the reading room / books and prints edition records
kanage pholu wanda
from the 2014 suite of books archipelago of remnant gardens
single segment case bound codex
variable edition of 11 books, one artists proof book
relief prints (rainforest plywood and linocut) on Awagami Kozo (handmade), rainforest plywood & felt
printed and bound by the artists 2013 - 2014, signed on the back page
52 x 68 cm (open)
collections
The Hague, The Netherlands, Museum Meermanno|Huis van het Boek
Books on Books collection, Bodliean Libraries, University of Oxford
London, UK, The British Library
Stanford, USA, Stanford University Libraries Special Collections
Sydney, Australia, Bibliotheca Liborum Apud Artificem
Brisbane, Australia, Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland
Gympie, Australia, Gympie Regional Gallery Art
Private collections
artists proof held by the artist
critical reception
“Kanage Pholu Wanda”, Capelleveen, P, (2022) in Materialia Lumina/exhibition catalogue, Stanford Libraries and the Codex Foundations, pp182 - 185, “the sheets (pages) make unexpected languid movements, the reader is in danger of losing control as they flip through the pages. The sheets of paper feel like plants that need to be bent aside during a trip through the bush. The holes allow intimate, mysterious views of the dramatic and bright colors and drawings of the underlying pages. The book is not only materially, but also haptically and symbolically connected to the rainforest.”
“Paradise lost: The compassionate and haptic nature of Tim Mosely's Kanage pholu wanda”, Bodman, S. L. (2014) in Printmaking Today, 23 (4).
“Books, and artists’ books in particular, must be handled to be fully appreciated. This is especially the case with Tim Mosely’s Kanage Pholu Wanda (Australia: Silverwattle Bookfoundry, 2014), which is displayed behind glass in the exhibition in teasing defiance of its essence and purpose. To truly experience this book composed of torn and layered multicolored relief prints that reference the rainforest, Mosely instructs, the reader must be able to touch it, employing the term “haptic touch” to describe “feeling over, across, and around surfaces to become acquainted with content that the eye cannot sense.”
B Fischbach - Stanford Libraries
exhibitions
Materialia Lumina: Contemporary Artists' Books from the Codex International Book Fair, Green Library,Stanford University, 2022
the Takesada Matsutani. drop in time, Book Lab,Artists' Books at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK, 2018/19
New on the Shelf, rare books & contemporary artists’ books, Green Library, Stanford University, 2018/19
A Point of Inflection, Gympie Regional Gallery, Qld, Australia, 2017
INFLECTION, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK, 2016
Libris award 2016, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, Qld Australia, 2016
The Contained Narrative: Defining the Contemporary Artist’s Book, Minnesota Centre for Book Arts, 2015
re/membering touch, white gloves room, State Library of Queensland, 2014
books and prints by year
2025
re-visiting wilderness suite of prints
- in the cleft of the rockface
-
-
2024
2023
fragments
“I will become all that I need to become”
2020
grasping the nettle
2018
“the earth will expose the blood shed on it, and conceal the murdered no longer”
ep’s,
2016
trumped up empathy,
directed smooth space
2014
an archipelago of remnant gardens suite of book
- kanage pholu wanda
- touching rainforest
- Untitled (As of the 14th July 2014)
the Sangre de Christo Isles suite of books
- given
- with a kiss
- for given again
the haptic atolls suite of books
- the book of tears
- tears that see
an insoluble difference suite of books
- textured by sight
- privileged by blood
- coloured by touch
- from the deep
2012
three books of blue
2011
from the codex event 8 suite books - the burden of privilege
white as snow,
2010
byregard2
see, hear, speak no
percussion book 1
2009
lookback
aesthetic actions
2008
kelly murphy’s deleuzeian folds
given,
the codex event 5 suite books - sheet music for a jabberwocky quintet
a.r.t.
2007
aesthetic distance,
argadargada
volatile actions
researching tears : nine actions
the codex event 4 suite books - pflight of the paper balloons
2006
the Kelly books,
icons of a bush ranger
red/read
hope/hate
Mixed Carton
the codex event 2 suite books
- London Tank
- landing ground 209
- wild cherry tin mine
2005
eight of them,
assemblage
2004/03
Offwithhisfavouritecows
Murphy’s place suite of books
2002 > 1985
Islands of St Yule
emotionally & physically separated
the denial desire
personal icons
unspoken places
snow on the buffalo
a place the aches beauty
on the high plains
nightfall on the high plains
chook book