This exhibition is part I of a project to encourage people to appreciate artwork in the format of bookmarks and to visit artist’s book venues and libraries. Two series of display sets will be installed in over 20 venues, with 50 contributing artists producing bookmarks over the one-year period.
Part I involves 25 artists all of whom work in the format of the artist’s book, each of them has generously produced an edition of 100 bookmarks for free distribution.
The Bookmarks, made in an edition of 100, include a set for each artist as thanks for their participation, a set for our archives and the rest divided into distribution sets for each of the venues, plus one archive set for each venue to keep. Each of the Bookmarks is stamped with www.uwe.ac.uk/amd/cfpr/bkmks which links to this page on the UWE Faculty website, with images and details of each of the contributor’s Bookmarks.
The Venues:
Each venue is supplied with a custom made Bookmarks Exhibition Box, to be installed in their area. Bookmarks by the artists are for the public and visitors to take.
Host Venues for Part I from June 2004 – November 2004:
Winchester School of Art Library, Park Avenue, Winchester, UK, www.library.soton.ac.uk
Bookartbookshop, 17 Pitfield Street London, UK, www.bookartbookshop.com
Scuola Grafica, Cannaregio San Marcuola, 30121 Venice, Italy, www.scuolagrafica.it
The Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, Millbank, London, www.tate.org.uk/researchservices/
Art Metropole, 788 King Street West, Toronto, M5V 1N6, Canada www.artmetropole.com
Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, John M Flaxman Library/School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 37 South Wabash, Chicago, Il 60603-310, USA www.artic.edu/saic/art/flasch
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 www.utc.edu/Academic/Art/
Department of Rare Books, Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA www.yale.edu/ycba
Boekie Woekie, Berenstraat 16, 1016 GH Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.boekiewoekie.com
Centre for the Artist’s Book, Grahame Galleries and Editions, Queensland 4064, Australia www.grahamegalleries.com/
School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1505, USA http://art.asu.edu/printmaking/index.html
Library, Akademie voor beeldende Kunst et Vormgeving, Hallenweg 5, 7500 BK, Enschede, The Netherlands www.aki.nl
Library, University of the West of England, Faculty of Art, Media and Design, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, www.uwe.ac.uk/amd/cfpr/bkmks