http://www.uwe.ac.uk Book Arts

Continuing Professional Development courses at The Centre for Print Research UWE Bristol


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We run courses in artists’ books and related processes with visiting experts and in-house staff. All of our CPD book arts courses for 2022 can be viewed and booked online here.

In 2020, due to Covid, we replaced our Book and Print Summer Institute with a free online festival. You can watch the talks from the festival online here.

Some previous classes have included:

Guy Begbie


2D-3D Experimental book art structures with
Advanced Bookbinding for book artists
Altered Books
Architectural Book Structures
Wehmais pop-up box, Secret Belgian and Drum Leaf Binding
Collapsible Star Binding and The Coptic Stitch
Folded 3D Architectural Tableau Books
Book Cartography: Using the Map as an Artistic Strategy
Within Book Structures

Angie Butler


Advanced Letterpress
Contemporary Letterpress – Finding your form(e)
Contemporary Letterpress 2 – Making An Impression
Contemporary Letterpress 1 – Getting Type High!
Letterpress Printed Book Arts Intensive
Printing Without Picas: A Pressure Printing Masterclass
Slow Printing with Pochoir

Angie and Si Butler

Making Friends with Your Adana Press –
Adana Press maintenance and printing
Adana Press Workshop – a two-day course on press know-
how, maintenance and small press printing


Jeremy Dixon

Making Words: Found Poetry and Artists’ Books
Kickstart your creative book spark & make, make, make.
Collage College


Stephen Fowler

‘Artistamps’
Home Made Rubber Stamps and books
Primitive Printmaking in the City III
Primitive Printmaking
Roller printing
Broadside Ballads
Oversized Neoprene Foam Printing

Ben Goodman

Wood Engraving
Poetic letterpress printing

Jeff Rathermel

Boxes, Wraps and Portfolios
Decorative Japanese Techniques for Paper and Book Arts
Fluxus Lab Assembling Box
Miniature Books
Japanese Book, Print and Paper Arts

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