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HILL END ANALOGUE: Our Cyanotype Works
We are excited to announce that a selection of our Cyaanotype artists books was presented at the Hill End Analogue event.
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HERE’S THE BACK STORY
Hill End Analogue ( HEA ) is an analogue photographic arts festival presented by Hill End Arts Council Inc. ( HEAC ) in the Central West township of Hill End, N.S.W. HEA
showcased and connected contemporary analogue photographic artists world-wide. The event comprised exhibitions and workshops, the festival engaged with the general community, while promoting contemporary analogue arts and technology.
Hill End is an historic site, managed by N.S.W. National Parks Wildlife Service, and is significant in the history of Australian Photography. The documentation of Hill End and surrounds during the gold boom of the 1870’s by Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss, forms a large part of the Holtermann Collection in the N.S.W. State Library. Hill End has a thriving arts community, supported by the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and is closely associated with the National Art School.
(Text modified from the HEA website)
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Hill End Analogue Installation PHOTO: Courtesy of Lisa Sharkey
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OUR CYANOTYPES
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MORE INFORMATION ON THESE CYANOTYPE WORKS
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Victoria Cooper’s “Flood” in situ on the island Bundanon
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FLOOD An artists book by Victoria Cooper
MEDIA: Concertina format with 26 pages, cyanotype on Arches watercolour paper with hand-set type in black ink
Binding by Doug Spowart
SIZE: 10 x 15 x 3cm cm
EDITION: Two unique states
Download a didactic about this book: COOPER – Flood installation at Bundanon
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On the wire … A book by Doug Spowart
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ON THE WIRE … A book by Doug Spowart
A performance based on open-air cyanotype bookmaking directly off subjects in the field.
CREATED: 2007 at Bundanon during an artist in residence
MEDIA: 16 sided concertina format book of double-sided cyanotype images on Arche Aquarelle watercolour paper
SIZE: 11 x 14 x .4 cm – extends to 116 cm
EDITION: Unique state 2 variants
Download a didactic about this book: SPOWART – On the wire – extended recto+verso
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Starfish swarm with wallaby bones by Victoria Cooper
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STARFISH SWARM WITH WALLABY BONES An artists book by Victoria Cooper
A double-sided cyanotype made from objects gathered in Tasmania. The work was made to celebrate the 2019 World Cyanotype Day.
CREATED: 2019 in Cygnet, Tasmania
MEDIA: Cyanotype on recycled linen pillowcase
SIZE: 30 x 30 cm
EDITION: Unique state
Download a didactic about this book: COOPER-Starfish swarm an wallaby bones
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Roland Barthes an artists book by Doug Spowart
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ROLAND BARTHES An artists book by Doug Spowart
Roland Barthes the French writer and theorist, has contributed significantly to the discourse and critique of photography. This book is a visual comment on two of his texts.
CREATED: 2017 at Bundanon during an artist in residence
MEDIA: Concertina format with 16 pages, cyanotype on Arches watercolour paper
Binding by Doug Spowart
SIZE: 11 x 14 x .4 cm
EDITION: Two unique states
Download a didactic about this book: Doug SPOWART -Barthes
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AUSTRALIAN BANQUET: January 26 / 26, 1788 by Cooper+Spowart
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AUSTRALIAN BANQUET: January 26 / 26, 1788 by Cooper+Spowart
This work reflects on the ‘turning of the page’ in history that Australia Day represents.
CREATED: 2010 on Australia Day in Toowoomba
MEDIA: A unique state double-sided cyanotype on rice paper broadsheet of 7 variants.
SIZE: 37.6 x 77cm
Download a didactic about this book: COOPER+SPOWART – Australian banquet
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARTHUR’S GARDEN A book by Doug Spowart
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARTHUR’S GARDEN A book by Doug Spowart
A cyanotype concertina book made on the veranda of Arthur Boyd’s studio during an artist in residence
CREATED: 2007 at Bundanon
MEDIA: 24-sided concertina book. Cyanotype on Arche watercolour paper
SIZE: 11 x 14 x .4 cm – extends to 168 cm
EDITION: Unique state
Download a didactic about this book: SPOWART – Photographs of Arthur’s Garden – extended
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THANKS TO: Lisa Sharkey and the Team for the opportunity to present these works at Hill End Analogue.
The photograph of the HEA installation courtesy of Lisa Sharkey
Text and cyanotype works and photographs © Doug Spowart+Victoria Cooper
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1788–January 25th, the next day, and now
In 2010 we wanted to make an artwork to comment and reflect on Australia Day and some of our feelings about the origins of the date – the implications of that event and the repercussions that we live with and navigate today. Through a scorchingly hot day in Toowoomba we worked with cyanotype solutions and selected objects – some from our home and others sourced from the food scraps from a local seafood smorgasbord restaurant on the day.
The work that we did that day emerged as the collaborative artists’ book, a broadsheet we titled, Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788.
A statement about the artwork
Across Australia over the January 26th long weekend, people prepare, cook and consume food to mark this day in history.
For us, this work is our response to, and in recognition of, the ‘turning of the page’ in Australian history that this date represents. One day, January 25th 1788, Aboriginal people feasted on a diverse banquet of bush tucker as they had for thousands of years. The next day, the country was transformed by a new paradigm represented in this work by the table setting of the First Fleet.
Australia Day, for us, is an important time to acknowledge the First Peoples’ perspective and their knowing of land, culture and history and how it should be recognised as underpinning the diversity and identity of contemporary Australia. We, as descendants of European people, are seeking to understand and know more about our place within the longer history of this land.
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View 1: Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788
The 25th of January side of the broadsheet is viewed and contemplated.
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View 2: Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788
The broadsheet is then turned over to view the 26th of January side.
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View 3: Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788
Finally the broadsheet is held up to the light – the complex interrelationship between the two visual references to be seen and considered.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: A unique state artists’ book broadsheet
TITLE: Australian Banquet January 25/26, 1788
MEDIA: Double-sided cyanotype image in rice paper
DIMENSIONS: 37.6 x 77cm
PLACE & DATE MADE: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2010
EDITION: 7 variations
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS:
2015 EXHIBITED: Books by Artists, The Webb Gallery as part of the Artists Book Brisbane Event, Conference at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2014 EXHIBITED: Alternative Imaging – Curated by Dawne Fahey at Two Doors Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney
2011 SHORTLISTED: Southern Cross University Artists’ Book Award, Lismore. Judge: Ross Woodrow
2011 EXHIBITED: BLUE – Arts Council Toowoomba members exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
2010 FINALIST: Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award,
………………………Gold Coast City Gallery. Judge: Judy Annear
COLLECTIONS: Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland
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wotwedid 
BRITISH LIBRARY Acquires our cyanotype artists’ book
with 5 comments
A statement about the artwork
Across Australia over the January 26th long weekend, people prepare, cook and consume food to mark this day in history.
For us, this work is our response to, and in recognition of, the ‘turning of the page’ in Australian history that this date represents. One day, January 25th 1788, Aboriginal people feasted on a diverse banquet of bush tucker as they had for thousands of years. The next day, the country was transformed by a new paradigm represented in this work by the table setting of the First Fleet.
Australia Day, for us, is an important time to acknowledge the First Peoples’ perspective and their knowing of land, culture and history and how it should be recognised as underpinning the diversity and identity of contemporary Australia. We, as descendants of European people, are seeking to understand and know more about our place within the longer history of this land.
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View 1: Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788
The 25th of January side of the broadsheet is viewed and contemplated.
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View 2: Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788
The broadsheet is then turned over to view the 26th of January side.
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View 3: Australian Banquet, January 25/ 26, 1788
Finally the broadsheet is held up to the light – the complex interrelationship between the two visual references to be seen and considered.
BOOK DESCRIPTION: A unique state artists’ book broadsheet
TITLE: Australian Banquet January 25/26, 1788
MEDIA: Double-sided cyanotype image in rice paper
DIMENSIONS: 37.6 x 77cm
PLACE & DATE MADE: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2010
EDITION: 7 unique state variants
SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE BOOK’S HISTORY
COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS:
2020 COLLECTION: British Library
2015 EXHIBITED: Books by Artists – The Webb Gallery as part of the Artists Book Brisbane Event, Conference at the Queensland College of Art, Brisbane
2014 EXHIBITED: Artist’s Books (reprised) [artists’ books 1978-2014] – George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne
2014 EXHIBITED: Alternative Imaging – Curated by Dawne Fahey at Two Doors Gallery, The Rocks, Sydney
2011: COLLECTION: Australian Library of Art, State Library of Queensland
2011 SHORTLISTED: Southern Cross University Artists’ Book Award, Lismore. Judge: Ross Woodrow
2011 EXHIBITED: BLUE – Arts Council Toowoomba members exhibition, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery
2010 AWARD WINNER: Martin Hanson Awards, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery – Works on Paper
2010 EXHIBITED: Art Bound – Red Gallery, Glebe, Sydney
2010 FINALIST: Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award – Gold Coast City Gallery. Judge: Judy Annear
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Text and © Doug Spowart+Victoria Cooper
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Written by Cooper+Spowart
January 26, 2020 at 1:20 pm
Posted in Artists Books, Cyanotypes, Wot happened on this day
Tagged with 1788, artists' book cyanotype, Australia Day comment, Australia Day in art, colonial Australia, cyanotype, Helen Cole, invasion day, January 25/ 26, View 1: Australian Banquet