Project Description

The DeVos Art Museum is presenting the first of an annual series of exhibitions in partnership with the newly established Rabbit Island artist in residence program. The 91-acre Island is located in Lake Superior off the Keweenaw Peninsula and has never been developed with the exception of a small log structure built by a fisherman in the 1800s.

After spending over a month on the island last summer, Michigan born and London-based artist Andrew Ranville will return to Rabbit Island to become the first official artist in residence, creating work for the exhibition at the DeVos Art Museum. The exhibition will contain photography, video, sculpture and sound recordings made by Ranville, giving a feel for what it might be like to spend an extended period of time on the island." – From the museum website.

Instead of producing a typical exhibition catalogue, we wanted to create a kit that better represented the artist, and the concept of the exhibition. The kit consists of a box (made to look like a book) that is CNC cut and laser engraved (the title of the show on the "spine" and the outline of the island on the front), an essay book containing four essays relating to the artist, USB containing sound recordings from the island, compass/match safe container with strike anywhere matches, a map of the island, an envelope containing 5 photograph postcards taken by the artist while staying on the island, and a pencil, to write your own observations in the "field notes" section of the essay book.