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Queensland graphic designer inducted into DIA Hall of Fame
 
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Bright Bold Boundless: Designing the Queen's Baton
Passed from hand-to-hand in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, the Queen’s Baton is the symbolic heart of the ‘Friendly Games’– a tangible symbol that has u...
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Siganto Foundation Artists’ Books Lecture Series 2017: Helen Douglas
Hear Dr Helen Douglas, an artist and publisher from Scotland who is renowned for her poetic visual narratives in artists’ books, deliver the 2017 Siganto Founda...
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Magnificent Makers
Magnificent Makers tells seven stories of canny creations, daring discoveries and imaginative inventions that trace a path through Queensland’s history since th...
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Bright Bold Boundless: Designing the Queen's Baton
Passed from hand-to-hand in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, the Queen’s Baton is the symbolic heart of the ‘Friendly Games’– a tangible symbol that has u...
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Artists' books with Keith Smith and Scott McCarney
Leading book artists, Keith Smith and Scott McCarney, develop contemporary interpretations of books and bookforms.
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Siganto Foundation artists’ books lecture: This Other Southland
There is always more than one story: about place, about ancestry, about our culture. Susan King’s artist's books express this multiple narrative we all live.
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Siganto seminar: the trouble with artists books
Join artist book maker Jan Davis, gallerist Noreen Grahame and librarian Helen Cole for a look at the artists’ book phenomenon in Australia, illustrated by book...
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Fiona Foley interview: The James C Sourris AM Collection
Fiona Foley talks to Louise Martin-Chew about her life as an artist and the influences on her practice including her sense of justice, desire to tell the hidden...
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