Mal Enright, 1949 Australia
Atlas 4 another Inseparable (1991)
Enright supplied two found drawings to Jake Tilson, editor of Atlas. The drawings were used in Atlas 4 and Enright used copies of the magazine to add an ‘inseparable’. 28 x 21 cm plus inseparable wrapper.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane.
Rubber Matter – Printed Fact (1991)
The rubber stamp ‘Printed Matter’ is used differently on every second page giving the printed fact. 30 pp. 29.7 x 10.5 cm. Signed. Unique.
What gets up your nose? (1991)
On every alternate page, Enright lists just what it is that ‘gets up his nose’: Secret Society Members, News Readers, Self-Service Petrol Pumps, Mormons, Telephone Salespersons. 28 pp. 29.7 x 21 cm. Signed and numbered. Edition of 10. Collection holds edition 1/10. Parallel Productions, Brisbane.
piss’n'wind (the art scene) (1996)
A complete digital book. Outputed from a file to an Indigo “Eprint” and printed on Mohawk options inxwell. Entirely made from recycled images & found texts. Prepare yourselves for his usual MalEisms. ‘The wind’ is recycled images from a U.K. Dyson advert for it’s vacuum cleaner combined with ‘the piss’ part, ‘martell cordon blue’, ‘moet et chandon vintage’, ‘absolute vodka’, etc opposite the appropriate ‘windbag’, all you have to do is match them up! ‘piss’n'wind’ is part of the artist’s continuing comments on the art scene. Dedicated to Sister Mary Boneventa ‘she know a good artist when she sees one’. 64 pp.15.0 x 10.7 cm. Signed and numbered. Edition of 20. Collection holds edition 1/20. numero uno publications, Brisbane.
Detail: Western Wisdom (explained) (1998)
Reworked found images with text using PhotoShop and mono laser outputs, bound by hand in plastic binders. A see through artist book, each copy is only one ninth of the original image, so be it! 34pp. 15.0 x 9.8 cm. Signed and numbered. Edition of 21. Collection holds edition 1/21. parallel productions, Brisbane.