Glen Skien & his Mytho-Poetic print and assemblage works at Sturt Gallery in Mittagong
wings & birds, artist books & printmaking trace history & map myth into poetry in this touring exhibition
Object-Poem 4: Mytho-Poetic- 1962 Fokker Friendship Aircraft Wing …Scale (1:5)
detail of words and inlaid fragments in the back of the wing
Object Poem II: All the things I could have told you about birds
box board, sculptured muslin birds forms, pins
Object Poem II detail
Biography 1-7
muslin birds set in resin
Atlas III
hand bound artist book, ink, white charcoal, bitumen
39 x 56 x 3 cm
Atlas II
hand bound artist book, ink, white charcoal, bitumen
39 x 56 x 3 cm
Atlas II detail
you can read more about this deeply inspiring work here, here, here & here
and here’s a few photos of Glen’s Mytho-Poetic crow that he kindly traded with me back in 2012
with Beauty Mo 2012
the dark bird has made several appearances in The illustrated lyrics of Old Man Crow
Bar Room Piano Mo 2013
Operator Mo 2014
Crossroads Hotel Mo 2013
Glen Skien Mytho-Poetic print and assemblage works at Sturt Gallery
Posted: May 29, 2016 by Mo Crow in art exhibitions, It's Crow TimeTags: art, bookbinding, Glen Skien, inspiration
Comments
It's Crow Time 
Very special exhibition Mo !
I can imagine why these little cloth birds appeal to you 😉
Love your drawings with the poems (lyrics)
Glen’s dark birds are so perfect, the muslin blackened by cleaning his etching plates wrapped over a simple form of scrunched aluminium held together with sewing pins
Interesting…………..
such a beautiful poet, Glen forges words as well as materials into perfect insights here’s a quote from late last year about his new work A Fable in Brief –
“A fable in brief is simply an extended description of what metaphor accomplishes. It avoids saying ‘this’ stands for ‘that’ and allows meaning to remain unfixed. This fluidity is also a displacement, one thing substituted for another. Metaphor like collage is always a disturbance, an enigmatic disturbance. It’s illusiveness registers more poignantly what remains absent.”
Your crows and my croc……….in my hands again and i cannot stop looking……….
Glen works such a fine deep vein of magic
Amazing work you must have been in your element all those dark birds.
it is and I was and still buzzing!
Sometimes, when I visit your blog Mo, I feel like Alice disappearing down a rabbit hole to find wonder-full things . . .
looking forward to seeing Johnny Depp in “Alice through the Looking Glass” in 3D, this 21st C world made me laugh watching the trailer this morning with Grace Slick singing Alice, feed your head!
Oh no, I missed the show. I’ll keep an eye out in future.
you still have a chance, the last port of call for the Mytho-Poetic tour is at Maitland Regional Gallery June 11-August 28
Thanks Mo, I couldn’t find a gallery list anywhere. Was there a catalogue?
There is a catalogue for $5 but do try to get up to Maitland, it’s such a beautifully cohesive & deeply inspiring body of work
I will try, but my default is I have someone nearby who can go along if I can’t make it.
This post is a poem, thank you!
Glen is one of the best artists working in Australia & such a gentle soul, still buzzing from being there
Thank you for a wonderful visit, Mo. Glen is amazing! I love his dark birds…
was so good to see his work in real life at last!