Artist: Frances Day, UK Work: Plunder Two artist’s books based on the theme of conquest versus exploration, with particular reference to the perspective of the local people who were invaded. I was intrigued by a line from the Wikipedia entry “Magellan was...
Artist: Tricia Torrington, UK Work: Song of Magellan The book will consist of a poem and print (collagraph and monoprint), in a hard-bound book that opens from the centre outwards into two sets of pages. Pages can be read across the open structure and allows for...
Artist: Tony Broad, UK Work: Magellan (World View) I propose to make a bookwork exploring the way claim was laid to these newly discovered territories by giving them new names. The prime example is ‘The pacific ocean’; the peaceful ocean is such a reductive term for...
