School of Art, Media and Design, UWE Bristol:
19th August - 21st September 2003
Camberwell Book Arts MA
This exhibition looks at the diverse range of work produced on the Book Arts MA at Camberwell College of Art over the past year. The students are encouraged to explore the role and identity of the artist's book and to push the boundaries of what constitutes a book. From those that are letterpress printed to ceramics, from performance art to games. Mediums and methods of working are investigated within and outside of the book format. Each student spends the year developing one project from proposal to exhibition, and this series of books are a range of examples from each student produced along this path.
Deborah Kirk
An Anthology of Lights: pure, polished, loose leaf lights. Extracted from the residue of my walking through London, this collection is about focussing on the city in a different way, concentrating on objects in a way that isolates them from the clutter of information that is the modern city. Image is a journey, anchored in words, and the whole is a poem: the images can only be read in light of the words, and the words can only be read in light of the images. Works from the City Languages series pull lights and shadows out of the city and force the viewer to look again, to look for purely visual reasons, not for information.
Elaine Worth
In my present work I am exploring the conscious and unconscious games we play as we adopt our different roles in social and family situations. Looking at the rules, strategies and transactions that operate in these situations. As well as the mapping and projection that goes on in these situations. How we project our games onto others, as well as having them projected onto us. I have been using the metaphor of the game to explore 'games people play'.
Helen Ward
Using images of a Marilyn Monroe paper doll kit, this book explores society's collective memory of woman. Through the act of remembrance (Monroe's outfits) & the act of play (the book includes a mini Monroe paper doll) the reader can at once control process of Monroe/woman's changing appearance. The reader can also play at being that archetypal woman expected through collective memory, as each paper outfit has it's face cut out - look through Monroe's eyes & be the perfect woman!
Kin-wah Tsang
People only show you one side of things but why do they show you this and not the other? Are things simple or do they just appear like this? Questioning those accepted, believed and favoured ideas, rules and norms, in my opinion, helps to open a space for re-examining the neutrality and normality of the ideas and things that we have taken for granted or which have been imposed and educated by the others and the society. This also helps us to look and think from a different perspective or angle that we may have missed or ignored.
Kyoko Tachibana
1 book art is culture
2 culture is about doing and making things for yourself (at least)
3 my projects are set to find my own way from where I am to where I'm going
4 home is where I am and publishing is the destination
5 (subjective) objective = book art
a) subjective = home, objective = publishing
b) subjective = home of the book, objective = home for the book
Lucy Badrocke
The power of the word over the body and the visual status of letters are the basis for the work 'spells'. The work is a collection of 26 letterpress cards, one for each letter of the alphabet, presented as a triangle. Each word is repeated less one letter each time until reaching the words first letter, which holds the meaning and power of the word. The letters are a constellation in the space of the page, indented on the paper the physical nature of text highlights the interaction between the reader and the text, the body and the word.
Tom Sowden
This work is an exploration into the space that is the motorway. It is primarily about the mental state whilst travelling a monotonous route, introspection and interaction, loneliness and being detached. Each of the books is documentation of a low key performance executed on the coach. These are performed for an audience of varying numbers who do not interact and more often than not do not know of their participation in the work. The book is the output for the performance, retaining the sequence and the narrative and physically engaging the viewer. Whilst remaining the intimate object that must be travelled through in order to be understood.
Choi Chun Hei
For more information on this, or any of the Artists Book Events at CFPR, please contact:
Research Associate for Artists' Books
Centre for Fine Print Research UWE, Bristol
Faculty of Art, Media and Design
Kennel Lodge Road
Bristol
BS3 2JT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 344 4747
Fax: +44 (0)117 344 4824
Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk
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