Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

 Artist book Here are additional images of the now-complete artist’s book, which has taken several years to complete. During this time, several state prints were created. These early trial prints will be sold as individual works of art. I am updating to inform you that my latest project has been completed. It has been an incredible project, involving the creation of images, printing, and finally assembling the book. Over three years of hard work and dedication have been invested in this major undertaking. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to writer and artist Sue Hutton for the words that accompanied the images, adding another layer of depth and meaning to this remarkable artist’s book. 

 2019 artist hanging book, using metal advertisement printing blocks, hand printed onto Japanese paper. In the era of advertising, metal plates were employed to promote brands or clothing styles, particularly designed to be positioned alongside text in newspaper advertisements. These hot metal plates, once prevalent, have been replaced by polymer plates. These discarded objects hold a fascination for me, and I collect them whenever possible. The intention is to reinvent and repurpose them, as exemplified by the ‘male sampler’ handprinted on Japanese paper, paying homage to both the past and present printmaking industry.          

Another version: War Games 16 etchings, Color and b/w etchings, soft ground and dry point. Housing: Hard cover in black book cloth with handmade marbled paper, red ties with bullet casing, double concertina artist book. Unique 1987 Part of the Boys toys series that started in 1987. Watching my son playing with toy soldiers lets to a body of work that reflects the destructive nature of boys and their toys. Does this sound like someone you know?

Catherine Mc Cue, Artist Statement WAR Games 2016 Its strange how first encounters stay with you forever. As a young girl growing up in a family with little interest in the arts my first encounter with images came from my magic lantern slides given to me by my grandmother. The slides where such a rich source of imagery and topics that I enjoyed them still. War Games, for children is one such set of slides, re invented and created as a boxed set,  complete with artist book and contemporary slides.  Materials used include, solar plate etching, embossed linocut, collage slides and text. I started to redraw the images to set the scale and size I needed for the slides, these will be re worked and printed onto clear film, then mounted and framed. When happy,  I reworked the images using Photoshop, to add  textured and noise.  As these would be printed out as transparencies the correct size for the solar plates, it was importan...

The Book of Lost soul's Monoprints, No. 11 These segments of a larger mono print appear to have been unsettling to some viewers. Upon entering a works on paper exhibition, it was discovered that the book, which had upset someone, was not displayed and was kept under the table. Only after an initial inquiry was it revealed that the work was not suitable for display. Considering that the work is an artist’s book featuring images, I find it puzzling why it was excluded from the exhibition. While the covers contain some dark elements, none of them pose a threat to viewers. Censorship of art in this particular gallery is uncommon, so it is evident that an individual made the decision that the subject matter was too much for the viewing public. 

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title : Little book of mixed etchings Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1985-8 Leaves: 14 mixed etchings, drypoints and color etchings Size:  Book 17 cm x 14 cm Housing: Images:  soft cover in blue texture paper with red tie. Hemp paper with orange book paper inserts spiral binding. Edition: Unique in this form  Printer: The artist.  Typeface:  References: This little book of etchings contains early and even first etchings produced and cover topic such as emerging into womanhood and self-portrait.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title :  Boys Toys Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1987 Leaves: 8 screenprinted images Size: Book size: 30 cm x 38 cm Housing: Leather spine in cream with blue textured paper, spiral binding  Edition: 1 of 3  Printer: The artist. References:   While watching my young sons playing on a trampoline I created these images also playing in the surf. In these images, I tried to capture the sense of them Jumping higher trying to catch the sun and rolling in the surf trying to catch a wave.   _________________________________________________________________________________

Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title :  The book of Clones mark 3 Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 2004 Leaves: 15 pages, computer-generated images, two images per page, printed on to textured paper. Size: Book size 21 cm x 32 cm  Housing: Red textured book cloth with green tie, Japanese   stab binding Edition: 1/5  Printer: The artist.  Typeface:  References:  An early and easier to handle  version of the Book of Clones and based on ‘ Against Nature, book of clones mark 2’. Intended as an artist proof this simple version of the Book of Cones turned out to be quite good, so an edition of five have been produced.