POSTMARK MAIL ART begins
I’m spending this school term (end of July to end of September) working one day at the ANU School of Art teaching typography and a bit of binding, and the rest of the week as Artist-in-Residence at a...
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I’ve finished the first stage of the Postmark Mail Art project; every child and teacher in the school has set their names in type and printed them on their postcards. Now I have to print the backs of...
View ArticlePostmark Mail Art: Literacy Week*
This is the second week of workshops I was asked to present as an addendum to the main postcard project.I thought, since I’m taking the kids through a few outmoded printing techniques like letterpress...
View ArticlePostmark Mail Art: Colour Printing
Pre-amble ramble The other day I walked into the Principal’s office (where I’ve been stashing my bag of a day) and she asked me what I’d learned that day. What haven’t I learned! The school’s motto,...
View ArticlePostmark Mail Art: Posting at the end
I love the moment in a residency (says she, with the wisdom of only two residencies) when you realise that it’s ok, everything will be finished in time. Mind you, with both experiences that realisation...
View ArticleWhat are EASS residencies?
The short answer lies here. Otherwise: The ANU School of Art has a special place in my heart. It, along with the Australian National University in general, is one of my life’s sacred sites. Way before...
View ArticleFinlay Press & Finlay Lloyd
This is a personal research article built from email and oral interviews with Phil Day. I have spoken of the Finlay Press at a number of occasions: the Impact 7 conference in Melbourne (September 2011)...
View ArticleThe Complete Book
I try to teach at the Sturt Craft School each year if I can; they have marvellous Summer and Winter Schools where you live-in at the adjoining Frensham School and attend classes every day for a week,...
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