Building Narrative Workshop Resources

STUDENT RESOURCES

On this page you will find a selection of resources to support your continued exploration into narrative and meaning in artists’ books. These links and references are here to spark ideas, deepen your thinking and keep the momentum going beyond the workshop.

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FIONA DEMPSTER

Below you will find ways to follow and contact Fiona:

FOLLOW-UP SESSION

Fiona is offering a one-and-a-half-hour follow-up session in the weeks after the workshop. The cost is $100, and she will invoice you directly.

If you are interested in a follow-up session with Fiona, please contact her directly to arrange a time – info@fionadempster.com

NOTES TO SELF, making better work, challenging yourself

Click here to download a pdf to print and keep on hand.

Don’t go too far too fast

Stop looking in the same direction

Can you go further than that?

Take one idea in all its directions

Only spend 5 minutes then divert

Think, don’t control

Be open

Go back, not forward

Say
“Yes, and…”

Think,
Play,
Work, Repeat

SOME OF FIONA’S FAVOURITES

Below are links to some of Fiona’s favourite people and their work:

Caren Florance whose working title is Ampersand Duck.

Susan Bowers’ blog tracemarks. No longer very active, but a beautiful wander into Susan’s work and her artist books.

Lesley Crawley of the black crosses book.
Note: Instagram recently deleted her account and 10 years’ worth of her work, so she has restarted this week (hence only a couple of posts). She doesn’t have a website, and her Instagram profile is worth following.

Annwyn Dean’s website and blog. No longer active, but also lots of lovely wandering.

COMMUNITIES & INSPIRATION

  • Qld Bookbinders Guild – workshops, classes, library, demonstrations, Brisbane
  • The Journal of Artist Books
  • The Bonefolder – an e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist
  • Printed Matter – a non-profit organisation dedicated to the dissemination and appreciation of artists’ books
  • Centre for Book Arts – promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object
  • bound:unbound – book artists collective
  • 23 Sandy – 23 Sandy is an online gallery featuring unique & limited edition artist books by a talented roster of artists from around the world
  • abecedariangallery.com – representing artists working in the book arts genre through curated exhibitions, sales to private and public collections, publication of artists’ book reviews, print and online catalogues and an online storefront
  • University of West England, Bristol – an Artist Book Collection at Bower Ashton Library
  • Artist Books Unshelved – by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art – an extensive collection of videos on YouTube showcasing artists’ books from their collection

STATE LIBRARY OF QLD

“The Artists’ Books Collection, one of the component collections of the Australian Library of Art, is one of the largest publicly available collections of artists’ books in Australia, and is recognised as one of the best in the country. It consists of around 1700 works featuring both Australian and overseas artists.”

Find out more about the Artist Book collection here.

You will find a link to the database of books in the collection. You can visit the library to view some books, other books you will need to search the database then book a viewing time.

And this link will take you to a series of videos of Artist Book lectures.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Jane Alison: Meander, Spiral Explode

Christina Antaya: BOOK ART iconic sculptures and installations made from books.

Betty Bright: No Longer innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980

Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts – Johanna Drucker: Essay: Intimate Authority in the Books as Art

Johanna Drucker: The Century of Artists’ Books

Amanda Earle: Judith Women Making Visual Poetry

Keith Houston: The Book

Lark: 500 Handmade books

Lark: 500 Handmade books volume 2

Lark: Masters – Book Arts

Martyn Lyons: Books a Living History

Keith Smith: Structure of the Visual Book

A FAVOURITE QUOTE

“The space of a book is intimate and public at the same time; it mediates between private reflection and broad communication in a way that matches many women’s lived experience.

Women create authority in the world by structuring a relation between enclosure and exposure. 

The women who make books out of the materials of their lives and imagination establish a balance that gives voice to their own issues on their own terms”.

Johanna Drucker:  Intimate Authority – Women, Books and the Public-Private Paradox

MILES PLASTICS

This is the information for Miles Plastics, the business in Caloundra that makes acrylic cases for boxes:

Miles Plastics
1/28 Deefa St
Caloundra Q 4551
P: 54917741

RECIPES

This is the orange-almond cake recipe and click here for the almond biscuit recipe. Enjoy x

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