Assemblage Art

Edition limited to 100.
(Yeah, well. Don't trust a mathematician to keep count. It got to 103)
They've now all gone.
I kept a record in a big book I've made of the Provenance of these books ...
who owns each one, where in the world they've found home.
It's become quite a treasure.

No. 90	No. 93	No. 101
ivory piano key & map of Africa on black leather	ebony and stone mosaic on blue leather	enamel dolphin & plastic & pearl ball on yellow suede
These were the last to go - they're now all in USA.

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Art and Gender An art gallery patron, when he finally met me, said he had spent hours looking at my artwork and trying to guess my gender. My name, of course, gave him no help. Another one loudly gave the opinion that the assemblage medium suits women - home decorating and nest-making were the terms, I think. These comments made me wonder about the relationship between art and gender, the object and the sex of its maker. I am pleased to be a woman, and pleased to be an artist, but a woman artist? I don't define myself thus, any more than as a short artist or an aging artist, though these are as valid. I'm sure that my experiences as a woman significantly colour my art, just as my age must influence my thoughts and so my work. It's not that I deny any of the categories which describe me, or seek to belittle their influences on my life and my work, it's that I question the centrality of the definition. The categories are relevant, but not dominant. I have been reluctant to be part of women-only exhibitions, hoping that my art can stand alone, without needing protection because of my gender. These politically correct and careful times have been kind (to all but white males), but the art is the thing. Like an author who won Lotto - enjoying the proceeds, but still wanting, and trying, to succeed in the chosen field. Protected status can be felt as an insult when it's not sought.

- - 80 pages, 36 b/w photos of assemblages, hard cover of leather inset with objects (all different).
This is the way to keep it feeling like fun, instead of a production line.
Flyleaves are handmade harakeke (NZ flax) paper when I can get it,
otherwise other handmade paper.ISBN 0-9583372-2-5

All sold now. I'm working on the next one.

email Dale
or phone 64 6 752 8126 for any queries

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