Jan Davis and Jan Palethorpe
Jan Davis and Jan Palethorpe
GOLD 2021
relief print, stencil, stamping, collage, letterpress;
artist book; unique print
Courtesy of the artists
Artist statement:
GOLD is a lament which pairs Palethorpe’s poetry with Davis’ sensitivity to words as images, and functions as a landscape of memories: of travel, of long rural lives, of studios shared and separate, of friendship.
We’ve long been sending sheets, image upon image, back and forth between Tullera, NSW, and Chewton, Victoria, between Widjabul Wia-bal and Dja Dja Wurrung country. In 2021 we threaded some sheets together with fragments of Palethorpe’s poetry to make GOLD. Davis chose passages from four poems, and in an act of drawing with typewriter and stamps, wove the fragments into the already-layered pages as whispers and echoes of the original poems (which can be found at the end of the book) ...
GOLD is a unique-state book bound by George Matoulas. It utilises the archaic technologies of letterpress and typewriter, and is for simultaneously reading and looking at.