WESTSIDE PUBLICATIONS (BYDS, 1998 - present)
Roslyn is a sub editor and the layout artist at Westside Publications, the literary arm of BYDS dedicated to the promotion of Western Sydney writers and artists since 1998. At the 2009 Sydney Writer’s Festival she directed Alleyway Honour – a performing writing event for Westside Publications.
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VERBATIM Staging Memory & Community (Currency Press, 2010)
Edited by Paul Brown
A guide intended for both teachers and students at senior high school level. This publication emerges from a series of workshops with high school teachers in 2008 and 2009, and is written by educators and theatre makers who have practical experience of verbatim theatre
and other documentary styles.
Contributors include: James Arvanitakis (UWS), Paul Brown (UNSW), Paul Dwyer (USYD), Ulrike Garde (Macquarie Uni) Meg Mumford (UNSW), Roslyn Oades (Theatre Director) and Caroline Wake (UNSW).
ART BOOKS
Roslyn has self-published two whimsical concertina-style art books (with the help of some generous friends). These limited-edition titles, Wires and Lights and spin and were available until sold out in art bookshops around Australia and in New York. Now only one shoe box full remains under her bed. If you would desperately like one contact Roslyn.
Spin and (Alien Corn Books, 2003)
“In 2001 whilst traveling overseas, two significant things happened – I discovered my passion for postcards and I began collaborating via post and email with Blue Mountains friend and poet Cat Forsythe.
Spin and, taking it’s title from one of Cat’s poems, is the result of these exchanges of images and words. A collection of grainy mono-tone photographs and fleeting words, Spin and explores the theme of memory and loss, of missing things, being out of time – too early or too late.
Beautifully designed and edited by Andrew Collis, words and images are woven together, without beginning or end or right way round, on a whimsical journey through an intimate postcard pull-out booklet.”
- Roslyn Oades, photographer
Wires & Lights (Alien Corn Books, 2003)
“Inspired by my evening walks at a time of transit between cities and homes, Wires & Lights explores the simple poetry of telegraph wires and lights at dusk – lines and shifting illumination linking all cities, transforming alien industrial landscapes into a thing of beauty.
In selecting a second artist to respond to this theme, mixed-media artist Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang was an obvious choice. Caroline’s most recent series of work involved the blending and manipulation of factual maps to explore her personal journey between Vietnam, Sydney and Melbourne.
In addition to her artistic qualities, Caroline kindly allowed me to stay on her couch for way too long and has been intimately involved in my relocation to Melbourne.
Sensitive design and editing on this book was once again by Andrew Collis.”
- Roslyn Oades, photographer
Roslyn has a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts (COFA), University of NSW, major in photomedia. Her photo, The Boys was a finalist in 2007 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
