LIMITED EDITIONS
following the line
following the line | Julie Johnstone | double-sided sewn concertina | book is h120mm x w120mm folded; approx w8,640mm | printed inkjet on 12 lengths of 740mm Bockingford watercolour 190gsm | both sides consist of sequences of lines, printed in either 35% or 45% black; side one is horizontal line sequence, side two is a sequence combining horizontal and vertical lines; each sequence is a randomised arragnement of all possible versions of the pairings/triplets/quartets of lines | hand bound with linen thread | limited edition of 30 | £150 | purchase
Can be purchased as a pair with DEVOTION (see below) for £250 | purchase
devotion
devotion | Julie Johnstone | double-sided sewn concertina | book is h120mm x w120mm folded; approx w8,640mm | printed inkjet in greys and cyan on 12 lengths of 740mm Bockingford watercolour 190gsm | side one is a text sequence created by using titles of paintings by Agnes Martin in chronological order by year; side two is a text sequence consisting of c.800 phrases chosen from the writings and lectures of Agnes Martin, and arranged in a totally random order | hand bound with linen thread | limited edition of 30 | £150 | purchase
Can be purchased as a pair with FOLLOWING THE LINE (see above) for £250 | purchase
10%-90%
box work | box h 170mm x w 120mm x d 55mm | contents: 9 booklets (each h 150mm x w 115mm) made of two sheets of watercolour paper, consisting of the cover, and an inner sheet printed on both sides with a single percentage of black, starting from 10% for the first booklet, rising by 10% for each booklet in turn to 90% for the last, handbound with linen thread; two postcards (h 150mm x w 110mm); title card and edition/colophon card | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | limited edition of 15 | 2018 | £150 | not currently available
The booklets can be read singly, in order to experience the percentage of black, in turn. They can also be displayed as a standing sculpture, as shown.
cyanometer
fan book | h 25mm x w 175mm | printed inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | after de Saussure; plays with the idea of the cyanometer, but uses the full spectrum of 1-100% cyan and 1-100% cyan/black | limited edition of 5 | 2017 | £150 | original edition of five sold out but new 2023 printing of 25 now available. read more
New 2023 edition of 25 | £150 | purchase
36 views of mount fuji
handbound book | after Hokusai | h 130mm x w 210mm; 18 sheets, including covers | each page is a tracing of each of Hokusai’s 36 Views of Mount Fufi prints, in gold pen, playing with the cumulative and show-through possibilities of the soft semi-transparent paper | hand-traced on Japanese paper purchased in Kyoto | based on reproductions published in Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A Michener Collection (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1998) | handbound | box folder h 140mm x w 220mm, Bockingford watercolour paper 300gsm | limited edition of 20 | 2017 | £150 | buy
3% [1-5]
set of 5 booklets | h 150mm x w 120mm; each booklet 16 pages, including covers | each book contains only the colour 3% black, and plays with the perceptual possibilities of the soft semi-transparent paper, exploring show-through effects (see detail on each individual booklet below) | printed inkjet on 80gsm Hahnemuhle Sumi-e paper | handbound with linen thread | box folder, printed with a block of 3% black | the first stages of this series were developed during a Research Residency in Artists’ Books at the Edinburgh College of Art Library, May 2014 | limited edition of 20 | 2015 | £75 | buy
3% [1]
this work acts as a foundational work for the 3% series [1-5] | each facing page (excluding cover and next page) is printed with a 3% black tinted rectangle of 90mm x 60mm | the aim is to suggest variations/deepenings/lightenings in tint when turning the semi-transparent paper pages, primarily due to show-through and the different lights in which a page is viewed as it is lifted and turned, although these variations do not actually exist
3% [2]
book [2] is like book [1], yet every other page is blank, creating a subtler show-through, and the illusion that pages are printed when they are not
3% [3]
book [3] is like book [2], yet every other page contains an empty 3pt frame in 3%, with the illusion that the next page’s block appears to fill it
3% [4]
book [4] is like book [2], yet every other page contains a half block, creating the illusion of a darker or lighter block next to it due to show-through
3% [5]
in book [5] the 3% block is printed on each page, yet it shifts by 1cm either to the top and left or to the bottom and right
2-20% | 20-2cm
artists’ book | h 240mm x w 280mm, 20 pages, printed on 10 facing pages, including on front page | printed in increasing tints of black from 2%, moving up by 2% increments through the book to 20% on the final page; the tinted block begins at a height of 20cm, reducing through the book by increments of 2cm to 2cm on the final page | inkjet on 300gsm Bockingford watercolour paper | handbound with linen thread | handbound with linen thread | developed during a Research Residency in Artists’ Books at the Edinburgh College of Art Library, May 2014 | limited edition of 10 | 2014 | £75 | numbers limited, please email essencepress @ btinternet.com if interested
1-10% 2-20% 3-30%
3 sets of 10 cards, each card 120mm x 120mm | each card printed in a shade of black 100mm x 100mm, tinted at graded percentages | 1-10% : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ; 2-20% : 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 ; 3-30% : 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30 | printed inkjet on Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | each set in a handmade box folder in Bockingford watercolour paper 300g | limited edition of 12 |£30 for set of 3 | buy
