‘PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books’, curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, offers a rare insight and overview of the development, range and ambition of the artists’ book over half a century. Featuring books, postal art and other ‘alternative spaces’ from the 1960s to the 1980s, the exhibition presents a range of significant works from a host of private and public collections in Australia and the UK.
The exhibition will include a large selection of books from the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, together with remarkable and rare publications by pioneers Ed Ruscha and Dieter Rot, members of the Fluxus and Conceptual art movements and feminists Nan Becker, May Stevens and Nancy Holt.
A broad range of Artists Books and postal art by contemporary artists including Nicholas Jones, Deanna Hitti, Angela Cavalieri, Gracia and Louise, Deborah Klein, David Dellafiora, Sarah Bodman and Guy Begbie, will also be presented.
‘PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books’ will be opened by David Dellafiora, Co founder Field Study International, on Sat 19 July, 4-6pm.
Arts Academy, Post Office Gallery
16 July to 9 August, 2014
Victoria
Image courtesy the Post Office Gallery
