Into the Blue — Bound

Into the Blue Bound Exhibition  Catalogue

Curated by Julie Sommerfeldt and held at the Manly Library in Sydney, during May 2005. Thirty four bindings showing the many shades of blue by Australian and New Zealand binders.

Catalogue details: 11cm x 10cm; 36 pages; two sections bound in a folded cover.

Manly Library, Manly | 2005

BEA

Left: Maggie's Memories Damask covered box, book bound in Japanese paper.
Ann Marie Yee, Australia — exhibited in Double Bush Binding, 2005. State Library of NSW Collection.

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.