Dianne Fogwell

Dianne Fogwell’s practice is centred on printmaking, painting and artist’s books. Dianne has been an exhibiting artist since 1979 and is one of the most respected printmakers and artists book practitioners in Australia. Dianne has been an invited artist to international biennials for print and the artist book in Poland, Belgium, Belgrade, France, London and most recently Korea and her work is represented in national and international collections. Dianne has made a major contribution to the arts community in Canberra through her art practice, teaching, curating and establishing press and print studios her involvement in print collaboration with visual artists, musicians and writers spans three decades.

‘In my work I like to illuminate parts of the landscape that usually go unnoticed in our daily lives. My work often appears as imaginary, almost hallucinatory, maybe a dreamscape that creates a story that flows from work to work like pages of text or music. I’ve approached this book with these thoughts in mind with respect to the concertina book format and what it can offer as a carrier of these ideas. I have titled the work ‘Wordless – Soundless’ as it is a silent work, the perforations allowing light to illuminate details at the turning or unfolding of the pages. The book can be read left to right as a text and when it is unfolded it reads as piano roll implying music that could be heard if desired. In this case I chose to perforate the pages with observed, scientific and imaginary aspects of pollen. The ‘words’ are a perforated text from a scientific journal on pollinisers and the piano roll ‘music’ is imaginary – hopefully, if played, it would sound like pollen in the wind. I wanted the piece to be silent in reverence to the book itself.

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Artist’s Book: ‘Wordless – Soundless’ - H)25 x W) 17 x D) 3.2cms – perforations - completed February 2014