Dr Glen Skien has spent the major part of his exhibiting life as a printmaker and author of objects in the Central Queensland coastal city of Mackay.
Since 1990 he has exhibited consistently throughout regional Queensland with a major survey exhibition Palimpsest The Art of Glen Skien touring throughout regional Australia including Icon Gallery in Melbourne.
Glen established Silent Parrot Press in Mackay, North Queensland in 2000, well known as a studio and gallery in which fine art prints were produced & exhibited, and highly regarded for its workshops & classes in printmaking techniques, book binding, box making & life drawing.
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Object-Poem: Waiting for Godot, 2016, hand bound artist book.
Copied transcripts written in reverse with black and red ink of Samuel Becket's 1949 absurdist play 'Waiting for Godot'.
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Fable in Brief: Volume 1, 2016, hand bound artist book of tracings in graphite.
The use of tracings of found images collectively bound within transparent pages was a way of creating a sense of narrative that relies on a continuum of free associations.
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Object-Poem: The Yellow Book, 2015, book of dry-point etchings on printed yellow paper.
Devoid of text this book explores the possibility of randomly chosen images and accidental
surface markings to evoke narratives caught in midstream.