Alice Potter June-July 2009
Alice was our summer intern for artists’ books at the Centre for Fine Print Research from June-July 2009. Alice volunteered to work with us over the summer to gain experience in artists’ books practice and projects for her future study and career, she is currently studying illustration at UWE.
Alice was an amazing help, and undertook a large amount of work for us. She worked on the Bookmarks VII project, scanning all the artists’ bookmarks for the online gallery, checked texts, assembled the 100 sets needed to send out to artists and the 10 venues, and helped send the works out to artists and venues. Her help on this project was invaluable.
Alice also helped us with installation of the summer exhibitions, and played a key role in the preparations for our two-day artists’ books conference at UWE in July, which had 65 national and international delegates. She assembled materials, made up the delegate packs, ran the registration desk, helped us make teas and coffees and helped with all the boring washing up and cleaning tasks, which were done with extreme efficiency and good humour. Alice also assisted exhibiting artists and speakers during the conference and impressed everyone with her ability to multi-task and think on her feet.
She also helped us prepare displays of hundreds of artists’ books in the collection for visitors, and assisted us with detective work tracking down books and updating our archive information. Alice also spent many hours scanning and identifying books to help us curate our September exhibition New Wave with 135 artists.
We hope she has gained some valuable experience from her time with us, we were very interested in her artwork and ideas, and subsequently Tom Sowden invited Alice to be one of the 5 featured artists creating an artist’s page for the October edition of our Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books.
http://alicepotter3.blogspot.com
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Madeleine Kennedy August 2009
Madeleine was our summer intern for artists’ books at the Centre for Fine Print Research 17th - 28th August 2009. Madeleine volunteered to work with us over the summer to gain experience in artists’ books projects after meeting with us at our BABE Artists’ Books Event at Arnolfini, Bristol in April, when she was currently studying for a combined MA in Art History and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK
Madeleine was a wonderful help to us in the time she was here. She undertook plenty of work with efficiency and good humour. She spent many hours preparing for our forthcoming exhibition New Wave: artists’ books in the 21st century. This entailed identifying books from previous exhibitions, photographing, scanning and making images ready for the online gallery and catalogue, matching texts to images, and proof reading.
Madeleine also helped with the October issue of our artists’ books journal, The Blue Notebook, which we hope offered her some experience which will prove useful in her role as editor of the Inklight journal at St Andrews. Madeleine dealt professionally with a variety of tasks for our journal, from copy editing essays and contributions, to helping us make up the subscription packs.
Madeleine also scanned and photographed all the submitted artworks for round four of the al-Mutanabbi letterpress broadsides project - an international call for artists and writers to produce works as a fundraiser for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). As well as managing this, she quickly grasped the rudiments of letterpress print in order to contribute a broadside edition of her own for the project, which delighted Beau Beausoleil, the co-ordinator of the project in San Francisco!
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Lauren Curl July 2008
Lauren graduated from Cardiff School of Art & Design with a 1st Class Honours in Fine Art, and interned with us in July 2008 to help with the Bookmarks project.
We met Lauren at Artists’ Talks on Artists’ Books on Friday 13th July 2007, a one-day symposium at Winchester School of Art, which we co-hosted with Winchester School of Art Library, University of Southampton. Lauren kindly supplied recordings she had made during the day for our website archive.
Lauren was immensely helpful with scanning and compiling the artists’ bookmarks sets for Bookmarks VI which involved 5,000 works by 50 artists.
Lauren is currently working with Artes Mundi, a contemporary visual arts initiative that celebrate and recognise artists from across the world through a biennial exhibition and prize at the National Museum Cardiff.
She has been involved with public art projects, including an interactive poetry wall, community craft workshops and continues exploring her creative practice.
www.laurencurl.co.uk
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| Leonie LachlanJuly-August
2007 Leonie studied for her BA in Fine Art at Newcastle University. In 2007 she was granted the Bartlett Travel Award for a trip to Brasilia to study the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer. A subsequent solo exhibition resulted in Leonie being invited to read a paper about her work at Niemeyer's 100th Birthday celebration symposium at the University of Essex. Leonie graduated from Newcastle University in 2008 and was again granted the Bartlett Travel Award for a trip to Brazil, this time to attend the 28th Bienal de Sao Paulo, to undergo a period of study in the vast sprawling metropolis and to create sand settlements on the beaches of Bahia (see http://saopaulosketchbook.com). Shortly before leaving Newcastle, Leonie’s sand cities were exhibited with the work of five other emerging artists selected from universities in the region. Leonie’s artists' books City Cypher: Paris and City Cypher: Sao Paulo were presented with the Birgit Skiold Award for excellence at the 2009 London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery. The linocut and letterpress books decode and decipher the language of urban architecture and structure and are taken from Leonie’s drawings from high vantage points. Also in 2009, Leonie returned to London where she completed the drawing year at The Prince’s Drawing School. Drawing projects Leonie has been involved in include a trip to Qatar in late 2010 with the architects Allies & Morrison. Leonie lives and works in London. She prints with p’s & q’s press in Oxfordshire. back |
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