Monday 2 March 2015

4 by 4 at Cairns Regional Gallery

Rimbaud's Drunken Boat

A display of twenty four sculptural artists books are being installed at Cairns Regional Gallery today and will continue until 29th March.  The four Far North Qld artists are Rose Rigley, Claudine MarzikRosie Miller and Barbra Dover and the four South East Qld artists are Fiona Dempster, Susan Bowers, Adele Outteridge and myself.  Each artist has contributed three books.
The books will then be displayed in the middle of the year in Brisbane.

My three books include Rimbaud's Drunken Boat, a flexible book made of etched perspex and acrylic which can be adjusted to sit asymmetrically, suggesting the chaotic movement of the sea.  The etchings on each page were made as a response to random lines of the poem Le Bateau Ivre  by Arthur Rimbaud, and were then coloured with acrylic.

The Flowers of Evil

The Flowers of Evil is another book inspired by French poetry - Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire.  In this sculptural interpretation of the poem the pages are of linocuts and expressively written text from the poem appears on the book cover and the book box.

Into the Void

My third book is Into the Void which I've already posted about here.

3 comments:

Fiona Dempster said...

Fabulous sculptural pieces Helen - beautiful expressions of the thoughts behind them. It should be a stunning show!

susan bowers said...

I agree with Fiona - beautifully expressive and sculputral books - in the true sense. You really are producing some gems Helen. Am sure these books will have fine showings in Cairns and in Brisbane.

Jacobus (Jack) Oudyn said...

Such a great variety of sculptural forms! LUCKY Cairns!