Artists Books
Introduction
Artists’ books form a parallel strand within the artist’s practice, exploring the relationship between image, object and narrative through tactile, box-based formats. Unlike conventional photographic sequences, these works unfold through physical interaction: pages are lifted, objects are revealed and images appear in layers.
Both projects presented here investigate memory, materiality and the symbolic life of everyday objects. The book form allows images to exist not only as representations but as physical artefacts contained within a constructed space.
Seen within the wider trajectory of the research, these works anticipate later investigations into still-life, interior space and the quiet agency of objects.
Boy
Artists’ book, 2012
Archival photographs, documents and objects
Boy (2012) is an artists’ book that reconstructs the first eight years in the life of a child born in 1954. Contained within a maroon archival box, the work assembles photographs, documents and symbolic objects to explore how childhood memory is formed through images and stories passed across generations.
Oliveria
Artists’ book, 2012
Box, layered photographic pages and found objects
Oliveria (2012) is an artists’ book housed within a black box containing a sequence of layered photographic pages. Each page is lifted to reveal the next through a circular aperture aligned with the image of a crucible lid. The work brings together found objects collected by the artist over many years, culminating in the final layer where the physical objects themselves reside within the box.
These works explore how images and objects accumulate meaning through acts of handling, sequencing and uncovering.