Haunts hantise haunting
Artist
Crawford, Marian
Production date
2021
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Object Detail
Title
Haunts hantise haunting
Production date
2021
Medium
relief prints and letterpress, stable bound
Measurements
open: 27 x 58 x 0.8 cm; closed: 27 x 17 x 0.8 cm
Object type
Edition
5/14
Interpretive text
Marian Crawford is a Victorian-based artist whose work explores relationships between the book, fine art printmaking process and printed images in contemporary culture. She is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at Monash Art, Design & Architecture and has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1996.
'Haunts hantise haunting' presents a compilation of visual pattern and printmaking techniques in staple bound book form. Of the work Crawford writes,
“Drawing on shapes that echo across centuries, including the amphora (or vase) and decorative patterns, this work translates everyday materials to reconfigure the familiar. Its images are studio experiments, relief prints made with found furnishing fabrics. Gluing pieces of fabric to cardboard supports and inking and printing these matrices, transformed mundane curtain materials into abstract patterns, giving them a different life. These patterns repeat across the pages of the book and as it is handled, the pages of the sections can be folded and unfolded along the fore-edge to create different configurations. As the book’s letterpress printed texts comment: ‘What is such an obsession? It is something or someone that … survives everything, … that one cannot forget, and yet is impossible to recognize clearly.’ (Georges Didi-Huberman, The Surviving Image, Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms, Aby Warburg's History of Art. Pennsylvania: The University of Pennsylvania Press 2017, originally published in French in 2002, p 13.)”
Artspace Mackay 2022
'Haunts hantise haunting' presents a compilation of visual pattern and printmaking techniques in staple bound book form. Of the work Crawford writes,
“Drawing on shapes that echo across centuries, including the amphora (or vase) and decorative patterns, this work translates everyday materials to reconfigure the familiar. Its images are studio experiments, relief prints made with found furnishing fabrics. Gluing pieces of fabric to cardboard supports and inking and printing these matrices, transformed mundane curtain materials into abstract patterns, giving them a different life. These patterns repeat across the pages of the book and as it is handled, the pages of the sections can be folded and unfolded along the fore-edge to create different configurations. As the book’s letterpress printed texts comment: ‘What is such an obsession? It is something or someone that … survives everything, … that one cannot forget, and yet is impossible to recognize clearly.’ (Georges Didi-Huberman, The Surviving Image, Phantoms of Time and Time of Phantoms, Aby Warburg's History of Art. Pennsylvania: The University of Pennsylvania Press 2017, originally published in French in 2002, p 13.)”
Artspace Mackay 2022
Credit line
Mackay Regional Council Art Collection, purchased with the Dalyrmple Bay Coal Terminal Artists' Book Fund 2022.
Accession number
2022.11
