Beth Evans
Tannery Press
Australia
1 Fifth Street Brompton, SA 5007
email: bethevans@picknowl.com.au
website: www.bethevans.com.au
Curriculum Vitae:
2006 Bachelor of Visual Arts and Applied Design Adelaide Centre for the Arts
2003 Bookbinding and Repair, Croydon TAFE
Recent Exhibitions:
2008 Nevermore Artist Books and Multiples, Barr Smith Library, Adelaide University, SA Libris Awards, The Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland
2007 The Search for the Impossible. Books.07 works of imagination, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
2006 Fourth International Artist’s Book Exhibition, Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Artist Statement:
I created my first limited edition book as a student in 2004. Since then I have continued to make a variety of artist’s books, some as discrete works and others that intersect thematically with my print and small bronze works. My work is primarily about the human body. I question both historical and contemporary representations that bind us to negative roles and values. By individualizing the anatomy of the human body and by demystifying its functions, I hope to reconnect the viewer with their own physical and biological reality.
Winter Garden, 2004, hand bound book with soft covers; intaglio images, chine collé and hand colouring, Indian and Western papers; signed limited edition of 4; 16 x 22 cm; £80; CATEGORY; limited edition, £50- £150
Winter Shore, 2004, hand bound hard covered book; archival inkjet prints; signed limited edition of 2; 14 x 17 cm; £80; CATEGORY: limited edition, £50- £150
Book of my Grandsons’ Digestion, 2006, concertina book with hard covers and slip case; intaglio, digital chine collé, hand stitching; signed limited edition of 4; book folded 14 x 17cm, book open 14 x 101 cm; £150.00; CATEGORY: limited edition, £50-£150
Book of Ex Votos, 2006, concertina book; etching, aquatint, gold leaf; signed limited edition of 2; book folded 18 x 16 cm, book open 18 x 92 cm; £100.00; CATEGORY: limited edition, £50 - £150
The Face, The Waist, The Foot and The Bottom, 2008, a boxed set of playing cards; relief photopolymer plate printed on a letterpress, hand colouring, silver leaf. The concertina book was printed on an inkjet printer; signed limited edition of 10; Box 13 x 32 cm, individual cards 11 x 7 cm, concertina book folded 20 x 9 cm, book open 20 x 118 cm; £450.00; CATEGORY: limited edition, £150-
NeverMore, 2008, boxed concertina book with hard covers; pen and ink, watercolour, archival ink jet prints; signed limited edition of 4; book folded 19 x 14 cm, book open 19 x 167 cm; £200.00; CATEGORY: limited edition, £150-
