The visionary world of Nicholas Beckett
….on the Island where we belong.
So, in just over a month I will be having a picture party of what I’ve been up to since 2017. I can’t guarantee anything. It could be my last show. Depends on if anyone pisses me off or not.
It’s quite likely though.
…..yumminess.
Page from a book I’ve made of an old exhibition. I will have this and more on show in April at The Watch House, Balmain. April 4-6.
….using old stories.
My intention is to make little illustrated classic books. But that’s just an idea.
…..is going to be wheeled out again.
Fancy artist edition coming soon.
…I finished my books for the Easter show.
Top. The War of the Worlds, a newly case bound multi section book, with the textbook from Binders Edition. I painted new endpapers and cover illustrations, and free hand tooled the cover design. And hand sewn end bands.
Middle. A repair and rebind of Mrs. Beeton’s Shilling Cookbook. It was missing the covers and first few pages, so I made and designed new covers and endpapers by hand colouring prints of some of the plates inside the book. The book is sewn on cords and laced into the cover boards, 1/4 Leather bound, with my dodgy hand drawn blocking.
Bottom. Pictures of Sound, which is a booklet and CD from Dust To Digital. They have a digital download. Being in Australia it’s really expensive to get their things here, so I figured I would print my own booklets and make my own special editions. This is a stab sewn textbook with simple printed paper covered board for the covers, with inlaid prints of the CD cover from and back. Endpapers are made from images from the booklet.
I bought text block sheets of the “Bookbinder of Jericho.” The paper wasn’t the best, so I just did a basic case bound. But I made my own cover and endpapers.
I suppose I should read it now.
…..as I agreed to enter a book binding thing of binding a text block based on a letter by Nicolas Baudin disputing Captain Cook’s findings of Terra Nullius.
I’m trying some things out as I’ve made my own cords that I want visible on the inside of the book, and parts of the outside. Not sure how I feel about them on the outside yet. Glad I’ve done a dummy run.
Not sure how I feel about the raised thread on the image.
I’m binding up a conference paper from the NSW bookbinders guild and made my own cover and endpapers as there isn’t one already.
But I like my new friends so will probably turn it into a new zine at some stage.
This book has been out for a while now. I seem to have a few lying around the house, so as a bonus I have printed two A4 posters of the pictures from the story in colour. Available now from my ETSY shop. Until I sell out, and there’s not many.
Saint Beckett 