As a result, beneath the cover of the book, a large, intricate three-dimensional picture gradually forms. The book always remains a book: all of the individual pages can still be turned, and by leafing through the book new elements of the collage are uncovered that on first glance were hidden from view.

‘Garden’, a wildwood that is both enticing and forbidding, explores the borderline between the wild and the human-made.  

About the Artist

Larissa Cox, born 1973, is a British book artist and bookbinder, living and working in Vienna, Austria, since 2000. She specialises in creating ‘collage books’: unique hand-bound books which, upon opening, reveal intricate hand-cut three-dimensional collages within their pages.

Largely self-taught as an artist, her journey in bookbinding began in 1991 through a spell of work experience at Bayntun’s Bookbindery, Bath, UK, and has also since taken her to the renowned Centro del bel Libro in Ascona, Switzerland. 

In 2001 came the first impulse to combine in a unique manner bookbinding with collage work, and so create intricate, hand-cut, three-dimensional works hidden within the pages of a book – miniature, dreamlike worlds in paper – her collage books. This has been her main artistic focus ever since. In addition, she regularly runs bookbinding workshops in her own studio space in Vienna, her ‘Boundless Bookbindery’. Her work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions of artists’ books and paper art. 

Buy the work

‘Garden’ is not for sale. But other artwork is. You will find more information on Larissa Cox’s website and in her online shop. 

Links:

Website: https://www.larissacox.com/

Online shop on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BoundlessBookbindery