grahame galleries + editions

gilbert & george

Gilbert & George

John Giorno 1936 USA

Cancer in my left Ball (1973)

190 pp. 23.2 x 15 x 1.7cm. 3-5,000 copies cloth, 7-10,000 copies paper. (Exact figures unknown). Collection holds cloth bound copy. Something Else Press, Inc., West Glover.
Frank, Peter 1983, Something Else Press : an annotated bibliography, McPherson & Company, USA.

Eugen Gomringer 1925 Bolivia

The Book of Hours and Constellations (1968)

(Translated and edited by Jerome Rothenberg) Gomringer is the asknowledged founder of concrete poetry. The book contains many of Gomringer’s best known concrete poems. such as the page shown here. 90 pp. (unpaginaged). 21 x 14.5 x 1.5cm with dust-jacket. 1477 copies cloth, 1570 copies paper. Collection holds cloth bound copy. Something Else Press, NY
Frank, Peter 1983, Something Else Press : an annotated bibliography, McPherson & Company, USA.

Dan Graham, 1942 USA

Two Parallel Essays: Photographs of Motion & Two Related Projects for Slide Projectors (1970)

Graham’s publication is part of a multiple consisting of a boxed set of seventeen artists’ books plus a project catalogue with text written by Lawrence Alloway. Artists and titles of publications: Mel Bochner, “Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography)”; Christo, “Packed Tower, Spoleto, Italy 1968”; Jan Dibbets, “Perspective Correction 1967”; Dan Graham, “Two Parallel Essays”; Douglas Huebler, “Location Piece #2 : New York City – Seattle, Washington”; Allan Kaprow, “Pose”; Michael Kirby, “Pont Neuf”; Joseph Kosuth, “Notebook on Water 1965-66”; Sol LeWitt, “Schematic Drawing for Muybridge”; Richard Long, “Rain Dance, August 24, 1969. The Rift Valley, East Aftrica (A3/4 Mile Travelling Piece Documented by 4 Photographs)”; Robert Morris, “Continuous Project Altered Daily”; Bruce Nauman, ‘LAAIR”’ Dennis Oppenheim, “Flower Arrangement for Bruce Nauman”; Robert Rauschenberg, “Revolver”; Edward Rscha, “Babycakes With Weights”; Robert Smithson, “Torn Photograph From the Second Stop (Rubble). Second Mountain Of 6 Stops On A Section.”; Bernar Venet, “Exploited”; Andy Warhol “Portraits”. Box housing this edition designed by Dan Graham. Edition of 1200 unsigned and unnumbered copies, of which about 200 were boxed. Multiples, Inc., New York see also: Sol LeWitt, Cock Fight Dance; Joseph Kosuth, Notebook on Water 1965-66’; Dennis Oppenheim, Flower Arrangement for Bruce Naumen’

One (1992)

A multiple for almost everyone familiar with the numbers game: 16 squares plus one open spot on a plastic board. One can manoeuvre the squares by using the empty space until the player solves the game. Not necessary with Dan Graham’s game. He has made ‘One’ easy for us! Each square is numbered ‘One’. 8.0 x 19.0 x 1.0 cm. Yves Gavaert Editeur, Brussles.
Bury , Stephen, 2001, Artists’ Multiples 1935-2000, Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, UK.

Noreen Grahame

Noreen Grahame 1942 Australia

Monsieur Le Président (August 1995)

A protest flip book about the resumption of French nuclear testing in the Pacific. The word ‘non’ enlarges gradually as the reader flips the pages until it almost shouts “NON, Monsieur Le Président”. Signed. 3.5 x 12cm.
Au moment de la reprise des tests nucléaires au pacific j’etais tellement indigné que j’ai conçu le flip book ‘Monsieru Le Président’. Commençant avec un proteste modeste la rage allait en s’agrandissant pour finir avec un NON furieux. Unlimited edition. numero uno publications, Brisbane.
Grahame, Noreen (ed). 2001, 4th artists’ books + multiples fair, numero uno publications, Brisbane.

Mein Lieber Herr (2005)

The typical Ja, Ja, Ja! until it become tja, tja (oh well!). 3.5 x 12 cm. Unlimited edition. numero uno publications, Brisbane.
Grahame, Noreen (ed), 2007, 5th artists’ books + multiples fair, Online catalogue.

Noreen Grahame  with Jan Davis
the case of the extremely glad gallerist (2001)

A flip book for galleries, artists and others who are red blind. 24 pp, 9 x 12 cm. From ‘The Comments Series’. Signed and numbered in an edition of 200. Published on the occasion of the 4th artists’ book + multiples fair, Brisbane 2001. Edition 1/200. numero uno publications.
Grahame, Noreen (ed). 2001, 4th artists’ books + multiples fair, numero uno publications, Brisbane.

Noreen Grahame  with 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. Signed and numbered in an edition of 200. Published on the occasion of the 4th artists’ book + multiples fair, Brisbane 2001. numero uno publications.
Grahame, Noreen (ed). 2001, 4th artists’ books + multiples fair, numero uno publications, Brisbane. p. 35

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. Published for exhibition Lessons in History held at grahame galleries + editions March/April 2007. Handwriting on slate printed offset. Signed and numbered in an edition of 100 + 10 artist proofs. numero uno publications.

Kaye Green 1953 Australia

Poems for a Mentor VI (1987)

Concertina book. Three crayon drawings of landscapes with poem. 16.8 x 11.5 cm. Signed, titled and dated in pencil inside back cover.

Hill Sketchbook (1990)

Three crayon drawings in hand bound book. 11.5 x 18.0 cm. Hand bound by the artist. Signed and dated in pencil. Unique.

Peter Green, I938 Isle of Wight

Additional Papers 1984-88 (1989)

Between 1982 and 1984 as part of Green’s job at Bath Academy of Art, he sat on dozens of committees set up to achieve a major reorganisation of the academy. At the end of this period faced with a pile of committee papers a metre high, rather than throw them away, he thought he should make something out of them – roll, stack, or cut them up and make some sort of sculpture object. But he realised there were a lot of drawings amongst them, done without thinking, during those hundreds of hours of meetings. He freed the drawings – as he had been freed from the committees, by blotting out the writing.
He stapled each drawing to a bundle of papers so that when he painted on them they would be reasonably stable, and they began to organise themselves around the idea of a book – or as it turned out a parody of a book, with shadowy ‘characters’, rabbit, elephant, pig-dog-banana, pencil, appearing from drawing to drawing. They settled comfortably into an arched structure; white, calm linear to start with, then through a substantial coloured middle section, to a dark, agitated, even violent end. Ghost plots and sub-plots appeared from the sequence of the drawings. “It was good to get something positive from those awful committees.” Edition 30/30. 32.0 x 29.0 cm. Bound in office ring binder.?Published by ISIS VOICE, Music Productions and Editions, Bern and Marlene Frei Artist-Books, Galerie & Edition, Zürich, Switzerland.

Sasha Grishin and Peter Herel

Hommage to Goncharova (Not dated)

Concertina format with text by F.M. Dostoevsky inscribed in the Russian by Grishin. Visual realisation by Petr Herel. 11.0 x 14.0 cm. Editioned in pencil 8/9. Signed in pencil by Sasha Grishin with dedication ‘To Noreen, Sasha’.

Juli Haas

Juli Haas, 1952 Australia

Departing Train (1991 – hand-coloured 1993)

In Haas’ hands the mundane railway station become a place of tension. Four ladies in the waiting room, their attention, captured by the people coming and going at the ticket box, miss both the ubiquitous embracing couple and the angst filled faces of those seated in the departing train. Concertina book, hand coloured line drawing . 16.3 x 11.0 cm (open 122.0 cm). Black covers with black ribbon ties. Signed, titled and dated inside front cover. Unique. (1991-1993) Produced for exhibition ‘Artists’ Books’ Grahame Galleries, 16 October – 9 November, 1991.

An Elegy on the Death and Burial of Cock Robin (1996)

Haas presents us with a delightful new look at the Cock Robin story. Hand-coloured drypoints depicting the characters in human form with birds heads etc. This hand size book is aptly bound with black ribbon and housed in bag made of fabric from the forties era. 6.0 x 11.0 x 2.0 cm. Signed. Published by the artist for inclusion in grahame galleries + editions’ stand at The London Artists’ Books Fair ‘96. Unlimited edition.