Textual Production
A venue to discuss different ways to get text into an artist's book. These days there are so many processes: handwriting, inkjet, offset, letterpress, silkscreen, and many more... let's talk about it.
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Caren Florance
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Charles Brownson commented on Caren Florance's group Textual Production"I wonder if release paper works? Seems unlikely."
Aine Scannell commented on Caren Florance's group Textual Production"Oh and I forgot to add that transferring directly from label backing paper is more likely to work even better. I purchased a product from IMcClains printmaking supplies (USA) and that works really well. I am finding now that doing on to dry…"
Charles Brownson commented on Caren Florance's group Textual Production"Aine, thanks for the information about inkjet transfers using acetate, especially the tip that it can be resoaked. This is a way of doing collage that avoids glue and permits overlays. Nice."
Aine Scannell commented on Caren Florance's group Textual Production"I have just been doing inkjet transfers to Somerset etching paper as well as to Hahnemuhle. I used the shiny side of the acetate (the non inkjet coated side) and then tried a transfer onto dry paper, also to soaked and blotted paper (as…"
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'The Complete Book' at the Sturt Winter School at Sturt Craft School
July 2, 2012 to July 6, 2012
This week-long class will be held during the Sturt Winter School, in the beautiful surrounds of the Frensham School in Mittagong, NSW.Concentrating on the artist's book as a whole entity, students will be exploring not only alternative book structures but how to develop the complete book, making everything work together: structure, materials, concept (not necessarily in that order). There will also be discussion on different ways to produce text and images and how to plan books (whilst leaving…See More
Caren Florance is attending Susan Millard's event
Adventure & Art: the fine press book from 1450 to 2011 at Leigh Scott Gallery, Level 1, Baillieu Library
March 1, 2012 at 10am to May 31, 2012 at 6pm
Leigh Scott Gallery, Level 1, Baillieu Library, 1 March to 27 May 2012Adventure & Art, curated by poet and fine press printer Alan Loney, is about the printer’s craft, evidenced from the first printed books in the 15th century, and given a hugely influential impetus by William Morris and the Arts & Craft movement at the end of the 19th. This exhibition will show how a number of technologies that are obsolete in commercial terms are still current in creative & craft terms in the 21st…See More
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Caren Florance's Blog
Those Who Travel
Posted on April 28, 2010 at 19:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
Those Who Travel is a labour of love for four Canberra artists. An exquisite artists' book of original poetry and images, it was produced voluntarily over the late summer of 2010 by all as an act of solidarity for the author, who has had to endure incredible bouts of illness over the past few years.
The poetry belongs to Dr Sarah Rice, a ceramicist and art theorist, and is a combination of… Continue
The book in your art
Posted on May 19, 2009 at 22:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
I'm teaching a weekend workshop in Bega on 6/7 June about incorporating book forms and ideas into a general artistic practice.
I'm also giving a public talk about books in art at the Bega Regional Library on the night of Thursday 4 June.
Bega is a small town on the far south coast of NSW in Australia.
Books to Hold or Let Go
Posted on May 14, 2009 at 0:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
Opening Thursday 14 May at Craft ACT, Canberra, and running to 20 June:
An exhibition of fine bookbinding in response to the Ampersand Duck volume Poems to Hold or Let Go (Rosemary Dobson and Rosalind Atkins, 2008). There are 23 binders, including Mia Leijonstedt, Sue Anderson, Genevieve Swifte, Molly Coy, Joy Tonkin, Wayne Stock, Lorraine Brown, Wendy Taylor, Linda Newbown and many others.
There will be an associated… Continue
An exhibition of fine bookbinding in response to the Ampersand Duck volume Poems to Hold or Let Go (Rosemary Dobson and Rosalind Atkins, 2008). There are 23 binders, including Mia Leijonstedt, Sue Anderson, Genevieve Swifte, Molly Coy, Joy Tonkin, Wayne Stock, Lorraine Brown, Wendy Taylor, Linda Newbown and many others.
There will be an associated… Continue
Call for participants: <i>Books to Hold or Let Go</i>
Posted on August 1, 2008 at 0:28 0 Comments 0 Likes
Wanted: Craft bookbinders, to participate in a group exhibition of fine bindings responding to a single text.
The latest Ampersand Duck fine press volume is Poems to Hold or Let Go, a selection of poetry by Australia’s most respected poet, Rosemary Dobson (including a small number never before published in book format), with wood engravings by acclaimed Melbourne printmaker Rosalind Atkins. The volume is 56pp, printed using letterpress processes on Magnani laid paper. It is… Continue
The latest Ampersand Duck fine press volume is Poems to Hold or Let Go, a selection of poetry by Australia’s most respected poet, Rosemary Dobson (including a small number never before published in book format), with wood engravings by acclaimed Melbourne printmaker Rosalind Atkins. The volume is 56pp, printed using letterpress processes on Magnani laid paper. It is… Continue
Making in Mittagong: Sturt Winter School
Posted on July 18, 2008 at 9:00 3 Comments 0 Likes
Click here to see more photos from my Sturt Winter School flickr set
Goodness, we made a lot of booky things last week. Nine keen students, one keen teacher, and we were off. I think the… Continue
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Comment Wall (29 comments)
- At 20:42 on October 27, 2009,
Louisa Boyd said… - 'Me like a river' is such an interesting piece, amazing!
- At 23:47 on May 27, 2009,
David Frazer said… - Dear Caren, i replied (or thought i did) to your comments but i'm not sure that they worked, i think i may have just commented on my own page. i can't get my head around this modern technology. Anyway, just in case you didn't get them my workshops are in Castlemaine victoria (near Bendigo) (stupid me forgot to put that in the notice). Also i'm having a show in canberra at Beaver galleries in july. re my letterpress, for my latest book i did the letterpress myself. I picked some up in a garage sale. i don't have though all the furniture and qoins and stuff so i had to set it up with magnets and bluetack (luckily i didn't have much text). Previously i'd got it made up from some letterpress guy . David
- At 0:56 on May 3, 2009,
Sheree Kinlyside said… - Hi Caren. What's happening in ACT this year? Not that I need an excuse to visit there but a project would be lovely.
Pleased to say there is a new printmakers group up here just getting off the ground. Can I suggest your name as one we might use for visiting artist workshops?
Are you well?
Sheree (sheree@redragpress.com)
- At 9:27 on March 9, 2009,
Marian Crawford said… - Yes well he's been re-distributing last year's little exercises, so I rekon he may've learnt that lesson!
- At 8:42 on March 9, 2009, Marian Crawford said…
- Hi Caren
Our Artists's Book elective has Lots of Enrolments! So we are all very excited and Greg is enthusiastically preparing to teach them the ins and outs of setting type! Hope you're well,
Cheers, Marian
- At 14:24 on January 26, 2009,
Elizabeth Steiner said…
- Hello Caren
I am very happy to have you use the photos mentioned for your newsletter
The title for the one with stitching over crossed tapes is ".Double Bush Binding" and was made for an exhibition organized by BOOK EXHIBITIONS AUSTRALIA.
Cheers
Elizabeth Steiner
- At 20:07 on November 30, 2008,
Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch said… - Thanks for the friendship add.
- At 12:10 on November 18, 2008,
Mel said…
- Dear Caren
I am emailing to see if we can use your drawing of Bruce Dawe for the cover of the English Teachers Association journal ( NSW) - (called mETAphor) as we have an article about him in the journal . We will acknowledge you on the inside page if you approve.
Please email me on mdixon@loreto.nsw.edu.au if we can use this
Thanks
Mel
- At 23:30 on November 3, 2008, Sheree Kinlyside said…
- Thanks Caren. Yes, website is yet to be designed. Gave up my day job in June and felt I was like recouperating after a long illness for most of July and August! Now back with a vengeance...several projects to be finalised early next year (the first books off the press) but will post "in progress" photos soon.
hope all things good for you. Sheree
- At 17:36 on September 25, 2008,
Robert Heather said… - I will see - we do try to podcast a lot of our talks - so will check if that is what we are doing this time.
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