touches of watercolour to help the viewer further identify these fragments. Those that are freestanding are shown from more than one viewpoint. The third and last lesson provides a lot more information about the shape and texture of these objects and their current state of preservation (or lack of). One image in particular is repeated more than once in each lesson. This is part of a woman’s torso found in S.W. Tasmania. The head (with axe marks on the neck where it has been chopped off the figurehead) and the lower arm with a bracelet have all been ascribed to the same wreck but they do not fit together…being too small for the body. On the other hand the headless woman (from Macquarie island) has been connected to Joseph Conrad and a ship on which he served that lost its figurehead in the Southern Ocean when it struck an iceberg. Marshall’s depiction of these material remains provide history lessons as revealing as the study of written records and texts. Printed on Arches Ingres, leather bound 48 pp 27 x 22 cm. self-published in an edition of 3. $2,500

Milan Milojevic
hello splodge 2007

Inspired by the artist’s love of lithography and made for his son. We follow the puddle ’splodge’ around the world. 12.5 x 12.5 x 1.5 cm. Self-published in an signed and numbered edition of 10 $385 and an signed unlimited edition $22 (may be ordered)

Karen Papacek
Fool, 2004

Original text written on strips of Aquari paper are attached like bristles into the head of an old paintbrush. The text is arranged randomly around the brush head and although the title is Fool it could also be called ‘The Painter’s Lament’. The piece was inspired by the Chinese philosopher LaoTzu and applied to the dilema of creativity. Ink, paper, wood, metal plus found object. Signed and dated. 52 x 24 x 24 cm. Edition of 10 individual pieces. $3,500

Sigmar Polke
Daphne, 2004

Written by Polke with a contribution by Reiner Speck. In the 23 chapters of Daphne all of Polke’s working methods using the photocopier come to the fore. 440 pp. 29 x 41.5 cm with 400 b/w Xerographies. Numberd and signed. Published by Snoeck in an edition of 1000. May be ordered.

Dieter Roth
1234 most speedy drawings, 1987

A Dieter Roth classic. Collected Works, Volume 37. Reproductions of drawings, printed offset. 1234 pp. 23 x 17 x 6.5 cm. Edition Hansjörg Mayer in an edition of 600.

Dieter Roth
Die die Die DIE GESAMTE VERDAMMTE SCHEISSE, 1975

A Dieter Roth classic. 342 pp. 26 x 18 cm. Dr Cantz’sche Druckerei in an edition of 400 numbered and signed. (may be ordered)

Dieter Roth
246 little clouds, 1976

A Dieter Roth classic. Collected works volume 17. Reconstruction of the book published by Someting Else Press in 1968. Edition Hansjörg Mayer in an edition of 1000. (may be ordered)

Edward Ruscha
S, 2001

‘S’ contains 26 colour reproduction of the altered covers of books. Ruscha has adorned covers with the letter ‘S’ in varied sizes and fonts, and has managed to take something as simple as a letter, and turn it into something bigger and more important. 26 ‘S’s’ a new alphabet! 77pp. 20.2 x 14.5 cm. Self-published (and made possible by an award from the Coutts Contemporary Arts Foundation, Zurich) in an edition of 2000. $125 (sold)

Colin Sackett
Writing and readings 1991 – 2002 / English publishing

With the sub-title ‘English publishing’ this is a collection of Sackett’s concrete poetry. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Published by Coracel Ireland / SIXTUS/ EDITIONS France/ SPACEX England. $44

Michael Schlitz
les sons of history, 2007

We follow Schlitz’s ’sons’ of history in these tightly cut woodblocks. We follow their history making from the first image ‘every mothers’. On we go with ’swampman of the desert’, ‘explorers dream’ and ‘man on horizon’. All are searching and all are hopeful. Then comes ‘fear of an edge’ and ‘within the heart of another mans past’ and others on to ‘momento mori’. les sons of history reflects all the hope and angst of those who make and those who wish to make history. 28 x 50 cm. Bound by Fred Pohlmann. numero uno publications in an edition of 10 + 2 ap. $1650

Michael Schlitz
the nature of things, 2005

Ten woodengravings on Japanese Kozo paper accompanied by the artist’s text screenprinted opposite the black images in light ink. the nature of things relates tales about the human condition from a personal perspective. Japanese binding by Fred Pohlmann. 20 pp, 24.7 x 27.2 cm. Signed and numbered. numero uno publications in an edition of 10. $1,100

usus: Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz
boundless, 2002

Conceived, designed and printed during a stay as artists-in-residence at Nexus Press in Atlanta. This book explores the parallelism of books and boats, both being containers and means of transport. The 7 chapters come as 7 concertinas with texts by the artists and quotes from various sources, all in their original language (English, German, Latin). Folded out, one sees collaborative drawings. Turned over, one sees photographs of a boat passing underneath a bridge, all 7 add up to show the whole boat. This book is also a bridge: connecting Europe and America, text and image, old and new…
The book has won several awards: The 1st Seoul International Book Arts Award (2005) and the Kulturpreis (culture award) of the city of Offenbach am Main (2003); it was also shortlisted for the Walter Tiemann-Preis In Leipzig (2004). $145 plus postage and handling.

usus: Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz
trans—lation, 2007

Dem Moeglichkeitssinn Flaeche, Raum und Stimme geben.
Lending surface, space and voice to the sense of possibility
With 380 four colour illustrations on 248 pages, this book is more than a catalogue. On the occasion of their recent solo exhibition at the Klingspor Museum it presents the work of the artists’ duo usus, showing mainly work of the last 10 years (as the first 10 years’ work was presented in the catalogue: Unica T: 10 years of artists’ books in 1996).
Whereas those first 10 years were mainly dedicated to the artist’s book, the following decade showed a progression into various directions: the text explored space and turned into installations, and the focus on drawings got stronger and led to a body of work of its own. Poetry and prose written by the artists are presented here as a category of its own right. And of course, the artist’s book was never lost sight of. The 3 chapters are Sprache/Letters; Bild/View and Vorbilder/Sisters in Art, the latter dealing with the Sibyls, the ancient book women, a project that Ulrike Stoltz has pursued for more than 10 years resulting in a large number of books, installations, and drawings. The artists’ duo’s work is recognized in texts by Stefan Soltek (director of Klingspor Museum Offenbach am Main); Johannes Strugalla (artist, publisher; Paris/Mainz); Etel Adnan (writer, painter; Paris/ San Francisco/Beirut); Lutz Hesse (writer, poet, librarian, editor; Frankfurt am Main); Clemens Ottnad (director of Kunsthalle Reutlingen); Marie-Anne Augustin (dancer, gallerist; Frankfurt am Main); Barbara Tetenbaum (book artist, professor OSAC, Portland, OR, USA); Christopher Wilde (artist, co-founder of Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, NY, USA). (All these texts in English and German.) $99 plus postage and handling

Alex Selenitsch
Schach #1 (circle) found book with curved cuts
Schach #2 (triangle) found book with straight cuts
Schach #3 (square), 2006 found book with straight cuts

How big are the three geometric forms cut out of these little books? What is the relationship of ‘blank/S.Sch’ (nothing/hiss/white noise) to the circle triangle and square? And what a beautiful green! Altered books. Ea 15 x 9.5 cm. Unique. $600

Alex Selenitsch
one sky, two hemispheres, 2006

When this book is closed, every sheet of paper carries the same holes. But when ope, LHS and RHS are mirrored. Either way, the holes constantly re-assert the format of the book against blank page, text and photograph. Found book with drilled holes 23.5 x 24.5 cm. Unique $350

Matthew Sleeth
Red China, 2005

In Red China Sleeth focuses on a culture in transion via the use of a simple compositional and conceptual device – the colour red.
In Chinese culture red is traditionally an auspicious colour signifying good fortune and happiness, but of-course it is also the colour associated internationally with communism and codified in the name by which China was known for so many years in the west – “Red China”. The ‘red China’ in these photographs is however a different culture from the Red China of old, for now as the political system changes and opens its doors to the west, new and seemingly contradictory elements arise and exist alongside the old.
In Sleeth’s photographs, red coloured objects dominate our field of vision, while all else around them recedes in a monochromatic wash. Red here now also stands for the seductive colour of contemporary international consumerism, of neon, shopping, tourism and Coca-Cila. While the images engage with the China of today, the form of the artist book, with its recycled card covers and hand cut detailing on the matching slipcase, playfully harks back to a fast fading historical epoch. 8 original type C prints, hand printed by the artist. Hard bound in slip case. 35 x 48.5 x 3.2 cm. Published by Josef Lebovic Gallery in an edition of 15. $3,300

Matthew Sleeth
News + Weather, 2006
During the 2005/6 Japanese winter we lived in Tokyo and I made this book as a way of keeping in touch with ‘home’ while engaging with ‘away’. Each day I copied the most popular article from the website of Melbourne’s ‘Age’ newspaper and matched it to an image I had made that day, usually in Tokyo. The caption of each picture is a description of the weather and place where the picture was taken and the date. The text does not explain the content of the image, nor the image illustrate the text. Rather, each juxtaposition reflects the experience of being an outsider in another culture while retaining an interest in your own. 26 x 20 cm. Unbleached commercial scrapbook with handwritten text in ink, printed ink jet text on white paper and type C prints. Edition of 7. (a/p on show) $3850

Richard Tipping
Multiples – metal signs

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Judy Watson
under the act, 2007

Judy Watson’s new artist’s book under the act (2007) made its debut as a work in progress in Lessons in History Vol 1, an exhibition of artists’ books looking at history and the lessons of history, held at grahame galleries + editions in March/April 2007.
As with the artist’s first artist’s book, a preponderance of aboriginal blood (2005), which deals with aboriginal people’s Right to Vote, Judy Watson has drawn on letters, papers and official documents found in the Queensland State Archives as well as personal family photographs as a base for under the act. The documents from the archives this time, however, pertain to her great-grandmother and grandmother who lived under the Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of Sale of Opium Acts of 1897. They also reveal the categories, ‘full blood’, ‘half-cast’, ‘quadroon’, ‘octeroon’, ascribed to aboriginal people of the day.
Using etching and lithographic techniques this work makes a powerful statement about life Under the Act. Amongst documents from the archives used in the book is Watson’s great grandmother’s ‘exemption card’. These cards allowed holders to live and work outside the reservations, and were called ‘dog tags’ by their holders, as they were obliged to carry them on their person at all times. Also included are letters of objection from various parties to authorities at the time Watson’s aboriginal grandmother and white grandfather were seeking permission to marry.
In documenting her family’s life in under the act, Watson etches the history of all Aboriginal people who lived Under the Act.
Twenty etchings with chine collé, 42 x 30.5 cm in folio 43 x 32 cm (closed) 71.3 x 99.2 cm (open). numero uno publications in an edition of 20 plus 5 a/p. $16,500

Normana Wight
‘Towards Comfort…’, 2007

A really small history. The making of a cup of tea. What’s that quote about the world in a grain of sand? Something like that. 11 x 15.5 x 3 cm Printer: Pasi Ihalainen. Self-published digital print on Hahnmule paper. Edition of 10. $660

Philip Zimmermann
High Tension, 1993

Pages die-cut into saw-toothed and diagonal shapes, three colour offset lithography prepared on computer.  High Tension is the perfect book for those of us who enjoy tension. It reflects the swings between despair and hope.
The first page opens to reveal a train rushing towards us.
Text: ‘Your heart pounds. Your breathing is shallow’
The last page shows the back of the train….
Text: ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you storng.’ 96pp, c. 20×14cm. Published by Montage 93 in an edition of 1000. $165