No matter what I’m doing at any time, projects appear that are just too good to resist, and I find myself stepping to one side and participating. One of these was Call of the Small, and another is this, Julie Barratt’s The Hankie Project. Continue reading
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Feel the Fell, 2009
Feel the Fell. Unique artist’s book of letterpress and offset letterpress ink on Chinese roll paper with handsewn whirlwind binding. Text by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Design and production by Ampersand Duck.
Held in the Artspace Mackay Collection, Queensland, Australia. Continue reading
Playing with Anna’s Ghosts, 2005
Playing with Anna’s Ghosts
Artist’s book. Unique letterpress concertina-bound book with removable hard cover and slipcase. c.100 x 100 x 50mm. Canberra: Ampersand Duck, 2005. Private Collection. Continue reading
Experiencing Henri Michaux (4)
This is part 4 of 4 posts. For details about the physical aspect of this book and the original premise, go to the first post, here. 2nd post. 3rd post.
Essentially, this is an on-line recreation of a book consisting of three sets of postcards revolving around a set of short writings by Henri Michaux. Continue reading
Experiencing Henri Michaux (3)
This is part 3 of 4 posts. For details about the physical aspect of this book and the original premise, go to the first post, here. 2nd post. 4th post. Continue reading
Experiencing Henri Michaux (2)
This is part 2 of 4 posts. For details about the physical aspect of this book and the original premise, go to the first post, here. 3rd post. 4th post. Continue reading
Experiencing Henri Michaux, 2000 (1)
I am Writing to You From a Far-Off Country: Experiencing Henri Michaux (2000).
Digital images, laserprinted text, pen, ink and gold paint on paper, custom perspex cover. Unique, Canberra: Editioning & Artists Book Studio, NITA, 2000.
This is the first of four posts on this book. 2nd post. 3rd post. 4th post.
Pressings: Recycled Bookwork
This is a solo exhibition I had in September 2009, at Megalo Access Studio + Gallery.
I gave an account of the exhibition opening at my personal blog. Continue reading
Books to Hold or Let Go: works in progress
Books to Hold or Let Go is an upcoming exhibition at Canberra’s Craft ACT gallery.
Opening on 14 May at 6pm, Books to Hold or Let Go showcases Australian and international binders working with the text of Ampersand Duck’s fine press publication Poems to Hold or Let Go by Rosemary Dobson and Rosalind Atkins. The exhibition will run until 20 June, and associated events (floor talks or readings) are being negotiated. Continue reading
Books to Hold or Let Go: the exhibition
Books to Hold or Let Go was a group exhibition of bookbinding responses to a single book: Poems to Hold or Let Go by Rosemary Dobson, a fine press volume designed and published by myself, Ampersand Duck, in 2008.
The exhibition opened on May 14, 2009 at Canberra’s Craft ACT gallery and continued through to June 20, 2009. Continue reading