Opening Friday 4th October starts: 6-8pm
Marrickville Garage will be open Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October, 11-4 pm
ARTISTS: Paul Borderi + Jane Polkinghorne; Rowan Conroy; Mitchel Cummings; Ryszard Dabek; Sarah Goffman & Peter Jackson + Jane Polkinghorne; C.Moore Hardy; Andrew Hazewinkel; Bronia Iwanczak; Anne Kay; Emma Lindsay; Peter Nelson; Elvis Richardson; Elizabeth Wild
Many of us, artists, photographers (and regular folk), accumulate sets and series of photographs. Types of images build up on our cameras and computers with no particular intention, no particular use in mind. We may have an idea to one day use these images for a particular project, but usually the images go on accumulating with no specific purpose in mind. We use the camera to investigate and interrogate, research and document the environments around us, with often the most banal or ugly or discombobulating elements being those we choose to focus on. Acknowledging, addressing, publishing and presenting these categories, sets and affiliations is the purpose of the exhibition Bookish.
The key figure for this show and its approach to photo books is Ed Ruscha and his very particular and highly influential model of photo books: photographs grouped together to form a loose category, reproduced in book format, with little or no accompanying text. Titles include: Twenty Six Gasoline Stations, Various Small Fires, Thirty Four Parking Lots, Some Los Angeles Apartments, Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass, Real Estate Opportunities, Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
Ruscha’s books investigated vernacular architecture, ubiquitous elements of and within urban spaces of Los Angeles in a deadpan manner influencing and not dissimilar in approach to the German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. However in Ruscha’s work his deadpan delivery is reinforced through the printing – commercially done with no reference to the high-end fine art book market.
Another reference point for Bookish could be Gerhard Richter’s on-going typological accumulation and assortment of images Atlas. In Atlas Richter has organised his own photographs, as well as printed images and material from newspapers and magazines, his drawings, sketches and paint samples onto hundreds of sheets of card, each sheet having its own associated lexicon of images.
Please click here to read the artists’ statements on their books.
Jane Polkinghorne
Bookish, opening night
Bookish, opening night
Bookish, opening night
Bookish, opening night
Bookish, opening night
Bookish, installation view with Josie Cavallaro and Dean
Bookish, installation view
Bookish, installation view
Ryszard Dabek: Pilgrimage, 2013. eBook
Ryszard Dabek: Pilgrimage, 2013. eBook
Rowan Conroy: MORGO STREET, 2013. 32 page case bound inkjet photobook on cotton rag
Rowan Conroy: MORGO STREET, 2013, detail. 32 page case bound inkjet photobook on cotton rag
Rowan Conroy: MORGO STREET, 2013, detail. 32 page case bound inkjet photobook on cotton rag
Rowan Conroy: MORGO STREET, 2013, detail. 32 page case bound inkjet photobook on cotton rag
Mitchel Cummings: “Day after day (day after day)”, 2013, detail
Mitchel Cummings: “Day after day (day after day)”, 2013, detail
Peter Nelson: Jamvis – A Lady’s Adventures in Parkes NSW, 2013. Photographs in a photo album
Peter Nelson: Jamvis – A Lady’s Adventures in Parkes NSW, 2013, detail. Photographs in a photo album
Peter Nelson: Jamvis – A Lady’s Adventures in Parkes NSW, 2013, detail. Photographs in a photo album
Peter Nelson: Jamvis – A Lady’s Adventures in Parkes NSW, 2013, detail. Photographs in a photo album
Peter Nelson: WHITE FOUR DOOR , 2013, A4 hardcover
Peter Nelson: WHITE FOUR DOOR , 2013, detail. A4 hardcover
Peter Nelson: WHITE FOUR DOOR , 2013, detail. A4 hardcover
Andrew Hazewinkel: The Acqua Alta Project, A5
Andrew Hazewinkel: The Acqua Alta Project, detail, A5
Andrew Hazewinkel: The Acqua Alta Project, printers proofs, A1
Sarah Goffman and Peter Jackson with Jane Polkinghorne: 127 ROCHFORD ST. A4
Sarah Goffman and Peter Jackson with Jane Polkinghorne: 127 ROCHFORD ST, detail. A4 landscape
Sarah Goffman and Peter Jackson with Jane Polkinghorne: 127 ROCHFORD ST, detail. A4 landscape
Elizabeth Cheatham Wild: LA CLAW, 2013.
Elvis Richardson: SLIDE SHOW LAND Dorothy and Jack, 184 colour pages digital prints on lustre paper, 42x29cm, Hard bound cover, stitched binding, no edition
Elvis Richardson: SLIDE SHOW LAND Dorothy and Jack, detail. 184 colour pages digital prints on lustre paper
Elvis Richardson: SLIDE SHOW LAND Dorothy and Jack, detail. 184 colour pages digital prints on lustre paper
Emma Lindsay: Extinct Australian Birds: Fieldwork, 2013, eBook
C.Moore Hardy Death… , Vistas, Unconscious… Hand made books with colour photographic prints
C.Moore Hardy: Death… Hand made books with colour photographic prints
C.Moore Hardy: Death…, detail. Hand made books with colour photographic prints
C.Moore Hardy: Vistas, detail. Hand made books with colour photographic prints
C.Moore Hardy: Vistas, detail. Hand made books with colour photographic prints
C.Moore Hardy: Unconscious… , detail. Hand made books with colour photographic prints
Bronia Iwanczak: Analogy of Light, 3 books, each approx 240 pages, 25cm x20cm, 2013
Anne Kay: Temporary Poems, photo/postcard construction 2013
Anne Kay: Temporary Poems, photo/postcard construction 2013
Paul Borderi and Jane Polkinghorne Trip 1, 2013. 20 x 20 cm, hardbound, embossed.
Paul Borderi and Jane Polkinghorne: Trip 1, 2013. Detail
Paul Borderi and Jane Polkinghorne: Trip 1, 2013. Detail
Paul Borderi and Jane Polkinghorne Trip 2, 2013. 20 x 20 cm, hardbound, embossed.
Paul Borderi and Jane Polkinghorne: Trip 2, 2013. Detail
Paul Borderi and Jane Polkinghorne: Trip 2, 2013. Detail
Gallery Door
Richard Gurney Pirouette Dream
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream, 2013. Photographs
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream detail, 2013
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream detail, 2013
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream detail, 2013
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream detail, 2013
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream detail, 2013
Richard Gurney: Pirouette Dream detail, 2013
Pirouette Dream detail, 2013 Photograph
Photoshoot playlist:
Dusty Springfield – Baby Blue
Deborah Washington – Standing in the Shadows of Love
Tracey Weber – Sure Shot
Sister Sledge – Love Don’t You Go Through No Changes On Me
The Supremes – I’m Gonna Let My Heart Do the Walking
Gayle Adams – Love Fever
Norma Jean Wright – Saturday
Gianni Wise: Spectres of the Spectrum, 2013. Plastic, resin, plastic coated wire, telecommunications cabling, acrylic paint, plasticine, portable radio, digital voice tracer, electricians tape. Audio sampling from “Tribulation 99”, dir: Craig Baldwin, 1992.
Gianni Wise: Spectres of the Spectrum, 2013. Plastic, resin, plastic coated wire, telecommunications cabling, acrylic paint, plasticine, portable radio, digital voice tracer, electricians tape. Audio sampling from “Tribulation 99”, dir: Craig Baldwin, 1992.
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