Nathalie Gautier-Hartog: Paper Universe at the State Library of NSW

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NATHALIE GAUTIER_HARTOG Looking for Paradise , 2019
Acquire by the State Library NSW 2024

Nathalie Gautier-Hartog, a Sydney Printmakers member, has her work Looking for Paradise on display in the exhibition Paper Universe: the Book as Art, State Library NSW.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 3 May 2026

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/paper-universe-book-art

Artist Statement: The work creates a parallel between Australian government policies and their consequences on refugees’ quest in looking for a better place to live, a search for paradise and their dreams to find a refuge. Central to the theme of the work, I am bringing the stories of these immigrants, relegated to the margin of society, to the centre page. The 12 books look into how past and present policies instigated to help or denied entry to people in need of a “safe heaven”. The books are presented in a barb wire cage alluding to the restrictive movements imposed on refugees.

Call for Entries Crescendo 2025 Artist’s Book Awards

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We’d like to remind you about the upcoming deadline for submitting 1 or 2 books for the Crescendo25 Artist Book Awards, $5,000 for the winning entry and $1,000 for a work made by an artist living in the Illawarra area.

Clifton School of Arts (CSA) presents Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award, the curatorial
initiative of four recognised book artists and CSA members, Liz Jeneid, Judy Bourke,
Kathryn Orton and Lucia Parrella. This new art award will bring together works by leading
and emerging artist book makers from across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will
build on the success of Prelude Artists’ Books Now, an exhibition which showcased 52
unique artists books at Clifton in November 2023. Enthusiastically received by over 370
people, Prelude Artists’ Books Now enjoyed national media coverage, introducing new
audiences to the contemporary art form of artist’s books, and generating interest in a
two-day workshop facilitated by the curators in June 2024. Crescendo 2025 Artist Book
Award is the culmination of a three-year journey, celebrating the limitless possibility of books.

Terms and Conditions

Entry Form

Crescendo 2025 Timeline
April 1 Applications open email entries to crescendobooks2025@gmail.com
August 1 Applications close
August 14 Selected artists notified
October 1 Selected work(s) delivered before this date to: Crescendo 2025,
C/- Judy Bourke, 10 Mount Gilead Road, Thirroul, 2515, NSW, Australia
November 14 Exhibition opens
November 30 Exhibition closes
December 2 Unsold work posted back to artists.

Ro Murray At Articulate And The State Library

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Ro Murray, Conglomerate I,II (detail), lino print on pianola rolls, 2025

LOCUS/LOCI

A place, a locus, as it exists in space, time and experience

GROUP SHOW
Mandy Burgess Sarah Fitzgerald Jan Handel Ro Murray Lisa Woolfe

7 – 29 June 2025

Articulate Project Space

Opening hours 11am – 5pm Fri – Sun, 497 Parramatta Road Leichhardt

Opening drinks 3 – 5pm Saturday June 7

Artist Talks 2pm June 22

Closing drinks 3 – 5pm Sunday 29

The State Library of NSW

Ro Murray, SCROLL VI lino print on pianola roll, 2024

SCROLL VI was selected for the Artists Book Awards Manly Library 2025, and has been acquired by the State Library of NSW. The work included excerpts from William Hovell’s journal on the overland journey from Lake George to Port Phillip in 1824, with Hamilton Hume and six convicts.

Call for Entries Crescendo 2025 Artist’s Book Awards

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We’d like to remind you about the upcoming deadline for submitting 1 or 2 books for the Crescendo25 Artist Book Awards, $5,000 for the winning entry and $1,000 for a work made by an artist living in the Illawarra area.

Clifton School of Arts (CSA) presents Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award, the curatorial
initiative of four recognised book artists and CSA members, Liz Jeneid, Judy Bourke,
Kathryn Orton and Lucia Parrella. This new art award will bring together works by leading
and emerging artist book makers from across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. It will
build on the success of Prelude Artists’ Books Now, an exhibition which showcased 52
unique artists books at Clifton in November 2023. Enthusiastically received by over 370
people, Prelude Artists’ Books Now enjoyed national media coverage, introducing new
audiences to the contemporary art form of artist’s books, and generating interest in a
two-day workshop facilitated by the curators in June 2024. Crescendo 2025 Artist Book
Award is the culmination of a three-year journey, celebrating the limitless possibility of books.

Terms and Conditions

Entry Form

Crescendo 2025 Timeline
April 1 Applications open email entries to crescendobooks2025@gmail.com
August 1 Applications close
August 14 Selected artists notified
October 1 Selected work(s) delivered before this date to: Crescendo 2025,
C/- Judy Bourke, 10 Mount Gilead Road, Thirroul, 2515, NSW, Australia
November 14 Exhibition opens
November 30 Exhibition closes
December 2 Unsold work posted back to artists.

Crescendo Artists Book Award

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You have plenty of time to prepare work for this exciting new book award.

Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award will be open to artists living in Australia and the Asia Pacific. Each artist may submit up to two artist books for consideration. Each entry must be an original work of the artist(s) made after 1 November 2023. Please note that due to space constraints, large scale installation works will not be considered.

Submissions of new work will be accepted from 1 April to 1 August 2025. Selected work will be exhibited at Clifton School of Arts on the northern Illawarra Coast of NSW, Australia in November 2025.

Crescendo 2025 Artist Book Award is non-acquisitive. $5,000 will be awarded to the winning entry and $1,000 to the best entry by a local artist from the Wollongong LGA.

More HERE

Library Artists Book Awards

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2025 Artists’ Book Award

The 2025 Artists’ Book Award will open for submissions in September 2024.

More details will be noted here as we approach September.

Join the email list, send a message to ArtistBookAward@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au 

About the award

An artist’s book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the form or function of a ‘book’ as inspiration.

Every two years the Northern Beaches Library Service holds an Artists’ Book Award attracting entries from around the world. Books are selected from the entries to form an exhibition. From the exhibited books, judges then select books to be acquired and added to the 100 plus artist books the Northern Beaches Library Service holds in their collection. This collection is unique to our community and public library service.

Acquired Artists’ Books on display

A rotated selection of our artists’ book collection is on display at Manly Library. Click here for more info.

More information

For further information contact: ArtistBookAward@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au

Firestation Print Studio Artist Book Prize Call for Entries

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CALL FOR ENTRIES
FPS Members 2024 Artists Book Prize 
Prizes Categories
1. Craftsmanship
2. Experimentation with form
3. Incorporation of text
Selected winning artists win the opportunity to exhibit together with FPS in 2025.
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Artist Book Exhibition
22nd May – 15th June.

Coinciding with the Art Book Fair Held at the NGV each year our Biennial Artist Book Prize Show is back again.