Tiny Owl Workshop

@tinyowlworkshop

Award winning micro publisher and sculptor. Maker of curious things.

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Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· 25d

New, glorious book by Deb Mostert. Launching 1 August. It's a stunning visual journey of a life told and revisited via sketchbooks.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· 26d

Describe yourself in three characters

Three green wide-eyed grumpy heads from the film Spirited away.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· 28d

This is my niece. Lismore. 2022. Locals had just smashed in the back door and rescued her from her highset home. She'd been standing on the kitchen bench on a chair, in broiling floodwaters up to her chest. #Climatechange is real, personal and catastrophic. So, #datacentres can fuck right off.

A bedraggled and exhausted young woman wearing a pumpkin head t-shirt is helped through brown floodwaters by two others. Directly behind her is a tinny (boat) and the locals who saved her.
She saved her two cats.
The house was not salvageable.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· 29d

Am reading Make Believe by Mac Barnett. Con: it's condescending Pro: it's mercifully short. There's a story about the 3 aunts which made me laugh, but only because it reminded me of Magrat Garlick, Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, who'd wipe the floor with Barnett. Will read on though.

Cover of Make Believe by Mac Barnett.
Gorgeous cover artwork by Carson Ellis centres a reading child surrounded by riso-print style images of flowers, ghosts, toads and other critters, a skull and other fantastical and unsettling imaginings.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jul 13

It was a #letterpress kind of morning. Loved it.

Close up of some wooden snd lead typography/decorative elements.

Antique proofing press already loaded with a chase and lettering.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jul 12

Taking good photos of sculpts is a challenge for me.

Sculpt of many legged figure walking with the assistance of a walking stick. She is robed in black and carries a basket of flowers on her back. Lots of greenery in the background - camelia bush and rosemary mostly.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 25

When you're trying to take a photo .

Cat - who usually refuses to have his photo taken - sitting staring into the canera in foreground, sculpture in background.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 25

Nobody told me that Jerry Coleby-Williams from #gardeningaustralia was Napoleon Dynamite!

Cropped black and white photo of Gardening Australia’s Jerry Coleby-Williams. Source:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-24/jerry-coleby-williams-gardening-australia-mardi-gras/106380690

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 24

#wip and messy desk.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 22

Acquired a wee Adana letterpress to press things with.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 17

Progress on the piper at the gates of dawn.

Work in progress. Unfinished sculpted faun wearing a vest and high collar gazes at the dried posy he's holding.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 5

Stack of small #lasercut boxes to clean and glue.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 4

Currently reading a Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins. Horrifyingly fascinating and utterly shameful.

Cover for Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins. A plain white cover with a black and white photo of British troops aiming the rifles toward the viewer.
The title Legacy of Violence is printed in bright red.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Jun 1

Dream Keeper by Anna Walker is just the loveliest book. Gorgeous illustrations. Sparse, poignant text. A delight.

Book cover of Dream Keeper by Anna Walker. Soft water colour or pencil illustration of a tortoise rowing a small boat away from an island filled with animals (giraffe, crocodile, tiger, dragon) holding lanterns.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· May 30

What? This Tim Dunlop? From the University of Queensland. Specifically from the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. The Faculty that decided to pulp the book Bila by Jazz Money because Chun was the illustrator? That Tim Dunlop? #auspol #uq #ethics

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· May 22

Joseph Conrad is judging your author headshot.

Etching of Joseph Conrad with well-groomed musketeer beard and moustache. Looking quite judgey in a colonial way. The etched border of the image is decorative and littered with images of plants, the Sun, a tall ship, the Earth and shells.
Taken from his book Youth and Gaspar Ruiz.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· May 10

View from my back veranda this evening.

A red brick, steepled church is visible through the tree tops. The sky is filled with sweeps of luminous orange and grey clouds. The light in the church vestry adds another source of light.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· May 4

Currently reading Time of the Child by Niall Williams. In truth I read lots of books at once tho, so I'm partway through The Soul Catchers by Naoko Higashi, The Arcanum by Janet Gleeson, Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth, Lancashire Witches by William Harrison Ainsworth & The Secret Hours by Mick Herron.

Time of the Child by Niall Williams. Orange cover, bright white title, main image of a snow covered church and stark wintry trees.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· May 2

The audience.

Photo of main characters from Spaced staring out at the camera.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Apr 11

One of three little peace gatherers.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Apr 9

The gathering of the things.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Apr 2

It's all about the base.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Apr 1

Currently listening to Guy Standing's The Politics of Time: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty. Interesting tidbit so far - The wording of the Lord's Prayer was originally 'forgive us our debts, as we also have also forgiven our debtors.'

Cover of The Politics of Tim: Gaining Control in the Age of Uncertainty. The background is a colour block of greenish-blue with a single red and white-striped deck chair placed under the title.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 25

Moley.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 21

Ook!

Paul Kidby artwork of the Librarian from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The large orangutan is smiling widely, wearing goggles and seems to be driving some contraption or other.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 21

When your excellent printer accidentally staples your gated centrefold of wombat taxidermy incorrectly. It's back with them being fixed. Sometimes even the best folk make mistakes.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 20

That time this magnificent wee beastie landed on my car aerial.

A dragonfly perched perfectly centre on a car aerial. In the background is a purple weatherboard house. The dragonfly's wings seem wonderfully aligned with the old garage doors, the windows above (also reflected on the car roof) and two outside lights placed on either side of the garage doors.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 16

On the desk. Testing her very unfinished legs. #sculpt

Sculpt in black and pink-brown apoxie sculpt (air dry) clay. The figure has many legs, a wizened face and a dress and head-dress of sculpted forest detritus. The bag she carries on her back is filled with rust-orange flowers and foilage.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 15

Testing, more tweaking, then painting.

Tiny Owl Workshop@tinyowlworkshop· Mar 14

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