Thanks so much to Christina, Chris, Lea, Julie, Diana, Lydia, Sue, Karen, Brenda, and Suzy for being enterprising, flexible, interested (and interesting) and creative, and to Chris (again, despite feeling ill), Dinah and Jean for organising everything.
"Show and Tell" with Sara to start things off... you may notice a few BookArtObject books in there, illustrating things!
Why teach about 3D book arts? I suppose it's 40% because I'm so intrigued myself, 40% because my own arts practice appears to have elements of getting 2D printmaking into 3 dimensions by cutting and folding, and 20% because I was so piqued by Professor Ross Woodrow's remarks at the opening of the Southern Cross Acquisitive Artists' Book Awards earlier this year! One of the great pleasures of books is their tactility: the ability to pick them up and hold them, and move the pages. Sometimes - not always - you get even more from an artists' book when there is more to it: more movement, or more texture or more shape*... and that's why I get excited about artists' books, and why it was such great fun to share my excitement with other people.
* apparently there's a theory that less is more. I struggle with that, as you can tell, but I'm prepared to believe there is truth in the idea.
4 comments:
ahhh the primrose.... (did you get utterly confused by the weird winding entrance way or what?! I remember when the ASC made the big move to PP waaaay back in the early 1990s.... going down the drive for the first time thinking 'eeegads I must be lost again - this can't be possibly be the driveway!)
I'm sure everyone had a ball making and thinking about 3D books... hope you had a chance to take in the nice sights
What a range of structures and content Sara. These books look so covetable. Bet it was a great workshop despite your last minute fears!
Good on you Sara for spreading the word, waving the flag etc.
It looks like a fun time Sara - and time spent making books that are 3-D is never time wasted!
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