Angela Gardner light-trap press

PO Box 6418, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia

angelagardner@light-trap.net

www.light-trap.net

Education:
Master of Art in Visual Art, Queensland College of Art, Australia (Griffith Uni) 2001-2002
Foundation & Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art UK (now UWIC) 1975-1978

Statement: Angela Gardner’s dual practice as both a printmaker and poet inform her exploration of the sensory and graphic elements of the written as visual language. She trained in letterpress at San Francisco Center for the Book during a Churchill Fellowship. Currently she is testing the boundaries of writing and drawing using Julia Kristeva’s argument for the materiality of language and Derrida’s absent/presence narrative and the silence of spaces interpreted as the artworld’s ‘negative space’. As a poet she is the author of Views of the Hudson, Shearsman Press 2009 and Parts of Speech (selected poetry) University of Queensland Press.

 

1 twelve labours, June 2009, Deluxe Book(Book), 56pp, bound, hard cover embossed copper shim inset into black leather and red fabric with title in black stamped lettering; Images etching, aquatint, digital print (Gwenn Tasker), Text poems letterpress (Angela Gardner), on paper BFK Rives white 270gsm; archival quality, limited edition of 10 (plus 15 loose leaf books), signed by both artist and author ISBN: 978-0-9804863-1-5, assisted by Visual Arts & Crafts grant from Arts Queensland; Closed head to tail 500mm, spine to foredge 350mm, Deluxe Books open 500mm x 700mm; Sale price Deluxe Book AUD 2000/GBP 975, Book AUD 1500/GBP 725 includes overseas p&p by special delivery.

CATEGORY: limited edition, GBP150-

2 The Night Ladder, 2009, Deluxe Book/Book, 32pp + double-page foldout, bound, hard cover linoprint inset into black leather with title in red stamped lettering; images (Lisa Pullen) two colour linoprint , text letterpress (Angela Gardner) Times and Albertus, on paper Magnani Velata Avorio 140gsm (200gsm 15 x single sheets in books); archival quality, limited edition of 10 (plus 15 loose leaf linen cover), signed by both artist and author ISBN: 978-0-9804863-2-2 assisted by Visual Arts & Crafts grant from Arts Queensland;  Closed head to tail 420mm, spine to foredge 300mm, Deluxe Books open 420mm x 600mm; Sale price Deluxe Book AUD2000/GBP 975, Linen covered Book AUD1500/GBP 725 includes overseas p&p by special delivery.

CATEGORY: limited edition, GBP150-

3 Pools of Light, 2008, edition of 2, stapled; photocopy from monoprints, on heavy gloss paper; not archival; signed limited edition 2 copies only; 110mm wide x 50mm high closed 220mm x 50mm open; NFS ½ Collection of Centre  for Fine Print Research UWE, 2/2 Collection of Artist

CATEGORY: limited edition, £2.50-£50 (NFS)

4 charged worlds, 2009, one-off, concertina fold unbound, soft covers; drawing and painting ink and acrylic on elephant dung paper; archival quality unknown, signed only one copy; 85mm high x 50mm wide closed, 85mm high x 100mm wide open; NFS Collection of Artist

CATEGORY: limited edition, £2.50-£50 (NFS)

5 Dear Nellie, 2007, one-off, concertina fold stapled, card (altered postcard) covers; digital print on photocopy paper; not archival quality, unsigned only one copy; 50mm high x 40mm wide closed, 50mm high x 80mm wide open; NFS Collection of Artist

CATEGORY: limited edition, £2.50-£50 (NFS)

6 spark, 2009, one-off, concertina fold sewn binding, soft covers; drawing ink on elephant dung paper; archival quality unknown, signed only one copy; 210mm high x 120 mm wide closed, 210mm high x 240 mm wide open; NFS Collection of Artist

CATEGORY: limited edition, £2.50-£50 (NFS)