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China Cabinet by Angie Butler, Pet Galerie is on show until the end of October.
A site-specific piece made for a wooden cabinet, sited in a corridor of the Print Centre at UWE as an installation for Impact Multi-disciplinary printmaking Conference:.
Impact Conference
| September sees Impact
Multi-disciplinary printmaking Conference return to Bristol for its
10th year celebrations. Over 400 people are attending, and we will
be showing our exhibition New Wave, which includes over 100 artists’
publications, and discussing artists’ books on a panel for the
Conference with Rosa Tarruella (University
of Barcelona) who will discuss Spanish artists’ books
group 13L; Julie Barratt
of Barratt Galleries, Australia will show
examples of regional artists’ books and discuss the growing
network of Australian book artists. Maria Lucia
Cattani (whose recent work includes Quadrantes
- Quadrants, a work placed in three academic libraries in UK
and one in Brazil) will discuss contemporary artists’ books
from Brazil. Tom Sowden (AHRC Research Fellow,
UWE Bristol) will discuss contemporary artists’ books publishing
in relation to the CFPR’s current
AHRC supported
project, investigating the artist’s book in the 21st Century. We are also delighted to have Tim Mosely running a pulp-printing Masterclass here in the run up to Impact, Tim will also be presenting at the conference and showing examples of pulp-printed artists’ books. www.impact.uwe.ac.uk for more information. |
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Make Your Own Green Bookmark!
…Or any colour you like, as long as it’s recycled!
As part of Yateley Library’s involvement with University of West of England’s artist-made Bookmarks VII project, you’re invited to come and have a go at making your own bookmark, using some of our old recycled books (or bring some of your own from home!).
All Ages Welcome!
1:00 - 5:00pm, Friday 30th October, 2009
Yateley Library
School Lane
Yateley
Hampshire
GU46 6NL
| Artist’s Book Yearbook : 2010-2011 The new Artist’s Book Yearbook 2010-2011 is at the printers - pre-publication orders will be sent out at the end of September. As well as essays and artists’ pages, the ABYB includes information and listings sections of: book artists, organisations, collections, book fairs, centres, bookshops, fairs, events, bookbinders, typeset and design services, print studios, courses and more… The ABYB 2010-2011 will be available to order from October on the bookarts website publications page. The Blue Notebook Volume 4 No 1 We are currently working on our journal for the October issue, which includes articles by: Frans Baake, Nancy Campbell, Sarah Clark, Chloë King, Tate Shaw, Kyoko Tachibana and Elysa Voshell. Artists’ pages by: Scott McCarney, Lilla Duignan, Giulia Resteghini, Dmitry Sayenko and Alice Potter. Many thanks to Stephen Fowler for the fabulous cover, badge and sticker designs for this volume! For subscription forms, please see our publications pages. Thanks are due to our summer intern Madeleine Kennedy who helped with The Blue Notebook as part of her work with us last month. Madeleine is currently studying for a combined MA in Art History and Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. In early 2009, she became the editor of the Inklight journal, the annual publication from the university’s creative writing society. The journal is intended to showcase the talents of the St Andrews writing community, and for the last few years has put particular emphasis on the marriage of visual and textual content. This year’s journal will be published in March 2010 to coincide with the launch of STANZA (http://www.stanzapoetry.org/), Scotland’s largest poetry festival. For information about Inklight visit www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~spotlght/ |
 
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides
Many thanks to all the printers who have contributed broadsides for this project organised by the al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition which has been organising readings and other events since April 2007 to fundraise for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
You can see some of the broadside contributions we received to send on, on our exhibitions page, along with instructions on how to take part.
"I've come to feel that wherever someone sits down to read, or where someone takes up their pen and paper to write, it is there that al-Mutanabbi Street starts." -
Beau Beausoleil - Founder of the al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition.
The first round broadsides may be viewed at the Florida Atlantic University/Jaffe Center for Book Arts site, which is adding all the broadsides to the online gallery:
www.library.fau.edu./depts/spc/JaffeCenter/jaffemutanabbistreetstartshere.htm
Only 12 more printers are needed to make an edition of broadsides each to complete the 130 total by 30th November. If you can help, please contact Beau Beausoleil - Coordinator of al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project IV, at e-mail : overlandbooks@earthlink.net
Bookmarks VII 2009 Now Online!
Bookmarks VII Infiltrating the Library System 2009-2010 is now live with 37 artists contributing 3600 bookmarks from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Canada, USA and Australia. Thanks to our summer intern Alice Potter for all her help with the project.
The bookmarks are available at 10 venues from 25th September - please visit the Bookmarks VII page to see where they are, and to view the artists’ gallery.
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Bottle-Top Badge Project September 2009 The bottle-top project organised by Angie Butler, one of our MA students, for members of the ABC (Artists Book Club, founded by Lilla Duignan), is now on show at Doverodde, Denmark for the Limfjord Centre’s Anniversary until the end of September. The badges will be auctioned this autumn to raise funds for the next Book Arts Festival in Denmark. Some of the badges can be seen with further information on our Exhibitions pages. |
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