Phantomwise flew the black cockatoo / Gwen Harrison and Sue Anderson
- Bib ID:
- 7660859
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Harrison, Gwen, 1947-, artist, printer
- Description:
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- Sydney : Impediment Press, 2017
- 32 unnumbered pages (some folded, some stub) : illustrations ; 52 x 36.5 cm in 54 x 38.2 x 2.7 cm clamshell box.
- Summary:
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"Phantomwise Flew the Black Cockatoo and [its companion piece] Howl for a Black Cockatoo are two artists' books that document the effects of a 'welfare system' that began in the colony of New South Wales when the first white females were brought to Australian shores during the eighteenth century, a system that profoundly affected the fabric of Australian society. Howl for a Black Cockatoo [2015] ... tells of the devastating and relentless cruelties inflicted on young girls, orphans and neglected children as they were confined in the old penal prison known as "Biloea', on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour." An additional exhibition and artists' book, Living Traces (2016) involved a collaboration "alongside a number of other women who had survived the same vicious system, locked behind the stone walls of the original Female Factory Precinct in Parramatta. ... This was the same institution that the girls had been sent to in 1887 following the 1873 inquiry into 'Biloela', our new friends were women had lost their childhood, endured brutal punishments and were witnesses to horrifying treatment meted out to so many who were under 'the care of the welfare system.'" -Loose colophon.
- Notes:
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- Limited edition of 25 copies.
- Title and statement of responsibility from rear endpaper. A separate sheet with production information and acknowledgements (effectively a substitute colophon) is loosely inserted in the clamshell box.
- "A collaboration between Sue Anderson, letterpress printer and designer binder & Gwen Harrison, visual artist and printmaker. Original sugarlift and aquatint etchings on Magnani 'Revere' 300gsm 100% cotton rag paper; letterpress printing on a Potter Proof Press, handset Caslon lead type and wood type."-Loose colophon.
- National Library of Australia's SRef copy is no. 1/25 and signed by both artists.
- Abstract leather binding in hand dyed kangaroo. Boards illustrated with a sugarlift etching on Magnani 'Revere'. Binding by Sue Anderson and Wayne Stock.
- Binding:
- Bound by Sue Anderson and Wayne Stock.
- Subject:
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- Girls' Industrial School and Reformatory (Cockatoo Island, N.S.W.)
- Children -- Institutional care -- New South Wales -- History -- Pictorial works
- Child welfare -- New South Wales -- History
- Female juvenile delinquents -- New South Wales -- History
- Etching, Australian
- Prints, Australian
- Artists' books -- Australia
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Charities -- History
- Cockatoo Island (N.S.W.)
- Australian
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Black cockatoo
- Exhibited:
- Paper Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, September 2017.
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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