Rain / Peter Kingston
- Bib ID:
- 8041681
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kingston, Peter, 1943-2022, book artist
- Description:
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- [North Sydney, N.S.W.] : The Bush Stone Curlew Press, MMXVIII [2018]
- 1 portfolio of 15 prints : coloured illustrations ; 36 cm, in wooden clamshell box (40 x 40 x 4 cm)
- Summary:
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An artist's book including 15 hand finished lino prints on Iwaki Mulberry paper using Sajura oils, and housed in an illustrated wooden box. The folder for the book is a large etching. The work was inspired by the artist's trips to Hinchinbrook Island, Queensland, to meet environmental activist Margaret Thorsborne (1927-2018). The book pits her against the "white shoe brigade" developer Keith Williams (1929-2011), and also provides a visual memoir of other lost aspects of Cairns.
- Notes:
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- Limited to 5 signed copies.
- Layout and assembly by Nicholas Pounder at the sign of the Polar Bear.
- Box by Ian McLeod.
- One of Margaret Thorsborne's paper birds is included in the box.
- National Library of Australia's copy is no. 3/5.
- Subject:
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- Thorsborne, Margaret (Margaret Grace), 1927-2018
- Williams, Keith, 1929-2011
- Artists' books -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Specimens
- Linoleum block-printing, Australian -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Specimens
- Hinchinbrook Island (Qld.) -- Description and travel
- Cairns (Qld.) -- Description and travel
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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