Impressions seven

 

Impress Printmakers will be holding their annual member's exhibition Impressions seven at the Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art, 41 Grafton Street, Windsor, in Brisbane from the 31 May to 12 June.

 

The exhibition will include fine art prints, drawings and artists books.  I am a member of Impress and have used their studio facilities on the odd occasion, but haven't participated in their exhibitions before, as I don't usually make fine art prints.  However Glenda Orr rang me and invited me to submit some of my artists books this year. It is nice to be exhibiting something in Brisbane, as my work seems to travel all over the world more often.  

 

The three small Book Art Object books that I made last year will be on display with my book Time Travel.  A photographer from the local newspaper arrived yesterday to photograph them and I believe they will be publishing an article about the exhibition next week.

 

I'm actually very fond of  prints and will be on the lookout for something wonderful that I just can't bear to live without.



Highlights: Libris Awards 2006-2010

 

Entries are open until 22 March for the 2013 Libris Awards to be held at Artspace Mackay and this year the main prize is a $10,000 Acquisitive Prize. Details are available on the Artspace Mackay website.  The Libris Awards exhibition will take place from 10 May to 30 June.

 

Artspace Mackay have a new exhibition in the Cox Rayner Gallery from 8 February to 23 June which was curated from the Mackay Regional Collection and features prize winning entries and purchases from past Libris Awards.

 

I was fortunate to have my book Time Travel purchased by Michael Wardell from the 2010 Libris Awards and it is on display in this exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made the book in 2009 after a trip to the Pyrenees and south of France/Northern Spain and I really felt like I was travelling back into the past.  The pictures I used in the book were manipulated photos and cutouts that come from a number of  locations such as the medieval walled village of Villefranche le Conflent

 

 

The citadel at Besancon

   



 

St John Pied de Port

 

 

Bayonne

 

 

Those famous mountains that feature in the Tour De France, Col de Tourmalet and Mont Ventoux

 

 

 

Pamplona in Spain

 

 

and a little port near Bilbao in Spain called Mutriku

 

 

It was a wonderful trip and it's great to have this book as a permanent reminder.

Life's Journey

My books Time Travel (courtesy of Artspace Mackay)

and The Battle Within (courtesy of the State Library of Queensland)

will be on display in the exhibition

Life's Journey: Artists Books from Queensland Collections

at the Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Qld

from 6 May to 17 June.

The accompanying exhibition is Mind Mapping by Jack Oudyn, a fellow BookArt Object member.  You can read about Jack's work on his blog here