recent exhibitions
& acquisitions
fragments of euclidean space suspended within the folds of smooth space.
A preview of a new body of work, the fourth ‘book’ in the Representation by Touch series of artists books,
exhibited at Grey Hand Press 7-9th December 2023.
This body of work from the Representation by Touch series of artist books emerged out of a studio-based investigation into the relationship between linen fibre and cotton fibre informed by Deleuze and Gutarri’s “smooth and striated spaces”*. Creative art practices by nature harbour paradoxes, insoluble tensions, often the very oxygen of creativity. The counterpoints of linen and cotton, the smooth and the striated, are the fuel of this body of work
* Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “1440: The Smooth and the Striated” in A Thousand Plateaus, 1987
Tim Mosely’s essay, “The Haptic and the Emerging Critical Discourse on Artists Books”, is one of 25 complied into a new book, The JAB Anthology, published by the University of Iowa Press. Edited by Brad Freeman and Johanna Drucker this anthology of articles were selected from The Journal of Artists’ Books and contains some of the best critical writing on artists’ books produced in the last quarter of a century.
kanage pholu wanda,
acquired by The British Library, London UK, 2022
exhibited in Materialia Lumina - contemporary artists’ books integrating concept, materials, and technique, 2022/23
acquired by Museum Meermanno | Huis van het Boek, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2021
grasping the nettle,
from the representation by touch series of artists books
selected for the 2021 Manly Library Artists’ Book Award
acquired for the Bibliotheca Liborum Apud Artificem, 2021
acquired for the Neil Crawford artists book collection, 2021
acquired for the Books on Books collection, 2024
“the earth will expose the blood shed on it and conceal the murdered no longer”
& “on a windy day towards ben lomond in the new england tablelands”
exhibited in, the Residents at the New England Regional Art Museum, 2019,
both works were placed with the New England Regional Art Museum Collection