We love books

I am privileged to be a part of a group of book artists who meet monthly and share ideas and inspire each other.
They are:


Sandra Winkworth

Concertina book of drawings and found paper objects

Barbara Bartlett

This glorious book was made of tea bags

Bernard Appassamy

Sacred Hands: Shortlisted for the Blake Prize and Director's Cut exhibition 2009

Now part of the collection of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital's museum

Cindy Tonkin (me)

Upcycled copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales rescued from
a fence in Newtown: in a box covered in the same pages.

Lisa Giles

Lisa's piece is at the back - an origami chain made
from upcycled real estate magazine pages

Julie Bookless

Box and book made from old maps

Avril Makula

Mrs Merivale: a Flag Book with text from Leaves of Grass by Patrick White

Cathie Edlington

Island of Rust: Double Concertina

Gary Smith

The Day at Braille Beach  made from found materials including empty sushi soy sauce bottles

Encouraging Words: a concertina in a box

It's a concertina book in a tiny box.
Parts of the back of the concertina are from an abandoned copy of As You Like It I found on a fence in Newtown.
The front is encouraging words gleaned from magazines, and tiny photographs I took myself around the world.
The box is covered in some poetry from Henry Kendall's Leaves from Australian Forests, which my dad gave me as a birthday present when I was 8.
I like it because it's a small delightful object.
The box measures 5 x 5 x 6.5 cm, the concertina pages are 4 x 4 cm.
It has 78 pages.

Avril Makula: Alphabet City Press

I met Avril Makula a few weeks ago at Sturt Summer School in Mittagong, where we made books together. I just visited her blog which tracks all kinds of typography and was impressed: like Avril herself it is focused, succinct and beautiful.
And in the spirit of Avril's typography, here are some beautiful signs I have found in my travels:

Emergency exit sign on a bus

old oil sign, photographed in Oberon, NSW

Ladies and Gents Baths

The inside of my friend Sian's coat.

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video of paper art in progress!

Paper art: "Now That Your Dollar Bills Have Sprouted Wings" from Beck's Song Reader - YouTube: ""

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Inspiring you to paint the canvas

I found this on the smallest forest (to which I have now subscribed).
It's a time lapse video of a woman painting, which does indeed, inspire me to paint.

The Incomparable Sara Bowman

I just finished a week at Sturt Summer School in Mittagong, NSW making artist's books with Sara Bowen, who is the woman who began Book Art Object.
I have just bookmarked her blog, which is worth a look!

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