Eva Fernández: (terra) australis incognita

(terra) australis incognita is a catalogue for a recent exhibition with the same title by Eva Fernández shown at the Fremantle Art Centre in 2011. The catalogue includes essays by Andrew Nicholls, artist, writer and curator based in Perth as well as Bec Dean, curator, writer and Associate Director of Performance Space, Sydney. Emphasising the… Continue reading Eva Fernández: (terra) australis incognita

Vivienne Glance and Perdita Phillips: A simple rain

  Photography with an eye for symbolism and hint of narrative, prose filled with visual acuity and flurries and flakes of inventiveness. There is a tangible synergy here between text and image, giving rise to “dissolved aspirations”, depth…past mourning” and the “notes of ages”. ‘A simple rain’ is a book to linger over, a book… Continue reading Vivienne Glance and Perdita Phillips: A simple rain

Rupture by Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Eleanor Leonne Bennett

we have achieved time travel. we have created a wormhole that is both temporal & spatial. we have found a rupture in the world… & through it we speak to each other. Meet Eleanor Leonne Bennett & her imaginary friend Scott-Patrick Mitchell. Or are we meeting SPM and his new imaginary friend, Kitten? Or have… Continue reading Rupture by Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Grammatical Instances by the mitchell bros.

the mitchell bros. was a collaboration between poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell and artist/photographer Eric James Mitchell. Collaboration redefines the social space. Each artistic language articulates the moment with its own dialect. A grapholexia of creative comprehension is formed, the symbol and glyph combined in new expression. This dialogue forms its own grammar, syntax and morphology. Image… Continue reading Grammatical Instances by the mitchell bros.

Denise Brown and Gail Robinson: Cemented by Shadows

The handmade limited edition book Cemented by Shadows is the first collaboration between visual artist Denise Brown and text artist Gail Robinson. Denise’s vibrant drawings were inspired by memories of her upbringing in rural Cornwall. Consistent with her art practice she has used personal experience to translate the emotional content of everyday life and contemporary… Continue reading Denise Brown and Gail Robinson: Cemented by Shadows

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

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

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