A transcultural collaboration, proudly self-published with love
Suzie balances listening and slowness, with action and urgency, to make an extraordinary impact.
$1 FOR every book MADE goes towards planting trees.
We’ve partnered with ReForest Now who’re reforesting cleared land where rainforest once stood.
$5 = one tree planted.
Our first batch of books will see 250 trees planted.
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Author
Nathan is an artist and producer who collaborates on contemporary arts processes and performances with groups across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. His practice explores transcultural and queer approaches to storytelling and making friends, creating shared experiences to imagine and experiment with different ways of being together.
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Korean Translator
Younghee is an actor, director, writer and educator who works professionally in a broad range of settings, including adult and children’s theatre, community arts, film, and television. She has worked across South Korea, Australia, America, Japan, Germany, and China and specialises in bilingual theatre, transcultural performance and community arts.
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Illustrator
Brian's practice encompasses illustration, drawing, painting, graphic design and photography; often relying on simple analogue mediums with an emphasis towards process and technique. Themes of place, space and surroundings are repeatedly explored, fuelled by curiosity, itchy feet and a fear of complacency.
10 years in the making.
Nathan Stoneham
I wrote the first draft of The Footprint on an airplane between Australia and Korea in 2012. For a few years, only when flying, I’d open up the document and tinker.
The story held on, not wanting to be forgotten.
Years later, I saw Brian’s paintings of the sea on instagram, and sent a message to see if he’d be interested in illustrating a children’s picture book about a pair of shoes that are blamed for everything, but that are capable of so much in the right hands…. or on the right feet.
After over a decade of collaborating on bilingual theatre and community arts projects together, I invited my friend Younghee to collaborate on the story, and write a Korean version. Through this process, the text, themes, and characters developed and distilled as languages and perspectives interweaved.
Brian drew and painted all through the COVID lockdowns. His illustrations influenced the story too, with the Korean and English text responding to his breathtaking work.
In 2022, we fine-tuned all the book’s elements and finally self-published The Footprint, printing a small batch of books, available now.
It has been one very, slow step.
We hope it leaves an imprint on you, and the children in your life.
Imprint Page
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40 pages of hand drawn and hand painted illustrations
Story in English and Korean
318 x 242 mm hardcover picture book
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Self published by Nathan Stoneham in 2022.
ISBN: 978-0-6451153-0-7
A catalogue record of this work is available from the National Library of Australia.
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Printed in Australia by McPhersons Printing Group, who hold the following environmental certifications:
Program for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC™), Chain of Custody certification
Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®), Chain of Custody certification
ISO 9001:2015 Certification
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In true self-publishing style, we’re posting each book out ourselves.
Books are sent in a card envelope, via Australia Post.
Shipping fees are calculated at checkout.
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At the moment, you can buy The Footprint from our online store, or at Art From the Margins, 136 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley, Queensland, Australia
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This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The Footprint is supported by the Commonwealth through the Australia-Korea Foundation, which is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Footprint Storytime is supported by The Regional Arts Development Fund - a partnership between the Queensland Government and City of Moreton Bay to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
