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Caren Florance Caren Florance i(A116585 works by)
Also writes as: 'Ampersand Duck'
Born: Established: 1967 Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Caren Florance lives and works in Canberra, ACT. She has degrees in English Literature (ANU, UNSW Canberra) and Visual Arts (ANU School of Art) and undertook a PhD at the University of Canberra (UC), producing a creative body of work that interrogates the intersections of artists’ book and poetry publishing by working with four contemporary poets. She sessionally teaches book arts at the ANU School of Art Printmedia & Drawing Workshop and Typography in the Graphic Design department at UC.

Florance works with traditional book processes such as letterpress and bookbinding as well as contemporary digital technologies. She makes publications across the book arts spectrum, from zines through to fine press volumes, and much of her work is inspired by or directly drawn from Australian and NZ poetry. She was greatly inspired by her friendship with printer Alec Bolton and poet Rosemary Dobson, both of whom she regularly assisted until their respective deaths. Florance was also the typographer for the Academy Editions of Australian Literature for the entire series, working to a book design by Bolton. She continues to design and produce commercial publications on a freelance basis.

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y separately published work icon Lost in Case Melbourne : Cordite Press , 2019 18262873 2019 selected work poetry

'Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. "Are you feeling helpless and angry? I am. I'm having a quiet rage against the material and immaterial machine. Thank you for holding me. This book is a shard of frustration. It's a place to process emotion. Angry and curious, I recently dived into some dark online spaces that I hope one day will be lost, and documented words and phrases used about and against women. I'm working with the concept of printing itself: its terminology and actions are historically drawn from the human body. As an experimental letterpress printer, I often use words to give paper a hard time, and the audience can usually witness the marks left by my processes. In this physical book I have had to think flatter, within the restrictions of contemporary digital print processes." Caren Florance' (Publication summary)

2020 shortlisted ASAL Awards Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
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