Nigel’s explorations of the Islands emerge in beautifully rendered maps, paired with local crayfish recipes and Chinese calligraphy. This playful combination subtley works to tease out cultural, geographical and industrial aspects to the Islands, nodding to the crucial key linkages with Asia – the main export market.

The book is part of a wider project of the same name, undertaken for the recent IASKA Space(D) Biennale, seeing the artist track the exportation of crayfish, journeying from the Abroholhas to the fish markets, auctions, kitchens and dining rooms of Southeast Asia. The resulting exhibition at the Fremantle Arts Centre, featured the placement of a life-size crayfish boat hull in the gallery, providing the body for an audio-portrait of the experience.

The focusing upon, and representing of, a place as mediated through it’s integral industry is one that offers an intriguing journey for the reader. The resulting experience of CrayVox is one of pleasure, wonder and dislocation, as Nigel evokes this little pocket of the world in such a way as to reference the slippery, two-way nature of experiencing, and trying to ‘know’, a place.

CrayVox was recently exhibited at the Art/Text Clearinghouse Project. For more info, or to buy a copy of the limited-edition book go to Nigel’s website.

In 2008 James Kerr travelled to Thailand and the UK to re-connect with his origins. Primarily a journey to visit the town of his birth in Yorkshire, which he had not seen since leaving as a very young child, his visit took him to various places from his past in Thailand, England, Scotland and Wales. The images in the book Journey (2011) follow this trip, and document the people and places he met along the way. The individually numbered books, in a limited edition of 100, are available via the Perth Centre for Photography and Dymocks Bookshop in Fremantle.

Bangkok tuk tuk driver by James Kerr

Driving to Grantham UK by James Kerr

Whitby UK by James Kerr

Southend-on-sea UK by James Kerr

Cardiff graffiti, Wales by James Kerr

Kerr’s earlier publication, Mono Freo (2001) captures the diverse cultural life of the port of Fremantle and is available from http://www.monofreophoto.com/moments, Barracuda Gallery and also Dymocks book shop, MacQueen Books, Lick, & Camera House stores in Fremantle.

The quest of the art student/art historian/curator/art theorist/artist trying to define a genre of art which has over recent years become ubiquitous within academia and sections of the art circuit is fraught with inconsistencies, challenges and the shock of the new. The book, Is this bioart? crosses art history, scientific facts, philosophical quotes and observations to ask:

Is this bioart?

Bios:

Contradiction Press is an emerging indie publisher of esoteric art/illustration books.
www.contradictionpress.com
www.facebook/contradictionpress
http://twitter.com/#!/isthisbioart

Sean Morris

Sean Morris is an artist and illustrator whose work attracts national and international attention. He has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Australia and the USA. Morris has published in arts annuals and magazines both in Australia and abroad. His growing client list boasts Hasbro, The Big Day Out, WA Fashion Week and The New York Times. www.illsean.com

Purchase online from: is this bioart? shop

Kalgoorlie 2010 is a  self produced/self published wire bound book of 51 ink jet black and white photographs with captions taken in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia.

 As I was born in Kalgoorlie and lived here until my mid teens I was excited to return to live in 2010. I loved that some of the buildings and houses had not changed at all, some houses unaltered and even still painted the same colour. I chose to live in an older part of town close to where I grew up and featured everything I loved about Kalgoorlie, gum lined, gridded wide streets, and back lanes. My daily exercise regime became a walk through the streets of my Goldfield’s childhood. As I walked I revisited my past, photographing as I went. In an era where people were just beginning to own a family car, walking was how my cousins and I went to school, the pictures, friends and relations houses and the bush. I chose black and white as that was the box Brownie format of my childhood. I think black and white added to the nostalgia.

KALGOORLIE KALGOORLIE KALGOORLIE KALGOORLIE is a handfolded A4 sheet in the form of an 8 page booklet with photographs of Kalgoorlie Western Australia. Published by Mulla Mulla Press in November 2010 it is available in an limited edition of 100.

The corrugated iron on the cover is a ubiquitous building material of the Goldfields and feature of back lanes in the older parts of town. The lane was the domain of the dunny man and the rubbish man. Dunnies backed onto the lanes with a wooden flap for the pan to be taken and emptied into the dunny cart. School kids may be dared to lift the wooden hatch to see if any bottoms were to be seen. I did not see one but there were kids who swore they had.

The photograph ‘the dunny’ features the new water flushing toilets which were built the mid fifties, concrete with a neat curved roof they replaced the spider infested corrugated backyard dunnies and although still outside were much closer to the house, more comfortable and certainly smelled sweeter.. The dunny pictured is in my yard, still works and offers a nice view.

The title of this work is a quote from an Allan Boyd Kalgoorlie Poem

Carter’s photography can be seen at www.rubbishphotographer.blogspot.com (photographs often of rubbish discarded from households and industry found in the bush in the Goldfields) http://sky-porn.blogspot.com.au (a daily photograph of the sky where ever I happen to be) and www.365daysofsky.blogspot.com.

I am happiest when … I have enough time to photograph whatever I want. When all the elements come together and I’m in “the zone”

Click to see more of his Western Australian Photobook Survey entry, Postcards from Home.

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Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project + Western Australian Photographic Book Survey

Combining current collaborative book projects between artists and writers from a variety of backgrounds with a survey of historical and contemporary Western Australian photographic books, two exhibitions investigate the relationship between books, photographs and the textual form.

Perth Centre for Photography
100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge

Exhibition closes this Sunday 11 Mar 2012

Gallery hours: Thurs + Fri 12pm – 5pm, Sat + Sun 12pm – 4pm

A number of poets read from their books – Liana Joy Christensen read from and spoke about the synchronicities experienced working with artist Marie Lochman on Unnatural History, where organically occurring thematic overlaps even extended to pre-existing poems and artworks.

Vivienne Glance read from A Simple Rain, created in collaboration with visual artist Perdita Phillips, and detailed their working process positioning the glacial environment as one to physically and imaginatively explored.

Scott-Patrick Mitchell invited us to listen to communications written between himself and UK-based artist Eleanor Leonne Bennett, for their book Rupture – sharing an evocative series of postcards the pair sent to each other, using the weather in their respective cities across the globe as artistic parameters.

Gail Robinson read from her book with artist Denise Brown Cemented by Shadows, a series of poems created in response to artworks of Denise’s childhood memories in the Cotswalds.

And in the spirit of collaboration, Jenny Newman read work by Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong’s book In the Beginning, atmospherically exploring inner meditations of place.

It’s not too late to catch the exhibitions in their last week, before closing on the 11 March 2012. Showing at the Perth Centre for Photography, 100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge. Gallery Hours: Thurs + Fri 12pm – 5pm, Sat + Sun 12pm – 4pm

Scott-Patrick Mitchell reading at the Artist’s Talk

Liana Joy Christensen reading at the Artist’s Talk

The crowd at the Artist’s Talk (Gail Robinson at the front)

Vivienne Glance reading at the Artist’s Talk

Jennie Newman and Di Souphandavong at the Artist’s Talk

]]> http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?feed=rss2&p=2066 1 http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?p=2049 http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?p=2049#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:59:06 +0000 perdita http://www.lethologicapress.org/teapot/?p=2049 Please join us for artists’ talks and poetry readings in an informal atmosphere as part of the Art/Text/Clearinghouse Project + Western Australian Photographic Book Survey. A number of artists/writers/poets/photographers will be in attendance. We will be reflecting on what we have achieved, what we have learnt about different methods of book publishing and the potential for book projects and photographic books in the future.

Saturday 3 March 2:00 to 3:30pm, Perth Centre for Photography
100 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge

Poetry readings by: Liana Joy Christensen, Vivienne Glance and Gail Robinson

Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/307948655931253

The exhibitions investigate the relationship between books, photographs and the textual form. They combine current collaborative book projects between artists and writers from a variety of backgrounds and a survey of historical and contemporary Western Australian photographic books.

Exhibition runs: 9 Feb – 11 Mar 2012

Gallery hours: Thurs + Fri 12pm – 5pm, Sat + Sun 12pm – 4pm

Artists/writers/poets/photographers in the exhibitions include:

Eleanor Leonne Bennett Denise Brown Tim Burns Christophe Canato Coral Carter Nandi Chinna Liana Joy Christensen Nicole Clissa Contradiction Press Thea Costantino Emmanuela dos Santos Dias Jackson Eaton (also with Rabbit Island, Stolen Jars and with Benjamin Acree and Robert S. Johnson (with Matthew Hall)) Michael Farrell Eva Fernández (with Andrew Nicholls and Bec Dean)Vivienne Glance Simon Griffith Sam Harris Nigel Llwyd William Helyer (with graphic artist Chen-Lun Huang) James Kerr Steph Kretowicz and Katie Lenanton (with Neil Adlum Larissa Boyd and Freya Poulsen Cease Gene Eaton and Rebecca Giggs Tom Freeman Teelah George Jamie Macchiusi and Gemma Weston   Kate Macfarlane and Esther Sandler Heather MacRae and Andrew Murray Gian Manik and Jacob Ogden Smith Jessie Mitchell Patrick O’Brien) Marie Lochman Jamie Macchiusi Elisa Markes-Young (with Christopher Young, Paola Anselmi, David Bromfield and Louise Morrison) Graeme Miles Scott-Patrick Mitchell Eric James Mitchell Sean Morris Jennie Nayton Annette Nykiel Max Pam Mark Parfitt Perdita Phillips Layli Rakhsha Flavio Rosa Brad Rimmer Gail Robinson Nien Schwarz Nalda Searles (with Ted Snell, Andrew Nicholls, Kevin Murray and Bronwyn Goss) Andrea Smith Dianne and Kathryn Souphandavong Nyanda Smith Justin Spiers Colin Story Nikki Walling Gemma Weston Bo Wong Christopher Young (also with Paola Anselmi and David Bromfield)

All images courtesy of James Kerr Photography http://www.monofreophoto.com/