Picturing the Island

TY - ADVS

T1 - Picturing the Island

A2 - Crawford, Marian

N1 - Artist book (letterpress, relief and intaglio photopolymer prints on paper). Edition of 8. 'Picturing the Island' researches the Central Pacific island Banaba (part of island nation Kiribati). Many of the images are portraits of people in groups, staring resentfully at the camera. In contrast to these stern stares, the last image of the book pictures my sister and me as children on Banaba. This work notes the gulf between a willingly photographed subject and the subject of ethnographic documentation. Images of the homes of I Kiribati (the Gilbertese people) suggest a notion of home as unstable, and the implication of this instability for an island-nation situated in an endangered ocean. The work was acquired / held in the collections of the British Library, United Kingdom; State Library of Queensland, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Australia; State Library of Victoria, Australia; and Geelong Gallery, Victoria, Australia. Crawford was awarded the 2015/16 Siganto Fellowship at the State Library of Queensland (funded by the Siganto Foundation, the Australian Library of Art at State Library of Queensland and the Queensland Library Foundation). This funding supported research for this work.

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

M3 - Commissioned or Visual Artwork

PB - State Library of Victoria

CY - Melbourne, Vic, Australia

T2 - Self-made: zines and artist books

Y2 - 11 August 2017 through 12 November 2017

ER -