Portfolio Tag: lettering

Two picture book characters hold aloft the Aboriginal flag

Australian picture book covers translated into Noongar Language

Writer and Academic Cassie Lynch and I collaborated on a series of illustrations, with some much-loved Australian picture books translated into Noongar language (Wirlak), to celebrate the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book Week 2019 and coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. We reconfigured the coat of arms to feature Josephine from […]

A blue and white porcelain bowl showing signs of breakage and repair, above ble text reading BROKEN

Broken

An illustration and lettering for the cover of the September 2018 issue of UWA’s Pelican magazine. The theme was ‘Broken’, so I drew a blue and white porcelain bowl repaired with the Japanese Kintsugi method, with a Swan River scene adapted from the Willow Pattern crockery decoration. I hand-lettered the title so it had a […]

A realistic painting of a weathered paperback book titled Ghost Hunting, Evil Spirits and the Inner Critic. There is an old fashioned key, the stub of a turquoise pencil next to it and a gnarled little claw poking out of the book.

Pulped

A piece created for the inaugural Aperture Gallery group show, Ghosts, Spirits and Guardians, October 2017. A playful take on perfectionism done in the trompe l’oeil style, this well-thumbed paperback has all sorts of uses.

Between a Wolf and a Dog

The cover design for this novel is so beautiful, and the prose is too. I very much enjoyed this book by the late Georgia Blain, shortlisted for the the 2017 Stella Prize.

Books

I’m keeping a record of all the books I finish in 2017, by drawing them across a big sheet of paper, postage-stamp sized. I hope to fill it up before the year is done.

a book cover reading The Wanderers in speckled watercolour finish, tiny astronaut with an umbrella at the bottom

The Wanderers

A sublimely clever novel about simulation, memory, regret and space travel. I enjoyed the big questions Meg Howrey’s book made me think about. I challenged myself to replicate the starry cover of the US edition in overlapping pointillist washes.