Thursday, September 29, 2011

Girls in High Places

The zines pictured below (images 3 - 4) were made especially for the forthcoming group exhibition In Suspense at Hand Held Gallery. The exhibition will run from 3 - 30 November, but because I will be overseas at that time, I've had to complete the works well in advance. Also pictured are a couple of 'roughs' followed by the original artwork.

 Girls in High Places #1 and #2
developmental drawings, pencil,
each 42 x 10 cm

 Girls in High Places #1 and #2 (original
artwork) watercolour and gouache
42 x 10 cm (each image)

 Girls in High Places #1: Rope Trick, 2011zine, laser printed,
concertina format with cardboard and embossing, 10.5 x 10.5 cm 
(closed); 42 x 10 cm (open) Edition: 80, signed and numbered

Girls in High Places #2: Flying High, 2011, zine, laser printed,
concertina format, with cardboard and embossing, 10.5 x 10.5 cm 
(closed); 42 x 10 cm (open) Edition: 80, signed and numbered

The brief given to invited artists by curator Megan Herring was to "submit small scale objects that are designed to be suspended and for which the act of suspension enhances or subverts their reading."

Although Girls in High Places #1: Rope Trick and Girls in High Places #2: Flying High can be read separately, the second zine can equally be read as a sequel to the first.