That’s a wrap on Clunes Booktown Festival 2023

What a pleasure it was to participate in yesterday afternoon’s panel discussion Not Just a Pretty Picture on the final day of Clunes Booktown Festival 2023.

Huge thanks to everyone who made it so: inestimable Festival organisers Jon Hawkes and Sue Beal, fellow panelists Simon Perry and Philip Faulks, our superb Chair, Michele Ely, Shelley Hinton, who curated the pop-up exhibition, A picture’s worth a thousand words and last, but by no means least, our attentive, encouraging and enthusiastic audience. It did our hearts good to see so many of you there.

Pictured second from top, L-R: Chair Michele Ely, panelists Simon Perry, myself and Philip Faulks. Photo credit: Shane Jones.

Pictured above: Shane Jones in the Esmond Gallery, Clunes, with my linocuts The Heavens Declare 1 & 2, 2022 and Pirate Jenny and Mack the Knife and Pirate Jenny in a Kimono, both 1987, part of the exhibition A picture’s worth a thousand words. 

Clunes Booktown Festival 2023

On Sunday 26 March I’ll be joining fellow visual artists Simon Perry, Philip Faulks & Darcy McConnell (ENOKi) at Clunes Booktown 2023 for Not just a pretty picture, an informal panel discussion chaired by Michelle Ely. We look forward to seeing you there. 

Pictured top: Double page view from There was once… The collected fairy tales published by Deborah Klein, Moth Woman Press, 2009. 

For further information, scroll down to Blog Post Wednesday, February 22.

📖Not just a pretty picture
🗓Sunday 26 March, 1.00pm
📍Esmond Gallery, Clunes 
🎫For tickets, go HERE.

Moth Woman Press at Clunes Booktown 2023

Moth Woman Press is eagerly anticipating taking part in the renowned Clunes Booktown Festival on Sunday 26 March. For full details, including where to find us, read on…

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Not just a pretty picture...*

Four internationally recognised artists - Simon Perry, Philip Faulks, Deborah Klein & Darcy McConnell (ENOKi) - talk about how their concerns infiltrate their works, be they sculpture, paintings, woodcut prints, or designing an art tram. Aesthetics aside, there's purpose and deep deliberation in these works. Chaired by Michelle Ely. 

Simon Perry is a Scottish sculptor and academic, based in Melbourne. Best known for his large-scale public art works for urban spaces in Australia and overseas, including Melbourne's Public Purse and Public Address sculptures. His practice incorporates numerous sculptural techniques including casting, carving and fabrication. 

Philip Faulks has been an exhibiting painter, drawer and sculptor since 1981. He has mounted 15 solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and China and been included in more than 75 group exhibitions in Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and Italy. He has taught visual art within at tertiary level since 1991. 

Deborah Klein has held regular solo exhibitions since 1987 and participated in group exhibitions in Australia and internationally. In 2009 she founded Moth Woman Press, through which she publishes her artist books and zines. Her work has received numerous awards and is represented in public and university collections throughout Australia. 

Darcy McConnell (ENOKi) is a Yorta Yorta/Dja Dja Wurrung man who created one of the 2022 RISING First Peoples Melbourne Art Trams, My Aunty Once Told Me, running on Routes 58 & 59. He contributed to Solid Lines (2022), an RMIT sponsored report on fostering First Nations involvement in the design and commercial art industries.

📖Not just a pretty picture
🗓Sunday 26 March, 1.00pm
📍Esmond Gallery, Clunes 
🎫https://tickets.clunesbooktown.com.au/Events/Not-just-a-pretty-picture or go HERE.

Full details of Clunes Booktown 2023 events are HERE.

📷 Chelepteryx collesi Moth Mask, 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 20 cm by Deborah Klein 

*Information courtesy Clunes Booktown 2023