Nicholas Jones is a man who takes the infinite possibilities of the book quite, ahem, literally.

Melbourne-based and (we're going to presume) endlessly patient, Jones creates captivating, tactile sculptures out of discarded books; cutting, burning, folding, gluing and otherwise dismembering these volumes into a startling array of shapes and forms.

In one moment an old atlas has a new shoreline carved out of it, in another, thousands of pages have been combined and contorted into a serpentine tube.

While some might dismiss such wilful destruction as heresy, we think these works make for a quite singular testament to the enduring importance of the book as physical object, something that is, right now, more important than ever.