Collaborations
The key [to collaboration] is to not to predetermine the outcome: it is allowing ourselves to step together, to dance and to take the journey. Dianne Fogwell
Making books is a complex process - the combining of ideas, illustration, design, text, printing, and binding as well as working out the mechanics of the book.
Because of this, books are perfect vehicles for collaboration, often calling upon and melding the skills of diverse practitioners like artists, writers, binders, printers, photographers and papermakers. Occasionally one artist has all the necessary skills. Sometimes they need to rely on others. Often they choose to collaborate because of the additional benefits it brings. Combining disparate skills and bouncing ideas off each other, they may come up with a more interesting solution than they would alone.
Collaborations can be simple, involving an artist and a writer working closely together, as in Drawing by Bruno Leti and Chris Wallace Crabbe, or they can involve global communities such as Kay Faulkner's Indulge which has contributions of materials and thoughts from people in five countries. Some artists regard every book as a collaboration, even if the other participants, such as the papermaker, don't know that they are involved.
Angela Cavalieri (b. 1962)
Peter Lyssiotis (b. 1949)
1316 –
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2004
Edition: 3 of 10 copies
Australian Library of Art
State Library of Queensland
ALAAB CAV
Kay Faulkner (b. 1955)
Indulge
Birkdale, Qld: K. Faulkner, 2006
Edition: Unique
Australian Library of Art
State Library of Queensland
ALAAB FAU
Petr Herel (b. 1943)
Jennifer Hawkins
Allan Mitelman (b. 1946)
Gary Poulton
Xiang Yi
Katharine Nix (b. 1940)
Daniel Leuwers (b. 1944)
Mae Anna Pang (b. 1941)
Kevin Hart (b. 1954)
Traversare 1
Melbourne: Centre for the Development of Artists' Books and Limited Editions, Monash University, 1992
Edition: IX of X copies
Australian Library of Art
State Library of Queensland
ALAAB HER
Last updated: 30th August 2011
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