Artist Books
I Will Write | 2025
Using a discarded library book on writing, I altered this book using collage, folding and stitching. It features old photographs, vintage and handmade papers and handwritten letters. It will be exhibited in the Bound and Unbound VIII exhibition at the University of South Dakota, USA in August 2025.
TIMELINES | 2022
Inspired by the neolithic Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, these argyrotype prints have become accordion fold books.
They were made during an artist residency at the Island Darkroom on the Isle of Lewis for my Stone Stories project.
tessering | 2017
In 2016 scientists discovered ripples in the space/time continuum which fulfilled Einstein’s prediction that gravitational waves warp space and time.
Exhibited Inbetween Caboolture, QLD 2019; Paper Pulse, Sofia Bulgaria 2018; Biblio-Art, Blarneys Books, Port Fairy 2017.
Post - Operative | 2024
The first six weeks recovering from total knee replacement surgery are excruciatingly painful. I used pain medication packs and disposable hospital cups to create cyanotypes about my post-operative recovery.
Exhibited at Artists’ Book Award, Manly, 2025.
Folded Landscapes | 2022
I encountered many abandoned houses throughout the Outer Hebrides on route to my artist residency at the Island Darkroom on the Isle of Lewis for my Stone Stories project.
Exhibited at the IAPMA congress Paper Alive in Dresden, Germany, 2023.
rosaceae | 2017
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of IAPMA (the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists), a number of artist book exhibitions were staged around the world.
Luminous Within has been exhibited in Burnie, Tasmania, Alice Springs, Central Australia and Brisbane, Queensland in 2017.
Making Tracks | 2022
This artist book is about the animal tracks found in the Central Australian desert sands. I wove handmade papers made from spinifex and kangaroo grass with stitched ‘tracks’.
Exhibited in Paper exhibition, Beaudesert, 2024.
PILGRIM STRANGER | 2022
This artist book Pilgrim Stranger, (Coigrich Taistealach) was named after a poem of that title written by Gaelic artist Rona Dhòmhnallach who I met in Scotland.
It reminded her of a map that a pilgrim might use to find their way back to their true selves.
BK: book | 2015
BK: Book 2015. 5.5 x 3.5cm (each). Set of four accordion fold books, scrabble letters & stand in bag.
Acquired for inclusion in the Manley Artist Book collection. Manley Artist Book Award 2017.
All the Pretty Houses | 2015
Layering of place, habitat and personal history.
Accordion fold artist book, screenprinted & stitched papers
Exhibited 100 Books Personal Histories, UNSW Canberra campus ACT & Redlands Art Gallery, QLD. 2015.
Patterns of Thought | 2015
Brain pattern / computer circuit board investigations.
Accordion fold artist book, screenprinted & stitched on handmade banana paper
Exhibited Art on Show: Mackay Artist Book Award, QLD 2015.
sails of light | 2013
Combining physicist James Clerk Maxwell’s electromagnetic theories with futuristic flight.
Stitched artist book, screenprinted & laser cut papers.
Exhibited Stellar: Book Art and the Cosmos, Minnesota Centre for Book Arts, USA, 2013.
Bittersweet| 2013
Commemorating South Pacific Islanders who were 'blackbirded' as slaves to work the Queensland and New South Wales sugarcane fields.
Linocut prints and screen prints on banana paper, woven, folded and stitched.
Exhibited Echoes: Australian South Seas Islander 150 SEQ, Beaudesert, QLD., 2013.
burn | 2013
One of a series of books made for the Al -Mutanabbi Street Starts Here project to commemorate the 2007 bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, a hub of booksellers and culture in Iraq.
Accordion fold screenprinted artist book containing lists of books burnt through the ages.
Exhibited San Francisco Center for the Book, USA 2013 & UWE Bristol, UK 2013.
Occupy | 2012
Eyewitness to the birth of Occupy, the people's protest movement,
Folded and stitched artist book using screenprints from original Greek protest posters and web text from the Occupy movement.
Exhibited Lessons in History II - Democracy, Graham Galleries, Brisbane 2012.