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Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden made a collaborative book (partly en route) for the Ø (island) exhibition at Doverodde Book-arts Festival, Denmark in May, which is now in the collection of the Limfjordscentret at Doverodde. You can view a short film of the book’s progress on the exhibitions and events page.
7th RWA Open Print Exhibition, RWA Bristol
9th August - 19th September 2009
A survey of contemporary printmaking selected from open submission.
The exhibition will also include examples of recent works by invited artists from Japan, Russia and Poland. Other special features include bookplates, artists’ books and print works in three dimensions.
Submission dates: 16/17/18 July 2009
Exhibition dates: 9 August - 19 September 2009
For French speakers... ...
there is an essay in the new issue of So Multiples Revue française sur les éditions d'artistes contemporains, N° 3, June 2009, ISSN 1961-9618
Les activités du Centre for Fine Print Research de Bristol by Sarah Bodman, translated by Anne Béchard-Léauté (Université Jean Monnet) online as a free PDF at: http://www.so-multiples.com/revue/numeroc.php
Summer Intern Our summer intern for the Bookmarks VII 2009 project and our artist’s book conference, working with us from 24th June is Alice Potter: As a rather compulsive collector of books it seems natural that artists’ books have become an important part of my artistic practice. I’ve always been more of a maker and designer than a drawer. Surface, texture and physicality, image and the book as an object are important to me so print particularly intaglio collagraph, has become my medium of choice (as well as collage, making things with acetate or tracing paper and putting everything through a photocopier). I’ve also started experimenting with laser etching in the creation of my printing plates as well as paper mechanics and the use of metamorphs and the likes to enhance and alter the conventional book form. My main areas of interest and consequently my usual subject matters are science and nature. If only my mathematics had been better I would have been a physicist but in its absence I have become an artist much in the vein of Victorian scientific illustration. I draw as much to enhance as to justify my own learning in the hope that I might one day make a living selling books about the things I love. Alice Potter alicepotter3@hotmail.com |
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The 2009 Agassi Book Arts Prize
Congratulations to the MA Multi-disciplinary Printmaking student Tina Hill, who has been awarded the 2009 Agassi Book Arts Prize by The Centre for Fine Print Research, for her installation Excavating Babel. The piece will be shown at UWE Bristol - School of Creative Arts Degree Show 2009, Saturday 20th - Thursday 25th June, before touring to other UK venues.
Doverodde Book-arts Festival and Exhibitions
Doverodde, Denmark
Festival: Friday-Sunday 8 - 10 May 2009
Exhibitions: Ø (island) exhibition (handbound books, artists’ books and book-objects) - and special exhibition with works by artist Mogens Otto Nielsen. 8th May - 25th June
Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden will be giving lectures and running a base table as part of the festival. They are currently making a new collaborative book (partly en route) for the exhibition which will remain in the collection at Doverodde, and documented on their return for the bookarts website.
They will be travelling with Angie Butler a Bristol-based artist currently in her first year on the MA in Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking (specialising in Artist’s Books) at UWE. Angie is Teaching Fellow in Visual Arts, ICIA at The University of Bath & a Part-time Lecturer in Creative Arts at Bath Spa University.
The Festival :
A meeting place in beautiful surroundings by the Limfjord; where artists and crafts folk can exchange experiences and gain inspiration, where those who want to know more about book arts can see, listen and try, and where visitors to the area can enjoy a unique experience.
Talks / workshops & demonstrations - book arts and crafts / music and story-telling / bookcafé / reading corner.
For more information download the full programme and see the website at: http://bookarts-doverodde.dk
| The Swimming
Cities of Serenissima: Postcards From The Edge of A Junk Boat
Spy Emerson / spy girl Friday is sailing as part of a fleet of handmade boats and a crew of artists travelling the Adriatic Sea from Slovenia to Venice this May and June, 2009. “Because being an art marauder does not pay” Spy is selling “postcards sent directly from the high seas. You can expect humour, irony, poetic musing, beauty, and great lessons in humility … all on a 3” x 5” card, and for as little as $10 USD. This is real adventure, the kind that challenges and inspires and arouses with its potential for danger. Please help support it!” www.swimmingcities.org Your postcard will be a unique creation, to give you a general idea of what you might be in for, there are a few examples of past postcard creations on the website where you can also purchase by Paypal: http://spygirlfriday.com/page78/page80/page81/page81.html |
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A Call to Action for Letterpress Printers!
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides - Round Four - Summer 2009
To protest & commemorate the bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street, the centre of bookselling in Baghdad, on March 5th 2007, the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition* has been organising readings and other events since April 2007 as fundraisers for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad.
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Al-Mutanabbi Street is in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic centre of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community.
Any group that wants to control a people also wants to control the content of every printed page, and they inevitably come to regard any other unsanctioned page as a possible threat. Oppression extracts not just a terrible human toll, but it also subtracts the words and images of the writers/ artists who hold and express the cultural memory of any people.
"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.
We are extending our call to letterpress printers to contribute a personal response to the bombing on Mutanabbi Street. To date, we have received 90 broadsides from letterpress printers in the USA, Canada, U.K. Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. The first 42 broadsides may be viewed at the Florida Atlantic University/Jaffe Center for Book Arts site: www.library.fau.edu./depts/spc/JaffeCenter/jaffemutanabbistreetstartshere.htm
Download the essay Al-Mutanabbi Street By Lutfia Alduleimi.
This is a call for more printed works to help with fundraising, you would need to make an edition of 15 broadsides. For full details please see the al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Round 4 page to download the PDF file.
Deadline for the broadsides: 15th September 2009
The Centre for Fine Print Research will pay to send over a consignment of prints if you can deliver or send yours to us to go in the boxes. e-mail : Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk for details.
For further information contact: Coordinator of Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project IV, Beau Beausoleil at e-mail : overlandbooks@earthlink.net
| The Blue Notebook Vol 3 No 2: May 2009 Essays by: Emily Artinian - photo essay: Allen Ruppersberg is everywhere. Lorna Crabbe - explores the archives of LCC to look at women’s craft history. Sarah Jacobs - Squirrels’ Tails and Burnished Gold. Linda Newington - takes a closer look at the work and influences of the artist John Dilnot. Sophie Loss & Nicholas Bruce Lockhart - have posed a few questions about how artist’s book fairs might develop in the future. Sally Alatalo - interviewed by Tom Sowden and Sarah Bodman. Clifton Meador has made a special A DIY artist’s book Illuminated by the Light of Television in this issue. Artists’ pages by: Angie Butler, Nadia Chalabi, Andrew Huot, Emily Larned, Lois Palframan. You can subscribe to Vol 3 No 1 and Vol 3 No 2 for £10 GBP by downloading the form on the main Blue Notebbok or publications page. |
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| BookPlusEtc, Seoul Seoul, COEX 2009 13 - 17 May Artists’ Books from CFPR and our invited guests are being shown as part of BookPlusEtc curated by Young-Ju Choi at Seoul International Book Fair 2009. Books from CFPR by Sarah Bodman, Tom Sowden, Tortie Rye, Imi Maufe, Paul Laidler, Gray Fraser, Marni Shindleman, Kris Merola, Tate Shaw, Masumi Shibata, Tim Edgar and Stephan Köhler / Clemens-Tobias Lange will be shown. Find out more at : http://www.sibf.or.kr |
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Bristol Artist's Book Event at
| Thanks to all the participants in BABE 2009! 83 national and international artists, presses, groups, colleges, publishers and dealers showcased hundreds of artists’ books over the weekend of 4 - 5 April. Exhibitors travelled from as far afield as South Korea, mainland Europe and the USA to take part in BABE. 6,467 visitors came to Arnolfini for the event over the weekend. We hope to see you all again at the next BABE in 2011! Photos from the event will be up on the BABE archive page shortly |
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| ABC @ BIAD : www.artistsbookcollective.blogspot.com/ Abombpress : www.abombpress.co.uk Altazimuth Press : http://peterchasseaud.blogspot.com AM Bruno : www.am-bruno.blogspot.com Antic-Ham : www.anitcham.com Archive Books Artistsbooksonline : www.artistsbooksonline.com Bob Howe Bookartbookshop : www.bookartbookshop.com Borbonessa : www.borbonesa.co.uk © Leslieworks : www.leslieworks.co.uk Cally Barker : www.thebookproject.org Camberwell College of Arts : www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk Cardboard Press : www.cardboardpress.com Colin Sackett : www.colinsackett.co.uk Coracle : www.coracle.ie Damn Fine Art : http://damnfineart.blogspot.com/ David Barton EAK Press : www.eakenterprises.org East London Printmakers : www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk Emily Speed : www.emilyspeed.co.uk Ensixteen Editions Francis Elliott Foundry : www.foundrypress.co.uk Guy Begbie Here Shop & Gallery : www.thingsfromhere.co.uk Hilary Judd & Lucy May Schofield : www.lucymayschofield.co.uk / www.hilaryj.co.uk Ian Abbott Ignition : www.ignition.ie Illustration at the University of Plymouth : www.illustration-plymouth.typepad.com Imi Maufe Joan Ainley Impact Press, UWE Bristol : www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Liver and Lights Scriptorium : www.liverandlights.co.uk |
Lorna Crabbe : www.lornacrabbe.co.uk Love to Print/Lonely Panda : www.lovetpprint.blogspot.com / www.lonelypanda.com Lunardog Limited : www.lunardog.com Mark Pawson : www.mpawson.demon.co.uk Matthew Dale : www.matthewdale.wordpress.com Mermaid Turbulence : www.mermaidturbulence.com Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck : www.ambeck.mdd.dk MM Visual Catering : www.rook.dircon.co.uk Mr. Smith Newthink Books : www.newthink.co.uk North by South West : www.thisacademy.com/northbysouthwest Otto Books : www.ottobooks.co.uk Oxford & Cherwell Valley College : www.ocvc@ac.uk p’s & q’s Press Parvenu Press : http://carolyntrantparvenu.blogspot.com The Pearbox Press : www.edboxall.com Preacher’s Biscuit Books : www.preachersbiscuitbooks.com Rag-and-Bone Shop Books : www.artistsbooksonline.com Reassemble : www.reassemble.co.uk Redfoxpress : www.redfoxpress.com Responsa Press : www.amandasmith.org.uk RGAP : www.rgap.co.uk Righton Press : www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/rightonpress Ros Blackmore & Andrew Hansford Salt and Shaw Serendipity Press : www.seredipitypress.wordpress.com Sidney Nolan Trust : www.sidneyreynoldstrust.org Stephen Fowler Su Tamany Baker : www.tamany.net Talk Sense Press Triangular Press Typecast feat. Exit Stencilist : www.t8gallery.com Winchester School of Art Library : www.soton.ac.uk/library |
Download the BABE event flyer
Artist's Book Yearbook
The ABYB serves as a resource for artists, lecturers, students, collectors and researchers. This bi-annual publication includes essays and information on many aspects of the book arts, artists' listings, information on book arts galleries, archives and collections, book arts courses, events, journals, bibliographies and reference publications, studios and websites, with book arts contributors from around the world.
The 2010-2011 issue will be published in September 2009.
For submission or subscription forms please email : Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk Deadline for all entries is 12th May 2009.
Micro-Pages : Call for Book Art Submissions from Abigail Thomas:
“Micro-Pages” is a project that aims to start a conversation about the issues surrounding the display of artists’ books.
Selected artists' books will be turned into a reel of microfilm for a touring exhibition. The work will be accessed through microfilm reader machines in participating libraries and archive centres. The touring exhibition will include Bristol UWE Library and Winchester School of Art Library in Autumn/Winter 2009.
Your book work should relate to the history of artists’ books, and/or history of libraries and archives; and should question, challenge or highlight the issues involved in displaying artists’ books.
Please take into consideration that the microfilm will be in black and white only and sculptural books will not be considered. The work should be no larger than A4 (210 x 297mm) and no smaller than A6 (105 × 148mm), and should be no longer than 30 pages. If you have any questions please email: abi-thomas@hotmail.co.uk
Please submit pictures of your books to Abigail Thomas (abi-thomas@hotmail.co.uk) for consideration no later than 30th April 2009.
(Your finished book must be submitted by 31st May 2009). http://abithomas.blogspot.com/
Traditional and emerging formats of artists’ books: Where do we go from here?
A two-day conference at the School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
Thursday 9th and Friday 10th July 2009
10am - 5pm each day
Speakers:
Bibiana Crespo : Artist and Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Kathy Walkup : Director, Book Art Program, Mills College, Oakland, USA.
Angela Gardner : Artist, poet and co-founder of Light-Trap press, publisher of collaborations between artist’s and printmakers with equal weight given to each practice. Qld, Australia.
Kenneth Butler / Richard Cox : Artist and Subject Leader - BA Art and Writing / Senior lecturer - Art and Theory, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales.
Emily Artinian : Artist, writer, senior lecturer - Chelsea College of Art and Design, UK/USA
Julian Warren / Paul Clarke : Archivist at Arnolfini, Bristol and Dr. Paul Clarke : Research Fellow on the GWR project, Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past, University of Bristol / Arnolfini, in partnership with Exeter University, UK.
seekers of lice : creates material interventions, sometimes of an ephemeral nature, which find gaps and spaces in which to operate. UK.
Andi McGarry : Artist, sunmoonandstars press, Ireland.
Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer : founders of Liberature publishing, Kraków, Poland.
Supporting exhibitions and displays include:
Francis Elliott’s Dark Globe (enclosed systems)
ABTREE diagrams wall
light-trap press : The Night Ladder and The Twelve Labours
A selection of artists’ books prequel to the New Wave exhibition
Artists’ books by 18kopek.com group (Turkey)
Displays of artists’ books in the Bower Ashton Special Collections area
Attendance will cost £20 or £10 for students/concessions for both days, and includes lunch and refreshments. Places are limited to 50 attendees.
To book please visit the Online Store
Any queries contact: email : Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk / Tom.Sowden@uwe.ac.uk
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