An installation view and an image of The Ten Books on Architecture are featured in an online guide to The Collections on View exhibition at the Pratt Institute in New York here.
I enjoyed seeing some of the diverse range of pieces in the exhibition, which included a concertina book, a silhouette pop-up book and a couple of zines as well as 2D prints.
Coincidentally, I've been very quiet as I'm working on the third and final version of this piece at the moment.
Vitruvius pictured above is one of the Ten Books on Architecture currently on display in the exhibition The Collections on View at the Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn Campus, New York during May to August.
I am very pleased that a copy of The River City: Eyewitness Document, about the 2011 flood in Brisbane andcurrently on display at the Libris Awards, has been purchased by the State Library of Queensland for their collection.
One of my Book Art Object books That Unbearable Lightness has been selected for the Artists Book Award, Books...Beyond Words - Revolution to be held at the East Gippsland Art Gallery, Bairnsdale, Victoria from 10th August to 4th September.
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.
The River City, Eyewitness Document has been selected for the Libris Awards at Artspace Mackay which will be opened on Saturday 11 May and continues until 30 June.
This book documents the 2011 flood in Brisbane. I digitally manipulated photographs I had taken in the Yeronga/Fairfield area showing theriver inundating houses and parkland, the
thick residual mud, and the mud covered debris piled up on footpaths. The book is an overall expression of these heartbreaking images and of the horror experienced by the flood-affected residents.
The long brown
expanding structure of multiple concertinas sewn together, suggests the river
itself and photographs of the mud and debris are contained within
the structure, just as the real objects were submerged within the expanding
river. I am hoping that the book will be exhibited as I intended, as this sculptural display is part of the concept.
Earlier this year I acquired this digital pop-up book of visual poetry called Between Page and Screen by Amaranth Borsuk and Brad Bouse. It was originally published as a letterpress artists book in an edition of 12, and then was published commercially by Siglio Press, Los Angeles in 2012.
The book is a mix of print and digital technology. It has no words, only abstract geometric patterns and the web address which leads you to the site where you can read the book through your webcam.
When you click on Read the Book you see yourself holding the book and the texts of the poems jump onto the screen.
I also recently acquired an artists book by Rhonda Ayliffe called Carpe Diem which requires a smart device with a Q reader app to reveal its contents. Check it out here.
The State Library of Queensland will be holding a free seminar on artists books on Saturday 4th May 2013 titled The Trouble with Artists' Books at the State Library of Queensland from 2 - 4.30 pm.
The advertising for this event states:
The last two decades have seen a boom in the production of artists' books in Australia.
Join artist book maker Jan Davis, gallerist Noreen Grahame, and librarian Helen Cole as they reflect on the phenomenon of artists' books, the reason for the boom and its legacy.
The conversation will feature books from the speakers' own collections as well as examples from the State Library's outstanding artists' books collection, part of the Australian Library of Art.
If you're in Brisbane and wish to attend you need to register and get a ticket here.
The next exhibition I will be participating in is Delires de Livres 2013, a biennial exhibition organised by Am'arts in Chartres, France. Delires de Livres means delirious about books. I have participated once before in 2011, and I was fortunate to be on holidays in Paris at the time and was able to spend a delightful day in Chartres seeing the exhibition and meeting Chantal Leibenguth, the organiser and curator. Chantal produces a great catalogue and artists' cards which can be purchased at the show.
The exhibition is held in the Collegiale Saint-Andre, a gorgeous old church which dates back to the 12th century. It has been partly destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries and underwent a comprehensive restoration in 2003 as a cultural centre.
The medieval garden has been cultivated with aromatic and medicinal herbs.
After leaving the magnificent Chartres cathedral
and walking through a gateway from the gardens
I entered a steep old street of stairs
which led down to Saint-Andre.
There is a video of the opening in 2007 which gives some idea of the wonderful interior and atmosphere of the exhibition.
