Welcome from the Whisperers

Welcome from the whisperers... The artists of the Whisper Collaboration invite you to share our journey. Twelve artists, each begining with a theme, will carry out a visual game of "Chinese Whispers". Our book pages will travel between us, each collaborator adding their own interpretation of the theme. The trick will be that only the originating artist will know what the theme is! It's up to the rest of us to decipher that theme only from the work of the previous artist and the set of 'page clues' that will grow as the collaboration progresses! Here on our blog, we will share images of the clues, and perhaps some other tantalising snippets of information...all adding to the intrigue. Join us, and see if you can guess each artists theme as the books progress!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Tracey's Book


My book is all wrapped up, ready to send to JacQ later today! Thought I'd share a shot of the work bench once I'd taken away the pages...Seems I have a big mess to clean up! This is really only one little part of the mess I've made...there is paper and paint and tape and gesso and newspaper everywhere.

I used discarded manilla folders, cut in half, papered with newsprint and covered in a light smear of gesso for the pages. There might have been a bit of walnut ink invloved, along with paint, stencils, packing tape transfers and some random found objects.

Can't wait to see what little snippets everyone has to share here as we get started. Next job is to write my spiel for the artist profile page here - so far there are profiles from Peta, Sarah and Tamara. I'll enjoy reading the rest as they come in!

Happy whispering!

1 comment:

Peta said...

Oh Tracey, what a delightful tease to see your work space, or at least some of it!!! The materials and paints and inks you have used sound really yummy...lucky JacQ! to be the one to see this work....I will have to wait for at least 12 months!!
love, Peta