Written, letterpress printed, and hand bound. The broadsheet is folded and then slid inside a letterpress printed pocket attached to the inside back cover (not shown here) . Edition of 16 copies only.
‘Happy Hammond’ by Derham Groves
Derham Groves
His Wunderkammer
WALT DISNEY’S FORGOTTEN AUSTRALIA: FROM MICKEY’S KANGAROO TO OUTBACK AT YA! by Derham Groves
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Retired Colourman’ by Derham Groves with Jan Setek
Written, printed letterpress, and hand bound by Groves with handwritten tags by Setek. The broadside is folded and then slid inside a letterpress printed pocket attached to the inside front cover. Edition of 20 copies only.
HOMICIDE ON HYDRA: GEORGE JOHNSTON’S CRIME NOVELS by Derham Groves
Mudrooroo’s ‘Dr Watson Holmes Jackamara’ by Derham Groves
Written, printed letterpress, and hand bound. The A3 sheet of paper is folded and partially slit—a format that is sometimes called a “hamburger fold”—then it is saddle stitched through the little book’s spine. On one side of the folded A3 sheet is the title page and the seven linocuts on cloth, tipped in later. While on the flip side of the open A3 sheet is a photocopied letter from Mudrooroo and some information about the Jackamara stories. Edition of 21 copies only.
‘The Adventure of the Lost Trousers’ by Derham Groves
In nineteen eighty-six,
Our haughty ex-
Prime Minister,
Malcolm Fraser,
Lost his pants
In a trance
After sharing a red,
Quite innocently, he said,
In Memphis, Tennessee,
With a busty young floozy.
(My plan is to turn this into another little artist’s book…stay tuned!)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Cardboard Box’ by Derham Groves
Written, printed letterpress, and hand bound. The severed ear was purchased at a $2 shop and attached to the front cover. The broadside is folded and slid inside a flap formed by folding up the back cover and held in place with a letterpress printed tracing paper band. Everything is then placed inside a letterpress printed Manila envelope addressed to Miss S. Cushing. Edition of 16 copies only.
Pop Culture Icons, whittled and painted by Derham Groves
(clockwise) Eric Pearce (newsreader, GTV9); Happy Hammond, King Corkey, Professor Ratbaggy, Susan Gay Anderson, and Bernard the Magician (THE TARAX SHOW, GTV9); George Johnston (Australian author); Hopalong Cassidy; Chris Cobb (WHIPLASH); Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty; Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Cedric Price (architects).
Tree change to sea change!
Late last year (2014) we sold Linton and bought a boat shed on the foreshore at Rosebud on the Mornington Peninsula. It’s a great spot! Looking forward to many happy days by the sea.
Yesterday (Sunday the 3rd of May) I launched my handmade timber Canadian canoe (below). Capsized it only once!
Barber Shops in Melbourne
Preface
One of the areas that my Master of Architecture history/theory course, Popular Architecture and Design, which I teach at the University of Melbourne, looks at is “everyday architecture”.
In previous years the students who did this course have researched kebab shops in Melbourne (2011), launderettes in Melbourne (2012) and painted garage doors in Melbourne (2013).
This year (2014), the students researched barber shops in Melbourne. Working mostly in pairs, they were asked to choose a barber shop and record the following basic information about it:
• The name and address of the barbershop.
• A plan of the barbershop, including the fittings and furniture.
• At least one photograph of the front of the barbershop.
• At least one photograph of each of the rear and sides of the barber shop (where accessible).
• At least four photographs of the interior of the barbershop.
• Photographs of any advertising (awning signs, window signs, 3D signs, etc.).
• A brief description of the barbershop.
• A brief interview with the owner/manager and/or one or more customer(s).
Barber Shops in Melbourne: An Architectural Survey contains the above data exactly as the students gave it to me—errors and all. To be able to see 50 barber shops at a glance and compare their similarities and differences based on exactly the same information is this book’s main value in my view.
Judging from the students’ research, many barber shops in Melbourne are very quirky, highly masculine places. Those that have the barber’s personal collection of football memorabilia, or foreign currency, or knickknacks, or photographs, or whatever on display in the barber shop are the ones that fascinate me the most.
Derham Groves.