a library to scale - Part 1, Ann Shelton

2006

a library to scale - Part 1

"There is a sense in which things become real through their repetition. a library to scale records a likeness of a collection of scrapbooks, a visual re-enactment of a compelling collection of books; it engages us in a process of recovery, retrieval, and re-presentation. It seeks to bind Frederick B. Butler’s project anew, to look back on it from the very particular time and space of the now…"
From the artist's statement for the exhibition a library to scale - more…

Also see The Reflecting Archive, Francis Pound, 2007.
and The sound of the past being sliced apart, Jan Bryant, 2008.
and Passion and Compassion, Jeremy Cooper, 2007

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Installation, Starkwhite, 2006.

1. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Families Volume 1200 to New Zealand 1939 May 17 – June 8.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

2. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: New Zealand 1939 June 8 – July 11 to New Zealand 1945 March 28 – December 22.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

3. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Volume 400 26 October 1939 – January 28 1941
Births, Deaths and Marriages to Volume 1096, 1899 August – September.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

4. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Volume 1097 1899 September – November to Maori Pa’s in City Area.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

5. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Messenger A.H. Historical Articles
(espec Taranaki) 1953 April – 1954 July to Air 1955 March – April.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

6. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Air 1955 April –June to Births etc 1948 October 1 – 18.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

7. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Births etc 1948 October 30 – November 11 to Births etc 1952 June 11 – 26.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

8. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Births etc 1952 June 26 – July 2 to Births etc 1954 November 16 – 20.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

9. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Births etc 1954 November 22 – 27 to Births etc 1957 April 22 – 26.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

10. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Births etc 1957 April 26 – 29 to Births etc 1959 November 16 – 21.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

11. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Births etc 1959 – November 21 to Hawera 1949 October – December.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

12. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Hawera 1949 December – 1950 March to Opunake 1952 August – 1953 February.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

13. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Opunake 1953 September – 1954 February to Waitara April – June 1948
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

14. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Waitara 1948 June – December to Crime 1950 Feb 1 – 15.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

15. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Crime 1950 February 16 – 27 to Crime 1954 Feb 2.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

16.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Crime 1954 February 19 – 26 to Crime 1957 April 13 – 23.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

17.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Crime 1957 April 23 – May 2 to Crime 1969 September 1 – 19.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

18.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Crime 1969 September 19 – October 16 to Education 1957 June – July.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

19.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Education 1957 July – August to Hotels 1956 August – September.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

20.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Hotels 1956 September – November to Petrol 1944 November – 1946 May.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

21. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Petrol 1946 May – 1947 October to Post Office 1958 August – December.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

22. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Office 1959 May – August to Shipping 1951 September – November.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

23. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Shipping 1954 September – October to War General 1941 July 11 – 28 August.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

24. Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: War General January 1944 – November 1945 to Weather 1956 March – April
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

25.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth,
Scrapbooks from: Weather 1956 April – May to Young Farmers 1969 April – October.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

26.Frederick B. Butler Collection, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, Empty Shelf.
C Type Print, 1365mm x 965mm, 2006.

Acknowledgements: Ann Shelton would specially like thank Puke Ariki and Sereena and Frances Burton for helping make this exhibition possible.