A SELECTION OF MY ARTISTS BOOKS FROM 2001 - 2003
Patterns of Identification 2003
Twenty small plan fold books presented in individual balsa wood boxes.
Arches text wove paper, ink, printing ink, balsa wood, acrylic paint.
Books 5 x 7 x 2.5 cm. each.
These books explore identification and recognition by a distinguishable pattern developed in each book with embossing, drawing and collographs. The theme of the work is an expression of individuality and equality across race and gender.
Global warming 2003
Simple codex structure
Layered torn paper sewn at spine and displayed in Perspex folder.
Arches paper, gouache, silver thread, crystal beads.
20 x 14 x 3 cm.
Held in private collection, Southport Qld
White pages of snow merging into blue pages of waterways arranged in an upward layered
pattern of rising levels with drops of ice crystals on the surface.
Calligraphy Book 2003
Wall hanging book. Tongue and groove timber sheeting with hinges, acrylic paint.
1250 x 260 cm.
Artists own collection
The Scroll Book 2002
Bound partially rolled scrolls
Aluminium sheets, wire, Perspex box
21.5 x 18 x 12 cm.
Held in Private collection
This book was developed from trying to bind a number of rolled scrolls together to form a multi-leaved book. The surface of the pages were engraved with fragments of lower case
roman letters which take on the appearance of an early undecipherable language
as may have appeared in early scrolls.
Om Mane Padme Hum 2002
Bound partially rolled scrolls
Aluminium sheets, wire, Perspex box
20 x 16 x 10 cm
Edition of 10 commissioned by Karuna Hospice Services as corporate gifts.
One presented to then Governor of Queensland, Dame Quentin Bryce.
The Tibetan text embossed onto the page surface reads Om Mane Padme Hum.
The dark red velvet was chosen as one of the traditional Buddhist colours.
The Black and White Book 2002
Four double-sided canvases hinged together.
Canvas, timber, hinges, acrylic paint.
25 x 20 x 15 cm.
Held in a Private collection, Qld
The chosen materials were hinged together to form a painting as a book.
The surface of acrylic paint and varnish allows the book to be handled and displayed without damage.
Textual elements are expressed through the calligraphic and expressive mark-making
and the use of black and white
.
The Cube Book 2002
Cube shaped book made up of pyramids as
chapters with drawings on the inside.
Calfskin vellum, linen thread, Japanese paper box, pencil, ink.
Unique book 8 x 8 x 8 cm.
Structure, composition and content based in geometry.
Books on Books Private collection
The structure composition and content of the book is based in geometry.
The cube structure contains sections/chapters in the form of pyramids.
The calfskin vellum is embellished with pencil and ink instead of the traditional
colour and gold leaf used on vellum. Geometrical drawings on the inside of
the book operate as text/illustration.
Le Courbusier discovered the aesthetic of the cube in his design for Ateliers d'Artistes in 1910.
He said....the great problems of modern building will be worked out in geometry....our eyes are made to see form in light; shades and brightness reveal forms: cubes, cones, cylinders or pyramids are
the great forms that light reveals well. (Gardiner, p, 51)
Le Courbusier opened up the cube and brought light to the volumes within.
(Le Courbusier by Stephen Gardiner, Fontana Modern Masters, 1974, p.53)
Geometry 2001
Sculptural book in shape of a cube made up of tetrahedrons as chapters with drawing on the inside.
Calfskin vellum, linen thread, Japanese paper box, pencil, ink.
8 x 8 x 8 cm.
Collection of Wim de Vos, Brisbane
Structure, composition and content based in geometry, Geometrical drawings on the inside operate as illustration and the book contains triangular pages carrying a text by Le Corbusier from
A View on Architecture 1922.
Breaking Out 2001
Icosahedron as a book with small pages opening out of each flat surface displaying parts of the text written on the interior, It contains a smaller suspended vellum icosahedron
painted and illuminated and forming a 3D illumination
Calfskin vellum, gouache, gold leaf, thread.
10 cm. diameter.
Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK
Sculptural interpretation of a text where the words are contained on the interior and are breaking out of the icosahedron on the opened out 'pages'. The text is from Life in the Snakepit by Bette Howland
Rhythm of the Earth 2001
Multiple map fold book
Gouache painting on calfskin vellum
12 cm diameter x 4.5 cm.
Artists own collection
