{A library of artists' books, a photocopy of zines, a warmth of coats, a crowd of people.}
Images harvested from yesterday's opening of PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books at the Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, interspersed between images from several of our zines that feature in the exhibition in addition to our artists' book As inclination directs (2013).
A Catalogue of Bodies (Second Edition) (2014), As if from the clouds, restless (2014), Misreadings (2014), Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) who visited my garden one summer’s day (2014), Twelve months, an explorer (2014), 38.1500° S, 144.3500° E (2013), A Postcard as Measuring Device (2013), Beneath the screen of closed eyelids (Port Said) (2013), Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova) (2013), and Lunch (2013) are being kept in very fine company until Saturday the 9th August, 2014.
A major exhibition which explores the development, range and ambition of the Artists Book, PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books, will be held at Federation University Australia’s Post Office Gallery until 9 August.
Featuring over 500 works, including books, postal art and other 'alternative spaces' from the 1960s to the present, the exhibition presents a broad range of significant works from a number of private and public collections in Australia and the UK.
Curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, the exhibition will showcase a large selection of books by contemporary Australian artists, together with remarkable and rare publications by pioneers of the Conceptual art and Feminists' movement.
(Federation University Australia News)
Thank-you Debbie and Geoff.
