Front Cover (clockwise left to right): Sandra Wright, Dragon of Consumerism, 2013/14, approx. 65 cm diameter, found bags & thread. Sheree Kinlyside, 20 Questions, 2010, 20.9 x 20.9 x 0.4cm, Digitized collage book. Sandra Wright, Return to Sender, 2013/14, 16 x 2 x 12 cm, envelopes paper

ephemera ink. Sheree Kinlyside, Down the Gurgler, spiral book, 2014, 13.3 x 13.3 x 6.6 cm, Digitized collage, rubber sink plug, ball chain, box card.

Back Cover (top to bottom): Sandra Wright, Hello New York I must be going, 2013/14, 22.5 x 3 x 177 cm, photographs board lighting, drafting film, pencil. Sheree Kinlyside, Knitted Planet, 2013, 17.2 x 22 x 1.3cm, Lithograph, hand set type.

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an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. 23 May – 29 June 2014Umbrella Studio contemporary arts

book • ishSHEREE KINLYSIDE & SANDRA WRIGHT

An exploration into the diversity of the handmade book

Image Credits (clockwise left to right): (1) Sandra Wright, The Edgeless Sea, 2013/14, 11.5 x 1.5 x 31 cm, intaglio, letterpress, paper, board, glue. (2) Sheree Kinlyside, Fold Liturgy, 2014, 15.5 x 15.5 x 39cm, Folded Bible pages, perspex, wire, metal. (3) Sandra Wright, Time Spirals, 2013/14, 96 x 43 x 62 cm, wood, metal, paper, acetate, ink, pencil, paint, fishing line, glue, plastic. (4) Sheree Kinlyside, Fold Liturgy II (detail), 2014, 15.5 x 15.5 x 39cm, Folded Bible pages, perspex, wire, metal. (5) Sheree Kinlyside, Anatomy for Artists, 2013, 10.3 x 10.5 x 24.5 cm (closed), Digitized collage book, Repurposed cosmetic box, flag book, magnets, forceps, tourniquet. (6) Sandra Wright, Cyclo3ne Detritus, 2014, 16.5 x 13 x 28 cm, cyanotype, monotype.

In the Urban Dictionary the word “Bookish” is defined as someone who is usually female and sometimes bespectacled: someone who prefers the company of her own books. It is also an informal word used by those who enjoy art in the book format and how they might describe anything that can be read or seen as sequential.

Townsville based artists Sheree Kinlyside and Sandra Wright present “Bookish”, a Main space exhibition comprised of artists’ books which utilise a range of subject matter and techniques from digital and fine press printing to unique paper folds and repurposed paraphernalia. While some works are traditional, others allow the materials to dictate the message of the book. Objects designed for another purpose have been turned into “bookish” works of art. In this exhibition both artists and their work can be described as “bookish”!

book • ishAn exploration into the diversity of the handmade book

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