This Ferral Australis!
Artist creator: John Hinds
Categories: Bookwork / Intaglio Print Books, Printmakers' Books, Scrolls & Concertina Books, Small Press Books
Reference no.:L/Hin.J/14.00 Place/Shelf:2EL
| Book title: | This Ferral Australis! |
| Year made: | 2014 |
| Place made: | Australia |
| Original: | Yes |
| Edition: (No. in Edition) |
10 (5) |
| Dimensions: | 255 x 260 |
| Binder: | bound by J Hinds |
| Physical description: | concertina fold with plywood covers |
| Medium: | graphics, text, prints |
| Collaborations: | The Firestation Print Studio |
| Further information: | |
| ...with the subtitle: How Terra Australis (A Utopian Terra Nullius) became Ferral Australis (A Dystopian Numbskullis!) "This book takes a lighthearted look at our early (colonial) history, and examines how Animals, Humans and Climate have gone 'ferral'! "Animals: linocut images of Horse, Cat, Dog and Pig skeletons are overprinted onto facsimiles of The Sydney Gazette, 1805. "Humans: Four 'Convict Sonnets' purport to have been recently found colonial era forgeries of Shakespeare. The artist has in fact cut and pasted the Bard's lines into sonnets to evoke the tragedy and hardships of the convict experience. These are overprinted onto facsimiles of Lieutenant Bradley's 1788 first fleet Sirius journal. "Climate: Four linocut images of antique suns are overprinted onto pages of 1970s era history books. Shakespeare's well known line 'Sometimes too bright the eye of heaven shines' is used to suggest that the omniscient poet somehow predicted global warming and solar power." John Hinds |
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| Artist creator: | John Hinds () |
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