Carol Barton, USA, Workshop - Making paper engineered books in Melbourne

My sculptural books class of eight participants ranged in age from 20 to over 60. Many had textile backgrounds but were new to the art of the book. Luckily, they all came to the Forum with an inventive spirit, and within the first hour of class they were busy cutting and folding paper into a range of pop-up structures: boxes and triangles, hearts and hands, and characters with moving pop-up mouths..

 Biblio-Art Awards, Port Fairy, VIC, Jo Canham, VIC 

In 2005, Jo Canham and her husband, Dean, opened a secondhand book shop in the historic town of Port Fairy, VIC. The shop at 37 James Street required some renovations so the Masonic kitchen and the men’s toilet facilities were converted into an art space - a gallery area with polished floors and walls begging to be adorned.  After four years, Jo found herself with hundreds of vintage titles that she knew wouldn’t be moving very quickly out the door.  Jo’s interest in artist books was piqued...

Paul Johnson, Workshops/lecture in Canberra, Linda Douglas, Qld

The Book as Architecture, The Secret Garden

The Canberra Craft Bookbinders’ Guild (CCBG) hosted Paul Johnson, UK, to visit as part of his Australian trip with Textile Fibre Arts. His trip included a lecture and two workshops in Canberra. Paul also taught in several other cities during his visit in March and April this year.

THESE FABULOUS OBJECTS,Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists Book Awards

Doug Spowart, Qld

2010 was a gap year for the Southern Cross Acquisitive Artist Book Awards. The hiatus enabling the awards time to review processes, exhibition venue and consolidate the funds that are allocated to the purchase of books for the university’s significant artists’ book collection…The shortlisted works represented a cross section of the discipline from sculptural books to the ephemeral curiosity, ready-mades, recycled, sticks ‘n’ feathers and solidly traditional weighty codices...All 49 books were presented on plinths and appropriate long wooden tables, while some were attached to the walls of the exhibition gallery in downtown Lismore...

 MANLY ACQUISITIVE ARTISTS BOOKS AWARDS, Wendy Ford, NSW

Manly Library Artist Book and Zine Collections Artist’s Books and Zines are fast becoming prominent art forms around the world, and Manly Library has taken the opportunity to commence a collection of Artist Books and Zines and to therefore be at the forefront of this movement. Manly Library received grant funds of $15,000 from the Library Council of New South Wales in 2010 to establish an Artist’s Book and Zine collection collected from a range of sources, including individual artists, local artists, and established artist book distributors and publishers... 

Slow art and Luminence, Peter Di Sciascio, VIC

Conceptualism and the Birth of the Artists' Book, Peter Di Sciascio (VIC)

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Simryn Gill , ALTERED BOOKS, by Penny Peckham, VIC

Qld Bookbinders’Guild, EXHIBITION, QLD State library, by Daniel Ibbot, QLD

Creative Folds Bookmaking, WORKSHOP,by Peta Lloyd, QLD

The story is the Thing, EXHIBITION,by Jane Schauer, ACT

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Banners and Artists’ Books, Deanna Hitti’s books, by Antoniette Corvino-Beehre, VIC

Traces and Shadows: Imagining Primrose, COLLABORATIVE BOOK, by Jean Riley

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Ross McMaster, BODY OF WORK, by Monica Oppen, NSW

Posted, Normana Wight (artist) by Doug Spowart, QLD

In the Beginnings, Anne Bennett, VIC

Global issues and Book Art, Jennifer Storey-McIntosh, Sienna, Italy