March 2009

Catalogue design for the Narelle Jubelin: Cannibal Tours exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art until 12 July 2009.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, the two versions of Jubelin’s Trade delivers people, a ‘cannibalised’ installation comprising the artist’s petit-point renditions intercut with readymade ‘primitive’ tribal masks and other museum objects and artworks, including Sidney Nolan’s celebrated painting Boy and the moon (1939-40). This installation is juxtaposed with Jubelin’s work Boxed Set (2006), eleven petit-point renditions of images representing formative childhood brushes with modernism, and photographs by Albert Tucker referencing his own encounters with aspects of modernism in Europe.

The design of the catalogue was based around the need to reproduce Trade delivers people #3 in its entirety as installed within the Albert & Barbara Tucker Gallery. A unique 10 page cover was developed to house the work that spans some 15 metres in length but less than a metre in height.