Theme: Year of the Outback

THEME - The Year of the Outback
Book representing some aspect of the Australian Outback

Award Winning book for the Papermakers of Queensland exhibition October 2002
Fence Book

Front cover of book.
Materials; handmade paper: banana leaf, fig and palm leaf mixed with recycled.
Wire, sepia ink and condes crystals

Inside concertina opening out into fence.
Two strands of wire strung between fenceposts. Rolled barbed wire top.
This book 'fence' interprets the harshness of the Australian outback also representing the concentration camps built there to house the people who seek refuge in this vast land. The heartland of the heartless. The marginalisation of vunerable people is ignored by most of the residents of this 'lucky' country.

The book as SCULPTURE

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