Exhibitions and Events Current and Older

There are regular artist’s book exhibitions in the Library at UWE’s Bower Ashton campus which are archived below. Scroll down for our World Book Night archives. Other artist’s book events such as residencies or Artist’s Book fairs in which the CFPR has taken part are also archived on this page.

2026

The Mountains Are Calling – WBN 2026 02/04/26 – 31/07/26
Gen Harrison – 100 Days Project 02/04/26 – 30/06/26
Kathy Bruce & Alastair R Noble 02/04/26 – 28/06/26
Roelof Bakker & Sarah Bodman – everything is… 05/02/26 – 31/03/26

2025

Across the Fold – exchange exhibition 04/12/25 – 31/01/26
At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art 15/11/25 – 18/01/26
Robert Richardson – Concrete Poems 07/11/25 – 02/12/25
Ali Woozley – Residency Exhibition 06/11/25 – 10/02/26
Future Fantasteek! #23 – You Love Libraries… 05/11/25 – 19/12/25
Stephen Emmerson: How to read a book 04/09/25 – 04/11/25
Artists-in-Residence projects 30/07/25 – 29/10/25
Art Crossing Borders with Artists’ Books 03/07/25 – 02/09/25
Bestiary: A collaborative discovery 03/07/25 – 02/09/25
CAMP Writers’ KIN – The State We’re In, 2024 03/07/25 – 02/09/25
World Book Night – 2025 Tell The Trees… 03/04/25 – 30/07/25
Tina Dempsey – Conversations With The Sea 03/04/25 – 01/07/25
Sharon Hall Shipp – The Augment Project 03/04/25 – 01/07/25
Rachel Marsh – Voyaging in Immensity… 03/03/25 – 31/05/25
Mark Fearbunce – Of Shrew Taming 06/02/25 – 01/04/25
Christine Dong – The Phantom Library 07/01/25 – 28/02/25

2024

Jane Hyslop – Selected artists’ books, 2007 – present 05/12/24 – 043/02/25
Bernard Fairhurst – Making work… 06/11/24 – 03/12/24
Yasushi Cho – LDK and Co 01/11/24 – 03/12/24
Álvaro Alejandro – De Natura Libris 04/09/24 – 31/10/24
EXERCISES FOR ALL 04/09/24 – 31/10/24
Mick McGraw – New Artists’ Books 04/07/24 – 03/09/24
Bristol Artist’s Book Event 29/06/24 – 30/06/24
B for Book at Frankenstein Press 28/06/24 – 19/07/24
Jeff Rathermel – Recent and Revisited 24/06/24 – 24/07/24
Joe Devlin – Bookmarks 19/04/24 – 02/07/24
World Book Night – In Praise of Birds 19/04/24 – 02/07/24
Salt & Shaw – TAKING A JOURNEY 01/03/24 – 16/04/24
Stephen Emmerson – Remains 02/02/24 – 28/02/24

2023

Grass folded… Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall 06/12/23 – 30/01/24
Daniel Lehan – PAINT OUTS, CUT OUTS, TEAR UP ERASURES 01/11/23 – 05/12/23
Fernanda Fedrizzi – Unfolding place 06/09/23 – 31/10/23
The Camden Town Hoard 06/09/23 – 31/10/23
ABC@UWE Night and Day 05/07/23 – 05/09/23
Claudia Sbrissa – La Via Stellata (The Starry Way) 05/07/23 – 05/09/23
We Remember, World Book Night 2023 21/04/23 – 30/09/23
ON A CLEAR DAY – Julie Johnstone 21/04/23 – 30/06/23
Printmaking, Artists’ books, Landscape and Nature symposium 30/03/23
The Mountains are calling and I must go 03/03/23 – 17/04/23
Gino Ballantyne: The Waste Land – A Collapsing World 01/02/23 – 28/02/23

2022

Rachel Smith – Promise the Infinite: Drawing out Babel 07/12/22 – 31/01/23
Roelof Bakker: Negative Press London 02/11/22 – 30/11/22
Un Coup de Dés Jamais N’Abolira l’Appropriation 01/09/22 – 31/10/22
Éilis Kirby A-I-R at Bower Ashton 01/07/22 – 31/08/22
Ghosts in the Machine 13/04/22 – 29/09/22
Bristol Artist’s Book Event 23/04/22 – 24/04/22
Robert Good – Adventures of Ideas 02/03/22 – 11/05/22
Paul Hawkins aka Bob Modem 01/02/22 – 01/03/22

2021

Winter Books from our Archives 01/12/21 – 31/01/22
Paolo Carraro – Fibonacci Press 01/11/21 – 30/11/21
Printed Poetry Event 07/09/21 – 31/10/21
Prima Facie 08/07/21 – 31/08/21
243 Postcards in Real Colour 01/07/21 – 31/08/21
World Book Night – The Herbarium 23/04/21 – 23/05/21
Gestetner 140 – Gin Saunders 19/04/21 – 30/06/21
BABE – The Lost Weekend 17/04/21 – 18/04/21
It’s A New Day 02/03/21 – 18/04/21
Timglaset editions 01/02/21 – 28/02/21

2020

Ben Jenner – anagapesis. 03/12/20 – 31/01/21
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison 01/11/20 – 30/11/20
Why Publish? 01/09/20 – 31/10/20
Collage Colloquium with LCBA 14/08/20
Print and Book Summer Festival 20/07/20 – 03/08/20
Artists’ Books from Our Archives 01/07/20 – 31/08/20
MiniBABE: Bristol Artist’s Books at Home 03/05/20 – 07/05/20
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? 23/04/20 – 30/06/20
Katerina Kyselica – For Me, For You, For Me and You 02/03/20 – 16/04/20
Theresa Easton 03/02/20 – 01/03/20

2019

Read With Me 02/12/19 – 15/01/20
Tamar MacLellan and Philippa Wood 02/12/19 – 31/01/20
Tim Hopkins – Half Pint Press 01/11/19 – 30/11/19
Sarah Bodman – I Made This For You 12/10/19 – 14/11/19
Zero Waste exhibition 20/09/19 – 20/10/19
Leonard McDermid 02/09/19 – 31/10/19
The Story of Read To Me 01/07/19 – 31/08/19
Gwalia Gazette, World Book Night 23/04/19
Joseph J Field – Life Stories 16/04/19 – 30/06/19
BABE at Arnolfini 30/03/19 – 31/03/19
An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street 04/03/19 – 16/04/19
Liverpool Book Art – Frankenstein 2018 – 01/02/19 – 28/02/19

2018

Artists’ Books Club – FOUND 03/12/18 – 31/01/19
Frans Baake: No Where Now Here 01/11/18 – 30/11/18
Artists’ books in Australia & Brazil, symposium archive 26/10/18
Correlations: independent publishing & artist’s book practice 24/09/18 – 24/11/18
Caren Florance – Swipe 10/09/18 – 31/10/18
Pineapple Falls – Things That Function as a Book 03/09/18 – 30/10/18
Encounters with Books – Encuentro con libros 30/08/18 – 07/09/18
Read To Me – artist residency at LCBA and exhibition tour 2018 – 2019
Guy Begbie – BOOKWORKS 02/07/18 – 31/08/18
Redesigning the Medieval Book exhibition 19/04/18 – 29/06/18
Daniel Lehan – DAY PAGES 19/04/18 – 30/06/18
Found on the Isthmus – World Book Night exhibition 01/04/18 – 30/04/18
Bound to Bristol – pop-up exhibition 20/03/18 – 23/03/18
John Dilnot – OUT OF PRINT 02/03/18 – 16/04/18
Cathey Webb – Handling the Book 08/02/18 – 15/03/18
Mike Nicholson – Hiding In Plain Sight… 01/02/18 – 01/03/18
Jeremy Dixon – The Making 52 Books In 52 Weeks Challenge 26/01/18 – 28/02/18

2017

Sarah Rhys – Coal Tree Salt Sea 05/12/17 – 30/01/18
Designer Bookbinders 01/11/17 – 30/11/17
Fore-edge Books project 01/11/17 – 30/11/17
Nancy Campbell – The Polar Tombola 04/09/17 – 31/10/17
Julia Borissova – artists’ books 03/07/17 – 31/08/17
BOOKISHNESS: World Book Night 23/04/17
FRAGILE – artists’ books by Noëlle Griffiths 19/04/17 – 30/06/17
BABE: Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Arnolfini 01/04/17- 02/04/17
Booknesses colloquium and exhibitions, University of Johannesburg 21/03/17 – 26/03/17
Pineapple Falls – The Museum 04/03/17 – 12/04/17
Wuon-Gean Ho – The Orchis Library 01/02/17– 28/02/17

2016

Re-imagining the Laws of England 06/12/16 – 30/01/17
Cally Trench & Philip Lee: Artists’ Books 01/11/16 – 30/11/16
Sumi Perera et al. [SuperPress EDITIONS] 1st September – 30th October 2016
Stephen Fowler’s ‘Artistamps’ workshop report July 2016
‘Exploring Artists’ Books’ Catherine Cartwright 01/08/16 – 30/09/16
2016 Agassi Book Arts Prize – Jude Lau
Bridging the Water: Puget Sound Book Artists 04/07/16 – 31/08/16
Inflection GCCAR Exhibition 28/06/16 – 12/07/16
LENvention at UWE Bristol 28/06/16 – 29-06/16
Serena Joy – World Book Night 2016 23/04/16
ABC @UWE exhibition 18/04/16 – 30/06/16
(Undercover) Festival of Flipbooks, Bower Ashton Library 12/04/16-31/05/16
Pagination: the Book as Object, The University of Newcastle, NSW 30/03/16 – 30/04/16
GEOAUTOMUSICALBIOGRAPHY – Hazard Press 01/03/16 – 17/04/16 01/02/16 – 01/03/16
Osama Lazkani 01/02/16 – 01/03/16

2015

HMP Send artists’ books exhibition 07/12/15 – 31/01/16
Re: Follow-ed (after Hokusai) 28/09/15 – 03/12/15
A Year of Making Artists’ Books 07/12/2015 – 31/01/2016
Small Publishers Fair 06/11/15 – 07/11/15
Counter – Plymouth Art Book Fair
Stevie Ronnie – Arctica 02/11/15 – 30/11/15
Andi McGarry: 200 Artists’ Books on the Move 01/09/15 – 31/10/15
Report on ABBE: Artists’ Books Brisbane Event
Yen-Hua Lee bookworks 01/07/15 – 27/08/15
Shine On – World Book Night 2015
Bristol Artist’s Book Event (BABE) 11/04/15 – 12/04/15
Eyes make books, Sophie Loss 20/04/15 – 28/06/15
From Stroud to Bristol 2015 23/03/15 – 24/04/15
Drawing in practice, Neil Bousfield 02/03/15 – 17/04/15
Norske Bøker – Norwegian books 02/02/15 – 01/03/15
Erin K. Schmidt – Lost 01/12/14 – 31/01/15
RUKSSIAN Artists’ Books 01/12/14 – 31/01/15

Other Artist’s book events such as residencies and national and international Artist’s Book fairs in which the CFPR has taken part.

World Book Night Events

The Mountains Are Calling…, World Book Night, 2025
Tell The Trees…, World Book Night, 2025
In Praise of Birds, World Book Night, 2024
We Remember, World Book Night, 2023
Ghosts in the Machine, World Book Night, 2022
The Herbarium, World Book Night, 2021
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? World Book Night, 2020
Gwalia Gazette, World Book Night, 2019
Found on the Isthmus, World Book Night, 2018
BOOK ISH NESS, World Book Night, 2017
Serena Joy, World Book Night, 2016
Shine On, World Book Night, 2015
Post Office, World Book Night, 2014
Some Small, Good Things, World Book Night, 2013
The Secrets of Metahemeralism, World Book Night, 2012
TOAST: A Night on Weevil Lake, World Book Night, 2011
Dinner and a Rose, The first event, 2010

Selected Exhibitions, Projects and Events Archive Pages

RUKSSIAN Artists’ Books Exhibition tour, 2014
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, Center for Book Arts, New York, USA, 2013
Perspectives of the Artist’s Book Conference, Brazil, 2013
Minnesota Center for Book Arts Biennial, USA, 2013
Book Art Object: Edition 4 Part II, 2013
Book Art Object: Edition 4 Part I, 2013
Regards Croisés: France-UK Exhibition, 2013
Boccaccio and the Artist’s Book Exhibition, 2013
An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street, John Rylands Library, 2013
Field In A Box, Field Study Exhibition, 2012
Dead Search – Sarah Bodman, 2012
Artists’ Books v. Livres d’artistes Symposium, St. Etienne, France, 2012
X Exercises for Kurt Johannessen, bookartbookshop, 2012
Codex Event 8 – An Australian and British collaboration, 2011-2012
Stephen Fowler, CFPR Artist-in-Residence Report, 2011
Artists’ Books and Independent Publishing Fair, The New Art Gallery Walsall, 2011
Photography & the Artist’s Book Symposium, MMU, Manchester, 2011
Impact 7 Printmaking Conference, Monash University, Australia, 2011
Obscure Small Press Publications Exhibition, 2011
Books of All Stripes, State Library of Victoria, 2011
Obscure Small Press Publications Exhibition, 2011
The Artist in the Library Symposium, University of East London, 2011

The Death and Life of Al-Mutanabbi Street Exhibition, 2011
Cover-Ed and Salad Dressing, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2011
Paper Models, AHRC Project Report, 2011
No Dutch Details, Tom Sowden & Sarah Bodman, 2011
Canon for the Artist’s Book Report, 2010
An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen, Denmark, 2010
Doverodde Book Arts Festival, Denmark, 2009
New Wave Artists’ Publishing Exhibition, 2009
Lady Vengeance – Artists’ Books by Sarah Bodman, 2009
Books That Fly Conference, University of Brighton, 2008
Artists’ Books Seminar 1, Canon Project, 2008
The Cover of a Book is the Beginning of a Journey, Arnolfini, 2008
Sitting Room Exhibition Tour, 2007-2008
Artists’ Talks on Artists’ Books, Winchester School of Art, 2007
The First CODEX Symposium, University of California, USA, 2007
Focus on Artists’ Books III, Artspace Mackay, Australia, 2006
Librarians’ Books Exhibition Tour, 2005-2006
Arcadia id Est, Exhibition Tour, 2005-2007
John Bently, Liver and Lights 20th Anniversary, 2004
The Marsh Test, VSW Publishing Residency, USA, 2003
Artists’ Books Exhibitions Launch, 2002