October 2006

Literarte

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, etching and flying books 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

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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