Artist Books
The
following selected artist's books date from 1979 - 2005.
Most were made as gifts for friends and a few were reproduced in underground
poetry magazines out of Sydney
I've Never Been To Japan, RollMop Press, Sydney, 1979
Produced while working in the Information Resources Centre of Sydney College of the Arts in 1979-81. Combines photocopied images, drawings, and text on tracing paper interleaved pages. Concept - the images and ideas (mythologies of place and culture) of a foreign "other" country always preceed the physical act of going and being there.
We Are A Movie, published in Magic Sam #6,
Absolutely Furious Productions, Sydney, 1980
Produced with a typewriter and collaged images from fashion magazines. Reproduced by photocopier then inserted into an edition of Magic Sam. The identification of written dialogue with photographic portraits (authorship) is forged then disrupted by turns. A play on acting out our lives in sympathy and antipathy with Hollywood films. A live audio performance by Kurt Brereton at the Lee Marvin Readings in Adelaide took place in 2008.
I've Never Been to
the Inland Sea,
Jellied Tongue Press, Bulli, 2005
In 1979 the author produced a limited edition book titled I've Never Been to Japan.
Having never been to Japan, the author's ideas of Japan were formed from imported media, films, TV and literary myths.
This is in part a response after the fact of actually travelling to Japan and the impact of cultural slippage (in semiotic terms).