Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Architecture Stephanie Turnbull Linocut 4/10 Steph Unusual choice for a girl from Wales, Stephanie's linocut sweeps up and beyond the book covers to form the shapes of the Harbour Bridge with the sails of the opera house in the foreground.  Printed in the cool colour of steel, this book this is a strong work and is well suited to the subject of architecture. Tic Tac Tictac, 'some windows never open' mixed media, 5/10 Textural paper with large open windows cut and folded over to form the book, gives the appearance of building material. Large areas are cut to form windows, but are blocked by what appears to be framed photographs with a misty outlook, embellished with black and red markers, the works takes on a mysterious air. Well constructed and thought out book. Cinzia Cinzia  'Zoot and flight' eight house shape float across  a text filled background, the tan colour of the shapes contrast well against the white of the background. There are n...

Asemic writing artist book exchange, national and international. Asemic writing  is a wordless open semantic form of  writing . The word  asemic  means "having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning". With the non-specificity of  asemic writing  there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. Asemic writing - Wikipedia Having spent some time at a remote  gas plant when restrictions on access and information was in place I started a fictitious series of works titled 'words in nature and post cards from gillmore'.  These works where hand written  and contain images of insects and plants found around the plant, a secret book whose words and images are yet to be giving meaning. catherine mccue boes Cinzia's delicate and creative book arrived also. Using papers, hand and stamped text imposed with strips of soft blue and cream papers, t...

Artist books 3.0 #13 'Anything'. 'A Garden' by Klaus von Mirbach (Germany) 2014 A beautifully drawn, painted  and collaged artist book.

Artist books 3.0 #13 'Anything'. Vessels in Dispute 9The Hidden Pate-sur-pate) by Cheryl Penn (South Africa) Book made for an encyclopaedia of everything part of the series documenting the myth of the Bhubezi women- The women who hold up the world. Mixed media, painting, and text, concertina type artist book.

Artist books 3.0 #13 'Anything'. Imagine by Anete Ulmane (Latvia) A delicate artist book loosed stitched, paper collaged, torn and burned.

'A Hangman Tells of his Love', artist book, by Catherine Mc Cue Boes. Reproduced monoprints, lithographs, text and poem by B Dawe. Made for the National and International 3.0 artist book exchange 2014, 'Anything'. Pamphlet stitch, hard back. 

Artist book, by Catherine Mc Cue

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 ...

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The Moth

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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...