LOOKING FOR GREEN, REMAINING HOPEFUL
The challenge we set: to use what we had to make something especially for World Book Night 2024’s theme, In praise of birds.
Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, City Campus at Bower Ashton, Bristol, UK
THE REMAKING OF THINGS
What if you could grow a forest from a collection. What if you could weave a floor to ceiling landscape from E. G. Adamson’s Snow coral (1930s–1940s) and Louisa Anne Meredith’s Study for gum-flowers and ‘love’ (c. 1860). Slide Tom Roberts’s She-oak and sunlight (1889) alongside Tom Humphrey’s Summer walk (c. 1888), and glimpse Grace Cossington-Smith’s Bottlebrushes (1935) through the foliage.
THREE ZINES, 2023
Brilliant Gathering
Hold
Recall
SIX ZINES, 2021–2022
Rakali Grotto
Roosting on a concealed tree branch
Tiny but huge
Went out for a walk
Bats aren’t scary
Something reverberated
A HEMLINE OF SKY, FOREST, AND WATER THROUGH SMOKE
A Hemline of Sky Through Smoke
A Hemline of Forest Through Smoke
A Hemline of Water Through Smoke
REMOTE RESIDENCY 2020, UWE, BRISTOL, UK
A pair of zines made-in-iso for you to download, print, fold, splice, share, to accompany a display of our zines and artists’ books in the cases of the Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK.
In the MET there is a “Pit from a Balanites tree with a hole caused by a rodent”, ca. 2381–2323 B.C., Old Kingdom, on view in Gallery 100.
We have been looking at you the wrong way round. We still do. To the gardeners of the sky.
FOUR ZINES, 2019–2020
Rewild
Museum Sketches: Your Specimens Sing an Operatic Chorus
Please, I’m looking for (whatever you are looking for)
Paint out
BLACK-THROATED FINCH PROJECT
A zine, Poephila cincta, 2020, from twenty original postcard collages created as our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project, 2019.
A PAIR OF FOLDED ZINES, 2019
Four Museum Drawings
Five views of a creeping Honey possum (Tarisipes rostratus)
A PAIR OF RIPPLES ZINES, 2019
Animate. Animated. Animal.
Ripples in the Open
SIX LOOPED ZINES
I think all the world is falling
No longer six feet under
Disrupted and rumpled
Dim wood, spark bright
A warmed pebble in my hand
Looped
TWO ZINES, 2018
Paw Pad Path
Your gelatine silver print, in the shape of the full moon
Including
Artist Showcase, Australian Print Workshop (2020–2021)
FOUR ZINES, 2017
Take a lesson from the ground
It was a familiar pattern
Pattern
Round, circle, dot
THREE ZINES, 2017
Winged
Limbed
Here, there
PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, 2017
From Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) to Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), a digital edition of the unique state artists’ book Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds (2016).
THE PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION
Cutting the Collection
Thumb Through
FIVE ZINES, 2015
Thither & Hither
Hither & Thither
Zoological Digs
Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Including
Christian Tatman, ‘Self-made: Zines and Artist Books’ exhibition now on at Bunjil Place, 2018
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2015
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
Salvaged Relatives, boxed
A CATALOGUE OF BODIES
A Catalogue of Bodies harvested from the television adaptations (1989-2013) of Agatha Christie’s stories featuring Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet.
First edition, 2012
Second edition, 2014
THREE ZINES, 2014
Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition
In your dreams, blurred and distinct
Twelve months, an explorer