Bibliophilia

I was just sorting through some old photos and I found this one which I meant to post at the time of my exhibition, Domestic Pilgrimage, but...

Karori Sanctuary Two and a half years ago Auckland City Libraries purchased three of my editioned artist's books for their Special Coll...

One of my oldest and most precious friends got married on Saturday to a handsome, decent, dear man. Their small, intimate, relaxed wedding w...

Just south in the drought the river is a sluggish trickle. You have sucked the water table to a bitter stain and now your acres grow b...

I took time off work this afternoon to attend the opening of the latest exhibition at the Whangarei Museum in Manau. I was honoured to be s...

I taught my first letterpress class today. Given that a year ago I was a complete novice, stumbling without guidance up a trial and error le...

After four days with total blogger's block I am resorting to my favourite fallback: the old poem. This is actually a newly discovered o...

The two talented women of Pod Post make embroidered merit badges for letterpress and bookbinding. I recently estimated my letterpress ex...

I finished printing the back of the bookmarks today. I had done all the composing last weekend so I just had to fiddle about with make-ready...

I've been printing bookmarks again. These bookmarks are for the Centre for Fine Print (University of West England Bristol)'s Bookma...

I'm pretty sure the first book I ever made as an edition was Dislocation* . It's an accordion fold with simple pop-up panels for th...

Inspired by my pleasurable photographic experiences in the Daintree, I finally, after about a million years of procrastination, bought my ve...

It is cool and rainy and windy here in Whangarei. Back in Northern Queensland it is hot wet monsoon. I left before the Wet Season really sta...

Composing is the term letterpress printers use for selecting and placing the moveable type in order to print some text. I like the way it d...

To celebrate the long awaited return of my travel journal from its extended sojourn at the Grand Chancellor near Auckland Airport, here are ...