October 2006
Literarte
“Literarte: (n) a poetree of flying birds and colourful screens created from recycled books”. Part of WOW during the State of Design Festival 2006. The Literate installation was created in collaboration with Russell Bryant who created the sgraffito woodcut artwork and flock of suspended, book sculptures evoking avian flight.
Date October 2006
Location GPO, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Products exhibited Bookscreens (Paul and Brooke)
Other exhibitors as part of WOW: Eness (The Unwired Light Garden), Spacecraft, Zaishu, Lightly, Daniel Barberra, Gregory Bonasera, Cloud Design, Cube Konstrukt, Niche media, Jo Wilson, Nick Rennie, Anthony Dann, Dhiren Bhagwandas and others…
Photographer Peter Bennetts
Illustration Russell Bryant
Brooke the Bookscreen
Date October 2006
Sizes Various. Example shown is made from 72 books: 8 books high (approximately 1500mm) and 8 books wide.
Description This screen is based on a spectrum of colour, spanning across the horizon from blue, to green through yellow, orange, red and finally maroon. The colours of the books gradually become darker as they get higher.
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Paul the Bookscreen
Date October 2006
Award On july 16 2008 Paul won a Premiers Design Award in the Self-initiated Hand Made Objects Category and was awarded a prestigious Premiers Design Mark
Size 48 books: 8 books high (approximately 1500mm) and 6 books wide.
Description Paul shows one of the many possible methods of colour composition. He was an experiment with the abstract arrangement of books. Inspiration was drawn from Paul Klee’s 1933 painting ‘Head with Blue Tones’. The reverse side of Paul exhibits a composition of folded pages (taken from the original books themselves).
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Stockists Paul the Bookscreen has been sold. Format furniture sell are range of other ready made bookscreens or they can be made to order.
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