Right Now
I am in New Zealand, working as Printer-in-Residence at the Otago University in Dunedin, under the auspices of the Otakou Press of the Special Collections Section of the university library. The residency runs from 2 August to 10 September, and I am producing a broadside folio of 7 editioned typographical prints using poetry from Australian and New Zealand poets: Stephen Edgar, Sarah Holland-Batt, Robert Adamson, Les Murray, Sue Wootton, Michael Harlow and Vincent O’Sullivan.
Part of the experience is to learn how to print on an iron hand-press, something I’ve never done before, so the folio is being approached less as a master printing exercise, but more as an experimental project. The folio will be called PRIME, and the only connecting feature between the broadsides will be my use of the Otakou Press’s excellent collection of wood type.
If you would like to read more about this, I have written about it here. Live action updates are here and here.
The folio will retail for the ridiculously cheap price of NZ$250 plus postage and packing, and can be ordered from the Otago University Special Collections Library, Donald Kerr: donald.kerr {at} otago.ac.nz
Latest Releases
Chicks Rule!
I have a growing habit of celebrating elections with a souvenir, and this 2010 Federal Election is no different. To celebrate a small window in female supremacy that may possibly open further, may I present the Chicks Rule range at Cafe Press. Apologies: thanks to my residency abroad, I didn’t get to produce anything printed by hand, but I couldn’t let the moment pass… there are t-shirts, both long and short-sleeved in sizes that fit everyone from babies to large people, plus stickers, mugs and totes.
Broadside Residency Posters! On sale now!
Natalie Azzopardi has been working hard in Studio Duck over the last few months, producing not one, but FOUR fantastic and very funky broadsides. The results can been seen in the Duckshop, just to your left on the sidebar <==, and the story behind the scenes is told here.
Those Who Travel: Patsy Payne & Sarah Rice in collaboration with Ampersand Duck. Released April 2010. 40pp, letterpress, lithography & pounced drawings. For more details, see here.
Publication
‘Stop the Presses: The Allure of Ink’, Artlink Vol 30, no. 2, 2010: The Underground, pp. 42-44.
Exhibitions
Call of the Small, Canberra Museum & Gallery, ACT, Opening 12 August 2010
BIG PRINT, Megalo @ the Fitters Workshop, Kingston. Large scale printworks by 8 artists. My contribution is a collaboration with graffiti artist Byrd and poet Angela Gardner. Opening 15 October 2010.
Workshops
Introduction to artists’ bookbinding: Megalo, Canberra, 30/31 October 2010. See Megalo for more details.
Residencies & other experiences
August/September 2010: Printer in Residence, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand.
October 15-18, 2010: National Gallery of Australia Print Symposium: Materiality. Giving a paper.
October/December 2010: Artist in Residence, Majura Women’s Group, Canberra