3-ply #20 - FORTHCOMING

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• for collection from book launch, 4 Dec 2024 at Buxton Contemporary in Naarm-Melbourne (5:30 - 7:30 pm); or

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Softcover, 230 × 300 mm, 160pp, digital print
First edition of 300 + 100 artist proofs
Editor and author: Rosemary Forde
Artist and contributing author: DAMP
Assistant editor: Ragnar Thomas
Design by Dominic Forde

Published by 3-ply, 2024
ISBN 978-0-6483942-2-8

3-ply #19. Editors: Mel Deerson and Spiros Pangirakis
Softcover, 210 x 297 mm, 160pp, laser print.

3-ply #18. Softcover, 150 x 214 mm, 52pp + 6 inserts, laser print publication, clip binding.

Softcover, 214 x 285 mm, 224 pp, offset.
Edition of 950
Edited by Angela Brennan
Design by Lucy Russell
Published by 3-ply, 2019
ISBN 978-0-6483942-0-4

Softcover, 192pp, 215 x 285 mm, offset
Edition of 1000
Design by Warren Taylor and Elizabeth Newman
Published by 3-ply, 2013
ISBN 978-0-9873555-1-5
RRP AUD38.00

Since the 1980s, Elizabeth Newman’s practice has addressed questions of representation and subjectivity, offering articulate reflections on philosophical propositions, theory, politics, art, artists, aesthetics and everyday life concerns. This publication, which brings imaginative vision to the notion of monograph-as-art-practice, functions both as an artist book and as a survey of Newman’s paintings, installations, objects, collages, text works and writing over the past three decades. The book documents around 150 works in full colour, and gathers together many of Newman’s own written pieces, along with new commissioned texts from Juan Davila, Damiano Bertoli, Geoff Lowe (with Jacqueline Riva), Kate Briggs, Eve Sullivan and Michael Graf. The monograph has been designed by Newman in collaboration with Warren Taylor.

Nicholas Mangan
Some Kinds of Duration

Softcover, 122 pp + 8 pp booklet, 182 x 257 mm, offset
Edition of 1000
Design by Nicholas Mangan and Warren Taylor
Published by 3-Ply, 2012
ISBN 978-0-9873555-0-8
RRP AUD28.00

Nicholas Mangan’s art practice emanates from an instinctive fascination with creative and cultural enquiry, especially in relation to material transformation. This artist book presents the results of Mangan’s research into the improbable links between: the now-demolished Walter Burley Griffin Pyrmont incinerator in Sydney; pre-Columbian architecture of Meso America, particularly the Mayan Palace of the Governor of Uxmal in the Yucatan, Mexico; George Kubler’s treatise on ‘The Shape of Time’; and the form and function of a Canon NP6030 photocopier.  Mangan’s book demonstrates that a critical artistic practice can provide an eloquent alternative to traditional academic investigation and publication. His book can be read as a visual thesis that proposes new narratives and frameworks for considering innovation, destruction, reproduction and mutation.

This book extends Nicholas Mangan’s Some Kinds of Duration project, which was presented as a solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Photography in 2012, and as part of the group show Talking Pictures at Artspace in 2011.  The book includes: the complete frames of the video work Some Kinds of Duration #1; stills from the video work Some Kinds of Duration #2; installation details; notes on the project written by Nicholas Mangan; and collaged reference material never previously exhibited.