Artist Books
Occupy 2012 - my artist books using posters from the 2011 democracy protest posters sourced in Athens, Greece and manifestos of the ‘Occupy, movement.
Artist books sit outside conventional artwork definitions. They can be 3D or 2D artworks, they can have a traditional book structure or look like a strange sculpture made from a variety of materials including melting ice. One thing they have in common is that they are acts of resistance.
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Marking Time 2025 - mini artist book - cyanotype & ink on paper
I often get stuck when I’m trying to title my artworks. Sometimes you have to wait for the title to present itself, with often surprising results. Marking Time is a mini artist book which needed to take its own time to reveal its title and what it really is about.
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Landslide (detail) 2025 - artist book in wooden box
How do we respond to accelerated change?. Everywhere we look the world is in a state of flux. This can bring on great anxiety or it can be seen as a time for new possibilities to emerge. As artists we can search for the seeds of renewal within the chaos all around. What we think is fixed and immobile is often only one state of being. Even the stones on mountains and the trees themselves move.
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My new laptop screen wallpaper, inviting me into the forest of Takayna, Tasmania.
Perseverance is not necessarily a quality you would think you need when it comes to being creative. Yet finding little creative ‘hacks’ can help keep your enthusiasm buoyant and your art alive through all the messy ups and downs of the creative process.
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Finding the right path to take can be tricky…image from my installation of Kiss the Earth (with your feet) in Sofia, Bulgaria 2016.
When you’re not sure what path to take, that middle of the night insomnia can yield some ‘eureka’ moments. Such as revealing the solution to what art to create during my Art 4 Takayna residency in Tasmania over Easter.
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Thin Ice - WIP - scroll artist book
What happens in the polar regions affects us worldwide. I was reminded of this when stitching the words in my scroll artist book, from ice crack to melt and flood. Having narrowly avoided flooding from the recent cyclone event, this scroll book is a narrative of our climate crisis and its impact.
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Post-Operative artist book (WIP)
When systems fall into chaos, it’s time to get creative and start imaginative mapping. Creating a visual representation of how you want life to look helps bring that future into reality. Chaos and entropy are natural parts of systems under pressure and from them can emerge new order and stability. Hold that thought!!!
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Empty paracetamol blister packs and the flattened out hospital pain medication cups
We are taught to reach for perfection, yet that sets us up for failure every time. Printmaking in any form has a strong ‘perfection’ element and to make blurry prints which messy edges is not considered to be technically correct. Yet what if you reframe that idea to turn seeming failures into successes. Perhaps it is a truer reflection of living life in all its messiness.
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Making pain visible - cyanotype print of blister pack tablets
When one image is not enough to tell a story, then artist books are a great way to combine pictures with text. I have been wanting to find a way to show pain through its relief and have started planning the structure for an artist book. How the materials and narrative work together is an exciting journey of discovery.
Read MoreThere are so many things you could make, it can be hard to know where to start. I’ve been making blank notebooks using up old prints that I folded to become the little book covers. Creating these notebooks has put me back into ‘maker mode’. What will go inside them? The possibilities are endless.
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