RESTORING CORRIDORS
Restoring corridors is a multi-panelled, double-sided artists’ book that when hung on the gallery wall makes an interchangeable, reversible 100cm x 300cm slice of biodiversity in flux.
BILATERAL SYMMETRY
Bilateral Symmetry will be released at this year’s tenth Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV International (Thursday 23rd of May – Sunday 26th of May, 2024).
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.
BRACKETED BY LIGHT
To those who require foraging resources and roosting sites.
To the ingenious ecological kindness of the pollinators and seed dispersers.
The echolocators catching insects on the wing. The leaf-consuming fuel-reducers.
The intricate connection of all things.
SOMETHING REVERBERATED
There were once trees growing under the roads. There are still creeks flowing beneath the directional pathways we’ve imposed.
An artists’ book to take you within the forest, created especially for Biosphere.
Including
Biosphere — a sense of belonging catalogue essays by Felicity Spear and Penelope Gebhardt, 2021–2022
WITH WINGS OUTSTRETCHED AND QUIVERING
Empty the room. View it from the outside in. Brick by brick. Twig by twig. At the beginning: what is there?
An artists’ book featuring variations of the original Bowerbird collages we created especially for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower.
DIP AND BOB
Dive into a 620cm long digital collage with an original watercolour cover, created especially for the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2021.
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
KEEP A BEADY EYE ON
For the Museum of Aphorisms and Platitudes, we created a real but not real 24-page catalogue of Through a glass eye.
A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2017
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
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).
BECAUSE I LIKE YOU
Because I Like You is based on the concept of a love letter to ten mammals.
Including
Contemporary Paper: Celebrating a Year of Print (2016)
Wrap Up (2015)
A FLIGHT OF TWELVE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BIRDS
This artists’ book was launched alongside A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds in the Leigh Scott Room of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, 2013.
AS INCLINATION DIRECTS
The weather, clement, and perfect for mooching, ambling, swanning, indeed, walking As inclination directs.
THIS EVENING, HOWEVER, I AM THINKING OF THINGS PAST
This evening, however, I am thinking of things past wasmade for and exhibited as part of A key to help make your own world visible (2009).
SLEEPING DURING THE DAY
Sleeping during the day, was made especially for Playing Field (2010), as part of Craft Victoria’s annual Craft Cubed festival.
AND WE STOOD ALONE IN THE SILENT NIGHT
And we stood alone in the silent night was exhibited as part of But for the moon nobody could see us (2008), this artists’ book features several of our collaborative works created especially for our part in Lines & Shapes, Volume 3, Gather (2008).
Including
Victoria Cooper, Reading Montages: perceptions, dilemmas, edges and resolution, State Library of Queensland, 2016
A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2008
Objects gathered with care from recent reads I–V
A series of five artists’ books exhibited as part of But for the moon nobody could see us.
A PAIR OF ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2007
If all the stars go out, I’ll follow my nose home
All the discarded things, mended
Two artists’ books exhibited as part of A trapdoor in every room.