Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Christine Turner has been a breath of fresh air in the arts in Bundaberg Queensland.  For many years   she has worked in the area of painting, recycled assemblage, installations, computer art and animation, she has inspired so many young artists to take up art. Chris has been a focal point in the arts not just as an artist but  also as  a gallery manager, curator and community arts worker. With the establishment of Dirty Linen an independent gallery space, Christine provided a suitable venue for young and emerging artists and without restrictions she provide a platform, for artists, poets and musician.  Sadly Christine is moving to Brisbane so with the closure of Dirty Linen, Bundaberg has lost an alternative art space but hopefully Christine will continue her arts practice well into the future. The artist books featured, is a collaboration by Beryl Kitching, Sue Hutton and myself and was presented to Christine as a gift.      

New work, titled, 'The Secret Lives of Girlfriends' over the next few months I plan to create a new work,  using linocut the  images printed on my very  Hopkinson & Cope, this work will be developed over two years and when finished will be in the style of the early manuscripts. The project will include short stories/ poems, these will be supplied by an arts writer who without any other information will create the words for each image. When complete the work will hand bound in leather.

Ok the day finally came when we moved the rest of my Hopkinson & Cope in place, using a small crane and the help of Mr P we put all the pieces  back and after a clean up, we printed the original poster that came with the printing press 40 years ago, printed on proof paper it came up very nice.

Dusty and neglected, hidden behind lots of other garage stuff, my great iron printing press sat waiting. Given that its only one hundred and seventy years old, a few more years resting in my garage would not be such along time. Heavy with great iron feet, moving it across the patch of grass seem impossible.  The only thing to do was to take her apart, bit by bit until only the main frame stood alone in the garage. Remembering how to put it back would be another problem. My first step was to take as many pictures of the various  parts that made up this great press, my Hopkinson & Cope. It was love at first sight, standing proud in the main hall of a private museum belonging to Rasmussen Boyd. Boyd's Antiquatorium was a huge building containing  many fine collectables one of which was my Hopkinson & Cope. On arriving in Bundaberg Queensland I approached Mr Boyd about the press  and  asked if he wanted to sell it, the answer was  a stern no. Twenty y...

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.