An art book designed
as a tactile encounter
with the maker’s process.

Design concept, art direction, layout, and production.

Remnants

‘Remnants’ was the debut solo exhibition by contemporary visual artist Domino Whisker at Atelier Now Gallery, Dublin.
The collection explored themes of great loss, memory, and the healing process, featuring a physically and emotionally tangled body of work created by piecing together fragments of the past.

The deeply personal exhibition explored the artist's ability to transform grief into art. Created in the wake of the loss of her father, the works became an act of self-preservation, preserving memories, emotions and the quiet traces left behind.

‘Remnants’ is a limited edition pocket-size (110x155mm) 32 page tactile and uncoated soft white offset lithographic print book. A minimal screen-printed cover on organic brown kraft board opens to uncoated interior pages that frame Domino’s embroidered linen canvases with honesty and warmth. Hand-bound with a red stitched thread, echoing the embroidery that runs throughout the artist's work and reinforcing the intimate relationship between object and artwork. It complements Domino’s ‘Remnants’ exhibition in Dublin, winter 2021. 

The book was designed and produced by Leonie in collaboration with the artist, Domino, and photographer Liadh Connolly. Conceived as an artefact rather than simply a publication, it was intended to feel like a small extension of the artist's practice. The book communicates the values of craftsmanship through its own making, with exposed thread binding, hand-finished details and carefully chosen materials creating a direct sensory connection between the reader and the techniques explored within.

The publication has since been preserved in the National Irish Visual Arts Library.

A close-up of a stack of beige paper bags with red stitching and red thread ties, with the words 'hand stitched' printed on one of the bags.
An art installation featuring a transparent, geometric sculpture in the foreground and framed artworks on the wall in the background, all displayed in a white gallery space.
An art display featuring a paper with the word 'remnants' in red, encased in a transparent frame, on a white pedestal against a plain white wall.
A stack of brown paper pages with red sewing stitches at the edges and red thread frays, with the words "hand stitched" printed on one page.
An open notebook on a dark surface, with one page having the text 'he's still alive' and a faint outline of a hand holding a feather.
An open white book with red cursive writing on its pages, red and black thread stitched through the center, and a long red thread extending downward against a black background.
Open book with dark fabric pockets on the right page and cursive text on the left page, with loose red and yellow thread on a black background.
Open book with a photograph of a young girl on the left page, a pair of black scissors on the page next to her, and red thread on the right page against a black background.