Congratulations to Martin King, imagine a bough produced in conjunction with artist and poet Peter Lyssiotis been selected for the
2025 LIBRIS AWARDS: THE AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS BOOK PRIZE
Saturday 5 July – Sunday 14 September – exhibition dates at Artspace Mackay.
A bird without a bough, a word without a page…. imagine; a life without birdsong to affirm the world and our humble place in it.
This book is an echo of what we do as artists, a call and a response. This collaboration has brought with it both confirmation and clarification…& in the end, this book.
All things, including the boughs of the trees in your neighbourhood have stories about the birds in our lives – these are our. We have not heard everything but we’re getting better at listening.
imagine a bough is dedicated to Edward Lear because birds, apart from being birds, like any good friend can also be quirky and funny and intelligent.
As birds take to flight, they ground us! They fly to survive, we imagine to survive….in these pages are some of our imaginings.
imagine a bough – an edition of 10 + three proofs
56 pages each hand printed and with hand-written text
39cm x 34.5 cm (front cover size)
Hard cover hand bound by George Matoulas
Quarter bound in Grey Linen
Images and printing by Martin King
Text by Peter Lyssiotis
Handwritten by Peter Lyssiotis
Martin King & Peter Lyssiotis
