ANDREW NORRIS - ARTIST'S BOOKS

nedjelja, 21.12.2008.

A walk to Okić



Film of a walk to one of the most beautiful places in Croatia.
November 2008


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petak, 05.12.2008.

Land Art - Ash Mizmaze - e ART h works LIX

A land art piece created over two days in August 2008 in Zvecaj.
This work, which is part of the 'e ART h works' series, uses natural
materials found in the location. This is a longer and better quality
version of a previous posting.






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srijeda, 10.09.2008.

Cover me in Cowhide

Cover me in Cowhide

Exhibition poster

Exhibition continues in Gradska knjižnica until
8th October 2008

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Link to University of West of England, Bristol
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/anorris08.htm

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Film show exhibition installations in Croatia and England

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utorak, 26.08.2008.

e ART h works LIX - Ash Mizmaze, 2008

ASH MIZMAZE



Film presentation of an installation, Zvečaj
18 - 20 August 2008



e ART h  works LIX - Ash Mizmaze

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srijeda, 30.07.2008.

Last Leaf Leaves Last, 2002/2007

Last Leaf Leaves Last

Text printed on plane tree leaves

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utorak, 03.06.2008.

earth then earthen, 2005 - 2008

earth then earthen

earth then earthen
i The Poem Tree, 2005
ii An Ear to the Earth, 2006
iii 1000 Years, 2006
iv Field Songs, 2008

The Poem Tree.
In 1844 Joseph Tubbs climbed to the top of
Wittenham Clumps in Berkshire, England,
to carve a poem on a beech tree, this is his story
which continues to resonate up to the present.
Full text appears on http://thepoemtree.blog.hr

An Ear to the Earth
is a sequence of 14 poems
written from the point of view of fields, soil, seeds,
animals, plants and trees.

1000 Years
A group of oak trees give an account
of their lives over a millennium.

Field Songs
Takes the form of a series of parallel
monologues between the present and former
owner of a house and piece of land in Croatia.
These monologues occupy similar ‘spiritual’
space if not temporal.

Collectively, these four works entitled, earth then earthen,
explore identity and the nature of one’s
relationships to and presence in the natural
environment.

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Film of the Poem Tree taken on 8mm and video
between 1991 and 1995.

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četvrtak, 29.05.2008.

RIVER, ROCKS AND FOLIAGE, 1991

River Rocks and Foliage

RIVER  ROCKS AND  FOLIAGE

Edition of 20 copies
Hand-painted folder with instructions

An artists' book in the form of a mathematical construction,
a so-called 'flexi-hexigram'. An endless book that requires
9 'twists' to return to the point started. Each twist reveals
a different combination of the available triangular panels
meeting words with different combinations of images to form
a narrative that the reader creates for themselves.

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utorak, 22.04.2008.

RISE UP STICKS - STAND STILL STONES, 2004

RISE UP STICKS - STAND STILL STONES.

Illustrated page 9, 25 stone spiral, hand-painted stenciled print
Book published in an edition of 2 copies.

RISE UP STICKS - STAND STILL STONES

Video presentation of each painted print
along with the sculptural piece from which
they derive.



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srijeda, 16.04.2008.

e ART h works, poems-in-the-round, 2002 / 2008

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e ART h works III - ONE ST ONE ST ONE ST

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e ART h works XXV - ASHES ASHES ASHES

e ART h  works, poems-in-the-round

e ART h works XXXV - STAND STILL STONES
e ART h works LVII - FOREST - FIRE - WOOD - ASH
e ART h works LVIII - SICKLE MOON

Video presentation 2008



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srijeda, 09.04.2008.

HARVESTER CORN STOOKS COW PASTURE, 1995

These five small books produced in 1995 examine the way that
romantic rural imagery has been exploited in the advertising
of dairy and wheat based products. Images of a landscape
of gently rolling hills, sunsets, hedged fields and
peopled with muscular men and radiant women working the
land with their hands tap into a latent desire held by many
to 'get back to nature'.

HARVESTER  CORN STOOKS  WHEATSHEAF  FARMYARD  COW PASTURE

Video presentation of a selection
of pages compiled in 2008



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Books to go on exhibition in the Gradska Knjižnica,
Zagreb City Library, on the 8th September 2008,
and simultaneously in Bristol, England, to celebrate
International Literacy Day.


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četvrtak, 03.04.2008.

FOUR ANGLO-SAXON POEMS, 2002/2008

Unique work, acrylic text on 3 oak panels
40 x 32 cms

Through Anglo-Saxon verse we ascend to the source of the English language
where words are rooted in things and full of meaning - perhaps more fully meant.

FOUR ANGLO-SAXON POEMS




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poem I


A wood some trees
As well as these

A well a wood
As well they would

The wood as well
As the trees


poem II


On the brow of a clough
Sits a chough on a bough

Three brothers in the rough
Take turns at the plough

A boat on the lough
Is lost in a trough

And the sough of the wind
Is more than, more than enough


poem III


The wild wind wanders
Round the cold wintry wood

Wondering whether
It would waken the weather

Winding its windy fingers
Round an old wold world


poem IV

The field leaves its yield
To the breeze in the trees

And the hedge at the edge
Yields to the leaves

In the heart of that hedge
By the edge of the wood

A fledgling sings, concealed
As a herd in the field

Lifts its head
To a bird on the wing

That heard nothing
But could see everything


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srijeda, 02.04.2008.

e ART h works XXIII - S.T.O.N.E. Sonnets #1 #2, 2002

Unique work, each 10 x 5cms, acrylic on stones

These 2 works seem to undermine the portability of this much
anthologized poetic form. Each sonnet is composed from words
compiled from the letters, S.T.O.N.E.

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četvrtak, 27.03.2008.

Searching for the Uffington White Horse - 2006

A Panoranimation
An 18 meter drawing passes behind a small window taking the
viewer on a journey through space, around the world, through the
oceans to swim with the dolphins only to emerge along the
southern coast of England and over the hills of Sussex and
Berkshire until the White Horse is found.

Coloured pencil on black paper. Box of cardboard and wood

Searching for the Uffington White Horse

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nedjelja, 23.03.2008.

DAD'S BOOKS - 2007

A biography of my father according to the books on his bookshelf.
A video presentation of an artists' book



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četvrtak, 20.03.2008.

WALKING SONG - 2006

7 walks 7 views
Pictures with overlaid text record observations
made on walks over the course of a year in the
e ART h garden, Zvečaj

Published 2006



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Exhibitions:
CFPR Exhibitions 'Arcadia id est'

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ponedjeljak, 17.03.2008.

from FIELD SONGS - artist's book and video presentation, 2006

Unique book, oil, earth and varnish on paper. Text taken from FIELD SONGS,
Video presentation, Zvecaj, Croatia

from FIELD SONGS, 2007

FIELD SONGS



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Book to be exhibited in Zagreb, September 2008

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srijeda, 12.03.2008.

Lijepa naša domovina, 1992

Unique work, 6 double pages
Gold chain, bread, barbed wire, charred wood,
glass, painted photos, cloth, bird's wing, carnation
envelope fixed to grass covered pages.

Photobucket

Video presentation compiled 2008




Collection: National Art Library, V&A Museum, London

additional views of this book work can be found elsewhere at this site
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/book_art/index.html


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utorak, 11.03.2008.

POETree - 2005, selected pages

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srijeda, 05.03.2008.

POETree - 2005

A collection of nature poems from a few carefully
chosen words or a single 'altered' word.

Each poem hand printed with rubber stamp type
on birch leaves

POETree

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subota, 23.02.2008.

POETree - A WOOD SOME TREES, e ART h works LVI - 2002/2008

Art-book-work, text painted on stick
Unique art work

Poem is the first in the collection
FOUR ANGLO-SAXON POEMS




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One of a series of art-book-works to be exhibited
in Zagreb in September 2008

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srijeda, 20.02.2008.

A walk between two high points, 1995

Stills from an 8mm film recording a walk in the hills of
Hampshire, England. Film accompanied by a narrative
text

Book published in an edition of 60 copies
1995
Video presentation of artists' book, 2008

A walk between two high points, 1995



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One of a series of art-book-works to be exhibited
simultaneously in Zagreb and Bristol, England
to mark International Literacy Day, 8th September 2008.

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utorak, 19.02.2008.

CALM SPLASH RIPPLE RIPPLE CALM - 1993

An 'endless' bookwork. Each open page shows 4 panels.
By a system of opening, closing and rotating all 16 panels
are revealed until the reader returns to the point where
they started. Pictures illustrate a stone being cast into
a pond, dissipating ripples and the reflection of a passing
cloud until the water is calm again.

CALM SPLASH RIPPLE RIPPLE CALM  -  1993




Edition of 20 copies
18 x 9 cms (closed)
1993

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One of a series of works to be exhibited in Croatia and
England in September 2008 to mark International Literacy Day

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ponedjeljak, 18.02.2008.

Endless sentence on the word 'EARTH' #1 - Art-book-work, 2002

Art work in which the word EARTH is written repeatedly.
As the reader rotates the work 'new' words, suggested
by the irregular spacing between letters, are revealed
with which the reader is able to construct their own text
and meaning.

Acrylic on beech wood
2002

Endless sentence on the word 'EARTH' #1

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One of a series of artist's books to be exhibited in September 2008
to coincide with International Literacy Day

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četvrtak, 14.02.2008.

SUNČANA POLJA (Simfonijska pjesma) : Artist's book, 2007

SUNANA POLJA - SIMFONIJSKA PJESMA

Natural materials on manuscript paper
8 pages, Unique work
2008

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One of a series of artist's books to be exhibited in September
to mark International Literacy Day

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HERD : Art-book-work, 1993

HERD

Herd of cows, ink on paper, bound in simulated cow hide
boxed in same.
Image inspired from food packaging
Edition of 20 copies
1993

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One of a series of artist's book to be exhibited in September
to mark International Literacy Day

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