Christine Tacq / The P's & Q's Press, Oxfordshire, UK
Sleep Walking Through Trees, anthology for those born later, 2004
A book of intaglio and relief prints by Christine Tacq
Works by William Blake, Brian Patten, Cicely Herbert, Ben Jonson, Minou Drouet, Margaret Atwood together with a Poem from Japan and the Corpus Christi Carol with layered images based on familiar trees, and blind embossing.
Printed on Somerset Velvet mould-made rag paper with seven full page etchings and four small ones, with soft-ground etched colour printed overlays and small collagraph printed areas, bound in screen-printed linen canvas. Signed by Christine Tacq and numbered.
50 pages, 400 x 330mm, edition of 55.
£700 (plus P&P and insurance)
Hatbox, 2011
In ‘Hatbox’ Christine Tacq shows herself to be both bookmaker and social historian. The Women’s pages of a 1912 newspaper, together with a poster featuring a 1912 ‘hat trimming competition’ are plundered and combined to illustrate how a slight change in a hat shape or a letterform can convey a different meaning.
This small concertina book brings together events in the lives of twelve women either side of 1912. The text is from quotes of real women whose dreams of the future are expressed through access to printing and a choice of hat trimmings. The images combine print, collage and drawing.
Colour inkjet printed on Conqueror in a colour stamp-print labelled box. A/P.
Signed by the artist.
£70 (plus P&P and insurance)