Published by Shearsman in the UK. Very excited that the book has been chosen as a National Poetry Day selection 2021, has been reviewed in the Telegraph and now I've heard one of the poems will be included in the Forward Prize Anthology 2022!

See: shearsman-The-Sorry-Tale-of-the-Mignonette

New visual work from the Frans Masereel residency 2020 The Weight of Clouds

The Weight of Clouds_2020_ LasercutWoodblock_42x29.5cm

Highly Commended Milburn National Landscape Art Prize 2021 

         (Australia)

A digital work from the 'weight of clouds' series. One of the discoveries from the residency was that by using digital files to create the lasercut cutting instruction they could then be used to play digitally with transparency, colour and layering. So printing with light before printing on paper. A monotype printed on Awagami silk white paper was collected by Frans Masereel Centrum, other prints in the edition have already gone to private collections in Belgium and U.S.A. Thanks to Arts Queensland and the Sunshine Coast Council for their RADF grant that allowed me to travel.

Some Sketchy Notes on Matter published

You'll find it here!  https://recentworkpress.com/product/some-sketchy-notes-on-matter/

You'll find a link below to a poem from my new book Some Sketchy Notes on Matter below...

		Susan Bianconi 25 April at 00:23
Auguri! Angela and thank you so very much--we're deeply gratified to have "Waiting for the Rain" for The Yale Review. https://yalereview.yale.edu/waiting-rain

Artist Book The Sorry Tale

Continuing my mission to bring poetry to audiences of visual art and Visual Art to readers of poetry

Two prints from the folio The Sorry Tale

The Australia Council funded project The Sorry Tale is taking shape as a script, a verse novel and now I have printed extracts onto sheets that will be part of a folio to be exhibited at the NightLadder Collective exhibition 'In the Works' at the Webb Gallery, QCA Brisbane in July 2019. The images are a combined print/drawing process taken from digitised slides taken by my seaman father in the 1960s and 1970s.

In Fiona Dempster's Letterpress studio printing extracts from The Sorry Tale

the title block for the artist book

Fiona adjusts her press

Proofing extracts from The Sorry Tale prior to adding to the already printed images

Views from the Writing Studio at KSP Writers Centre during a Published Authors Residency

There is a waterbowl for the birds outside Katharine Susannah Pritchard's writing cabin. I have seen 28 parrots, Wattlebirds and a Common Bronzewing Pigeon that have visited the garden during my residency.

The view from the writing desk with Perth on the horizon. It's been a very productive week with work done on my OzCo funded Verse Novel The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette

Moving Words at QAGOMA 14 April 2018 with the wonderful Jarad Bruinstroop, David Stavanger, Zenobia Frost, Theresa Creed, Nathan Shepherdson, Lionel Fogarty and Margie Cronin.  Our poems were signed by Melinda Busch from Deaf Services QLD. Writing and performing WITHOUT TITLE after Untitled Gordon Bennett 1991 has had an profound impact on me and I consider it to be a significant poem in my output. The commission for a longer work enabled me to think deeply about issues arising from colonialism in the painting that still affect Australia today and to engage with a number of senior Indigenous writers. Thanks to Queensland Poetry Festival, QAGOMA and the Commonwealth Games Festival for the commission.

you'll find a link to all the poems here

Notes to Architects

New poem online at Blackbox Manifold 

Australia Council Arts Project Grant awarded 2018 to research and write a Verse Novel

Huge thanks to the Australia Council for awarding me an Arts Project grant. This round saw strong outcomes for female artists, particularly in music, with 56% of grants awarded to women or groups including women. Next grant round for OzCo closes Tuesday 6 February for projects starting after 1 May 2018 so head to their website if you are interested in applying!

I'm off to the UK in September to start the research.

Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2018

Some Sketchy Notes on Matter shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2018

from the Judges comments:
With a hovering intelligence and a laudable lack of ego, the beautifully controlled poems of ‘Some Sketchy Notes on Matter’ investigate the world with an ecstatic’s eye.

perth festival dorothy-hewett award 2018

NightLadder Collective Exhibition Connect-ed at Brisbane Institute of Art Oct 2017

Showing three of my works Thirteen Meditations on the Untranslatable, MAENAD: Manifesto, and Index. 

In all of my works in this exhibition I am interested in text and image and notions of manuscript. Each of the three works offers a different aspect of the relationship. INDEX is an artist Book handwritten in ink on double sided pages, however the form of the book (a concertina bookended by two Witches Stairs) deliberately makes it impossible to read the words. Maenad – MANIFESTO is an altered book, the first in the MAENAD series. It is deconstructed from its original form (Maquarie Dictionary) and repurposed so that the opened pages move from a reading as text (book) to its possibility as image (ink on paper displayed on a gallery wall). My selection of specific words offers a critique of the historical moment in which we are living. In Thirteen Mediations on the Untranslatable seriality offers a method to contemplate the temporal. The unique-state, bleed etchings are contemplative, enigmatic and uncontained, deliberately at a scale to draw the viewer in to personal encounter. The work consists of thirteen etchings and a thirteen stanza poem.

Thirteen Meditations,  published by Axon: Creative Explorations, materiality, creativity and material poetics (2018). https://www.axonjournal.com.au/issues/8-1/thirteen-meditations-untranslatable 

ABBE Artist Book Masterclass with Uta Schneider & Ulrike Stoltz

Participants discuss our work after a wonderful two day Masterclass in the QCA studios

Pleasure/Demolition by Caren Florance

The wonderful poet Owen Bullock singing my poetry in a public performance at East Space Gallery Canberra in March. The artwork is Pleasure/Demolition by Caren Florance using words from my Notes for Architects series. Pleasure Demolition was selected for exhibition in the 2017 Nonesuch Art Of Paper Awards exhibitions in Canada.

Working Papers a collaboration with Caren Florance

This project with artist Caren Florance saw me in her letterpress studio setting the type (stream of consciousness) for what would become the poem 'the future unimagine' published by Cordite. The blocks of typeset text were then worked on by Caren Florance, printed on Japanese paper and sent to me so that I could draw on the pages. This work was mentioned in the news of the print world (selected new editions) section of Art in Print (USA). Caren and I gave a paper on the collaboration "Unfolding to refold: collaborative wordings" at the ABBE conference in Brisbane July 2017. The artwork and the poem is also reproduced as a visual/poetry book published by Recent Works Press. This book and its ephemera has entered the collections of The National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum and The Poetry Library London. 

Definitely creating new audiences for Visual Art through Poetry and for Poetry through Visual Art.

Reading Spaces Exhibition East Space Gallery Canberra

Just back from Canberra where my collaborative poetry/printmaking project with artist Caren Florance Working Papers was being exhibited in the wonderful East Space Gallery. Also on show was her take Pleasure/Demolition on some of my poems from the Notes to Architects series. I got to do two readings while I was down there and attend the University of Canberra's Symposium on Poetry and the Artist Book.

Writer in Residence Canberra September 2019

Just heard that I will be Writer in Residence for the A.C.T. (Australian Capital Territory) in Canberra in September 2019.  

The Told World on display right next to Hardy & David Jones in Waterstones, Greenwich, UK!

Scape

Scape - a visual response to the poetry of Angela Gardner has been showing at the Brisbane Institute of Art. Really enjoy it when poetry enters galleries and visual art responds to poetry. The work shown by The Collective was sensitive, enquiring and thoughtful. It was wonderful to read my poetry to an enthusiastic crowd of gallery goers.