Coo-ee!
By: Claudia Van Eeden
Contributors: Ellis, Justine, editor; Rule, Dan, editor; Taylor, Sasha, 1995- book designer
Series: Perimeter editions -- 055
Publisher: Perimeter Editions
Published: 2019
Place of publication: [Melbourne, Australia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780648680123
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Australian Painting; Pictorial works; Travel
Description: Coo-ee! is a celebration of a land that is both beautiful and brutal, hardy and vulnerable. In her first book with Perimeter Editions, young Melbourne artist Claudia Van Eeden crafts a vibrantly optimistic ode to the landscape, iconography and visual language of Australia. Refreshing in its palette and tenor, Coo-ee! acts as a travel diary of sorts, rendering the scenic environment, weather, passersby and native flora and fauna in loose, playful brushstrokes. Van Eeden embraces Australiana in a way that balances humour with sincerity, avoiding cultural cringe at every turn. Featuring an original painting for every page - including the covers, title page and colophon - and made with found gouache paints, Coo-ee! extends beyond kitsch to rest somewhere closer to that of naïve art. Before suspicion, before cynicism, Van Eeden's paintings shimmer with love and care. -Publisher's website.
Notes: Editors: Justine Ellis and Dan Rule. Design: Sasha Taylor.

Claudia Van Eden (b. 1995) is an Australian artist based in Melbourne's rural outskirts. After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT, specialising in painting and illustration, Van Eeden had her first solo painting exhibition, Moss & Bloom, in 2017. She has since worked in a variety of commercial contexts, completing commissions for the likes of Kuwaii, It's All Fluff and the band Crepes, while taking part in several group exhibitions around Melbourne. She was shortlisted for the inaugural 2018 Perimeter Small Book Prize.-Publisher's website.

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