I’m a big believer in the idea that your business cards should reflect what it is you do. And being a printmaker, I always felt a bit odd sending off a file and some money to have someone else print my cards up for me. So a year or two back I had the idea to upcycle my old printmaking remnants into business cards. I tried a few times running prints through our printer, but the thickness of the paper made it a bit difficult, and I also couldn’t use up a bunch of the small scraps I had. I contemplated making a photo-etched copper plate with my details, but that always seemed just too difficult and messy. Then a year ago, I was in an exhibition with Wanda Gillespie, and she showed me this awesome stamp she’d bought and used to make notes on post-its as part of her work. It’s essentially a blank case that comes with tiny rubber type, and you can set 3-4 lines in the stamp. Aside from the business cards, I’m also currently using it to create an edition of tiny art/poetry zines (or “art books” if you’re Paul, who I imagine breaks out in a rash at the mere mention of the word “zine”). So stay tuned!
Edited to add: the prints on the non-type sides of these cards are combinations of monoprinting, linocut printing and lithography.
Back in March, I was part of a wonderful group show called lots of people have what you have, curated by Anusha Kenny at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University. The show has recently been reviewed in Un Magazine. You can download the PDF and read the review on page 42 (listed as page 79 in the actual magazine.)
Considering that I had a dream about Neil Gaiman last night (no, not that kind of dream), and you can’t actually see the full embroidered Sandman: Endless Nights quote talked about in the article from any of my text book pictures, I feel compelled to post it:
He did not create the path you walk. But the movements of atoms and galaxies are in his book, and he sees little difference between them.
It is all in his book. One day he will lay it down, when the book is done, and what comes after that is still unwritten.
Destiny continues to walk.
He is holding a book. Inside the book is the Universe.
I have a few pieces in the latest salon-style show at Pigment Gallery in Melbourne. The show opens tonight, but is on for just over two weeks on level 2 of the Nicholas Building, near the corner of Swanston St and Flinders Lane in the city.
The pieces I’ve entered are stills from the animation I made last year. In the catalogue, they’ll appear as The Kraken, Alice Falls and The Kraken Rises, but yesterday when signing the proofs, I changed the titles to Below the thunders of the upper deep, Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? and In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die. I’ve printed an edition of 20 12″ x 18″ photographs for each piece, available from the gallery at $100 each.
I hope you can come along and have a look at some stage during the show.
Just quickly, I’m in this group show opening from 5-7 tonight at George Paton Gallery, Level 2 Union House, Melbourne University (City/Parkville Campus). The show is on Mon-Fri until the 13th of March.
