Our book birdlife has been added to the esteemed Indie Photobook Library (iPL) in Washington, USA. The collection, is an archive of independently published photobooks founded by Larissa Leclair in 2010. The collection comprises DIY, photobooks independently published and distributed, photography exhibition catalogs, print-on-demand photobooks, artist books, zines, photobooks printed on newsprint, limited edition photobooks, and non-English language photography books.… Continue reading birdlife in the Indie Photobook Library
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State Library of Qld’s artists’ book collection
The largest public collection of artists’ books in Australia is held at the State Library of Queensland, as part of the Australian Library of Art. The collection consists of around 1500 works featuring both Australian and overseas artists. The Library positions the collection as ‘artworks that use the form or the concept of the book’, with the… Continue reading State Library of Qld’s artists’ book collection
Objectifying book art
BookArtObject is a great ongoing project by an informal collective of artists working with book arts. Administered from Australia, it includes artists spanning the world, using the blog as a hub for their activities. Artists work in the medium of artists’ books and come together occasionally to make small editions of work in response to… Continue reading Objectifying book art
Indie publishing West-side
The independent publishing sector in Western Australia continues to swell with a swathe of activity from small publishers – from micro to rather big. We thought it might be a good time to recap on some of our colleagues. The Perth Zine Collective is a rich incubator and representative of hand-made publications, providing a a… Continue reading Indie publishing West-side
Weaving stories
Perth artist Janine McAullay Bott works with weaving – creating objects and figures from palm fronds, grasses, reeds and other natural and man-made materials. Drawing directly from her Noongar heritage the works reference the methodologies and stories of her ancestors. Weaving is part of my Noongar heritage – my great grandmother would make brooms to… Continue reading Weaving stories
Books about books
We do enjoy books about making books, and we thought we’d share with you a couple of our favourites. Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book, is a great how-to manual, detailing everything to do with publishing your own book, from design through to distribution. Written by Ellen Lupton, it’s published by… Continue reading Books about books
A Simple Rain launched
While the weather raged outside, inside the enticing book-lined walls of Crow Books, our latest book, A Simple Rain, was launched last Monday. Award-winning Western Australian poet Kevin Gillam launched the book, describing his process of re-visiting the book recently, as one that opened up new ways of reading this particular combination of art and… Continue reading A Simple Rain launched
Landscaped
Our book birdlife has been reviewed in the latest edition of Landscapes, the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language, at Edith Cowan University. The edition features articles by Jorge Goldfarb and Adam Newcomb and poetry by Andrew Burke, Liana Joy Christensen, Marten Clibbens, Mark Dickinson, Niall Lucy, Edric Mesmer, Glen Phillips, Rose… Continue reading Landscaped
From Alberta to Westerly…
We are very excited that the cover of the current edition of Westerly Magazine features artwork by Lethologica Press’ Perdita Phillips. The photograph is taken from the same series that is featured in our latest book, A Simple Rain. It exists as a close-up of red rock jutting through icy vegetation found on the Athabasca… Continue reading From Alberta to Westerly…
We like: A traverse about the commons…
Lethologica Press are rather pleased to have discovered The Triumph of the Commons: 55 Thesis on the Future – a collaborative text and art book by fifty-five artists. Presented as an online book, short pieces – described as ‘theses’ – by New York writer Leland Maschmeyer present various futuristic concepts, that have been responded to… Continue reading We like: A traverse about the commons…
Nigel Heyler’s CrayVox
Lethologica Press are currently most taken with artist Nigel Heyler’s CrayVox. Existing as an atlas-cookbook, the book evocatively charts time spent last year by the artist deep amidst the briny fishing world of the Houtman Abrohlos Islands. Nigel’s explorations of the Islands emerge in beautifully rendered maps, paired with local crayfish recipes and Chinese calligraphy.… Continue reading Nigel Heyler’s CrayVox
An afternoon of words and art
The conversation was flowing within the airy rooms of Perth Centre for Photography, during our Artist’s Talk afternoon on Saturday 3 March. We chatted about the experiences and lessons learned, from collaboratively making books for the Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project and the Western Australian Photographic Book Survey. A number of poets read from their books – Liana… Continue reading An afternoon of words and art