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20th September 2006 - 20th February 2007 at various venues.
The free distribution boxes will be out for people to help themselves to artworks again from September. This year's boxes are mostly in the USA and Australia, but look out for them at the five UK venues: bookartbookshop, London; Permanent bookshop/gallery, Brighton; Arnolfini bookshop, Bristol; Bower Ashton library, UWE Bristol and Tate Britain's library. 59 artists from the USA, Australia and Europe have made 6100+ bookmarks for free distribution, the biggest set to date, with some wonderful handmade artworks
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To view all of the 61 bookmarks on the new Bookmarks IV homepage, with artists' contact details please see: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bkmks4
If you would like to contribute to Bookmarks V in 2007, click here or email Sarah for submission details.
The Blue Notebook : a new journal for artists' books
The Blue Notebook launched with Vol.1No.1 in October 2006 as a peer reviewed journal, published twice a year.
Volume 1 includes: The Case for Failure in Artists’ Bookworks by Nola Farman (AUS) Justice is Beautiful: Expanding the Paradigm of the Artist's Book by Marshall Weber (USA) Reader by Sarah Jacobs (UK) Shelf Life: in consideration of new pages turned, fresh narratives and unexpected characters by Mike Nicholson (UK) and Reading as Prowling, Furtive Roaming: how touch is connected to seeing by slowing down the animal locomotion of reading artists’ books in search of something human in the link between hands and eyes, by Tate Shaw (USA) and Tim Mosely (AUS) on Integrating artists' books and papermaking. Artists' pages by Bill Burns (Canada) Lucy May Schofield (UK), Kurt Johannessen (Norway), Finlay Taylor (UK), Roy Voss (UK) and Angie Waller (USA).
The journal is published in two formats: an electronic colour version to be accessed at any time online, and a paper, black and white version. (Print) ISSN 1751-1712 (Online) ISSN 1751-1720 Subscription covers both formats at 10 GBP per annum - UK and international.
We welcome submissions of writing on contemporary artists’ books for The Blue Notebook,
Deadline for submissions to issue 2 will be: 10th January 2007. For more information please contact Sarah Bodman.
For subscriptions, please download the form on our publications page.
Regenerator - Altered Books Project
A new project for the autumn. We have a pile of books from our library which were going to be withdrawn, and reading about a US project (an exhibition involving Portland library and the Maine College of Art in Portland, USA; Long Overdue: Book Renewal) gave us the idea to do something similar. A selection of books from hardback to paperback, novels, catalogues and manuals.
The project will run as an exchange, and artists will have the option to choose the book they want on a first come-first served basis. Once all the books have been made and returned, and after exhibiting and archiving online, we will swap them all and send a book to each of the contributors but not the one they made themselves.
To participate email Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk to receive the book list. Deadline for receipt of finished bookworks will be 30th January 2007.
Arcadia id est
The CFPR touring exhibition of 118 artists' books on the theme of nature and landscape was in Helsinki for the summer and will now be on show from Saturday 30th Sept - Sunday 26th Nov 2006 at The Yard Gallery at Wollaton Hall and Park, Nottingham, see the Arcadia exhibition homepage for more info and opening hours.
Free downloads of Impact Press out of print reference books
The Artist's Book Yearbook 2003-2005 and A Tale of Two Cities: artists' books from New York and Bristol (2001) are now both out of print. As we are still receiving requests for them from libraries, we have made a free PDF download version of each which you can access via our publications page at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bookpub.htm
A call for information to include in the new updated version of:
Artists’ Books Creative Production and Marketing: a free guidebook for book artists - 2007
The current issue can be downloaded as a free PDF from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/survres.htm (ISBN 0 9547025 1 4, Impact Press)
This guide was compiled after a one-year, AHRC supported survey in 2005, for the book artist in their role of creative maker, publisher and distributor of their own artwork; to discuss and hopefully resolve some of the practical issues of marketing work.
The survey looked at 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. We also interviewed 24 book artists as a series of case studies of their experiences in the UK, EIRE, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark and the USA.
We have had some great responses and some more information emailed in as a result of the first publication, so we will make an new updated version for free PDF publication in 2007.
If you have any information or experiences you would like to share to help other book artists promote their work, then please email the info to us by the end of December 2006. Any top-tips, new websites, shops, book fairs, marketing, collections etc. that you think would be of interest to others. Your name will be credited.
Thank you.
Email, post or fax items for inclusion to: Sarah Bodman
e-mail: Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk
Sarah Bodman
Impact Press
Centre for Fine Print Research
UWE Bristol School of Art, Media and Design
Kennel Lodge Road
Bristol
BS3 2JT
UK
Fax: +44 (0)117 32 84824
Tel: +44 (0)117 32 84747
New MA Book Arts option in Multi Disciplinary Print at UWE, Bristol
School of Art, Media and Design
By combining the strengths of the MA in Multi Disciplinary Print and Artists’ Books research projects within the Centre for Fine Print Research; the School is pleased to announce a new option for the study of artists’ books at MA Level.
We envisage a strong cohort of students participating in the introductory activities within the Multi Disciplinary Print MA, before embarking on a 1.5 year, part-time (all day Thursday) route concentrating exclusively on the concept and production of the artist’s book.
This will allow students a strong foundation in all aspects of Multi Disciplinary Print and the benefit of the wide knowledge base and opportunities that the subject of artists’ books within the Centre for Fine Print Research offers.
This new part-time course will commence in September 2006. (Part-time, Thursday, full day)
For further information please contact:
Sarah Bodman, Research Fellow – Artists’ Books
Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, School of Art, Media and Design
Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 32 84747
Fax: +44 (0)117 32 84824
Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk
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