Stand 8 – Individual artists
Lyn Ashby
Alphatopo (version 2), 2007
An unknown future ancient text shines some light on a possible ancestry and imagined future for the code we call written language. Where did these marks come from and where might they take us? 24 cm x 33 cm. Handmade, hardbound. Self-published in an edition of 75. (may be ordered) $800
Susan Baran
Talavera Garden and Patchwork, 2006
Concertina format with small concertina insert and slip cover using hand printed photopolymer intaglio prints. Signed and dated. 8 section concertina. 29 x 14 x 3 cm. Unique. $490
Lorraine Brown
A Mollusc, 2007
A scallop is born, lives in the ocean, is caught, consumed by humans and the shell is then discarded. This particular shell was caught near North Stradbroke Island. Its beauty has been captured by the artist with four paintings of small scallop shells in acrylic and colour pencil accompanied by text printed from an ink jet printer on 120gsm Velata Avorio. The text consists of scientific, historic, cooking and general information about the scallop. Scallop shell covers tied with leather. Signed and dated. 16pp. 10.8 x 10.8 x .8 cm. Unique. $395
Lorelei Anne Clark
Hand Book, 2007
Stab bound on both sides Hand Book opens by folding back the two halves of the jigsaw style cover. The pages are contained in plastic gloves and fold back from each side meeting in the centre like a handshake. The pages are collages of text and imagery and talk about our hands, their structure, the way they evolved, how they work and how we use them. 16pp. 28 x 33 x 1 cm. Self-published in an edition of 100. $110
Christina Cordero
Looking Up, 2007
Box standing 12.5 cm high with lid like opening at top tied with ribbon. Lid opens out horizontally to concertina format miroesque images of, amongst others, ladders, boats, houses and fish. Etching, aquatint and chine collé plus collaged etching on front. Signed and dated on bottom. 12.5 x 7.0 x 7.0 cm. Self-published, North Bondi, NSW. Unique. $660
Marian Crawford
Rare victorians 3, 2007
Cullen tenax (Tough Scurf-pea) and Pultanaea graveolens (Scented Bush-pea) are plants from the artist’s home state of Victoria. Both are listed as threatened under the Flora & Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 and reported in a 2005 publication by the Victorian Dept. of Sustainability & Environment. As research for an on-going project that explores representations of loss via the metaphor of environmental degradation, the artist studied specimens of both these plants in the collection of the Herbarium of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens. Her etching and gouache images may be all we will have to appreciate disappearing fauna. 8 pp. Self-published, Melbourne. 15 x 15 x .5 cm. Unique. $440
Peter Crocker
Figments, 2007
A series of 10 ink and gouache images unbound in box. Signed and dated. 10 pp. 3.2 x 15.2 x 10.6 cm. Unique. $350
Matt Dabrowski and the Many Hands of Glamour
vortex book, 2007
Outside our unanimous agreement about the perceived formal structure of our passage of experience, everything happens at once. The vortex books allude to the mechanics of the chronological and spatial framework that conjoin in the idea of ‘reality’. The hurricane, winding its way through maps of space, is the quantum physicians’ idea of the shape of time. The book is a material symbolic reminder that the only constants in our existential embrace are change, potential and choice. 10 x UBD street directories with void. 5,000 pp. 29 x 22 x 25 cm. On-going project. $990
Universal Publishers generously and unconditionally sponsor this project.
Barbara Davidson
Sydney Places and Plants, 2005
The first thing that catches the eye is the delightful hand painted cover. Inspired by Margaret Preston’s linocuts and stencils, this book contains a series of original prints in etching, watercolour and chine collé on 100% Magnani paper 300 gsm. French simplicity binding, hand painted cover and end papers, with kangaroo leather spine. Signed and dated, 14 pp, 26 x 21 x 1 cm. Self-published, Sydney in an edition of 3. $1,900
Wim de Vos
Re-Generation, 2007
1/4 circle parts made up of engraved panels held together by a tube and rod of perspex, pinn ed at either end with a brass rod. The book, when pages are set at various intervals, create a circular shope. The book rests on a black perspex plinth. Signed and dated. 21 x 17.6 x 3 cm. Self published in an edition of 5. $670
Sorour Fattahi
Storyteller, 2005
The artist is from Iran. After moving to Brisbane in 2003, she has been focusing on the notion of ‘Displacement and Identity’ in her work. She tries to reveal the experience of dislocation and its inevitable outcomes: suspension, gap, contrast, and nostalgia; the suspension of living in-between different cultures, the gap of belonging to the surrounding community, the contrast of Self and Others, and the nostalgia for tradition in the modern world. This book contains stories from her homeland and the tales from faraway lands. These stories mingle the past with the present, and merge the two worlds she is in-between. Monoprint with drawing and text. 24 pp. 20.5 x 15 x 15 cm. Unique. $375
Dianne Fogwell
Portrait of Jane, 2007
My godmother (Jane) has dementia and has become a shadow of the vivacious woman I remember. I wanted to make a work about her before my memory of her fades as well. Sadly this personal reflection is a common story told. Images are linocuts and woodcuts printed on soft hand-made Korean paper, stitched and cased in black solander box. Signed and dated. 18 pp, 21 x 29 x 1.5 cm. Self-published. Editioned (as ordered though each book will be different). $990
Dianne Fogwell
Book of Everything, 2007
An imprint of a selection of the artist’s relief blocks ranging from animal, plant and human belongings made between 2004 and 2007. The book is printed on Fabriano paper and housed in a black solander box. Signed and dated. 65 pp, 28 x 50 x 3 cm. Self-published. Edtioned (as ordered, though each book will be different). $3,300
Dianne Fogwell
The ExLibris for the Unknown, 2007
The ExLibris defines its owner. This is the first in a series of Ex Libris looking for who wants to own them. The images are linocuts and woodcuts printed on Magnani paper bound in a soft cover. Each Ex Libris in the book can be printed in a set to order. Signed and dated. 25 pp, 17 x 12.5 x 1 cm. Self-published. Editioned as ordered.$330
Angela Gill
Passionate Pastimes
Passionate Pastimes is a narrative of the artist’s ongoing fascination with the human condition. It attempts to capture the humorous interaction of everyday situations that occur in the passing parade of life. The artist’s love of drawing is expressed through the printmaking mediums of etching and aquatint. Signed and numbered. 10 pp in concertina format, 15.5 x 11.5 x 2 cm. Self-published. Unique. $990
Trudy Goodwin and Wendy Ford
My Mother’s Voice, 2007
A collaboraton between Wendy Ford, who wrote the text, and her sister and artist, Trudy Goodwin. Wendy’s words delve deep into a search for the voice of a mother she never knew and accompany Trudy’s images. Images the artist feels are attempts at reconstructing the limited knowledge of their mother’s life resulting in ethereal and romantic versions of events. Hand-bound Coptic stitch book of zinc etchings on Hahnemühle paper hand painted with pigmented ink. Handmade book cover with engraved zinc name-plate. Contained in handmade box. 17 pp. 12 x 11 x 2 with 12. Self-published in an edition of 10. $440
Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, Penelope Lee
Ex-Ile, 2007
This book tells the story of two islands; Daniel Maximin’s ex-isle, Guadeloupe, and the island of Nathalie Hartog-Gautier and Penelope Lee, Australia.
Words need paper in order to be written, and it is important to begin this process by creating each leaf of paper on which the story is narrated. Thus the choice of cotton as the fibre used to make handmade paper is a reminder of history, of slavery and of Daniel Maximin’s ancestors but also each page, during its formation, is itself an island drawn from the water. This ‘island’ is then couched into a page on which the texts and images will be born.
Each title is a watermark; traces left on the paper when the water has drained away, like the marks of boat leaving a wake behind her, a thread leading to the story.
The artworks complementing the text move backwards and forwards between two countries acting like the negative of a film of which the text is a developer; metaphors for marks left by time on the surface of an ancient volcano, of memories and journeys that symbolise of Nathalie’s migration to Australia.
Another narrative thread is revealed in Penelope’s binding; one where stitches join words and images, the past and the present, the beginning and the end, bound between suitcase covers, of an ex-isled memory.
Hand-made book with hand-made paper. 28 pp, 31 x 31 x 2.5 cm. Signed and numbered. Published by Transignum in an edition of 15.$1500
Karen Landt-Isley
Coral sea, Magnetic Island, 2004
The pleasurable feeling of the waves as they swirl along the shoreline of Magnetic Island, collecting coral and shells for their new journey as the tides comes and goes are reflected in these two books. Cyanotype images of coral and shells in perspex container accompany found objects from the seashore. Ea book 28pp and 19 x 15 x 3 cm. Container 40 x 40 x 9 cm. Unique. $880
Clyde McGill
the list (the coda), 2007
We all have needs, wants, wishes but what happens to them? Are they fulfilled or do they languish in our dreams. This is the story of one person’s way of looking at his list and how it affects others. It is told in words and images. Hand printed screenprints and ink on found paper, bound and stitched. Signed and dated. 12 pp. 22 x 17 x 0.5 cm. Self-published in an edition of 6. $960
Clyde McGill
The Conversation, 2007
Those fragments of conversation as we meet each other then fly away to be found by who knows. Unbound etchings contained in a hinged box. Signed and dated. 12 pp. 12 x 20 x 2 cm. Bound box by Life Editions, Perth. Self-published in an edition of 10. $890
Helen Malone
The Battle Within , 2007
The effects of war on those who have returned from war service and the effects on their families is told in images and text in The Battle Within. Many endure a lifetime of suffering, a lifetime of living with the “enemy withinâ€. The artist uses the concertina format with inward-folding inserted pages, to reflect an inward post-traumatic state. It contains inkjet prints of text, drawings, cut-out and collagraph. Signed and numbered. 7 pp, 22 x 11 x 4 cm. Self-published, Brisbane in an edition of 5. $360
Tania Murray
fifteenth day eighth moon
Time, a concept that embraces both science and spirit. The artist has assembled a collection of verse and narrative that leads the reader to discover their own personal truths from connections made between the journal words, haiku poetry and book text. Links within lines are created by their own accord or discord. Time is eternity today. Astronomy reference book, anagama kiln ceramic in perspex box. Signed and dated. 365 pp, 26 x 17 x 7 cm. Unique. $200
Mary Newsome
Country Haiku, 2007
Twenty original haikus with accompanying illustrations by the artist digitally printed on archival inks on Chinese calligraphy paper. Protective paste-paper cover, Japanese binding in red silk cord. Signed and dated. 20 pp. 21.2 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm. Published by Villa Modeste Workshop in an edition of 30. $495
Monica Oppen
Botanikos, 2007
A celebration of the significance of plants to the existence of all life on this planet. Text and duotone photographs reproduced by offset printing on Mangani paper. Codex, laced-on blackwood ply boards. Housed in a clamshell box. 40 pp, 23.5 x 33.5 x 1.5 cm. Signed and dated. Ant Press in an edition of 10. $1,200
Monica Oppen and Peter Lyssiotis
Seven Rooms, 2007
Seven Rooms explores the possibility of change, both personal and cultural. Codex design, sewn with raised cords, designed paper binding, printed offset with photomontage and text on Mowhawk Superfine paper. Housed in clamshell box. 134 pp. 23.5 x 21.5 x 3.0 cm. Signed and dated. Ant Press and Masterthief in an edition of 17. $1,600
Adelé Outteridge
Gaia II, 2007
Perspex pages, sewn in single sheet, Coptic stitch. Sewing threads form a sculptural shape. The book can be ‘read’ while closed. Signed. 16 pp. 14 x 9 x 2.5 cm. Self-published in an edition of 5 plus a/p. $770
John Parkes
ANN ATE, 2007
A poem of twenty-three (23) three (3) letter words stamped out on Stonehenge paper with a rubber stamp set. The concertina format book is wrapped in white cloth, which is secured with a safety pin. 27 pp, bound 7 x 8.5 cm x 3 cm, opened 7 x 8.5 x 229 cm. Signed and dated on last page. Self-published in an edition of 5 + 1 AP. $280
Sabine Pick
Indulgence in Cornflower; Poem for a new friend, 2007
Indulgence in Cornflower is a limited edition poetry book. The poem is by Marianne Lambert who lives in London, UK. The pages are letterpress printed on a 1936 Chandler & Price platen press. All the hand lettering and the printing are by the artist. Each book is unique even from each other in an edition of 5. The lettering style and colours are meant to compliment the ethereal nature of the words. The colours, textures and printing process add depth to the experience of the book by heightening the senses of touch and sight. Signed and dated. 18 pp. 13 x 17 x 1 cm. Perfect bound with hard cover. Self-published in an edition of 5. $275
Lesley Pople and Sue Anderson
Australia Unfair, 2007
The current political climate in Australia where dissent has become increasingly stifled is alluded to in this work. Invoking the protest artform of graffiti, Australia Unfair accordingly forces a confrontation between rhetoric and reality to seriously question thee direction the country as taken under the John Howard’s flagship. Bockingford inkjet with Kangaroo binding. 9 pp. 25 x 30 cm. Signed and dated. Unique. $1,100
Jane Schauer
The Travels of Madame Blavasky: Mother of the New Age, 2006
Born in the Ukarine in 1831 and dying in London in 1890, the controversial life of Madam Blavasky is told in this concertina book in text and graphics by the artist. One side is black and depicts chronologically the controversies surrounding Madame Blavasky, while the other side tells the story of the purported miracles of her life in white. The graphics are all based on the star theme, but each relates to traditional graphic design of the country relevant to that part of the story. Concertina book in box made by the artist. 16 pp. Box 26 x 15 x 5 cm. Book open 25 x 114 cm. Unique. $880
Tricia Smout
Carpe Diem (Seize the Day), 2007
The Latin phrase CARPE DIEM has inspired people for thousands of years. It translates as SEIZE THE DAY. This book contains many quotes and inspirational messages designed to help the reader enjoy life to the full. Some of the pages are sewn into the folded packet as a book, and some of the texts are written on loose sheets and tags which can be framed or used as bookmarks. The quotes have been printed from hand-written originals. 6 pamphlet stitched pages with 3 tags and 2 loose insert pages. Self-published. Unsigned and unnumbered. $35.00
Madonna Staunton
TAGS etc, 2007
Narratives of the vernacular. Discarded tags with wood covers. Signed and dated. 22 x 17.5 x 5.5 cm. Unique. $1500
Rochelle Summerfield
Remembrancers, 2007
Historically the word, Remembrancers, referred to debt collectors, reminding people of things they would rather forget. During Howard’s term as Prime Minister, the artist believes there have been certain issues that challenged ideas on what it is to be Australian. History is integral in producing a sense of Australian-ness and tensions arise between one nationalist idea on identity and history as a ‘fragmented stew’ of multi-narratives, memories and experiences that is more inclusive of a multi-diverse Australian society. In this work, the artist has utilised combinations of iconic shapes, drawings, photographic imagery and text to explore some of these ideas, tensions and representations during Howard’s historical term. Bound by Fred Pohlmann. Signed and dated. 10 etchings plus 2 pages and end pages. 15.5 x 52 x 1.5 cm. Self-published in an edition of 5 + 1AP. $1850
Hiromi Tango
….and to be continued, 21 August 2007
Providing a space for organic modes of interaction between people. Viewers are invited to express anything they like in the book. They may also borrow the diaries and add to them, contributing to a collective, intuitively formed record of encounters and exchanges. Handmade book of collected pieces. Signed and dated. 1000 pp. 21 x 36 x 21 cm. Unique. NFS
Tony Trembath
ROOM 2108: Some Scenes from the Schall Catalogue of Certain Electro-Medical Equipment, 2007
Perfect bound artists book based on an installation at PICA Perth in 1987 of the same title. The publication condenses the essential experience of the PICA experiment and the original catalogue that triggered the concept. ROOM 2107 is a hand held installation and includes Chinese (Mandarin) translation. 25 pp with 15 b & w images. 25 pp, 11 x 9.7 x 4 cm. Signed by the artist and dated with publisher’s stamp. Department of Actinology in an edition of 200. $27.50
Tony Trembath
Seven Stigmata of Degeneration, 2006
Perfect bound artist’s book based on late 19th century anthropometrics and similar field guides of the other. SEVEN STIGMATA is a hand held installation and includes Chinese (Mandarin) translation. 15 pp with 7 b & w images. Signed by the artist and dated with publisher’s stamp. Department of Actinology in an edition of 200. $22
Akky van Ogtrop
Paper Memories, 2005
Artists’ book commissioned and published by Akky van Ogtrop, Driector of the Sydney Art on Paper Fair to commemorate its tenth anniversary in 2005. Designed and co-ordinated by Ron McBurnie of Monsoon Publishing, James Cook University. Artists include Bruce Petty, Peter Lyssiotis Ron McBurnie, Jan Davis, Noel McKenna, Basil Hall, Stephen Spurrier, George Alexander, Elizabeth Springer, Anne Kirker, Ivor Indyk, Naminapu Maymura-White, Craig Carter. Edition of 100. $99
Iona Walsh
Still Stillness, 2007
The impression of watching the shift between day and night, that ephemeral state when light, time and movement seem to be both momentarily suspended and continuous, was the starting point for this book. The artwork presentation suggests an interior view of the exterior world through the implied movement of film frames and the still photographic images of glass plate negatives. Entitled ‘Still Stillness’ the publication presents a series of photographic collages and a text extract from ‘Still’ by Samuel Beckett. 10 Asian-fold pages of digital printing on fabric plus hardcover with frosted acrylic cover boards, cotton-thread stitching, brass post binding. Signed and dated. 16 x 28 x 1.6 cm. Self-published in an edition of 10. $550
Cecilia White
even in 1840, 2007
The search for knowledge and answers has been driven by the question ‘why’ for centuries. The justification for war has often been based on attempts to answer ‘why’. Books have been the carrier of much information but not always the answers. This work considers the many ways the question ‘why’ is asked, the minimalism of modern questioning, and the noticeable lack of answers. But, as in contemporary society, at least the cover feels good. Hand-stamped, drawn, torn, French paper, using hand carved wood block stamp from 1840 London. Housed in velvet pocket. Approx. 24 x 18 cm. Unique. $200
Christine Willcocks
Memorialis – A Personal History, 2007
Antoni Kotlarczyk’s only crime was being an academic. HISTORY – Just whose history are we telling? This book is a documentation of one man’s struggle and the contribution it has made to the social fabric of this Nation. Inkjet prints on Hahnemuhle and transparent digital paper. 25 pp. Cotton gloves, binding ribbon in Solander box. Self-published in an edition of 2. $550
Wilson, Margaret
History Forgets to Die, 2007
Recto and Verso loose-leaf digital prints of original photographs and drawings on semi-gloss photo paper. This book reflects upon the cyclic repetition of human narratives which have manipulated beings and marked the earth in the past; are retrieved, recorded and revitalised in the present; and will be retraced, reinvented and repeated in the future. In Folio – watercolour ink and shellac on folded stock with jute string tie. Unique. $275
Corrie Wright
x-change, 2007
‘x-change’ considers connections. These connections are observations that reduce the physical distance between one thing and another and between people and things. Connections are based on the belief that all relationships are implicitly linked, fully dependant on each other and need not to be considered separate. Installation comprising 20 artist’s books of variable sizes. Self-published. Unique. $280 ea. Installation $3500