Nicole Bauberger


Words



StoryTeller


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Writing plays a key part in my art practice. I write about art as a way to serve the Yukon art community in whose context I flourish, and also to deepen my own learning. The art of storytelling remains close to my heart, and makes my artist talks much more interesting.





Sometimes I also write songs.

100 Dresses projects

Wall writing in Get There From Here

Wall writing in Listening to the Mountain Book works



CANDLE ICE PRESS





Established in 2019, Candle Ice Press is registered for isbn numbers. I self-publish small volumes of poetry.



STORYTELLER





I tell mostly wonder tales, something between a fairy tale and a myth. I often weave riddles into my storytelling sets. I've told stories in Scotland, across Canada, and in the northern US, in classrooms, churches, bars and parks. I very much enjoy collaborating with musicians to tell stories. I did so at a house concert in January 2014, two concerts at Well Read Books in Whitehorse Fall '13 and Spring '14, at the Whitehorse Public Library and on the Wharf in the Fall of '14, and carried out a tour of community Schools in the Western Yukon with Helene Beaulieu in May of '14. I have some very adaptable storytelling workshops I can offer. Some include drawing.



WRITING ABOUT ART





I have written for years about art for What's Up Yukon. Click here to get to their website and put my name into the search engine. I have also written for Studio Magazine. Unfortunately they are not online. And also for Galleries West.



Self Published



BOOKWORKS



As a young writer in my early 20s, I had a disillusioning encounter with the mainstream Canadian publishing industry. I also observed how frail its economies were, and being a thingmaker myself, I figured I could do pretty much as well on my own, making my own books and selling them to people who wanted to read them. In 2019, at the prompting of Jeffrey Macklin at Jackson Creek Press, I started up candle ice press éditions de la glace en aiguilles. Most of the books I’ve made since then have actual isbn numbers. Two of my more recent books I published using Jeffrey’s letterpress. Poems often wind up being made into bookworks in conjunction with their performance. For example, Worlds End was performed at Theatre in the Bush in September 2019, and bound into a book later that fall. Also Bus Routes Parcours d’autobus was performed at Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival Poetry Crawl around the same time as it was printed, bound and launched at Rêves et Racines, an exhibition coordinated by l’Association Franco-Yukonnaise at Arts Underground. All of these books are folded or hand-sewn.


Where are my bookworks available?

Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, Well Read Books (in their local poets section), or contact me directly. Shipping not included in these prices.



ONE-POEM FOLDED BOOKS



$2 EA OR 3 FOR $5



Titles include sonnet #27, a light skirt and a moth, thanks, light coming on, for my ladies: dresses of their choosing, snow owns, lullabye, single poem, a lyric, easter dawson city 2021. Forms include sonnets and haiku-inspired short poems.



with Jackson Creek Press



Potato (the last copy is at Well Read Books I think) $9 Worlds End $9



Artists Proofs



I have artist proofs as well as some numbered works from the editions of the single-fold signatures I created for the Wayzgoose Anthologies produced by the Grimsby Public Art Gallery.

But for that cloud $15 card stock, watercolour, encaustic, silk screen, enclosed in vellum.

Spruce trees are wearing $15 silk screen

Seasoning the body, a collection of poems with block prints, hand-sewn, $39. I bound some more of these November of 2021 and plan to bind the rest winter of 2022.

Bus routes Parcours d’autobus, with silk screened cover, hand-sewn, $20.



Artists Proofs



I have artist proofs as well as some numbered works from the editions of the single-fold signatures I created for the Wayzgoose Anthologies produced by the Grimsby Public Art Gallery.

But for that cloud $15 card stock, watercolour, encaustic, silk screen, enclosed in vellum.

Spruce trees are wearing $15 silk screen

Seasoning the body, a collection of poems with block prints, hand-sewn, $39. I bound some more of these November of 2021 and plan to bind the rest winter of 2022.

Bus routes Parcours d’autobus, with silk screened cover, hand-sewn, $20.



Bibliography







Periodicals


What's Up Yukon

I have written about art, reviewing exhibitions and plays, and writing about the business of art, for this local Yukon publication, since 2006.


Galleries West

I have reviewed art shows, and written other articles, feature, preview, profile etc, for this regional art magazine.


The Northern Review

I reviewed a book for this academic journal, Fall of 2011.



Art Catalogues


2011 In-between Places, published by Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, curated with an essay by the Trousseau Society. Click here.

2010 Listening to the Mountain, Yukon Arts Centre, with essay by Mary Bradshaw

2009 Yukon Drives, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, with essay by Lance Blomgren

2009 Broadsheet, Listening to the Mountain, with essay by Dr. Dominic Hardy. Click here.

2006 Listening to the Mountain, published by the Grimsby Public Art Gallery.

2000 The Artemesia Journal, published by the Art Gallery of Peterborough. From the show, I listen with my eyes to the dead and I speak with my body to the living. Contact the gallery for copies.



Literary


Chapbooks

2007-2011 I've made a series of little handbound books to accompany art shows. They offer the handwritten text from the back of each painting panel, followed by a black and white image of the painting that followed that moment's writing.

2002 Seasoning the body. 50 copies, original artist's print on the cover. Both this book and the next are hand-written manuscripts, photocopied. Hand-stitched.

2001 Something about indigo, a magpie's poems. First run, 30 copies, second run (2002), 50. Design closely related to what I learned from chris. Includes a block print and marbled paper.

1998 Some of the loves, an incomplete list. Produced in collaboration with chris cavanagh, aka Persuasions & Designs. The text was mechanically reproduced, but hand bound. 100 copies.

1996 Bodies in Motion, some romances of restlessness God's Lips' Texture 100 copies of each printed.


One-poem books

I also make small, one poem books folded from one page of paper. Titles include a selection of sonnets, Wilderness Tips, Lullabye, and Snow Owns.


Periodicals

I have had work appear in Ice Floe, a magazine of circumpolar poetry, Urban Coyote's second anthology of new Yukon writing, as part of the Moving Words program for poetry on Whitehorse buses, and in a few other places. I have also participated in the Cooked and Eaten series of readings, and have a poem on their website.​



I live and create on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.

© Nicole Bauberger 2021