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Artist’s Book Yearbook


The ABYB is a biennial reference publication focusing on international activity in the field of book arts.

It serves as a resource for artists, academics, students, collectors, librarians, dealers, publishers and researchers, in fact anyone interested in artists’ books!

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025

The 2024-2025 issue has 10 essays, articles, and lots of useful information on:

Articles and essays for this edition of the Artist’s Book Yearbook, in order of appearance: David Paton considers the 50+ years of collecting the 14,000+ items now housed in the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA) at the Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In Ossessione, Tanya Peixoto shares her experiences of finding a fitting tribute to her husband, Alastair Brotchie (20/07/1952 – 27/01/2023) writer and artist who co-founded and ran Atlas Press, the London Institute of ’Pataphysics (LIP) and was also the owner of the building that bookartbookshop resides in. Jadwiga Tryzno looks back at Thirty years of the Book Art Museum in Henryk Grohman’s villa in Łódź, Poland. On a Clear Day – Julie Johnstone & Maria White in conversation has been written up from a public event that took place during Julie Johnstone’s 2023 exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol. In The (Unrepeatable) Wayzgoose Press: 1985–2020, Caren Florance explores the artistic lifetimes of Michael (Mike) Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis. John Bently reflects on Liver and Lights. Forty plus years…. UK artist Robert Good examines titles, form and colour as the first virtual Summer Librarian at Street Road’s gallery and Little Free Library in Cochranville, USA. Sign the world Field Study – Formed in London in 1993 by three artists, David Dellafiora, Benedict Phillips and Eamonn Kirwin, Field Study is an international network of mail artists. Susan Hartigan looks at people and publications featuring in its 30-year history. Helen Morley interviews Graham Moss – typographer, book design, book binder and proprietor of Incline Press in Oldham, UK. Jennie Hinchcliff – Director of Exhibitions and Artist Programs at the San Francisco Center for the Book – explores the Semblance of Authority: Handheld Rubber Stamps as a Tool of Protest and Activism. Sienkiewicz Street in Kielce 20 Years After – or in search of the other side – Radosław Nowakowski celebrates the anniversary of his book Sienkiewicza Street in Kielce with a new edition. In THE POEM THAT BUILT A CITY, Alastair R. Noble reflects on a month living at Ciudada Abierta, Cooperativa Amereida, Ritoque, Chile. In Redefining the Artist’s Book: Ed Ruscha’s “Twentysix Gasoline Stations” and its Enduring Influence, ChatPGT et al. respond to a writing prompt by Tom Sowden.

Cover design: Tom Sowden in collaboration with DALL-E.

Artists’ Pages: Volodymyr Bilyk (Ukraine) Fernanda Fedrizzi (Brazil) Julie Graves Krishnaswami (USA) Kena Kitchengs (Mexico) Paul Laidler (UK) Raquel Meyers (Spain) Richard Nash (UK) Danni Storm (Denmark) hiromi suzuki (Japan).

Listings: Artist’s Book Publishers & Presses; Bookshops for artists’ books; Artist’s Book Dealers; Artist’s Book Galleries & Centres; Collections, Libraries & Archives; Artist’s Book Fairs and Events; Book Arts Courses and Workshops; Design, Print & Bind; Print Studios; Journals and Magazines; New Reference Publications; Organisations, People, Projects and Societies.

450+ works in the Artists’ Books Listings section. Here you will find new books made (or in the making), by artists in: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Israel, Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the UK and USA.

Edited by Sarah Bodman. Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. ISBN 978-1-906501-30-3. 296pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, black and white throughout, 516 illustrations.

Published January 2024.

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Artist's Book Yearbook 2024-2025


Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022-2023

Articles and essays for this edition of the Artist’s Book Yearbook, in order of appearance:
BOOKS BOXED – Imi Maufe asks – What happens when a book is boxed? and discusses the use and potential of box structures in artist’s book design; In the first of two pieces, David Solo reports on the – Book Art Review (BAR) Convening and Contemporary Artist’s Book Conference, organised by the Center for Book Arts, New York; S. Pringly Binder presents A Books-Bellow; In her essay Place, nature and nourishment: artists’ books residencies at Deuchar Mill 2006-2017, Maria White reflects on the works produced by artists hosted by Helen Douglas; Jeff Thomas, Jennie Hinchcliff & Chad Johnson look back on some historic exhibitions and events at San Francisco Center for the Book: Celebrating twenty-five years “in the books”.

A correspondence between curator, critic and book editor Moritz Küng and artist and researcher John McDowall discusses some particular links between Artists’ Books and Architecture; In Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira l’Appropriation, Robert Bolick reflects on the publication of Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira le Hasard (1897); the poem that launched countless works experimenting with typography and the page. Bolick has curated a touring exhibition launching in 2022 – the 125th anniversary of its publication; In Exquisite words: the I AM artist’s book, Susan Hartigan explores Geelong’s latest public artwork and its accompanying, limited edition artist’s book; Amir Brito Cadôr discusses some examples of engaging cover images / designs – the first contact that most people have with any book. In his essay Do Not Open That Door: And I Open It, Dino Alfier examines repetition in mainstream textual artefacts.

In Copy, Tweak, Paste, Rob van Leijsen looks at methods of appropriation in artists’ books by Michalis Pichler. For his second article in this issue David Solo compares some early examples and recent works of photopoetry and artists’ books. Ioannis Anastasiou, Anna Chlebowska & Majka Dokudowicz present Zine Without a Crown, a collective publication that first emerged during lockdown in 2020. In The Missed Moment: turn another page, Stephen Clarke reflects on the relevance of lost opportunities. Natalia Zagorska-Thomas (curator) and Tanya Peixoto (host) present ‘Exhibition in a Drawer – Proforma’ (Bookworks) at Bookartbookshop, London, UK

Cover design: Tom Sowden

Artists’ Pages: Yasushi Cho (Japan) David Faithfull (UK) David Kjellin (Sweden) Ruta Prusinskaite (UK) Stevie Ronnie (UK) Street Road’s Summer Library project (USA) Genevieve Taricco & Rachel Wingate (UK).

Listings: Artist’s Book Publishers & Presses; Bookshops for artists’ books; Artist’s Book Dealers; Artist’s Book Galleries & Centres; Collections, Libraries & Archives; Artist’s Book Fairs and Events; Book Arts Courses and Workshops; Design, Print & Bind; Print Studios; Journals and Magazines; New Reference Publications; Organisations, People, Projects and Societies.

420+ works in the Artists’ Books Listings section. Here you will find new books made (or in the making), by artists in: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA.

Edited by Sarah Bodman. Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. ISBN 978-1-906501-22-8. 292pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, black and white throughout, 503 illustrations.

Published January 2022.

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Artist's Book Yearbook 2022-2023


Artist’s Book Yearbook 2020-2021

Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol

Essays: With her regular front page, Tanya Peixoto (UK) celebrates some highlights of bookartbookshop over the last two years – from Cat Utting’s City Cells, to Clod Magazine; In his essay Against Classification: An alternative history of Book Art, John Bently (UK) explores the affiliations between photography and the artist’s book; Deirdre E. Lawrence (USA) reflects on the influence of Walt Whitman’s prose on contemporary book artists in a new exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth;Let’s call it Lace Stitch by Anna Juchnowicz (Poland) examines an alternative approach to bookbinding structures; In The Library Aesthetic, artists Leslie Mutchler & Jason Urban (USA) discuss their approaches to making installation-based works that explore and respond to ideas of the library, books and reading; Yuliya Selivanova (Russia) writes about the special holdings of the Saint-Petersburg Literary Museum “XX century”, the collection of the Library of Mikhail Karasik (1953–2017), and his still present influence in the artist’s book arena; Jürgen Wegner (Australia) reports on Hubert Kretschmer’s Munich-based AAP, in A visit to Archive Artist Publications and its exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, München, Germany; In The Book and its Algorithm, Dr Richard A. Carter (UK) explains the making of two experimental books founded on digitally generated images and text, and the algorithmic operations which produced their contents; The Politics of Place by Alexander Campos (USA) & Monica Oppen (Australia) discusses a selection of artists’ books investigating society’s struggles with displacement, and what it means to have – and lose – a sense of belonging, homeland and identity; In An Instrument of Collaboration: Unfolding the legacy of the Graphic Investigations Workshop (GIW), Caren Florance (Australia) reflects upon the rich history of GIW as a unique and complex entity in creative book-making in Australia. Headed by artist Petr Herel, with a host of respected artists including Dianne Fogwell, John Pratt, Gaynor Cardew and Udo Sellbach, the legacy of GIW’s working methodology is its use of the book as a collaborative ‘common ground’.

Cover design: Tom Sowden

Artists’ pages by: Megan Adie (Denmark) Angie Butler (UK), Robert Good (UK) Eva Hejdström (Sweden), Paul Laidler (UK), Daniel Lehan (UK), Sophie Loss (UK), Linda Parr (UK), Ekaterina Vasilyeva (Russia) and Eiji Watanabe (Japan).

The listings sections detail artists’ books activity, education and collecting taking place internationally and include: Artist’s Book Publishers & Presses; Bookshops for artists’ books; Artist’s Book Dealers; Galleries & Centres; Collections, Libraries & Archives; Artist’s Book Fairs and Events; Book Arts Courses and Workshops; resources for Design, Print & Bind; Print and Papermaking Studios; Journals and Magazines; New Reference Publications; Organisations, People, Projects and Societies.

In the Artists’ Books Listings section, you can also discover hundreds of examples of new books made (or in the making), by artists in: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the UK and the USA.

Edited by Sarah Bodman. Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Autumn 2019. ISBN 978-1-906501-18-1. 236pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, black and white offset litho, colour cover.

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Artist's Book Yearbook 2020-2021



Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018-2019

Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol

Essays: With her regular page for bookartbookshop, Tanya Peixoto celebrates Kelly Wellman; Endangered Species of Book by John Bently, ponders the disappearance of paper-based books from our daily routines; Liminal Moments At The Edges: Reading Montage Narratives in Artists’ Books by Victoria Cooper explores some examples of the montage within bookworks by Australian artists held within the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane; Peter Seddon Reviews the exhibition Press & Release 2016: Technology and the Evolution of The Artist’s Book at Phoenix Brighton, UK; Josh Hockensmith of the Joseph C. Sloane Art Library at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA, explains The Artists’ Books Critical Index Project, gathering citations of where specific artists’ books are mentioned or pictured in literature about artists’ books; Egidija Čiricaitė considers In the Space of Time – the metaphor of book space as "time" in artists’ books from the Prescriptions collection held at the University of Kent Special Collections and Archives, UK; in unfoldingthinking – Making Book Art with Scientists, Les Bicknell reflects on his recent artist’s residency at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Nanoscience and Technology at Cambridge University, UK, and the bookworks produced to date; from Poland, in What if my artist’s book is not really an object…, Anna Juchnowicz discusses her long-term project using printmaking, artists’ books and installation to express ideas from the poetry of Sappho today; in BEEZER: Library Interventions, Nick Norton reflects on the artists, designers, writers and performers participating in the interventions programme at Leeds College of Art, UK. Since 2013 Library Interventions has been making the creative potential of the library visible to a wide audience; in Un-Flattened: Book Arts and the Artist’s Map, Rosie Sherwood, UK, asks from the perspective of a book artist – Can a map be a reflection of a place, an experience, an emotional response?

Cover design: Tom Sowden

Artists’ pages by: Stephan Erasmus, Gloria Glitzer, Kellie Hindmarch, Sarah Jacobs, Sophie Loss, Hazel Roberts, Tricia Treacy, and Claire Yspol.

The listings sections detail some of the vast amount of artists’ books activity, education and discussion taking place around the world and include: Artist’s Book Publishers & Presses; Bookshops for artists’ books; Artist’s Book Dealers; Galleries & Centres; Collections, Libraries & Archives; Artist’s Book Fairs and Events; Book Arts Courses and Workshops; resources for Design, Print & Bind; Print and Papermaking Studios; Journals and Magazines; New Reference Publications; Organisations, People, Projects and Societies.

In the Artists’ Books Listings section, you can discover 400+ examples of new artists’ books from the information sent in by artists in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA.

240pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, black and white offset litho, colour cover. ISBN 978-1-906501-12-9.

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Artists' Book Yearbook 2017-18