Artists’ Books News November – December 2018 Exhibitions Sarah Bodman – Read To Me, Winchester School of Art Library, 15th November – 20th December 2018. Read To Me is an artist’s book, produced after an experiment in collaboration with a psychometric reader, to transmit the emotional content of selected narratives through a […]
Artists’ Books news, July-August 2018 Exhibitions Astro-poems and Vertical Group Exercises: Concrete poetry at CSA, Chelsea Space, London, until 13th July 2018. Curated by Chelsea College of Arts Librarian Gustavo Grandal Montero, this exhibition reflects Montero’s ongoing research into the evolution of concrete poetry and its influence on visual art in the period 1964-67 in Britain. […]
Artists’ Books News, May-June 2018 Exhibitions Queer Between The Covers at Senate House Library, London. Until 16th June 2018. Curated by Dr Richard Espley & Leila Kassir with public art by Book Artist, Theresa Easton. Queer Between The Covers is a new exhibition and event season at Senate House Library which explores over 250 years […]
Artists’ books news, March – April 2018 Exhibitions each breath, a page | each page, a breath. Works by Julie Johnstone & Essence Press at StAnza International Poetry Festival, Preservation Trust Museum, Fife, 8th-11th March 2018. Julie Johnstone is an artist, curator and publisher based in Edinburgh. She creates artists’ books and installations that explore […]
Artists’ books news, October 2017 Exhibitions Les Bicknell, ‘unfoldingthinking’ at the Cavendish Museum, University of Cambridge. Until December 2017 As part of ‘unfoldingthinking’, a residency Les Bicknell has with NanoDTC in Cambridge, there is an exhibition in the Cavendish Museum at the Physics Department on the West Cambridge site within the drawers of Maxwell’s original laboratory […]
Artists’ Books News, August 2017 Exhibitions Seeing Through Drawing A Celebration of John Berger at Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich Until 26th August 2017 ‘Seeing Through Drawing’ is a celebration of the writer and artist John Berger and his passionate love of drawing. It takes two forms – an exhibition and a new book. The exhibition […]
Artists’ Books News, April 2017 Exhibitions Stephen Clarke: End of the Season Weaver Hall Museum and Workhouse, Northwich, until 9th July 2017. Since the early 1980s the artist Stephen Clarke has photographed the seaside town of Rhyl in an attempt to reclaim imagery from his childhood holidays. Pictures of the fairground, seafront, and caravan park […]
Artists’ Books News, February 2017 Exhibitions ‘ABLE – Artists Books Limerick Exhibition’ at Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland. From 20th February 2017 This second annual exhibition of artists’ books made by staff and students, past and present, will run for two weeks from 20th February at the Limerick School of Art & Design, […]
Artists’ Books News, December 2016 Exhibitions Enitharmon Artists’ Books, Enitharmon Editions, London Throughout December This exhibition brings together the definitive collection of artists’ books that Enitharmon has published since 1987. Made in the traditional style of the livre d’artiste, Enitharmon artists’ books are letterpress-printed on luxurious sheets of paper, hand-bound, and paired with unbound […]
Artists’ Books News, October 2016 Exhibitions Angela Thames – “IT” (is all about the) Books, Chawton House Library, Hampshire. Until 28th October 2016 An exhibition of artists’ books by Angela Thames at Chawton House Library, where she has been Artist-in-Residence since August 2015. The library holds rare and first-edition books, mainly by English women writers […]