experimental beds (2012)
to be released February 2012

6 colour etchings – platemarks 49.5 x 37.5 cm
published in editions of 20 on Hahnemühle paper 69.0 x 54.0 cn

editions: 10 suites – all 6 etchings $8,000
single etchings $1,500

publishers
Judy Watson
grahame galleries + editions / numero uno publications
The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia

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To be launched at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne in Judy Watson’s exhibition waterlines opening 18th February 2012.

experimental beds 1

3 plate etching with chine collé
Thomas Jefferson, The Rotunda, First Floor Plan (N-330), courtesy Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

experimental beds 2

3 plate etching
Thomas Jefferson, Pavilion No. III W. Corinthian Palladio (N-316), courtesy Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

experimental beds 3

3 plate etching
Thomas Jefferson, Pavilion VII W. Doric Palladio (N-311), courtesy Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

experimental beds 4

3 plate etching
Thomas Jefferson, Library, Elevation of the Rotunda (N-328), courtesy Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

experimental beds 5

4 plate etching
Thomas Jefferson, Pavilion No. III W. Corinthian Palladio (N-316), courtesy Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

experimental beds 6

2 plate etching with chine collé
Thomas Jefferson, The Rotunda, First Floor Plan (N-330), courtesy Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

“Costumes of the Russian Court Vol.1 is the narrative of a whimsical, fantastical catalogue. The description of the costumes of the Russian Court alongside collaged images of old family photographs – family members all dressed up in the finery depicted, to tell a story of imagination, discovery of identity, belonging and the longing to know more about one’s cultural history.”

This particular book form is a digitally printed, hand bound and rubber stamped reproduction of a unique artist’s book of the same name, which was exhibited at the 2008 Libris Book Awards in Mackay and acquired for their collection. 15.0 x 21.7 cm. Signed and numbered 1/30. miss browns lounge, NSW.

‘Six drawings in wire printed blind intaglio on sheets which, folded and juxta posed in sequence, make for eleven reclining nude images which change position from front to back view; published in a limited edition of 75 signed sets and an unlimited edition of unsigned – all numbered, the first one hundred of which are printed onto RWS handmade paper from Barcham Green.’ This is a well devised artist book needing no text.

Turner, Silvie (ed.) 1993, Facing the page – British Artists’ Books, a survey 1983 – 1993, estamp, London.
Courtney, Cathy 1996, The Looking Book a pocket history of Circle Press 1967-96, Circle Press Publications, London, 1996.
Drucker, Johanna 1995, The Century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, NY. p. 176
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1996, artists’ books + multiples fair ‘96, numero uno publications, Brisbane 1996.  p. 55.
Lauf, Cornelia and Phillpot, Clive 1998, Artist/Author Contemporary Artists’ Books, Distributed Art Publishers Inc. and The American Federation of Arts, New York.

Echo Book (1994)

The words ECHO BOOK are blind embossed on cover and on each page of the three sections, so that the verso of each page echos the front. 19.7 x 8.0 cm.
Signed and numbered edition 3/75.

Courtney, Cathy 1996, The Looking Book a pocket history of Circle Press 1967-96, Circle Press Publications, London, 1996.
Grahame, Noreen (ed), 1996, artists’ books + multiples fair ‘96, numero uno publications, Brisbane. p. 55.

Anansi Company (1992)

Poems by Roy Fisher with research  material and thirteen removable wire and card puppets by Ronald King and constructed by Jessica King and Ian Jones with the help of Nicholas Gardner. Box by Perstella. Printed silkscreen and letterpress by Ron King. Signed in pencil by artist and writer with dediction ‘for Noreen Grahame 1995 Brisbane’. Edition 68/120.

Courtney, Cathy 1996, The Looking Book a pocket history of Circle Press 1967-96, Circle Press Publications, London, 1996.  pp. 164, 171
Turner, Silvie (ed.) 1993, Facing the page – British Artists’ Books, a survey 1983 – 1993, estamp, London. p. 52

A book of musical notes with drawings that provides a new look at some familiar musical scores. Printed offset15.0 x15.0 cm, 31pp, packaged and sealed. Edition of 1500. Collection holds two copies – one sealed and one with broken seal.

Grahame, Noreen (ed.), 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions

Hand stamped prints printed in red from rubber stamps. 12 leaves. 11.5 x 12.8 cm. Red tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, New York.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. p. 26.Catalano, Gary 1983, The Bandaged Image : A study of Australian artists’ books, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney. pp. 35-37.Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-29; no. 16, p. 113.

COLOR BOOK HAND STAMPED NEW YORK 1975 (1975)

Hand stamped prints printed in red, black, green and blue from rubber stamps. 15 leaves. 11.5 x 12.8 cm. White tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, New York.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. pp. 11, 28Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-29; no. 23, p. 114.

TWELVE DRAWINGS HAND STAMPED NEW YORK 1974 (1974)

Hand stamped prints printed in black from rubber stamps. 12 leaves. 11.5 x 12.8 cm. Black tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, New York.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. pp. 11, 28.Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-30; no. 20, p. 113.

1975 – 1976 HAND STAMPED NEW YORK (1975 – 1976)

Hand stamped prints printed in black and red from rubber stamps. 12 leaves, 11.5 x 12.8 cm. Blue tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, New York.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. p. 28.Catalano, Gary 1983, The Bandaged Image : A study of Australian artists’ books, Hale & Iremonger Pty Limited, Sydney. p. 36.
Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-31; no. 26, p. 114.

RED DIAGONALS 1976 (1976)

Book of diagonal lines printed offset in red. Title in black on cover with red tape binding. 16 leaves. 14.2 x 21.6 cm. Published by the artist in an edition of 200, New York. Printed by Soho Factoti.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. p. 11, 39.
Catalano, Gary 1983, The Bandaged Image : A study of Australian artists’ books, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney. p. 36-37
Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 32-33; no. 29 p. 114

LINES DOTS HAND STAMPED AUSTIN TEXAS 1976 (1976)

Hand stamped prints (overlaid) printed in green and blue from rubber stamps. 12 leaves. 11.5 x 12.8 cm. Yellow tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, Austin, Texas.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. pp. 11, 29.
Catalano, Gary 1983, The Bandaged Image : A study of Australian artists’ books, Hale & Iremonger Pty Limited, Sydney. p. 36
Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-30; no. 28, p. 114

LINES DOTS NUMBER TWO HAND STAMPED HOUSTON TEXAS 1977 (1977)

Hand stamped prints (overlaid) printed in green, red and blue from rubber stamps. 12 leaves. 11.5 x 12.8 cm. Green tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, Houston, Texas.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. p.30
Catalano, Gary 1983, The Bandaged Image : A study of Australian artists’ books, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney. p. 36.
Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-30; no. 37, p. 115.

GREEN LINES HAND STAMPED SYDNEY1981 (1981)

Hand stamped prints (overlaid) printed in green from rubber stamps. 12 leaves. 11.5 x 12.8 cm. Green tape binding. On-going projected edition of 100. Published by the artist, Sydney.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. p. 37.
Selenitsch, Alex 2008, Australian Artists Books, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. pp. 28-30; no. 22, p. 114

HAND STAMPED 2005 (2005)

Hand stamped prints (overlaid) printed in green, blue and black  from rubber stamps. 10 leaves. 11.5 x 12.5 cm. Black tape binding. Edition unknown. Published by the artist, Harcourt.

HAND STAMPED 2006 (2006)

Hand stamped prints (some overlaid) printed in black and red from rubber stamps. 9 leaves. 11.5 x 12.5 cm. Black tape binding. Edition unknown. Published by the artist, Harcourt.

Anderson, Peter 2009, Working Through / Turning Pages : The Artist’s Books of Robert Jacks, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo.

Cancelled Stamp (1978)

A Jack’s multiple. Australian 4p postage stamp green featuring a Koala with artist’s cancellation stamp. 2.6 x 2.8 cm on sheet 15.1 x 12.6 cm. Signed R Jacks. Jacks made ca. 4 ‘Cancelled Stamps’ to accompany his exhibition at Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, in 1978.

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1. Climbing figure (2004)

Etching and aquatint; plate 89.9 x 59.9 cm; edition 30 $1,200

2. Hill figure light (2004)

Etching, drypoint and aquatint; plate 89.9 x 59.9 cm; edition 30 $1,200

3. Four (2005)

Four panel etching drypoint and aquatint from four plates; plate 29.5 x 92.5 cm; edition 28 $1,100

4. Dinghy (2005)

Colour etching and aquatint; plate 49.3 x 33 cm; edition 28 $800

5. Blue Boat (2005)

Colour etching and aquatint; plate 49.5 x 33 cm; edition 28 $900

6. Bed, boy, boat (2006)

Three panel two-colour etching and aquatint from three plates; plate 49.5 x 99.5 cm; edition 36 $1400

7. Seated / Harbour (2006)

Etching and aquatint; plate 39.5 x 59.3 cm; edition 28 $900

8. Blue Seated Figure (2006)

Two plate colour etching and aquatint; plate 39.5 x 60.0 cm; edition 28 $1000

9. Standing figure / Lying figure (2007)

NO IMAGE

Etching and aquatint; plate 47.5 x 59.0 cm; edition 30 $800

10. Barrow Two (2007)

Etching and aquatint; plate 42 x 47.2 cm; edition 30 $700

11. Dinner (2007)

Etching and aquatint; plate 29.8 x 44.5 cm; edition 30 $600

12. Pulling boat (2007)

Etching and aquatint; plate 20.0 x 33.0 cm; edition 30 $580

13. Turtle (2007)

Etching and aquatint; plate 20.0 x33.0 cm; edition 30 $580

14. Big turtle (2007-08)

Etching and aquatint; plate 69.5 x 56.2 cm; edition 30 $1200

15. Painting on back (to left) (2008)

Etching and aquatint with hand colouring; plate 28.6 x 29.7 cm; edition 30 $600

16. Painting on back (to right) (2008)

Etching and aquatint with hand colouring; plate 28.6 x 29.7 cm; edition 30 $600

17. Carrying home (2008)

Etching and aquatint with hand colouring; plate 11.2 x 23.5 cm; edition 30 $440

18. Painter (2008)

Etching and aquatint; plate 23.5 x 23.8 cm; edition 30 $500

19. Rower I (2009)

Etching and aquatint with relief colour roll; plate 14.6 x 20.5 cm; edition 30 $400

20. Rower 2 (2009)

Etching and aquatint with relief colour roll; plate 14.6 x 20.5 cm; edition 30 $400

21. Rower 3 (2009)

Etching and aquatint with relief colour roll; plate 14.6 x 20.5 cm;edition 30 $400

22. Rower 4 (2009)

Etching and aquatint with relief colour roll; plate 14.6 x 20.5 cm; edition 30 $400

Load Expose (1990)

The title here refers to the beginning and end stages in the making of photographs, and silkscreened images that comprise this book all centre around the language employed in that process. Embedded within their nervous calligraphy, and often only apparent after sustained viewing, are terms such as “trouble shooting”, “dodging”, “masking”, and “pose”. By virtue of Chalker-Tennant’s suggestive graphic vocabulary, these seemingly neutral words come to take on meanings outside of their restrictive use as photographic terminology and are themselves loaded. 20 pp., 21.5 x 26, paperback. Edition 100. Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosedale, N.Y.
Grahame, Noreen (ed.) 1991, Artists’ Books – The Catalogue, grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane

Exhibition closes 18 December. Gallery hours 11 am – 5pm Wed-Sat.

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G W Bot

Black Swan (2007) artist book – linocuts with English & Russian text $5,500.00

Darren Bryant

‘rabbit behind rocks’ (advance wars I) (2010) linocut and collage with spraypainted toy soliders $180.00

‘rabbit behind rocks’ (advance wars III) (2010) linocut and collage with spraypainted toy soliders $180.00

‘rabbit behind rocks’ (advance wars IV) (2010) linocut and collage with spraypainted toy soliders $180.00

Jan Davis

Solomon (1995) image from one of 7 books from Solomon – digital prints $3,850.00

Go Go Girl (2007) artist book – rubber stamps $165.00

Nicolas Goodwolf

The making of Sicily (2005) Etching $165.00

Islands from above (2005) Etching $185.00

Italian Thinkers I (2006) Etching $185.00

Noreen Grahame

Lessons in dictation (2007) artist book – offset $55.00

Juli Haas

Rose Garden (2000) hand-coloured drypoint $165.00

Drifters (2009) hand-coloured drypoint $450.00

May Day (2009) hand-coloured drypoint $450.00

Barbara Hanrahan

Iris (1991) Etching $660.00

Little Girls Etching (1988/1989) $880.00

Joana Kambourian

Costumes from the Russian court Vol. I ( a fabricated history) (2008) artist book digital with rubber stamps $49.50

Anne Kirker

A Plum Tree Story (2010) artist book – laser printed $330.00

Hertha Kluge-Pott

page one of a survey (1996) drypoint $400.00

page five of a survey (1997) drypoint $400.00

Bruno Leti

Journey To (1994) Etching $275.00

Journey (1994) Etching $275.00

Peter Lyssiotis

7 Disrupted Interviews with History (2007) artist book – Photomontage $660.00

Ron McBurnie

Putting out the cat  (1990) Etching $400.00

Dog pat (1987/1997) Etching $300.00

Jennifer Marshall

WBS 1981 linocut/etch $1000.00

Flick Book (1980) artist book – linocuts printed offset $250.00

Milan Milojevic

Suitcase (1995) Etching $99.00

Ladder (1995) Etching $99.00

Table (1995) Etching $99.00

Bridge (1995) Etching $99.00

Karen Papacek

Fool (2004) artist book text on Aquarie paper mounted on paintbrush head. $3,500.00

Ti Parks

Man Friday (c.1997) Drypoint $400.00

Saturday (Mirage) (c.1997) Drypoint $500.00

The Vikings (2004) object, metal $300.00

Graeme Peebles

Fog Series 5 (1993) mezzotint $440.00

Ben Puah

My Car (1997) drawing $110.00

Untitled (1999) $110.00

Michael Schlitz

collector (2005) wood engraving $250.00

fear of an edge (2006) woodcut $330.00

explorer dream (2006) woodcut $330.00

the other meeting (2006) woodcut $330.00

diviner (2009) wood engraving $250.00

storm (2009) wood engraving $250.00

Jörg Schmeisser

Soldier, terracotta near Sian JS 276 (1981) etching $220.00

Yallingup JS 400 (1988) colour print $440.00

Alex Selenitsch

nights (1999) ink on found page of text – set of five $800.00

Stephen Spurrier

Wishing to Fly – Cosmic Journey (1999) digital print $265.00

First Aid No.8 – Dreams and Memories (1999) digital print $265.00

First Aid No. 9 – Hand to Mouth (1999) digital print $265.00

Judy Watson

Flying figure 2 (1986) etching $220.00

dispersed (2000) etching with chine collé $480.00

Normana Wight

More Pears for George B (1988) screenprint $330.00

Primary pin-up (1989) screenprint $220.00

Lessons in History Vol. II – Democracy

scheduled August/September (see below)

Due to the inundation of the gallery in the January floods, this exhibition has been postponed until December 2011 or early 2012.

‘… in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace — and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.’ Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)

Graham Greene’s character expresses contempt for democracy in stark contrast to our sense of ‘democracy’ as a ‘feel-good’ idea. With missionary zeal, we have undertaken wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in part to bring a western ‘democratic system’ to the citizens of these countries.
But is the ‘democracy’ we wish to impose already broken? Will the cuckoo clock be all that is left?

Call to artists!

To submit an artist book for selection in Lessons in History Vol. II – Democracy, a 2011 exhibition of artists’ books on the subject of ‘Democracy’.

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Flay, Jennifer (ed.), Metken,  Günther (commentaries) 1992, Christian Boltanski : Catalogue / Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991, Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln / Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
Catalogue raisonné Contains details and images of 80 works. 212 pp. 25.2 x 19.7 cm with 160 reproductions. (1992)

Builder, Objekte, Dokumente aus den siebziger Jahren

Catalogue by Christian Boltanski and Margaret Gröner with assistance from Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Foreword by Gudrun Köhl; Introduction by Wolfgang Till. Essay by Michael Glasmeier. 72 pp. 18.5 x 13.5 cm with 133 reproductions. Valentin-Musäum im Isartor. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne (1993)