This month Normana Wight our guest blogger reviews Queensland artist Madonna Staunton’s work ‘A Movable Feast‘. “A Movable Feast” AKA “The Trolley” A book to drive? Or “How to drive the book?” A user’s manual? An Objet d’Art? OR “The Trolley Song.” (clang, clang went the trolley) Instruction manual. Pick up the trolley in both … Read more
When our guest blogger Normana Wight stepped into the ALA Showcase to see the current display of artists’ books related to War, Politics and Refugees she was delighted to see Ian Howard’s Action Man Story displayed. In 1993 Normana was a visiting Fellow at Queensland College of Art when Howard was Head of the College. … Read more
It is August and the sun is shining in Brisbane. The winds are picking up, so it must soon be time for the ‘EKKA’. For many in Queensland the Royal Queensland Show is an annual highlight and not to be missed. August 2013 was the first visit for artist Caitlin Sheedy & partner Fred – … Read more
Friday 3oth June was an exciting day in the Australian Library of Art when Peter Charuk delivered his new artists’ book “Collateral Atmospherics: Evidence”. The work is the culmination of his Siganto Foundation Creative Artists’ Book Fellowship. Along with the displayed book Peter also supplied two mock up copies of the book and his ‘ideas … Read more
When our regular guest blogger artist, Normana Wight decided to look into the illustrators of books from her childhood, little did we know that a fore-edge painting would be discovered on one of the volumes. Locating editions of A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh with illustrations by Ernest H Shepard and Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures … Read more
Peter Charuk has joined the select group of Siganto Foundation Fellows to have the opportunity to create a new artists’ book based on SLQ collections. His long held interest in documenting landscape will be challenged as he seeks to discover evidence in the collections of the rapidly changing landscape in Queensland. Peter’s research is well under way as … Read more
Guest blogger and artist Normana Wight attended the Siganto Foundation Artists’ Book lecture given by Helen Douglas Sunday 26th March 2017 and dropped in on the workshops taught by Helen the following week. Normana has written this story in response. Last Sunday Helen Douglas gave a memorable illustrated lecture here at the State Library of Queensland; it … Read more
Guest blogger and artist Normana Wight was excited by an artists’ book in the collection recently. Here are her thoughts on a book created by a local student, Joyce Ho for a year 12 project in 2005. Joyce not only received an excellent grade for her work, but also had her book purchased for the Australian Library of … Read more
In August 2016 I visited Mackay to be present for the announcement of The LIBRIS Awards for Australian artists’ books. We were able to acquire three works for the collection, Jack Oudyn’s Keer weer-turn again, an artist’s book which comments on the Australian Government’s treatment of asylum seekers, and two of the winning books; Europa … Read more
On Friday 25th November colleagues, friends and associates gathered to say goodbye to Helen during a morning tea in the board room of the State Library. Her resignation after thirty years of service will be felt by colleagues, as Helen leaves with her the exceptional knowledge and expertise for the Australian Library of Art collections. … Read more