Books

Happy New Year 2016

Some pages from my electronic New Year card, sent out as a pdf
to be printed and folded into a "secret book"
Images were digitally traced from photographs of illustrations in medieval manuscripts

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Shades (November 2015)

Based on the Farrow&Ball paint chart and my "painted dictionary", an
altered copy of Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

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Chromatic Segue (in preparation)

Using the paint at the bottom of the pages of the painted dictionary

Scanned and printed

One version is a scroll, the other is a concertina book

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Blackberrying (July 2013 and October 2014)

Based on the poem "Blackberrying" by Sylvia Plath

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Flood Library (February 2013)

paper treated with water and heat; dimensions variable; these are 5cm high

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Reading Rooms for Al-Mutanabbi Street (December 2012)

graphite frottage; ink over wax resist and graphite; 20cm x 10cm
text running around the "skirting boards" of the "rooms" says: A house without books is like a room without windows

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The Seeing I (November 2012)

digital prints from family photos; drumleaf binding; 9cmx15cm; 10pp

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The Blue Distance (August 2012)

hand-written tracing paper; 4 parts. Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit

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Seepage (July 2012)

letterpress; 8 pages; edition of 8

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Over-writing (2012)

More To Meet The Eye

in progress
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Memorising Sonnets (2012)

Ten sonnets, written in a notebook as part of the process of memorisation

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Lost for Words

Cut dictionary pages, encased in tissue and wax

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Memory Balls (ongoing)

The red thread of connection

Long words, occluding one another

Short words, essential

In progress (CQ summer school, July 2012)

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The Journey to the Studio (ongoing)

Newspaper stitched on to painted "colour catchers"

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Inky Books (2012)

About 8cm high; newspaper and tissue paper saturated with ink

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Combing the Dictionary (April 2012)

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Ghost Children (April 2012)

A series, with images taken from old photographs; approx 3 cm wide; wax and ink

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Squished Can Coptic Stitch (Oct 2011)

Blank book

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Book Ring (August 2011)

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Thread Clouds (July 2011)

Delicate tissue paper and slippery, glossy rayon thread

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Flocks of the Sky Birds (May 2011)

Based on a bench and poem in Slough; shown in "Whatever Floats Your Boat" in Slough Museum

30cm high; includes embroidered poem on black silk and screenprinted gauze scrolls

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Word Rituals (May 2011)

The Lord's Prayer - recited every morning in primary school

"O Canada" - sung every morning in primary school

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Advice for Editors (April 2011)

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Panacea (March 2011)

The insides of the bags are printed with society's ills and diseases

As pills, these would be too big to swallow; another form of delivery is needed

A set of three velvet bags, plus contents

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Identity Theft (March 2011)

Mini-books based on a till receipt

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TravelWriting / Journey Lines

A round trip, April 2010

Further "journey lines" are in my contribution to the Brooklyn Art Library's  Sketchbook Project - http://www.arthousecoop.com/library/4283.