Author: perdita

Tim Burns: Bun – Bury ‘One in a Series of Beatings’

The inimitable Tim Burns is a multi media film video print performance artist who has been producing a diverse range of works since the 1970s. He has published a pedestrian series of postcards (winner of the 1978 The American institute of Graphic Arts, Artists book award) and the performance transcript Not ceasing to loiter (Flinders University,… Continue reading Tim Burns: Bun – Bury ‘One in a Series of Beatings’

Annette Nykiel: May I tell a story?

A few years ago Annette Nykiel produced the limited edition book May I tell a story? Nykiel works in photography and textiles. Having been based in the eastern Goldfields, she explores changes in relationship to country, identity, place and belonging that occur when one’s ways of seeing and knowing are strongly influenced by another culture/s.… Continue reading Annette Nykiel: May I tell a story?

Layli Rakhsha: Behind The Waters

Layli Rakhsha works with photography, painting and printmaking centred on the landscape. The photographs in Behind The Waters are related to her experience of using digital camera and the idea of reflection. The photographs were taken during her residency at the Vancouver Art Centre in Albany, South of Western Australia in 2009. The work explores… Continue reading Layli Rakhsha: Behind The Waters

Nandi Chinna and Andrea Smith: Alluvium

Poet Nandi Chinna and illustrator Andrea Smith  embarked upon a cross-continental collaboration for their book, Alluvium. Nandi has been exploring wetlands and walking in her latest poetry project. Andrea is a professional illustrator with an interest in birds and animals. The book began with concerted wandering along the shores of wetlands and river banks in… Continue reading Nandi Chinna and Andrea Smith: Alluvium

Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong: In the beginning

Artist/photographer Dianne Souphandavong and poet Kathryn Souphandavong combined talents on their first collaboration, In the beginning. The book includes sunset photographs abstracted in an atmospheric manner. Many spectres, figures and ghosts appear naturally in the photos. The series dwells within a particular genre of the ‘fantastic’. The images were obtained from two separate visits to… Continue reading Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong: In the beginning

call for Expression of Interest for the art/text/clearinghouse project and Western Australian Photographic Book Survey for a funding application

Progress on the November Lethologica Press exhibition is continuing. We are pursuing positive leads for funding and sponsorship and need high quality Expressions of Interest to support our bids. Proposals by WA artists/photographers/writers (even unconfirmed and speculative ones) are very welcome by 31 July in order to fulfil a significant grant application. Please fill out… Continue reading call for Expression of Interest for the art/text/clearinghouse project and Western Australian Photographic Book Survey for a funding application

Catherin Higham’s show at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery

Showing at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery until 17th of July is Prime Mover by artist/photographer Catherine Higham. Prime Mover is an exhibition of paintings and photographs which link human behavior to ecosystems, with focus on water and genetically modified grains. Catherine is keen to collaborate with a poet to exploring aspects of the… Continue reading Catherin Higham’s show at the Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery

Liana Joy Christensen and Marie Lochman: Unnatural History

Writer Liana Joy Christensen and photographer Marie Lochman share a passion for the natural world. They collaborated on Unnatural History: Our book is a strange homage to the exquisitely rendered natural history texts of the nineteenth century. Those seemingly realistic depictions and descriptions of flora and fauna were not neutral. They encoded a whole cultural… Continue reading Liana Joy Christensen and Marie Lochman: Unnatural History

Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith: The Estrildid Orchestra

Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith are currently planning to collaborate on a small tome, The Estrildid Orchestra. Thea has written a creative short story in response to Perdy’s images. Associate Professor Simon Griffith rounds out the book by writing on the scientific importance and ramifications of the complete gene sequencing the zebra finch. The… Continue reading Perdita Phillips, Thea Costantino and Simon Griffith: The Estrildid Orchestra

KITCHEN (britt salt + jon hewitt) with T-SAC: Make Your Own Damn Arts Centre

KITCHEN is a collaboration between britt salt and jon hewitt who recently completed a Trans-Siberian art project which they now wish to turn into a book. Kitchen would like to work with an arts writer or a writer with an interest/background in arts and culture who is keen to write a foreword for our book… Continue reading KITCHEN (britt salt + jon hewitt) with T-SAC: Make Your Own Damn Arts Centre

boom. (2009)

As part of a 2011 showcase of already existing books — antecedents and inspirations — for the November Western Australian photographic books + Art/text/clearinghouse project show at the Perth Centre for Photography… boom., published in 2009 was born from a series of discussions between 20 of WA’s emerging creative practitioners. The resulting cross-platform exhibition, website… Continue reading boom. (2009)

Catherine Higham

Catherine Higham is an artist/photographer looking to work with a poet. Her materials and processes are multidisciplinary: painting, assemblage, photography, ephemeral sculpture.  She works with themes that have an environmental focus. My idea for a book — with the tentative title: wild She writes: I would like to work with a poet on the theme… Continue reading Catherine Higham