Description: The One Year Drawing Project is an experimental publishing project that follows a 29-month period of drawing exchange between four of Sri Lankas most important contemporary artists. The book relates back to the creation of four drawings that were simultaneously drawn in May 2005 and charts the exchange of responses that ensued between the four artists in response and as a consequence to the initial four drawings. In common with the technique of the Exquisite Corpse used to great effect by the Surrealists, The One Year Drawing Project belies similar outcomes of subversion and fraught association when viewed against the context of the current political climate in Sri Lanka where all four artists live and work. A timeline of events, exchanged between the artists, provides a subtext to the volume of 208 drawings brought together in the book.

Description: 250 x 205 mm
204 pages printed offset, with 245 colour images,
soft-cover with book jacket (illus.)
Designed by Herman Lelie and Stefania Bonelli.

Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill's ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. This book brings together over sixty sets of beads, each one unique and particular to the specific volume from which it has been created. Titles as far-ranging as Gandhi's autobiography, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, The Beano Book and Che Guevara's Bolivian Diaries form a selection of the printed matter used by the artist to create a rich and stirring collection of objects. With the inclusion of two short pieces of writing by the artist, this beautifully considered book underlines Gill's subtle brilliance as an artist of outstanding breadth and imagination.

Description: Normal Edition

Description: A journey with Saskia, her work, her spirit,
her astute and unyielding observations of human beings,
her sense of humour, her life.

Description: The Incomplete Thombu I-V
Special Edition, 2011
Dry pastel on silk screened, handmade 130gsm acid free paper

Special Edition of 25 plus 5 Artist's Proofs, each containing a hand-bound, numbered edition of The Incomplete Thombu and one work on paper, signed and dated by the artist.




Special Edition, 2011
Dry pastel on silk screened, handmade 130gsm acid free paper

Special Edition of 25 plus 5 Artist's Proofs, each containing a hand-bound, numbered edition of The Incomplete Thombu and one work on paper, signed and dated by the artist.

The Special Edition of The Incomplete Thombu has been rebound by hand, using the preservation method for archival documents currently employed by the Technical Branch of The Sri Lanka Department of National Archives. The colophon is printed using a Golding Jobber printing press from the early 1900s, one of the few functional machines of its kind in commercial use in Sri Lanka.

Design by Asvajit Boyle & Deshan Tennekoon

Description: Normal Edition

Description: (114 x 51mm);70pp x flip books
Offset lithography on 200gsm C2S Artcard
and box case

Design by Astrid Stavro

The Speech Writer is a fictional documentary presented in the form of ten flip books.The contents follow a day in the life of a retired political speech writer.Surrounded by the memories of his family and his vast collection of speeches, he is a creature of habit, idiosyncratic behavior and reclusive existence.Retired from a lifetime of public service work, his connection with the outside world takes the form of a daily broadcast from the comfort of his home. Passersby, now accustomed to the perplexing array of loudspeakers wired to the outside of his house, stop to listen for a few moments each day. As they move on, the speakers continue to broadcast the voice of the speech writer across the neighbourhood.We cannot hear him speak but witness instead a moment of ultimate freedom in the life of a man who formulated the rhetoric, visions, dreams and declarations of others.