The Illuminations Project
- Publisher
- Oakville Galleries
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2016
- Category
- Contemporary (1945-)
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781894707367
- Publish Date
- Apr 2016
- List Price
- $30.00
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Description
The Illuminations Project is a decade-long collaboration between two artists, feminists and friends. Shary Boyle and Emily Vey Duke's visionary call-and-response artwork forges connections between drawing and writing to create an exquisitely rendered road map through the chaos of growing up female, fearless and hungry for meaning. Looking for an alternative to the convention in which images illustrate texts and texts explicate images, the artists developed a more associative method of combining words and pictures based upon a long-distance correspondence between 2003 and 2010.
About the authors
Vey Duke and Battersby's work has won the top prize at festivals in Ann Arbor and Chicago,and awards in New York, Zurich and Hamburg. Their art has been collected by a dozen university libraries, including Princeton and Harvard. They teach at Syracuse University.