Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Artist: Robyn Foster From: Australia   Title: Missing Date: 2013 Leaves:  Concertina  doubled sided Size: 15cm-11cm when closed, approximately  Images:  Photocopy ephemera and text. Housing: Hard, with image cover and band. Edition:  Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 This wonderful sculptural and structured artist book tells the story of Agatha Christie who went missing in 1926.  Agatha disappeared for 11 days, but was eventually located at a spa hotel in Harrogate under an assumed name. The reason behind her disappearance has remained a mystery; some say after a dispute with her husband over another woman she suffered amnesia caused by stress or in part due to her mother death. Whatever the real story is we may never know, but makes for a great mystery. A beautiful book.

Artist: Cheryl Penn From: South Africa Title: Rorschach Date: 2013 Leaves: Pamphlet  Size: 15cm-11cm Images:   Photocopied book base, text, various ink with hand coloring.  Housing: Hard cover Edition: 10/10 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known for the inkblot test. The other Rorschach is a fictional character who wears an inkblot facemask in black & white. Outlined in this intriguing artist book is the story of the two seemingly opposites Rorschach’s. I found myself engrossed by the story and the inkblots that I tried to decipher, a fascinating book. 

Artist: Theresa Easton From: Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK Title:  Someone made this, made by hand. Date: 2013 Leaves: Pamphlet  Size: 15cm-11cm Images:  Relief prints, photocopies, screen-print and hand written text Housing:  Soft cover in red & gray with linocut overprinted. Edition: 2/18 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 Someone made this, made by hand looks at ‘Trench Art’ and reminds us of the war generation, where recycled artillery was fashioned into every day and artistic objects. With most men away fighting, it was up to the female population to take up role of famer, truck driver and factory worker. It was common for these woman and others to   make use of discarded bullets, casings, shells and grenades’. My own family members have passed down items fashioned out of Trench Art. A great reminder of how difficult times where during war, a lovely book.       ...

Artist: Svenja Wahl From: Heidelberg Germany Title: Fluxus Date: 2013 Leaves: Pamphlet  Size: 15cm-11cm Images:  Stitched  material and photo collage Housing: soft cover with stitched elements Edition:  Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 Fluxus, is an artist book that gives us a glimpse into the world of Joseph Beuys a German performance artist who mostly works in the concept of humanism. A complex individual who died in 1986, Beuys was anti-art in the traditional sense and believed that society needed a new form art to led humanity into the future, this he named ‘social sculpture’. This artist book includes a portrait of Beuys and makes mention of one of his performances, the Dead Hare, where Beuys moved through a gallery describing art to a dead hare, the book give us a hint at the man, the artist whose complex ideals in arts influence other artists like Andy Warhol. An absorbin...

Artist: Christopher Skinner From: UK Title: Victor Spillage Date: 2013 Leaves: Pamphlet   Size: 15cm-11cm Images:  Digital, record and historical Victorian images Housing: Hard cover in blue book cloth, with marble end papers Edition:  Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 I think I like Victor, in spite of his noble birth to Lord and Lady Spillage of Decanter, he seems to be a very down to earth character, let us face it who did not wear a diving helmet in English class. Collecting prosthetic eyes and limbs should   be everyone’s dream but more importantly, the dissecting of library books reminds me of my own childhood. This artist book is a wonderful combination of images, text and imagination; 

Artist: Ruth Shaw-Williams From: UK Title: She Date: 2013 Leaves: Pamphlet book  Size: 15cm-11cm Images:  linocut, digital prints, blind embossing, paper ephemera and letterpress printed on acid free 190gsm Bockingford paper and book cloth. Housing: Hardcover in book board with green book cloth and cutout female form pasted onto the front. Edition: 5/10 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 SHE is a wonderful book, SHE could be any female but I suspect there is a lot of Ruth in the character. This artist book gives us a glimpse of someone, a person, who likes comfortable but not too fashionable foot apparel, loves to dance, has a keen interest in Freud but is afraid of drafts, thunder and lightning along with cattle and moths, (just wondering if SHE received a copy of Stephanie’s Turnbull story)  SHE also loves to exercise, well maybe in moderation, may have poor eyesight, hates housewo...

Artist: Stephanie Turnbull From: Newport UK Title: How the Turnbull got their name. (Written by Huw Turnbull) Date: 2013 Leaves: Pamphlet format  Size: 15cm-11cm Images:  Text, lino-cut and cellulose transfers Housing: hard cover with leather Edition: 2/10 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 A delightful story of the Turnbull namesake and Robert Bruce, King of Scotland. The book starts with a family crest, three bulls heads surrounded by a shield, (linocut), and the pages open out to reveal a remarkable story between a bull, king and tall stranger. An image of a threatening bull moves across the contour of the pages and seems to move into a full charge, stopped only by the brave man depicted in the center page; again, linocut is used to great effect. The pages continue to the conclusion, the saving of the king, the defeating of the bull and the renaming of the tall stranger, a truly enchanting ...

Artist: Stephanie Turnbull From: Newport UK Title: Ned Kelly Date: 2013 Leaves:  Concertina  doubled sided  Size: 15cm-11cm when closed, approximately  Images:  Text taken for letter and historic documents, images screen-print, etching, linocut, letterpress relief print form corrugated card. Housing: hard cover Edition:  Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References: 3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013   This artist book recounts the words, images and actions of Ned Kelly, a notorious Australian outlaw. It is view in some sections of the community that Ned is a hero rather than a villain, there is no doubt that he was indeed a rebel but the behavior and actions of the then authorities did not help the situation. This book makes no judgment but presents some of the facts. Housed within the book are three versions of the helmet that Ned wore during his battle with the authorities this may well represent the many different view...

Artist: Cheryl Penn From: South Africa Title: Mona Lisa Date: 2013 Leaves:  Concertina style book  Size: 15cm-11cm when closed, approximately  Images:  Thinners prints, collage, hand coloring, text. Housing:  Edition: 10/10 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 The book looks at the controversy surrounding Leonardo’s  Mona Lisa and suggests we need to look even further back in history to make of sense of the beautiful face and enigmatic smile. The book tells of Caterina, Leonard’s’ mother and the likeness to the sitter, Lisa del Giocondo, using close up section of the Mona Lisa together with historical information, the books encouragers you to learn more about the artist and portrait of the Mona Lisa. An artist book of intrigue.  

Artist: Sue Hobbs From: Kloof, South Africa. Title: A Woman of Note Date: 2013 Leaves: Concertina book, single sided.  Size: 15cm-11cm when closed, approximately  Images:  Original photographs reprinted on hand made paper (inkjet) from family archives, recycled book pages with gesso, hand dyed paper, hand written text and sewing. Housing:  hard cover Edition:  7/7 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 The book in a range of pale green, blue and gray paper starts with a great statement; ‘experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happens to you’ The book tells the story of Patricia Florence (Sue’s mother) and her Journey from war torn London and the destabilization of its inhabitants and eventual evacuation of the City’s children to safer zones. Using images and text to great advantage, the story takes the reader from London to South Africa on a perso...

International Artist book exchange & collaboration #12 Biography 2013 Artist: Judy Bourke From: NSW Australia Title: Looking at Me, Auto-Biography  Date: 2013 Leaves: Concertina book, double sided.  Size: 15cm-11cm when closed, approximately  Images:  mono-print, relief print, photo-polymer prints, intaglio print, line relief print & drawing.  Housing: hard cover Edition: 8/8 Photographer: Catherine Mc Cue Boes References:  3.0 number 12 Artist Books 2013 Artist book, mono printed on both sides, in yellow, green and blue. The sand melts into the blue/green of the Australian bush, topped by clear blue sky. On opening the book, a pop out portrait of a young child sits comfortable on the sand, a cut out shadow hints at the intensity of the summer sun, a stitched and drawn line takes us to another pop out of a sewing machine, in bold red, blue and yellow, indicating an interested in the making of things.  Whimsic...