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to Tom Sowden who has been appointed Research Associate (0.4) in Book Arts at MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Design. He will be working with staff, developing the university’s Righton Press and its activities. Tom will now split his time between UWE Bristol and MMU promoting book arts.
Creating Artists’ Books
Creating Artists' Books, a new printmaking handbook by Sarah Bodman has been published by A&C Black in the UK and Watson-Guptill in the USA. The book is a practical guide for artists who are interested in working with the book format. Various methods and issues involved in the making of an artist’s book are examined with examples of work by a number of contemporary artists. The book discusses both new and traditional processes for artist’s book production, from digital print to limited materials, and looks at a variety of ways in which the book format can be utilised by artists from unique works to zines. There is also a reference section of websites, galleries, archives and organisations.
ISBN 0-8230-1012-0 in the USA, ISBN 0-7136-6509-2 in the UK
Available from bookstores or www.acblack.com , www.watsonguptill.com or www.amazon.com
Artist's Book Yearbook : 2006-2007
The new issue of the Artist’s Book Yearbook was published this autumn.
The 2005-2007 issue includes essays by:
Betty Jo Irvine and Sylvia Turchyn: Women's Studio Workshop, USA; Clifton Meador: The Nameless Dead; Mike Nicholson: Story Life; Guy Begbie on the 1st International Korean Artist’s Book Fair; Mette Ambeck: Paper Vikings, Virtually - Scandinavian Artists’ books; Ian Tyson: 10 years of ed.it ; John Bently: Selling stuff we’ve made; some thoughts; Sarah Jacobs: Books in the Prinzhorn Collection and some Thoughts Arising ; Tanya Peixoto; bookartbookshop: a year in pictures ; Linda Newington & Catherine Polley: Alive and kicking – The Artists’ Book Collection at Winchester School of Art Library; Paulo Silveira: The disarrayed books of Brazil; Vicky Fullick (Harrington & Squires): A Brief Look at the Foundations of the Private Press and its Contemporary Counterpart; Tracey Bush: Paper Butterfly; Jan Voss: Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam; Kyle Schlesinger: When the Book Blinks Back, Granary at a Glance; Anton Würth: the use of typography; Reinhard Grüner: “ ... a Dim Reflection of Art” Memories of a (West) German Collector; Graeme Walker: Bookville ; Tom Sowden & Sarah Bodman: marketing artists’ books.
Artists pages by:
Patrick Lears, Kristen Merola, Danny Flynn, Hector and Glen, Tate Shaw, Sonia Almeida, Lucy May Schofield, Dylan Stone, Kyoko Tachibana, Hannah Lobley and Paul Laidler. Artists’ listings, collections, bookshops, courses, books published and more...
Artists’ listings, collections, bookshops, courses, books published and more…see the 'Publications' page for how to order.
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Our AHRC supported survey project has resulted in the publication of this guide for book artists, particularly those who have little experience of marketing their work. We asked both established and new artists to tell us about any issues concerning the production and marketing their artists’ books. This helped to establish a picture of the current situation, so we could try to address some of the problems experienced by book artists.
This downloadable guide has been compiled for the book artist - assuming their role is that of creative producer, publisher and distributor of their own artwork; to discuss and hopefully resolve some of the practical issues arising from this. The survey compared methods used by book artists for producing and distributing their work, and the importance of artist’s book fairs and events for building relationships with purchasers and with other artists.
The following guide has been compiled from the data collected from a range of sources including: our survey forms, which were distributed at book fairs, through our mailing list and downloadable via a link on our website. Respondents ranged from well established to newer artists, and a range of curators, collectors (both institutional and private) bookshops, dealers, galleries, lecturers and instructors.
We also interviewed 24 book artists to present a series of case studies of artists’ experiences in the UK, EIRE, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and the USA, which can be used as reference guides for newer artists and students wanting to find out more about producing and marketing their artists’ books. We selected a range of artists with 2 – 30+ years experience of making and marketing artists’ books, zines, editions and unique books and asked them to share their working practices and experiences of book fairs, interaction with collections and purchasers, and any problems or advice.
We are very grateful to all the people who responded to the survey, with particular thanks to the case study artists, who gave their time and allowed us to share their knowledge with other artists.
The Wexford artist’s book Symposium
Wexford, Eire in the Arts Centre
Saturday 17th September 2005
The Symposium is billed as a working Symposium, and would suit those Artists who like to get their hands dirty right up to their elbows.
There will be a lot of making and doing.
Four facilitators will provide the participants with the road map needed to navigate collaborative ventures. The aim of the project is to provide a stimulating environment for the participants so that they can interact, share, swap skills and enjoy the extraordinary fertility that abounds when artists of the same ilk gather for the purposes of making and doing.
The Symposium will last for one full day with a lunch break. It will start at 10 PM and finish at 5pm.
The Artists will need to bring their own personal specialist equipment, inks paint brushes pens.
There will an exotic arrangement of papers supplied by Daintree Papers pleasants place Dublin that will be available to use free of charge.
The cost for the Symposium is € 25 for the day
SSI members/ Unwaged 50% discount
Places are limited to 20 maximum, so book early.
Contact: Andi McGarry at sunmoonandstarspress@hotmail.com
Artists’ Books from the CFPR Collection
Broekhuis Boekhandel, Enschede, The Netherlands
13th June – 10th July 2005
This is the first of a series of exhibitions at Broekhuis Boekhandel, curated by Rudi Bastiaans AKI (ArtEZ) academie voor beeldende kunst en vormgeving. An exhibition of artists’ books in containers, boxes and bags, from Sarah’s collection at the CFPR, at Broekhuis and AKI (Artez) Enschede, The Netherlands.
The exhibition was opened by Peter Sonderen, director of the AKI, on 13th June. Thanks to Yolande Willink for the photographs of the opening party. The exhibition runs for four weeks.
Artist’s books in the exhibition include…
Mr Acorn Self Assembly Lifelike Figure by Starry Dog, Happy by Anna Wiggins and Breath Bag by Hayvend Laboratories for Hayvend, On Loan an exhibition of borrowed art, lent by artists, Coracle Press, Deaf To Art boxed badge by Simon Cutts, Coracle Press, Sun Sand Sea, History of a City and A Circular Walk by
Carinna Parraman, Cuttings, The Marsh Test, Nature Trail and The Collector by Sarah Bodman, To Be or Not to Be and Everything exists to end up in a book by Deb Rindl, The Theatre of Nature: or Curiosity Filled the Cabinet by Angela Lorenz, EAK TEA and Words by Eilis Kirby, The World and Its Inhabitants by Paul Etienne Lincoln, Book Works, London, Emilie Harrak’s condensed transcript series Umberto Eco - Foucault’s Pendulum and Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities ; Big Man on the Dot by Ken Leslie, Nexus Press, USA Sound as an artist’s book and Badgers Cetes by Artgoes, Watch Out! by Alice Melvin. Punch and Beauty by Mette Ambeck, Proof Multiples: You wear it well… by Gill Addison, Proof Collective Scrapbooks100 by TNWK, Toast by Post by Mr Smith, A Book for Loozing in the Street by Benedict Phillips, Mental Health by Paul Laidler, The Lost Life and Works of Mo Kramer (1920-1993) by Meir Agassi, The fictitious life of an artist who questioned the concepts of drawing
Tea Towels with literary quotes, from the gift shop of the travelling performance based Bristol Art Library operated by the Head Librarian, the artist Annabel Other,
Memory Book and Love is Blind by Lucy May Schofield, Make Model Mark by Greg Jones, SNCI’s set by Stuart Mugridge, Jettison 2 by David Faithfull
2nd Seoul International Artist’s Book Fair
Pacific Hall, CO-EX, Seoul
3 - 8th June 2005
The 1st Seoul International Artist’s Book Fair took place in June 2004, and due to growing interest it will now become an annual event, with the second one held this June 2005 in the Pacific Hall, CO-EX, Seoul.
There is a growing interest in book arts in the Republic of Korea, and the Artist’s Book Fair is part of an international book and publishers fair (similar to Frankfurt), which runs concurrently. There are many independent and university affiliated book artists in Seoul. Alongside Korean artist’s book makers there were also participants from Japan, China, U.S.A, England, Ireland, Germany and Russia.
A catalogue was also published by the organiser Nae Rae Kim’s Bookpress to accompany the event. Alongside the book fair, a competition exhibition showed books by artists from around the world. Keith Smith and Scott McCarney both gave lectures on their work as part of the programme, which also included workshops and demonstrations.
Impact Press attended as the last venue of our AHRC supported survey into creating and marketing artists’ books, the survey will be published on this website as a free download later this summer. We also exhibited works by staff, students and alumni of UWE Bristol, including: Melanie Ward, Tom Sowden, Eilis Kirby, Sarah Pitt/ Ruth Barnes, Sarah Bodman, Ian Chamberlain, Carinna Parraman and two of the competition award winning books: Illiers Combray by Helen Douglas and Zoë Irvine, and Viola by Sarah Bodman.
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