An Open Book
(Ceramic book sculpture series)
Since 2014, I’ve been creating an ongoing series of life size hand-sculpted, kiln fired, ceramic sculptures of books.
The sculptures pay tribute to the power of storytelling, both through reading and writing, and acknowledge books as an object of connection.
It’s through this act of slowly recreating the books, often taking longer on the sculpture than it did for me to read the book, that I allow myself the time and space to reflect on them.
David Shrigley's Weak Messages Create Bad Situations, 2014
Helen Garners ‘True Stories’, 2018
Paul Kelly's How to make gravy, 2017
Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu, 2016
Tom Polo's Paris Drawings, 2019
Polly Borland's Morph, 2018
Miranda July's 'The First Bad Man', 2016
Brook Andrew's Theme Park, 2019
Alexis Wright's The Swan Book and Tracker, 2019
Uncle Jack Charles' Born Again Blakfella, 2019
Lisa Radford's Aesthetic nonsense makes commonsense, thanks X, 2017
Dylan Alcott's able, 2019
Jon Campbell, 2016
Tracey Moffatt's Between Dreams And Reality, 2015
John Nixon's Thesis, 2016
Elizabeth Gower's He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, 2018
Dr. Jane Goodall's 'My Life with the Chimpanzees', 2017
Nevo Zisin's Finding Nevo, 2017
Pat Brassington's A Rebours, 2016
Ramesh Mario Nitheyendran's 'In The Beginning', 2017
Tai Snaith's Family Hour, 2017
David Sequeira's Eternal Rhythms, 2017
Carly Findlay's ‘Say Hello’, 2019
Hotham Street Ladies 'A Book for KIDS!', 2016
Emily Floyd's The Dawn, 2016
Christian Thompson's Ritual Intimacy, 2017
Gilbert & George's THE COMPLETE PICTURES 1971 - 1987, 2015
Irena Kobald’s My Two Blankets, 2018
Darren Hanlon's 'Cutting Remarks', 2018
Anastasia Klose's I can't stop living, 2017
Dan Moynihan's Lost in Space, 2017
Nigella Lawson's At My Table, 2018
Chloe Hooper's 'the arsonist', 2019
Helen Maudsley 2014 exhibition catalogue, 2018
Jan Senbergs' 'observation imagination', 2016
Noel McKenna's 2015 exhibition catalogue The Curragh, 2017
Sean Meilak's Marble Park, 2021
David Rosetzky's How to feel, 2017
Tim Ross' MOTEL- images of Australians on holidays, 2019
Trina Robbins' Last Girl Standing, 2018
Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner, 2017
Molly Meldum's Ah Well, Nobody's Perfect, 2016
Lucy Sussex's Blockbuster!, 2020
Beautiful Ugly, architectural photography by John Gollings
Tim Winton's Cloudstreet, 2016
Joseph Kosuth's The Making Of Meaning, 2017
Brit Bennett's The Mothers, 2017
Ai Weiwei's passport, 2016
Peter Atkins' Hume Highway Project, 2020
Kim Donaldson's 'A reminder of life', 2019
Natalie Paull's Beatrix Bakes, 2020
Ottolenghi's 'Simple', 2020
Richard Lewers 'Nobody Likes a show off', 2019
Evie Barrow's Horatio Squeak, 2020
Cat Rabbit and Isobel Knowles' Too Much For Turtle, 2018
Mem Fox and Judy Horacek's Bonnie and Ben Rhyme Again, 2018
Andy Lee’s Do Not Open This Book, 2017
Zoë Foster Blake and Hamish Blake's Textbook Romance, 2017
Judith Lucy's The Lucy Family Alphabet, 2016
Denise Scott's 'The Tour', 2020
Kitty Flanagan's Bridge Burning, 2018
Fiona O'Loughlin's Me of the never, never, 2017
Meshel Laurie's Buddhism for Break-ups, 2017
Wil Anderson's Friendly Fire, 2018
Rod Quantock's 'Double Disilusion', 2019
Simon Amstell's 'Help', 2019
David O'Doherty's Everything is STILL dangerous, 2017
Sammy J's Long Class Goodnight, 2018
Joel Creasey's Thirsty, 2018
Greg Fleet's These Things Happen, 2015
Dave O'Neil's Summer of 82', 2017
Rich Hall's Magnificent Bastards, 2018
Francis Cannon's 'Body Positive Colouring Book', 2017
Samuel Leighton-Dore's How To Be A Big Strong Man, 2019
Andrea Goldsmith's 'Invented Lives', 2019
Geoffrey Bartlett, 2017
Yassmin Abdel-Magied's 'Yassmin's Story', 2016
Mario Puzo's 'The Godfather', 2014
Rachel Buchanan’s STOP PRESS; The Last Days Of Newspapers, 2017
Julia Gorman, 2020
Kerrie Poliness' Blue Wall Drawing, 2020
David Astle's Puzzled, 2016
Markus Zusak's Bridge of Clay, 2018
A.A.Milnes 'Winnie the Pooh', First edition
Adam Kay's This is going to hurt, 2020
Lindy West's Shrill, 2017
David Malouf's The Happy Life, 2018
Father Bob's The Larrikin Priest, 2016
John Safran's Depends What You Mean By Extremist, 2017
Nell's The Wake, 2020
Shaun Gladwell's Videowork, 2018
Delta Goodrem's songbook, 2016
Patricia Piccinini's Nearly Beloved, 2017
Ryan Gander's Ampersand, 2015
Tegan Iversen's Cupcakes, 2018
Bob Murphy's 'Murphy's Law', 2017
Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers, 2017
Melanie Cheng's 'Australia Day' and 'Room for a stranger', 2017 and 2019
Cameron Robbins' Field Lines, 2018
Rose Nolan's Why We Do The Things We Do Over And Over, 2017
Shane Warne's No Spin, 2018
Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project, 2019
Oki Sato's Nendo, 2018
Clementine Ford's Fight Like A Girl and Boys Will Be Boys
Sarah Firth's Lycra Lovers, 2017
Julia Gillard's My Story
Nina Kenwood's It Sounded Better In My Head, 2019
Yumi Stynes' The Zero F*cks Cookbook
Wendy Whiteley and the Secret Garden, 2018
Ben Quilty's UQ Art Museum retrospective, 2020
Oslo Davis' Libraryland, 2017
Gareth Sansom's Welcome To My Mind, 2017
Sebastian Smee's The Art Of Rivalry, 2017
Andrew Weldon's 'If you weren't a hedgehog... If I weren't a haemophiliac', 2015
Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Fit Food, 2018
Claire Lambe's Mother Holding Something Horrific, 2017
ACCA NEW14 exhibition catalogue
Lou Hubbard's Dead Still Standing, 2018
PJ Harvey's The Hollow of the Hand, 2017
Gracia Haby's Round, Circle, Dot. 2017
David Wenham's "Wenham the going gets tough", 2017
Charles Firth's American Hoax, 2017
Mitch Grinter and Brendan Dando's Homer's Odysey, an Embiggened Simpson's Guide, 2019
Michel Chion's La Toile Trouée, 2017
Paul Roos' Here It Is, 2017
Mari Andrews' Am I There Yet? 2018
Marwa Al-Sabouni's The Battle for Home: The Memoir of a Syrian Architect, 2018
Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl, 2016
David Stratton's I peed on Fellini, 2017
David Marr's The Henson Case, 2018
Jess Johnson's BLOODFIN & WHIPWURM, 2015
Helen Razer's The Helen 100, 2017
Stephen Paton's Boorun's Canoe, 2017
Justin Heazlewood's Funemployed, 2019
David Haines' 2014 Kuandu Biennale catalogue, 2017
Sir David Adjaye's Houses, 2017
John Olsen's The You Beaut Country, 2016
Christopher LG Hill's Tink Thank, 2017
David Harley's face value, 2020
Bruce Armstrong's An Anthology of Strange Creatures, 2017
Claire Doherty and David Cross' One Day Sculpture, 2016
Kim Gordan's Girl In A Band, 2016
Mo Hope's My Way, 2017
Stuart Kells' The Library, 2017
Jimmy Barnes' Working Class Boy, 2016
Marti Guixe's Food Book, 2016
David Holmgren's Future Scenario's, 2018
Cadel Evans' The Art Of Cycling, 2016
David Christian's Origin Story, 2018
Nick Cave's And The Ass Saw The Angel, 2014
Jack Thompson's Down Under, 2017
Jon Cattapan's Possible Histories, 2017
Jenny Watson's 1993 Venice Pavillion, 2017
Marina Abramovic, 2015
Susan Carland's Fighting Hislam, 2017
Tony Birch's Shadowboxing, 2017
Daniel von Sturmer's Focus & Field, 2017
Ken Done's A Life Coloured In, 2016
Magda Szubanski's The Reckoning, 2018
Sisonke Msimang's Always Another Country, 2018
Richard Bell's Lessons on Etiquette and Manners, 2017
Reg Mombassa's The Mind and Times of Reg Mombassa, 2017
Charlie Pickering's Impractical Jokes, 2021
David Baddiel's The Death of Eli Gould, 2018
Steve Smith's The Journey, 2018
Nick Riewoldt's The Things That Make Us, 2017
David Sedaris' When You Are Engulfed In Flames, 2018
Stephen Bird, 2018
Ron Tandberg's The Age of Tandberg, 2017
Robert Gott's The Autumn Murders, 2019
Dave Graney's Workshy, 2017
Heather Rose's The Museum of Modern Love, 2017
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, 2017
Lonely Planet Singapore
Clive Murray White's Fragments of a Larger System, 2017
Dame Quentin Bryce's Dear Quentin, 2017
Moya McKenna, Amanda Marburg, James Lynch and Rob McHaffie, 2017
Tony Martin's Lolly Scramble, 2017
Frank Woodley's Gizmet, 2017
Peter Helliar's Frankie Fish, 2017
Peter Singer's Ethics In The Real World, 2017
David Walliams' Mr. Stink. 2017
First Dog On The Moon's A Treasury of Cartoons, 2017
Mirka Mora's Love and Clutter, 2017