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Troyeville Diary

Item date(s): 2011

Judith Mason

Pages: unpaged
Size: 255mm
Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist
Edition: Unique

Place publication: (The Artists' Press - White River)
Publisher: Artists Book
Cat. 253-C8 ZA
Exhibition 2017

Additional notes:
Preface: Shocked by the number of gun shots audible from my home in Troyeville, I began recording their frequency in July 2001. By the end of September I found myself aggrieved if a fusillade had not cut the night. It seemed a good time to stop making notes. Judith Mason 2001-2011.

Corrugated boards enclosing an illustration of a corrugated wall with differing gun shots piercing the wall. Pages are bound into the covers of corrugated iron with three leather thongs. The two covers are joined with rusted , twisted wire. Recorded on the back of each page is the time and date of the gun shots. A pair of cotton gloves is included, on with yellow trim and the other with black trim and both bearing the title: Troyville.

Colophon: "The materials used - rawhide, corrugated iron, rusted wire, oiled paper, packaging tape, fluted cardboard. The image is from a photograph of a backyard building in Appolonia St. Troyville.

Exhibition notes:
Item 0253 - C8 ZA on Booknesses: Artists' books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection.

UJ Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg

25 March to 5 May 2017

Faces, Spaces and Tenuous Places

JBCBA, WAM

6 February – 13 May 2024

Ref: GB/12987