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November 13, 2018 - Wisdoms of Rose Pocket Book

 

Wisdoms of Rose Book Browne Ink Studio 1

 

Wisdoms of Rose pocket book is now available on-line from Browne Ink Studio and in bookstores listed below.  Her stories you’ll find in the blog here.

. New Edition Bookshop, Fremantle. Fremantle Art Centre Found Giftshop.   Crow Bookshop, Victoria Park.  Planet Bookshop, Northbridge and Mount Lawley.  Subiaco Bookshop, Rokeby Road, Subiaco. Beaufort Street Books, Mount Lawley.  The Well Bookshop, Applecross.  Collins Booksellers, Cottesloe. Diabolik Books & Records, Mt Hawthorn and   Paper Bird Books, Fremantle.

October 25, 2018 - Introducing Robin Small

 

 

Introducing Robin Small 

His future lay unbound….Although inspired by the Super Hero of ancient times, Robin Hood, Robin Small is not the crusading sort, he’s more of an outsider who is simply heroic in his own time. He is apprehensive within the modern world, yet stands firmly in his vulnerability. He is wise and brave in his own life and journey – and the steps he takes towards a future of his own making.

Find Robin Small in Clunk & Jam book 2019.

 

(Reposted from 2014)

October 12, 2018 - Sad Book

sad book

This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I’m happy in this picture.
Really I’m sad but pretending I’m happy.
I’m doing this because I think people won’t like me if I look sad.

 

sad book 2

Sometimes I want to talk about all this to someone.
Like my mum. But she’s not here anymore, either. So I can’t.
I find someone else. And I tell them all about it.

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September 8, 2018 - Underground Publishing

 

 

To coincide with the opening of the Fremantle Art Centre Print Award, Thursday 13th September at 6.30pm, I’ll be doing an installation in the glass cabinet outside FOUND gift store at FAC.   Books and dry-point prints will be available in FOUND and the new book, ‘Wisdoms of Rose’.  Pop down on Saturday afternoon the 15th at 1pm and join me for a relaxed Artist Talk about how the collection evolved through underground publishing ethos of The Black Dog Project and the creative process of making both the handmade and published books.

 

 

 

 

The typewriter Clunk & Jam book was typed on.  Also pictured, dry point prints printed on the  Fremantle Art Centre old printing press.  Handmade and published books.

 

Handmade books.

August 9, 2018 - Kindness

 

BLOG kindness

 

Kindness Matters .

“Life is mostly froth and bubble.  Two things stand like stone.   Kindness in another’s trouble – courage in your own.”  Barbara Dinham’s Father.   She writes …  “The mature conscience of the postwar generation globally dropped do-gooding in favour of analysis and insight into social and political structures that maintain inequality and general injustice.  Kindness did not fit into analysis.  Being kind was for animals, children, the elderly, yourself even, and maybe the environment.  Kindness was too banal for the big social issues.  Kindness was for private, personal actions.  Yet one of the major social movements of the second half of the 20th century fought fiercely for recognition that the personal is political.  So is it time for a new kind of kindness?”

(Barbara Dinham, Director, Pesticide Action Network, UK.  Pic and story from book ‘A Revolution In Kindness’ edited by the late Anita Roddick (Body Shop.  Reposted from 2010).

May 13, 2018 - Clunk & Jam in Bookshops

 

clunk and jam bookshops

(All content in Clunk & Jam is freely available in the Black Dog blog here.)

Clunk and Jam is now available in Perth, Western Australia at …Fremantle Art CentreFOUND Giftshop.  .  New Edition Bookshop, Fremantle. Lane Bookshop, Claremont.  Crow Bookshop, Victoria Park.  Planet Bookshop, Northbridge and Mount Lawley.  Beaufort Street Books, Mount Lawley.   Subiaco Bookshop, Rokeby Road, Subiaco.  Collins Booksellers, Cottesloe.  The Well Bookshop, Applecross. Diabolik, Mt Hawthorn.  Paper Bird Books, Fremantle.  Available on-line from Browne Ink Studio.

Thank you kindly to these independent booksellers for their support.