AUGUST CARPENTER
THWAITES
Containing 10 monotypes depicting images of the Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica.
Coptic bound with hard cover.
Edition Variable of 5
March 2019
SIGNALS
A unique state book of layered drawings.
Graphite drawings on 10gsm Silk Gampi Tissue and 70gsm drawing paper.
Stab bound with debossed hard cover.
21 x 30 cm
February 2019
Fortitude
A series of unique state artist books exploring the changing states of glaciers found off of West Antartica (Thwaites Glacier).
Printed on 300gsm Velin Arches paper. Concertina format with printed hard cover and rice paper interior.
19 x 28cm closed / 28 x 76cm open
August 2018
to do
A unique state artist book consisting of 100 blind monotypes depicting a series of works that explore the removal of active inhibition in mark making. The prints were made in immediate succession and are bound in the order they were printed. The title 'to do' plays on the idea that the book itself could become a body of reference for further works.
The white kozo paper, stark borders and precise coptic binding provide a formalised structure to the prints.
Printed on Kozo paper
Coptic bound with wrap cover
28 x 24 cm (closed)
March 2018
Land Mass
An edition of 4 unique state artist books each featuring 24 layered mono prints.
Printed on Hosho paper and coptic bound with wrap cover.
19 x 24 cm (closed)
March 2018
Imagined Landscapes; Kaipara Hills
A series of 18 unique state artist books featuring layered monoprints depicting the changing landscape of Kaipara Flats, New Zealand, as the hills are carved away to make room for a new 'road of significance'.
Concertina format with handwritten title on sewn tissue paper sleeve.
Printed on 250gsm paper
October 2017
LAND FORMS
Edition of 1
19 x 28 x 1.7 cm
Unique state artist book featuring 36 monoprints printed on Ho-Sho paper, coptic bound.
The prints depict recollections of the Victorian landscape; specifically the sandstone cliffs and rock formations of the Grampians National Park
May 2017
escape/landscape
escape/landscape is a unique state book featuring a series of mono prints that have been saddle stitch bound.
The prints were made after attending a residency in Portland, Australia, and were reflections upon the rising, freezing, sea swells at Cape Bridgewater in conjunction with the 'black' coastal cliffs.
This book is now part of the Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem collection, Sydney, Australia.
Printed on 185gsm Hahnemuhle paper
Edition of 1
2017
rice/copper
rice/copper is a unique state book featuring a series of mono prints that have been stab bound.
The prints were made by hand rubbing rice paper on to a variety of surfaces.
Printed on 80gsm rice paper
Edition of 1
2017
rice/perspex
rice/perspex is a unique state book featuring a series of mono prints that have been stab bound.
The prints were made by hand rubbing rice paper on to a variety of surfaces.
Printed on 80gsm rice paper
Edition of 1
2017
Imagined Landscapes; Bethell's
Edition of 9
19.7 x 29 cm closed / 19.7 to 58 cm open / 19.7 x 232 cm open (Full Extension)
A series of nine unique silk screen concertina artist books depicting recalled memories of the west coast of New Zealand, specifically the Waitakere Ranges.
Presented at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Book Fair
March 2017.
Rockwashed Backbone
steep bellowed breath,
cold struck arena of stress
a rock washed backbone
white waters undress.
An edition of 20 lithograph prints folded into a concertina structure with lithograph wrap cover. Sixteen pages.
19.5 x 28.5cm closed / 150cm x 28.5cm open
Printed on 300gsm Somerset Satin paper.
Presented at the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2016.
