Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

.  Artist Book Project:  I am currently engaged in a collaborative project that merges the realms of visual arts and writing. This project, titled “Secret Lives of Girlfriends,” aims to explore the complexities of Female relationships, in isolation. The current iteration of this project is a visual representation of the project’s concept. The image serves as a second version of the artwork, showcasing the fusion of artistic expression and narrative storytelling. The story of Fay, source is from national geographic. IN THE DAYS before some 30,000 soldiers sailed from Australian shores to fight in World War I, many kept their eyes focused on a tiny, rugged island off the West Australian town of Albany. There lived Fay-Catherine Howe, a   lighthouse-keeper’s   daughter, who became well known among the confined Anzacs. Adept in the art of signal communications, 15-year-old Fay relayed messages via semaphore flags or Morse code to the troops from their loved ones as the...

Artist books What makes an artist book? Artist books are an expressive medium, often in a great variety of forms these books take time to produce and for some, even longer to appreciate.   Some may find artists’ books hard to comprehend as a work of art, the artist book, after all, is at a disadvantage when compared to other art forms, for example a painting.  The artists’ book by its very nature usually has to be opened or even handled to be appreciated, other art forms may be displayed in their entirety, whereas the artist book contains many aspects that are neither easy to display nor value. Artist books are not a unique idea, the practice of incorporating images and text stems back to William Blake (1757 -1827) .     Many modern masters, such as Picasso, Leger and Kokoschka to name only a few, presented and participated in the making of artist books.  Artist books over the past century have become more than a collection of pages in sequence, with or without ...

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.