Artist Books
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# 45495
LYSSIOTIS, Peter
Journey of a wise electron and other stories (signed copy)
Melbourne : Champion Books, 1981. Quarto, wrappers in illustrated dustjacket (edges rubbed); unpaginated, illustrated. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the dedication page. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 200 copies casebound, signed and numbered by the artist. Avant garde Australian artist’s book consisting of three short stories with …
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# 44937
MATHER, Jenni (photographer) & FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Clothes as disguise (1979)
/ Little performances: Virginia Fraser / Photographs: Jenny Mather / Photocopies: Bunting and Robertson’s Canon. [Melbourne : Jenni Mather and Virginia Fraser, 1979]. Six gelatin silver print photographs, 140 x 90 mm, accompanied by six photostat enlargements; a few of the prints with chemical stains from the developing process, otherwise good condition, archived by Fraser …
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# 44934
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
A womb for the Pope : cards distributed at Right to Life rally and anti-Right to Life demonstration, Treasury Gardens, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Stencilled card, 90 x 110 mm; verso blank; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser was an artist, writer, editor and curator who made an indelible mark on the Australian art world. Initially trained as …
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# 44935
FRASER, Virginia (1947-2021)
Be your own idol : cards distributed at “Come as your favourite heroine party”, Carlton, 1982.
[Melbourne : Virginia Fraser, 1982]. Three cards with embossed borders, 105 x 125 mm; rectos inscribed in biro by the artist ‘Be your own idol’; versos also inscribed ‘Complements [sic] of Small Disturbances’; in fine condition, archived by the artist in a plastic sleeve with a backing sheet bearing the artist’s typed description. ‘Virginia Fraser …
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# 44832
HOPKINS, Ted (1949 - 2023)
[Teledex]
[Melbourne : Champion Books, 1980]. Artist’s book in the form of a teledex telephone director, folding box made of steel with alphabet index design, index cards with poems in alphabetical order. Many of the poems focus on Melbourne and Victoria.
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# 45282
HAMILTON, Alex (1958 -)
Under a white sky
[Melbourne] : the artist, 2010. Duodecimo, artist’s book, reproducing the artist’s journal, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 150 signed copies, this out of series.
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# 44206
HAZELWOOD, Art; RÖTZCHER, Klaus-Ulrich
Tora Bora / توره بوره / Black dust : an opera in three acts
[San Francisco : Art Hazelwood], 2011. Handmade artist’s book in the form of a foldout diorama. Screenprinted boards with cloth joints which open and assemble to create a theatrical stage 320 mm high, 250 mm deep, 710 mm wide, the floor of the stage lined with grooves into which can be inserted one or more …
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# 42710
STUERZL, Jennifer (1956 - )
River mangroves mud
[Brisbane : the artist, 2020]. Artist’s book, handbound by David Bedford in salvaged mangrove wood (with salvage permit reference numbers included), stitch binding by the artist, pp. [16], handprinted sheets with collage, concrete poem in manuscript by Jennifer Stuerzl inside upper board, manuscript map of the Brisbane River to lower board, a stunning book housed …
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# 44789
LETI, Bruno and SKOVRAN, Alex
Wanderings. Small paintings and photographs (signed copy)
Melbourne : the artist, 2023. Octavo, illustrated boards, pp. 78, illustrated. Poetry by Skovran, in response to Leti’s paintings inspired by the natural environment. Signed by the artist.
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# 44790
LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Photographs : the lotus cycle.
Melbourne : the artist, 2009. Folding clamshell box, lettered in silver with pictorial only, containing a sheet of text, 13 lambda photographic prints, and colophon sheet. ‘These 13 lambda printed photographs were taken by Bruno Leti at West Lake, Huanghzou, China, during the late autumn of 2008. An edition of six boxed sets were printed …
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# 44707
[SHEAD]. GRISHIN, Sasha.
The apotheosis of Ern Malley
Melbourne: Australian Galleries, 2008 (second edition). Quarto, pp. 144, gilt boards in illustrated dustjacket (light handling wear).
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# 44303
ANDERSON, Peter.
The artist’s books of Robert Jacks
Bendigo : Bendigo Art Gallery, 2009. Octavo, printed wrappers, pp. 48, illustrated. Detailed and scholarly catalogue on the artists books of Robert Jacks, spanning from the 1960s – 2000s
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# 44143
LETI, Bruno
The Matrix
Bruno Leti : the matrix : remembering Giorgio Morandi : equilibrium and strength. Melbourne : Macmillan and the State Library of Victoria, 2010. Oblong quarto, illustrated boards, 128 pp., extensively illustrated. In printmaking, the artform along with painting, photography and the making of artists’ books that has occupied Bruno Leti for the last half century, the …
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# 44129
BANFIELD, Elizabeth (1963 - )
From the red box
[Dandenong, Melbourne: the artist, 2010] Artist’s book. Edition 2/5, signed, titled, numbered and dated 2010 in pencil. Handmade book with bronze cloth covered board ends measuring 155 x 157 mm. The work folds out concertina-style, revealing the hand-crafted pages inside. The work becomes a concertina-fold diorama consisting of a folded sheet of rag paper with …
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# 44108
CROOKE, Ray (1922 - 2015)
An epistle from Oberea
With decorations by Ray Crooke. Ferntree Gully, Vic. : The Rams Skull Press, 1955. Quarto, hessian bound boards with traditional Polynesian tapa design, 24 pp, illustrated with seven original silk screens by Ray Crooke. Limited to 250 copies signed by the artist; the cover was also silk-screened by Crooke on Thursday Island; a beautiful Australian …
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# 43793
GRISHIN, Sasha; LETI, Bruno
Bruno Leti. Portrait of a printmaker. Matrix to paper, forty years of printmaking
Melbourne : Macmillan, 2011. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 192, illustrated. A detailed survey of Leti’s graphic output, including a section on his artists’ books. New copy.