Hereford College of Arts: Book Arts Competition 2010: Selected Works
3rd September - 1st October 2010
As a specialist college, Hereford College of Art has developed a strong and unique Book Arts initiative. Book making workshops and book arts modules are taught by a specialist practitioner across a broad range of Undergraduate and Further Education courses.
Every year a book arts project is set as a cross-college competition that culminates in a programmed touring exhibition that is displayed at the Guardian sponsored Hay Festival, UK universities and internationally recognised artists book venues. This exhibition has been selected for The School of Creative Arts at UWE from work submitted for the HCA 2010 Book Arts Competition.
Students and staff from all courses have been invited to enter the competition, the objective being to explore and expand the traditional boundaries of the book and consider its form and function as a medium for the creative potential of linear and non-linear narrative.
The books produced and submitted are made using a wide range of media and concepts based on the artists, designers and photographers’ interpretations and notion of the book. There are books as sculpture, altered books and works which explore different types of narrative and the time based nature of sequentially folded and bound pages; some of the works on display are produced through digital means, others engage with more traditional craft based methods of production.
The students are encouraged to celebrate the tactile qualities of the book through personal responses to a wide variety of subjects. Subsequently there are books made with details that require close scrutiny and examination and other works that have an immediate overall visual impact.
The book form as working media, offers students the opportunity to engage and intervene with an important multi-disciplinary art & design genre. The student works in this exhibition, reflect the wide range of potential for the investigation of the book form in specialist art and design education.
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