Crescendo25 Book Award Finalists

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ROSLYN KEAN Jukatu- Tiny Houses Japan Vol 3 2025, handprinted woodcuts

Amongst the 61 finalists for the Crescendo25 Artist Book Award were three Sydney Printmakers: Danielle Creenaune, Roz Kean and Ro Murray.

The curatorial team consists of Liz Jeneid, JudyBourke, Lucia Parrella and Kathryn Orton.
Crescendo25 Artist Book Award will be judged by Dianne Fogwell

The Prize will be opened by Akky van Ogtrop

6-8pm Friday 14 November

DANIELLE CREENAUNE In a way I try to live my life by these small words 2024, Lithograph and mokulito print on Zerkall and Gampi paper. Hardcover Japanese stab binding. 24x30cm

https://artsclifton.org/event/crescendo-2025-artist-book-award

The exhibition will be on show at

Clifton School of Arts 15 -30 November 2025

338 Lawrence Hargrave Drive Clifton NSW. Open daily 10am-5pm

RO MURRAY Scroll IX 2024, lino print and ink on piaola roll, 270cm long

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.