Please join us at the launch of the Art/Text Clearinghouse Project and the Western Australian Photographic Book Showcase. Date: Wednesday 8 February 6pm At: Perth Centre for Photography, 100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge (please note new premises). To be opened by Dr Robert Cook, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Photography and Design, Art Gallery of Western… Continue reading Launch of Art/Text Clearinghouse Project Exhibition and Western Australian Photographic Book Showcase
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Di and Kat Souphandavong’s book In the beginning has arrived!
Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong’s collaborative book In the Beginning, with its spectral and atmospheric images combined with poetry will be featured in the Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project opening February 8 at the Perth Centre for Photography. A mother and daughter team, their book explores the non-human – with images of spectres, figures and ghostly forms appearing naturally… Continue reading Di and Kat Souphandavong’s book In the beginning has arrived!
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
Only 26 days to go to submit your photo book or collaborative book
Just a reminder that we are looking for books for our February exhibition. They are due by 31 JANUARY 2012 This means that if you have been doing a book involving a second author/artist/participant you should be getting it to the printer right now. See more details here: Art/Text/Clearinghouse project. We know that there are… Continue reading Only 26 days to go to submit your photo book or collaborative book
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.
mag cloud
Another digital publishing site popular with photographers and artists is Mag cloud http://www.magcloud.com/. The sizes and bindings available are limited reflecting its original focus on high end arts/photography magazines. Some details from the website: How it Works Upload an 8.5″ x 11.0″ or 5.5″ x 8.5″, multi-page PDF of your publication. Select your layout, binding… Continue reading mag cloud
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
Flavio Rosa and Emmanuela Dos Santos Dias: The Frozen Book
The Frozen Book was an art/text book that combines two creative sources: Flavio works with the visuals and Emmanuela with the words. The Frozen Book reflected Flavio’s desire to work with water and images as he has never experienced the snow, by placing photos in water and then freezing them he has created a body… Continue reading Flavio Rosa and Emmanuela Dos Santos Dias: The Frozen Book
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’
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