The Book of Asylum

Shortlisted for the Northern Beaches Council Libraries Artists' Book Award 2015
& Acquired for their collection

Statement
Villawood Immigration Detention Centre provides visitors with lockers and a paper slip with locker access instructions. Hundreds of these slips issued to the Refugee Art Project volunteers and other volunteer visitors are bound like a palm-leaf sutra -- a testament to their committed and sustained goodwill towards asylum seekers.

Dimensions variable
4 X 10.5 X 90 cm

Materials
Visitors' locker slips from Villawood Immigration Detention Centre, Filmoplast tape, charred cedar, cotton cord and tassels.

Photography
Felicity Jenkins.

With thanks to
- The Refugee Art Project especially Safdar Ahmed and Bilquis Ghani, and their friends in the refugee support community
- Andrew Burns, Monica Oppen, Morrison Polkinghorne and Paul Smole.