Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
Saturday 4th April and Sunday 5th April 2009
Thanks to all the participants in BABE 2009! We really enjoyed the weekend and hope you did too.
83 national and international artists, presses, groups, colleges, publishers and dealers showcased hundreds of artists’ books over the weekend. Exhibitors travelled from as far afield as South Korea, mainland Europe and the USA to take part in BABE. 6,467 visitors came to Arnolfini for the event over the weekend.
Special events to accompany the book fair included:
Mash-up kids workshop - concertina books with Tamany Baker : www.tamany.net
Paper engineering workshop with Guy Begbie
A roving bookselling performance by BABE’s rogue trader Stephen Fowler
Performances of vector and Picasso’s Guitar (http://www.foundrypress.co.uk/foundryarchive09.html) by Francis Elliott (Foundry Press) : www.franciselliott.com
“Between You and Me” a book dress created by Tortie Rye and Kirstie Macleod, and performed by Eloise Fornieles. www.tortie.co.uk / www.dreamingdresses.com
/ www.eloisefornieles.com
Walking tours with Tanya Peixoto of bookartbookshop www.bookartbookshop.com and Julian Warren Arnolfini’s Archivist.
Atlas Press - 25 Years of Anti Tradition featured in the showcase in Arnolfini bookshop : www.atlaspress.co.uk
A free ‘book surgery’ ran over the weekend with artist and writer Nancy Campbell (www.nancycampbelle.blogspot.com) on Saturday, and Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden on Sunday, with limited bookable slots for help and advice on artists’ books.
Lots of photos by Arnolfini’s official photographer Carl Newland are at: http://gallery.me.com/carlnewland
List of Participants:
| ABC @ BIAD : www.artistsbookcollective.blogspot.com/ Abombpress : www.abombpress.co.uk Altazimuth Press : http://peterchasseaud.blogspot.com AM Bruno : www.am-bruno.blogspot.com Antic-Ham : www.anitcham.com Archive Books Artistsbooksonline : www.artistsbooksonline.com Bob Howe Bookartbookshop : www.bookartbookshop.com Borbonessa : www.borbonesa.co.uk © Leslieworks : www.leslieworks.co.uk Cally Barker : www.thebookproject.org Camberwell College of Arts : www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk Cardboard Press : www.cardboardpress.com Colin Sackett : www.colinsackett.co.uk Coracle : www.coracle.ie Damn Fine Art : http://damnfineart.blogspot.com/ David Barton EAK Press : www.eakenterprises.org East London Printmakers : www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk Emily Speed : www.emilyspeed.co.uk Ensixteen Editions Francis Elliott Foundry : www.foundrypress.co.uk Guy Begbie Here Shop & Gallery : www.thingsfromhere.co.uk Hilary Judd & Lucy May Schofield : www.lucymayschofield.co.uk / www.hilaryj.co.uk Ian Abbott Ignition : www.ignition.ie Illustration at the University of Plymouth : www.illustration-plymouth.typepad.com Imi Maufe Joan Ainley Impact Press, UWE Bristol : www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Liver and Lights Scriptorium : www.liverandlights.co.uk |
Lorna Crabbe : www.lornacrabbe.co.uk Love to Print/Lonely Panda : www.lovetpprint.blogspot.com / www.lonelypanda.com Lunardog Limited : www.lunardog.com Mark Pawson : www.mpawson.demon.co.uk Matthew Dale : www.matthewdale.wordpress.com Mermaid Turbulence : www.mermaidturbulence.com Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck : www.ambeck.mdd.dk MM Visual Catering : www.rook.dircon.co.uk Mr. Smith Newthink Books : www.newthink.co.uk North by South West : www.thisacademy.com/northbysouthwest Otto Books : www.ottobooks.co.uk Oxford & Cherwell Valley College : www.ocvc@ac.uk p’s & q’s Press Parvenu Press : http://carolyntrantparvenu.blogspot.com The Pearbox Press : www.edboxall.com Preacher’s Biscuit Books : www.preachersbiscuitbooks.com Rag-and-Bone Shop Books : www.artistsbooksonline.com Reassemble : www.reassemble.co.uk Redfoxpress : www.redfoxpress.com Responsa Press : www.amandasmith.org.uk RGAP : www.rgap.co.uk Righton Press : www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/rightonpress Ros Blackmore & Andrew Hansford Salt and Shaw Serendipity Press : www.seredipitypress.wordpress.com Sidney Nolan Trust : www.sidneyreynoldstrust.org Stephen Fowler Su Tamany Baker : www.tamany.net Talk Sense Press Triangular Press Typecast feat. Exit Stencilist : www.t8gallery.com Winchester School of Art Library : www.soton.ac.uk/library |
Many thanks to Arnolfini staff, especially Peter, Julian and Snoozie who worked so hard to make it such a great event. www.arnolfini.org.uk
We hope to see you all again at the next BABE in 2011!
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