Artbound exhibition at Gallery Red

More exciting new for those interested in Artist Books. Australian BookBinders are exhibiting Artist Books at  Gallery Red in Glebe in a show called ArtBound. The show allows artist to explore the nature of books through a creative expressive form. It seems that this vehicle of expression gets more and more experimental as time goes on and is well worth checking out!
The exhibition opens on Friday May 28 and runs until Tuesday June 15.
Opening Hours:
Monday-Friday: 10am-5pm
Saturdays: 10am-3pm
Sundays: Closed

Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem

Motherhouse

producer: Monica Oppen

Binder: Daphne Lerabinder

The Oyster Book of Lessons from the Memory Room

Images: Juli Haas

Binder: Juli Haas

Given

Producer: Tim Mosely

Tucked away in Stanmore I never expected there to be a library for artist books. Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem is in a private house in Sydney, collecting and seeking after artist books.

You can browse the collection online by looking through artists, book titles or publisher names. You can search the system by type of medium or edition.

You can even submit an application to have work  considered for the library.

It looks like it could be well worth checking out but access to the collection is strictly by appointment only. Students are welcomed! 

The Sketchbook Project is taking place in the USA but anyone is welcome to be involved!
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view.

Anyone - from anywhere in the world -even us here in Sydney can be a part of the project. To participate all you have to do is pay $25 to register and they will send you a sketchbook. You have till January 2011 to fill it with goodies and send it back to them and the tour starts in March 2011.

Visit sketchbook project to get the details and official dates. Even if you don't want to participate it worth visiting the site to check out last years projects!

Rani P Lukita and Phil Lesnie - Sydney artists / Hand to Hand

 
Dark, dirty and hysterical, League of Shadows is the theatrical vision of Phil Lesnie and Rani Lukita. Struggling to subsist in the shadowlands at the end of the world, the eccentric cast of characters – teaming handmade puppets with a group of talented voice actors – features a shy radioactive quasimodo, a diabolical mad scientist, an amputee love-interest, and a pathologically rude doomsday device.

Think Tim Burton meets South Park, plus a soundtrack (Jake Craig with Melissa Lesnie) ranging from German Expressionist film score to alt country to shoegazer. You can see further images and snippets of Rana and Phil's performance at http://www.leagueofshadows.com.au/

Leigh Rigozzi - Sydney Zine artist / Hand to Hand

                            

Leigh Rigozzi is a Sydney based artist who has studied Printmedia at Sydney College of the Arts. Leigh makes zines and has just edited and printed an anthology of Australian comics. 

Yeah for the Australian Comic Industry!!

The the artist featured in this anthology include: Thom Bransdon, Anton Emdin, Demetra Christopher, Sam Twyford-Moore, Leigh Rigozzi, Yoko, Ross Tesoreiro, and Anna Wilkenfeld.

Leigh also has run workshops with the Rizzeria! Rizzeria is collectively own and operated by a bunch of self publishers and print makers in Sydney, Australia. 

LUIZ & THE SEA STORY

LUIZ & THE SEA STORY

27 MAY- 26th AUGUST

Galeria Arte Brasil

Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 10am-4pm

Level 17, 31 Market Street Sydney

Last night I was lucky enough to be invited along to the talented Fernanda Porto's exhibition opening at the Brazilian consulate. Fernanda was born in Rio de Janeiro but is currently calling Sydney Australia home. We are so glad to have her!

LUIZ & THE SEA STORY is a beautiful story which I won't do the same justice that Fernanda  does.
The story is about Luiz Baldi her Great Grandfather and his first contact with the sea. Luiz Baladi was a professional portrait photographer. In the summer of 1921 he lost his studio due to intense flooding.  He was a person who knew how to look on the bright side of life and learn from negative experiences.Fernanda has interpreted this tough situation as a chance for Luiz to get to know the sea and all its creatures.

Fernanda has studied  Graphic design at Billy Blue and went on to do her Masters  at COFA majoring in Printmaking.
We are happy to have her as a member of Hand to Hand!
You can check out her amazing work by visiting the Brazilian Consulate, her personal webage or Dirty Hand Printmaking

Andrea Smith - Amazing Sydney artist for Hand to Hand

Andrea lives and works in Sydney Australia. She has worked for a variety of clients from children's illustration to fashion editorial and textile prints. She has had the pleasure of working with such clients as Made 590, Nylon Magazine, Sydney's Child and Yen. Her illustration work has also been featured in Curvy 4. http://www.andreasmith.com.au

Anna-Wili Highfield found in Sydney

Silver Gull

Barn Owl

Scarlet Robin in a Jar

Magpie

I love when I find new artist from Sydney. It is like they have been under my noise the whole time. Searching through the internet I stumbled upon the work of Anna-Wili Highfield.
 

She is currently making sculptures of animals from torn paper and copper pipe. Anna-Wili completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, worked as a scenic artist and is the daughter of a puppeteer. You can really see all her experiences combined together into creative new forms

For more of her work visit her website

The amazing paper sculptures from Peter Callesen

Hand to Hand admires the work of Denmark artist Peter Callesen. Callesen works with different objects and paper cuts to create framed work, installations and performance. He talks about the commonality of paper, a material that everyone can relate to.

Callesen’s artworks leave you asking how on earth did he create that out of paper! He discuses the magical task of transforming a sheet of white paper into a tragic, romantic and fairytale 3 dimensional realities.

If you have any interest in paper you should check out his website because there are countless dynamic pieces worth looking at and I can’t possible post everyone here.

But here is a few to get you interested.

White Window, 2010

White Window, 2010

Detail

Fall, 2008

White Diary, 2008

Das Superpaper - doing some amazing things on paper!

Issue #12 is out - Featuring:

Circle Pit
Ben Ali Ong
Zoe McMahon
Flowhawk
Three Biennales
Jesse Olsen
What's On

Pick it up an any of the hundreds of outlets that stock up on Das Superpaper - an amazing read.

Peter Nelson works on / with paper

Peter Nelson’s work invites the viewer into a strange, surreal world; one that is both similar yet very different to our own. LikeAlice’s journey through Wonderland, Peter’s images transport us into a poetic space that is full of wonder, unease, portent and loss. The sparse landscapes Peter creates develop out of a variety of real and imagined places and objects that are reconfigured across ambiguously flattened spaces. Devoid of horizon lines and traditional Western perspective, the objects seem to float, suspended across the surface, occupying a transient and unstable mid-ground that is in part inspired by traditional Chinese painting.

Seeped in muted grays, blues and greens, this post apocalyptic world represents Peter’s ongoing concern with melding together the external landscape of the environment with the internal landscape of our imagination. That this melding together should produce such a disturbing, unstable space points to the fraught and unresolved relationship that exists between ourselves and the environment.

In this sense, Peter’s work engages with the politics of identity, responsibility and space, utilizing the landscape to explore and open up a dialogue between the viewer and his work. Without professing any answers, Peter’s images simply and poetically raise important questions we all face today.

Shannon Field

Hand to Hand - New creative space for Works on Paper

Launching Hand to Hand - a space dedicated to artists and groups who work with paper. This proposed space on Ash Street will act as a creative hub, giving artists a platform for creative projects and workshops.

This space, dedicated to works on paper, would not only serve artists who dedicate their practice to this often overlooked medium, but also would allow for the Sydney community to get a behind the scenes view of paper focused art making.

The Hand to Hand studio would be a multi purpose space, with the primary focus of representing and facilitating the practice of artists and members of the general public who have an interest (whether discovered or undiscovered) in working with paper.

This medium has many more interpretations than those that first come to mind.

Works on paper include:

- Printmaking

- Drawing

- Embossing

- Zine making

- Artists books

- Illustrators

- Sewing and appliqué on paper

- Paper sculpture/ origami

- Collage

- Paper making, dying and colouration

- Stenciling

- Model making

- Stop motion animation

- Magazines

- Puppets

To create a space to represent and facilitate this multifaceted practice would be invaluable to the art community. Furthermore, working with paper is a cost efficient, relatively mess free and easily taught practice, which would enable members of the community to become involved with forums, studios, classes and exhibitions.

We see this space as a multidisciplinary venue, a gallery/ studio/ zine library by day, which can transform into a white walled blank canvas for opening nights or installations. On Saturdays it can become a workshop space for printmaking/ zine making/ book binding classes. On Thursdays, a drawing venue for tutored night classes. Furthermore, it can be booked as a space for artist collectives, providing a central location to get together and share ideas. It has the potential to be a forum location, with speakers and demonstrators from across Sydney and Australia.

This space would create a meeting point to provide artists with a central location to meet, share ideas and practice together, and a linking point between Sydney-siders and the arts community. We see business people coming into Hand to Hand on their lunch breaks, browsing through the works on display, flicking through the zines and chatting to the artists working on their latest masterpiece. Hand to Hand will be a cultural hub, a meeting point for all walks of life to indulge in the visual arts.