An exciting pop-up exhibition will be featured this summer at State Library of Queensland to highlight objects from the Artists’ Book collection of the Australian Library of Art. Three sculptural works have been selected for the display and will be exhibited on level 2 of the library over the next couple of months. Come and … Read more
Siganto Foundation Research Fellow Dr Doug Spowart, reports on the Queensland Library Foundation morning tea to acknowledge the contribution of Dr Marie Siganto AM and the Siganto Foundation to the Australian Library of Art. The Siganto Foundation has been a supporter of the State Library of Queensland’s Australian Library of Art since 2011. During this … Read more
Siganto Foundation Research Fellow Dr Victoria Cooper is passionate about montage. Victoria’s passion for montage is evident in her writing and I look forward to sharing her investigative journey through the collection in the coming months. Here in her first blog, Victoria presents the foundation for what will be an exciting research project. As I … Read more
Julie Barratt’s journey retracing family ties with her childhood home of Blair Athol is drawing to an end. Her story is poignant and I look forward to adding her artist’s book to the Australian Library of Art. This is the final blog story instalment of my Siganto Foundation Fellowship project: Blair Athol Re-Cut, a … Read more
Siganto Foundation Fellow Ana Paula Estrada has developed the concept and a dummy of her artist’s book ‘Memorandum’ which she shares in this post. I am at the second stage of my Siganto Fellowship project ‘Memorandum‘, which is an artist’s book that combines oral history and photography. I attended a Senior Centre every Friday in … Read more
The Australian Library of Art Artists’ Books Collection at State Library of Queensland is a nationally significant collection. Thanks to the generosity of the Siganto Foundation, the Australian Library of Art at SLQ is offering a further two Artists’ Books Fellowships. The Creative Fellowship is open to artists’ book makers to create a new work … Read more
Clyde ‘s journey as the Siganto Foundation Fellow seeking ‘Queensland’ is gathering momentum as the ephemeral evidence accumulates. Continuing on, scrutinizing the fragments, the temporary bits and pieces lying along the margins of state, of place, the hypotheses of the here and there… I apologise for the number of watercraft, prewrecks, perhaps even priorsinkings that … Read more
This is the continuing story of my Siganto Fellowship project: Blair Athol Re-Cut, a pictorial and oral history project about mining and a town that no longer exists, to be realised in the form of an artist book. I am now well and truly into the printing phase of my Blair Athol Re-Cut project and … Read more
Guest blogger Normana Wight has decided to blog about art books that have informed and continue to inform art appreciation for artists, students and all those interested in the discipline of art history. Here are her thoughts. After creating many blogs about artists’ books, which ARE art, I think it is a good time to … Read more
Siganto Foundation Fellow Clyde McGill continues his journey, seeking to define Queensland poetically using ephemeral evidence. With water slopping over the stern I realise that aow and i are viewing something other than Timor leste, we haven’t emulated Ian Fairweather’s voyage, even if our raft is similar, we collected coal floating near Mackay, fallen from … Read more