BEA Catalogue

Publications

Some BEA Exhibition Catalogues are still available and can be purchased from this site.

In 2005, BEA and Australian film maker, Joshua Lee, produced a documentary about the Double Bush Binding project.

The film tells the story of the making of a book and its one hundred and twenty five unique bindings. (Running time approx. 13 minutes. DVD video format.)

Catalogue details

[One Book Many Bindings] 2003 || 31 pages, full colour, 30cm x 10.8cm || design: Sabine Pierard and Graham Rendoth || photography: Wayne Stock

[Bursting at the Seams] 2004 || 40 pages, full colour, 9.5cm x 9.3cm || design: Alphabet Soup || photography: Chris Chen

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Left: Les Ponts by Judith Dupre Exposed sewing on kangaroo tail skin; cover in prespex, metal mesh and kangaroo. Sabine Pierard, Australia — exhibited in Landscape, Sydney, 2004

Bookbinding Exhibitions Australia Inc was a national organisation dedicated to promoting bookbinding as an art form. Between 2003 and 2008 BEA organised eleven exhibitions of contemporary binding, artists books and significant historical bindings.