Derham Groves

Written, printed letterpress, and hand bound by Derham (the Black Jack Press) with handwritten paper strips by Jan (a former amateur printer—one of best!). The paper strips are concertina-folded, glued inside letterpress printed folded covers made from paint swatches from Bunnings, and placed in painted recycled cardboard “pigeon holes” inside the book. The A3 broadside is folded and slid inside a letterpress printed pocket attached to the inside front cover. Edition of 20 copies only.

Written, printed letterpress, and hand bound by Derham (the Black Jack Press). The A3 sheet of paper is folded and partially slit—a format sometimes called a “hamburger fold”—then saddle stitched to the spine. On one side of the folded sheet is the title page and the seven linocuts on cloth (made when I was an artist-in-residence at Bundanon), and tipped in later, with hand stamped titles. On the flip-side of the open sheet is a photocopied letter from Mudrooroo and information about the five Jackamara stories, all “hidden” when the paper is folded. Edition of 21 copies only.

In nineteen eighty-six,

Our haughty ex-

Prime Minister,

Malcolm Fraser,

Lost his pants

In a trance

After sharing a red, 

Quite innocently, he said,

In Memphis, Tennessee,

With a busty young floozy.

(My plan is to turn this into another little artist’s book…stay tuned!)

Written, printed letterpress, and hand bound by Derham (the Black Jack Press). The severed ear was purchased at a $2 shop and attached to the front cover, made of recycled cardboard and painted by means of a gel press. The broadside is folded and slid inside a flap made by folding up the back cover, held in place with a letterpress printed band of tracing paper, and then placed inside a letterpress printed Manila envelope addressed to the “wrong” Miss Cushing. Edition of 16 copies only.