2010 Libris Awards
The Libris Awards are Australia's premier national artists' book prize. An initiative of the Mackay Regional Council through Artspace Mackay, these biennial awards seek to develop awareness of the Council's significant collection of artists' books, and to develop the collection further through the acquisition of new works by leading Australian artists working in this field. The Libris Awards are open to artists living and working anywhere in Australia. Download an entry form now!
Shortlist of Finalists 2010
Susan Anderson & Gwen Harrison Someone somebody run
Babette Angell Man made hand made
Peter Annand Tides
Lyn Ashby The ten thousand things
Natalie Azzopardi Looking for salmon
Natalie Azzopardi Up & down Moore Street
Judy Barrass The Polar Bear & the Christmas star
Julie Barratt Collateral damage
Terry Barrett Looking at the overlooked
Pamela Bartley Lost soul
Vanessa Berry I am a Camera #12 & #13, Disposable Camera
Rebecca Blackburn The hundred dresses
Caelli Jo Booker The cave: a dialogue
Sara Bowen Learned absence
Susan Bowers Landscape meditations
Deidre Brollo Untitled
Liz Caffin Five twittens and a hill
Brodie Cain Rooftops
The Codex Events Sheet music for jabberwocky quintent
Victoria Cooper 7 Gates
ChristinaCordero Equilibrium
Antoniette Covino-Beehre Dedication / dedi'KaSH an
Karen Cromwell The pledge
Angela Cullip Domestic Landscape
Suzanne Danaher Nature and humanity
Barbara Davidson People
Wim de Vos Rachmaninov in America
Fiona Dempster Peace is every step
Ampersand Duck Feel the fell
Carolyn Fraser Envelope
David Frazer Lost
Lisa Giles Vroom! Vroom!
Susan Goddard How now brown cow?
Ria Green The extended family
Stephanie Grogan Chapter XVIII
Gracia Haby Postcards from…A key to help make your own world visible, A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels, Tumble & Fall
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison This evening, however, I am thinking of things past
Diane Hamilton Fragments
Janette Hanrahan Bark impressions
Nathalie Hartog-Gauteir & Penelope Lee Ex-Ile
Melany Hayes Stalin's patriotic service to the Motherland
Nicci Haynes alphabeater_00 (James Joyce reading…)
Anne Howard Symmetr-y-ee
Anne-Maree Hunter The word on the street
Pamela Hutley A book of little saddle blankets
Sarah Ind Heart string
Liz Jeneid Apostle bird book
Patrick Jones & Peter O'Mara How to do words with things
Lesley Kane Masthead
Kaylene Kelly Constructed views
Sheree Kinlyside The reluctant nun
Jenny Kitchener Under pressure
Nicola Laidlow Secrets beheld
Ngaio Lenz Certain People of Importance
Bruno Leti Regeneration
André Lipscombe Aw Dad
Peta Lloyd Black SaturdayAndrew MacDonald Stick book
Kate Mackay The story so far
Marian Macken Mies van der Rohe :: built houses
Helen Malone Time travel
Kristin McFarlane Picture book
Megan McPherson Headland
Jan Melville The Irish navigator
Robert Miller The invisible girl
Berhardine Mueller Etched in time: Issues 1,2 & 3
Maryann Mussared Little red books
Jānis Nedéla Typo No. 12
Regina Newey Antonym/9
Monica Oppen & Peter Lyssiotis The River
Amanda O'Sullivan One little tree
Travis Paterson Boys will be boys
Patsy Payne Those who travel
Anthony Pelchen & Andrew Lindsay Difficult majesty
Kyana Pike City Survivors
Nada Poliski Are you my dream come true
Primrose Paper Arts Traces & Shadows - Imagining Primrose
Printbank Mackay The sea and the sky
Andrea Przygonski Shadows of my former self
Lisa Pullen The night ladder
Naomi Reiner History in silhouette
Jennifer Rogers Flight feathers
Judith Rosenberg Door or getting a handle
John Ryrie The selfish giant
Margaret Sanders Naming the flower
Denise Scholz-Wulfing Mao of the World of the Minds
Belinda Sinclair The first book of shadows
Mo Skett Wally the wombat
Glen Skien From the Library of Phenomenology (Triptych)
Tracy Smith Taylor-made philosophy
Tricia Smout Tricia's Tips, Techniques & Truisms
Desley Solomons Birds
Franki Sparke Shift in the wind
Doug Spowart & Victoria Cooper White shadows
Genevieve Swifte Poems to hold or let go
Gwen Tasker Twelve labours
Denise Vanderlugt Thread circles between the sheets
Carmel Wallace Battalion
Amie Ward Recipe book
Deirdre Ward Buttons & bows
Amanda Watson-Will Self (states of change)
Sandra Williams Water glimpses
Patricia Wilson-Adams Words on leaves
Keith Wong XY.PZ 2009
Graeme Wood Iter
Mandy Woodmansey Don't use custard instead of cornflour
Sandra Wright All the fun of the fair dodgems
Ilse Van Garderen & Peter Lyssiotis Views from the mountain
Lindy Yeates Play me a melody
2010 Libris Awards
Important Dates
> Closing date for pre-selection entry: 5pm, Friday 4 December 2009
> Shortlist of finalists announced: Friday 18 December 2009
> Selected works to be received between: Monday 1 March and Friday 12 March 2010
> Announcement of winners and opening of exhibition: 6pm, Friday 9 April 2010
> Exhibition dates: Saturday 10 April to Sunday 23 May 2010
> Finalists' work to be collected: no later than 5pm, Sunday 6 June 2010.
Acquisitions and Awards
Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
Category 1: Mackay Regional Council National Artists' Book Award (acquisitive)
The award-winning book will be acquired for inclusion in Mackay Regional Council's Artists' Book Collection housed at Artspace Mackay (ASM). The winning artist will receive $3000 cash prize sponsored by Mackay Regional Council.
Category 2: Regional Artists' Book Award (acquisitive)
This award will be presented to the best book by an artist living and working in our region and aims to promote regional arts practice in the field of artists' books. The award-winning book will be acquired for inclusion in Mackay Regional Council's Artists' Book Collection. The winning artist will receive $1500 cash prize.
Category 3: Young and Emerging Artists' Book Award (acquisitive)
An award aimed at promoting and encouraging entry into the field of artists' books by young and emerging artists (artists ages 26 or younger in 2010) from throughout Australia. The award-winning book will be acquired for inclusion in Mackay Regional Council's Artists' Book Collection. The winning artist will receive a prize of $750.
Category 4: The Zine Prize
A brand new category in the Libris Awards, the Zine Prize is aimed at promoting and encouraging entry of small circulation, self-published works of original or appropriated text and images in the form of zines. All zines submitted for entry will be displayed during the Libris Awards: Australian Artists' Book Prize exhibition and will be acquired for Mackay Regional Council's inaugural Zine Archive. The winning artist will receive a prize of $300. Entry in this category is free. Entries due no later than 5pm, Friday 12 March 2010.