THE PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION
Cutting the Collection
Thumb Through
BECAUSE I LIKE YOU
Because I Like You is based on the concept of a love letter to ten mammals.
Including
Contemporary Paper: Celebrating a Year of Print (2016)
Wrap Up (2015)
FIVE ZINES, 2015
Thither & Hither
Hither & Thither
Zoological Digs
Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Including
Christian Tatman, ‘Self-made: Zines and Artist Books’ exhibition now on at Bunjil Place, 2018
A DECK OF SALVAGED RELATIVES
In a borrowed costume from Pulcinella, deigned by Giorgio de Chirico, 1932, with a Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) looking to form a charm and others.
FIVE FOLDED ZINES, 2015
A Company of Parrots
Whoot-woo
Birds with tremendous beaks
A charm of finches
Shaped like that of an egg
THREE COMMISSIONS, 2013–2015
Cover collage created for the Creating and Collecting: Artists’ Books in Australia issue of the State Library Victoria’s La Trobe Journal
Three collages created for MIEL books special edition of their journal 1110/5
Artwork created for Objects of Affection
SIX DIGITAL PROJECTS, 2009–2015
RemixVic
Onwards
To good year’s end
Celebration
Could be me
Transit Lounge: Moving While Standing Still and other projects
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2015
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
Salvaged Relatives, boxed
FOLLOWING THE SOFT PERCUSSION OF YOUR TREAD
An artists’ book twenty-six pages in length, made especially for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV International, May 2015, which at first glance appears to take place in several of the 15,000 rooms of the Château de Fontainebleau.
Including
Gracia & Louise on making artists’ book, State Library Victoria (2015)
A CATALOGUE OF BODIES
A Catalogue of Bodies harvested from the television adaptations (1989-2013) of Agatha Christie’s stories featuring Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet.
First edition, 2012
Second edition, 2014
SIX FOLDED ZINES, 2012–2014
Nuit Noir
Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) who visited my garden one summer’s day
38.1500° S, 144.3500° E
Lunch
A beating of wings (I)
A beating of wings (II)
BLURRED AND DISTINCT
A suite of seventeen collages made especially for and exhibited as part of In Your Dreams (Counihan Gallery, 2014), and accompanying dream text, assembled in a handmade Solander box guarded by Petrouchka. This artists’ book is now in the collection of State Library Victoria.
THREE ZINES, 2014
Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition
In your dreams, blurred and distinct
Twelve months, an explorer
FOUR ZINES, 2014
Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
The Suggestion of Opulence
Misreadings
As if from the clouds, restless
A FLIGHT OF TWELVE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BIRDS
This artists’ book was launched alongside A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds in the Leigh Scott Room of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, 2013.
THREE ZINES, 2013
A Postcard as Measuring Device
Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova)
Beneath the screen of closed eyelids (Port Said)
AS INCLINATION DIRECTS
The weather, clement, and perfect for mooching, ambling, swanning, indeed, walking As inclination directs.
A PAIR OF ZINES, 2012
It’s the Dusty Hour
The Glimmer of Armour
THREE ZINES, 2012
Collection
Whose lights were now seen glittering
Conveyed by the Postal System
IN PADOVA LOOKING FOR YOU
In Padova, looking for you was created especially for Milly Sleeping’s Loved & Lost Society.
Including
The Melbourne Design Guide, edited by Viviane Stappmanns of Alphabet Press, 2009–2011