Structural Variations Arrangement

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Research background Presented at the George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, and curated by Channon Goodwin and Sandra Bridie, the exhibition transformed the gallery into a reading room combining contemporary submissions with archival material from earlier GPG book shows. Cruickshank exhibited Structural Variations Arrangement, a collection of book forms testing size and binding types, utilising coloured binding glue, various paper stocks and reflexive covers featuring the production processes.

Research contribution Extends Cruickshank’s publishing‑as‑method by situating book structures within a public, reading environment, testing how display conventions, access and perusal shape reception and meaning. The GPG brief explicitly foregrounded books as artworks to be browsed, although these examples contained no text but could nevertheless be 'read' as objects.

Research significance GPG is a long‑standing, institutionally supported experimental space (est. 1974) with a documented history in artists’ books; inclusion in the curated #4 iteration places the work within that lineage and a large cross‑section of Australian practitioners.