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Double Bush Binding

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Curated by Sabine Piérard, Double Bush Binding was shown in Sydney, Forbes and Tokyo in 2006 and in Rheims, France at the Bibliothèque Carnegie and the Médiathèque Cathédral in early 2007.

As the first significant bookbinding exhibition to be held in Australia for more than twenty years, Double Bush Binding takes the book beyond story and image. It is a visual, tactile, collection of ideas bound together by the thread of a common narrative.

Well known bookbinders from Australia, Europe, and New Zealand regularly exhibit with BEA and in 2006 we welcomed a group of binders from Japan whose work was on show in Australia for the first time in the Double Bush Binding exhibition.

Double Bush Binding features a limited edition book of short stories by Paul Wenz, a French Australian author who lived near Forbes in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Our edition has been illustrated by Australian artists Daniel Pata, Michael Kempson and Rew Hanks and is printed on handmade paper from Euraba Paper Company of Boggabilla, NSW.  Copies have been bound by one hundred bookbinders from around the world. 

Selected editions of Paul Wenz's work in English can be purchased from Nicholas Pounder Bookseller in Sydney.

Double Bush Binding has been supported by the Australian Government through a Visions of Australia Development Grant. Qantas Freight carried the books to Tokyo.