BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 81 Mid-April - May 2013

Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE: THE SOFT CITY (A.K.A DANIEL SPEIGHT) In this issue: National and International Artists’ Books Exhibitions Pages 1 - 19 Courses & Workshops Pages 19 - 28 Opportunities Pages 28 - 34 Lectures & Conferences Pages 35 - 36 Artist’s Book Fairs Pages 36 - 38 Internet News Pages 38 - 39 New Artists’ Publications Pages 40 - 50 Stop Press! Pages 50 - 51

Artists’ Books Exhibition, UWE, Bristol, UK Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases, Bower Ashton Library

Jon Bentley: Peter and Jane, the lost episodes 15th April - 2nd June 2013 Jon Bentley is an artist working in the Mivart studios in Easton, Bristol. “The surreal narrative that runs through my work has a tendency, in the same way that dreams do, to ask more questions than provide answers.

Leafing through the old familiar pictures I began to imagine a series of paintings exploring a parallel Peter and Jane universe where the surreal and the absurd become the commonplace.

Like many people of my generation (born 1960) I learned to read with Peter, Jane, Mummy, Daddy and Pat the dog. As I struggled with the unfamiliar letters my eyes were invariably drawn to the picture on the opposite page, full of strange details that drew me in and seemed to suggest a richer more mysterious narrative than the prosaic stories and dialogue on the written page.

The format of the appearance of an open book displaying a page of text alongside the painting in order to give the painting some meaning, like an elaborate label, seemed the obvious way to present the series and thus was born “Peter and Jane, the lost episodes”.

The other objects on display are an ongoing exploration of image making and painting onto less conventional materials; in this case bread and eggs. “Holy toast” and “Unholy toast” where created using silver foil stencils and are about 5 years old suggesting that once bread is cooked it will be preserved indefinitely. So when I accidently burned a piece of French bread it suggested itself as a surface to 45 years later I am drawn back to the same pictures by a paint on with encrypted lettering, “we cannot live on bread chance encounter in a second hand book shop. Perhaps the alone”. The goose eggs are blown and filled with silicone images are etched particularly deep in my subconscious before being primed and painted with oils. If you go by the process of learning to read, which seemed to me back far enough all life has a common ancestry, hence as a child such a miraculous act; the ability to hear stories “Tree of the greater family.” without anyone else being present. www.jonbentley.co.uk

Page 1 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Mishka Henner - Precious Commodities Enjoy book, print, paper and installation artworks on Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK the themes of space, science (fiction and non-fiction), Until 5th May 2013 exploration and humanity. Precious Commodities presents US feedlots, a giant oil field, geologic maps, mass youth culture magazines, erased Cosmic Arcade All-Ages Discovery Day, Saturday 4th May; masterpieces, a curated selection of artists’ books and 10am-2pm. Visit MCBA for a Stellar day full of creative thousands of definitions of photography culled from blogs, exploration and hands-on artmaking opportunities for all technical manuals, advertisements and scientific journals. ages! Free and open to the public.

An exhibition catalogue limited to 150 copies is available, Open to the public seven days a week. consisting of a signed and numbered information sheet and Minnesota Center for Book Arts is located in the the December 2012 US edition of VICE magazine presented Open Book Building in downtown Minneapolis: in a 9 x 12 inch black envelope branded in gold. Copies of 1011 Washington Ave S, First Floor Minneapolis, the new edition of Less Americains are available. MN 55415, USA. www.mnbookarts.org

Open Eye Gallery, 19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront Liverpool L3 1BP, UK. Tel: 0151 236 6768 Druckworks www.openeye.org.uk [email protected] 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker http://mishka.lockandhenner.com/blog/ Denison Museum, Denison University, USA Until 11th May 2013 Organised by the Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago. Johanna Drucker is a The Scottish Colourist Series: S.J. Peploe (1871-1935) distinguished writer, typographic poet, and scholar- S.J. Peploe : Beyond Painting critic. Her interests include history of the book, alphabet Afterword - contemporary responses to Peploe historiography, modeling interpretation for electronic Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Two (Keiller scholarship, digital aesthetics, and the design of information Library), Until 23rd June 2013 visualization. Her writings have helped shape the field of This display features a selection of work produced as part visual poetics and digital aesthetics. She is also a prolific of a collaborative project between the Scottish National creative artist with more than four-dozen editioned artist’s Gallery of Modern Art Archive & Library and Edinburgh book to her credit. The DRUCKWORKS retrospective College of Art. Students have been asked to make a book allows audiences to experience the course of her artistic work (or works) in response to the S.J. Peploe exhibition, development while offering key insights into the evolution which opened to the public on the 3rd of November 2012. of the field of artists’ books as an interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, artistic and literary activity. The aim of the project is to highlight the relevance of work by early 20th century artists to contemporary practice, A full length catalogue features commentary and essays by enabling students to contextualise their own work in over twenty critics, scholars and artists including Jerome relation to art history and tradition, whether this is to McGann, Marjorie Perloff, Susan Bee, Emily McVarish, celebrate it or to subvert it. Brad Freeman, Kyle Schlesinger, Craig Dworkin, and others. To order call 312-360-6630 email: [email protected] Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Library Modern or see: http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/book- Two, 73 Belford Road, Edinburgh EH4 3DS, UK. Free entry and-paper/online-store.php www.nationalgalleries.org The exhibition tour continues to San Francisco Center for the Book, May – August 2013. Stellar: Book Art and the Cosmos Denison Museum, Denison University An international juried exhibition exploring outer space 240 West Broadway, Granville, OH 43023, USA Minnesota Center for Book Arts, USA http://denisonmuseum.org Until 5th May 2013 “A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark 12 + 12, ‘Wine and Dreams of Art’ pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice Curators: Mikhail Pogarskij (Russia), Serge-Aljosja of another person -- perhaps someone dead for thousands Stommels (The Netherlands), various venues. of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly For the exhibition ‘Wine and Dreams of Art’ 12 artists and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is from The Netherlands and 12 from Russia produced artists’ perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together books based on the Apollonian and Dionysian principles people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one in art. The exhibition is part of 12 +12, an international another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that programme that includes several countries. humans can work magic.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos National Center of Contemorary Art Explore the outer reaches of both our universe and our Zoologicheskaja 13, Moscow, Russia – April, 2013 collective imagination in Stellar: Book Art and the Cosmos, More information at www.pogarsky.ru featuring work by dozens of local and international artists. Page 2 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street make visible the literary bridge that connects us, made of The first shows in the tour of “An Inventory Of Al- words and images that move back and forth between the Mutanabbi Street” are on now: until 29th July 2013, at the readers in Iraq and ourselves” - The al-Mutanabbi Street John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK; until 11th May Coalition. 2013, at the San Francisco Center for the Book, USA; until 21st June 2013, at Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, Build-a-book - Friday 26th April 1.00-4.00 FREE Massachusetts. For a complete list of exhibitions in the tour In this workshop, led by Guy Begbie of Begbiebook, you to date, see http://www.al-mutanabbistreetstartshere-boston. will discover how to make an ingenious concertina-style com/exhibitions.html hardback book which opens out to display larger pages. This workshop is most suitable for adults and older teenagers (16+).

The John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, Manchester, M3 3EH, UK. www.library.manchester.ac.uk/deansgate/

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here A three-part exhibit of 261 international artists’ books CAC Gallery at the Cambridge Arts Council City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Cambridge, MA Until 21st June 2013

Exhibition #2: Until 30th April 2013 Exhibition #3: May 13 – June 21 2013 Opening Reception: Monday 13th May 2013, 6pm - 8pm

On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Street, the ancient street of booksellers, poets and writers, The San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, located at the literary and cultural heart of Baghdad, Iraq. California, USA The attack killed 30 people and injured scores more. As part Until 11th May 2013 of an international response to this event, the Cambridge Exhibition coordinated by Sas Colby. Arts Council presents “Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here,” San Francisco Center for the Book a three-part exhibition of 261 artists’ books made by 260 300 De Haro Street, Suite 334, San Francisco CA 94103. international artists from 24 countries, along with a number http://sfcb.org of related events such as film screenings, poetry readings, curated conversations at the opening receptions, and in- depth panel discussions.

Over the course of six months and three exhibitions, the Cambridge Arts Council will present the entire collection of astoundingly powerful artistic creations This coordinated artistic response to the al-Mutanabbi Street bombing originated with Beau Beausoleil, poet and bookseller in San Francisco, CA and co-coordinator on the artists’ book project is Sarah Bodman. Each of the artists has created an edition of three books. At the conclusion of the project, one set of the collection will be donated to the National Library in Baghdad, Iraq.

CAC Gallery is located in the Cambridge City Hall Annex Book, Johanna Drucker, Los Angeles, USA, 2013 at 344 Broadway, at the corner of Broadway and Inman Street. Metered parking is available on Inman Street and An Inventory of al-Mutanabbi Street Broadway. CAC Gallery hours: M: 8.30am - 8pm; T, W, The John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK TH: 8.30am-5pm; F: 8.30am - Noon. Directions via MBTA: Until 29th July 2013 Take the MBTA Red Line to Central Square. At street level Book artists from around the world were asked to produce proceed west on Massachusetts Avenue (towards Harvard works which reflected both the strength and fragility of Square) to Inman Street. Turn right and proceed north for books, but also showed the endurance of the ideas within four blocks to Broadway. Turn left and walk one block to them, in response to the attack on the heart and soul of the Inman Street. Baghdad literary and intellectual community. Visit website for more information, event listings, images “The project is both a lament and a commemoration of the and video: www.Al-MutanabbiStreetStartsHere-Boston.com singular power of words. We hope that these books will and www.cambridgeartscouncil.org

Page 3 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk ‘100+1 libri d’artista’ - From Micro to Macro Ed Ruscha Books & Co. Artist’s Book Archive Milan, curated by Gino Gini and Gagosian Gallery, Madison Ave., New York Fernanda Fedi at Palazzo Trinci, Perugia, Italy Until 27th April 2013 Until 6th May 2013 An exhibition of artists’ books by Ed Ruscha, alongside books by artists produced in the style of his books. Artists: Edgardo ABBOZZO - Amedeo ANELLI / Vincenzo Tribute books by Eric Doeringer, Jonathan Lewis, Michalis ACCAME / Paolo ALBANI / Khaled ALHANMZA Pichler, Joachim Schmid, Andreas Schmidt, Tom Sowden, (Giordania) / Janet ALLSEBROOK (Inghilterra) / Toth Elisabeth Tonnard, Hermann Zschiegner and others. ARPAD Ungheria) / Márton BARABAS (Ungheria) / Just in time for the exhibition, Tom Sowden has released Gianfranco BARUCHELLO / Showghi BATOOL ( (Iran/ a second edition of Fortynine Coach Seats Travelling Along Inghilterra) / Carlo BELLOLI / Franco BELTRAMETTI the M4, 2013, to mark the ten year anniversary of the first / Jean BENON (Belgio) / Mirella BENTIVOGLIO / edition. Produced in an edition of 490, black and white. Giacomo BERGAMINI / Tomaso BINGA / Alf BJÖRK £12 a copy, available from: www.lulu.com/tomsowden (Svezia) / Julien BLAINE (France) / Irma BLANK / Sarah BODMAN (Inghilterra) / Adalberto BORIOLI / Jean Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave., New York. François BORY (Francia) / Antnino BOVE / András http://www.gagosian.com BUTAK (Ungheria) / Angie BUTLER (Inghilterra) / Phyllis CAIRNS (USA) / Maura CANTAMESSA – Fabrizio DE ANDRE’ / Vito CAPONE / Domenico CARA / Luciano 4 Days at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK CARUSO / Francesca CATALDI / Max CHARVOLEN - Thursday 25 April - Sunday 28 April 2013 Raphaël MONTICELLI (Francia) / Giorgio CIAM / Anwyl 4 Days is a quarterly programme of performance, activating COOPER-WILLIS (Inghilterra) / Cédric CORDRIE – Arnolfini spaces for visitors to experience multiple live Daniel LEUWERS (Francia) / Claudio COSTA. / Sergio propositions during a single visit. With: Holly Pester, Annie DANGELO / Betty DANON / Franco DE BERNARDI / Vigier and Franck Apertet , Matthew Drage, Caroline Giulio DE MITRI / Alberto FAIETTI / Vittorio FAVA / Wilkins, Nicoline van Harskamp, Cally Spooner, Emma Fernanda FEDI - Michel BUTOR (Francia) / Luc FIERENS Bennett, Leslie Kulesh, Press Free Press, seekers of lice, (Belgio) / Giovanni FONTANA / Friederum FRIEDERICHS VerySmallKitchen, X Marks the Bökship, Lawrence Abu (Germania) / Gyorgy GALANTAI (Ungheria) / Gino Hamdan, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh. GINI – Michel BUTOR (Francia) /Monica GOLDSTEIN (Argentina) / Hazel GRAINGER (Inghilterra) / Grupo This second edition takes up residency primarily on the GRALHA ( Brasil) / Klaus GROH (Germania) / Elisabetta second floor with additional events in the foyer, traditionally GUT / Charlotte HALL (Inghilterra) / Luis Alberto the first meeting point for visitors. Performance as HERNANDEZ (Venezuela) / Emily JOE / Pierre JOINUL public speaking, alongside notions of ‘text performed’ (Francia) / Kumi KORF (USA) / Jean Jacques LAURENT give April’s edition a spoken word theme alongside the – Alain FREIXE (Francia) / Andrew LAW (Inghilterra) / potential to explore meanings via language and listening. Alain LESTIE’ (Francia) / Dario LONGO / Arrigo LORA Between communications, the act of meditation provides a TOTINO / Carmine LUBRANO / Henry MACCHERONI durational subtext suggesting ideas of live sculpture. – Jean KHALFA (Francia) / Jean-Michel MARCHETTI (Francia) / Lucia MARCUCCI / Miguel MARTIN – Raphaël The edition begins with performances from Nicoline van MONTICELLI (Francia) / Stelio Maria MARTINI / Eugenio Harskamp and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, both of whom MICCINI / MICRO LIBRARY Engineerium (Inghilterra)) then offer interactive installations for the remainder of / Enzo MINARELLI / Annalisa MITRANO / Jo MØLLER 4 Days, before heading into spoken performance from (Danimarca) / Stephen MUMBERSON (Inghilterra) / Bruno Emma Bennett and Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and a short MUNARI / Irmari NACHT (USA) / Giulia NICCOLAI programme from David Berridge’s Very Small Kitchen. / Svetlana NIKOL’SKAJA (Russia) / Martino OBERTO Linking with Bristol’s Poetry Festival, SJ Fowler then Max PARTEZANA – DUPUY ARMAND (Francia) / PASO presents Maintenant Camarade whilst Caroline Wilkins’ (Francia) / Luca PATELLA /Michele PERFETTI / Geza performance is also informed by the poet Chlebnikov as PERNECZKY (Germania) /Pawel PETASZ (Polonia) / well as Russian Futurist Kruchonych. Lamberto PIGNOTTI / G.Maria PISANO (USA) / Mikhail POGARSKY (Russia) / Omer POORRAM (Belgio) / Other highlights include Cally Spooner’s humorous take SARENCO / Evelina SCHATZ (Russia) / Davis Tennille on the act of impromptu public speaking and a look at the SCHUSTER (USA) / Fausta SQUATRITI / Max STILLER importance of ‘well-being’ including an offer from Parisian (Germania) / Ulrike STOLTZ (Germania) / Angela choreographers Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens THAMES (Inghilterra)/ Ann TYLER (USA) / Rodolfo d’Uterpan) to take part in regular meditation sessions VITONE / Philippa WOOD - Jantze TULLETT (U.K.) throughout 4 Days. Spectator feedback and reflection is welcomed throughout the event. There will also be a Palazzo Trinci, Foligno, Perugia, Italy. complimentary meeting of Arnolfini’s regular art and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Trinci writing salon, Tertulia, on the 27 April featuring the work http://www.fedi-gini-artistbook.org/archivio/ of 3 local artists.

Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, UK For the full 4 Days programme visit: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/4-days-1

Page 4 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm 100% Books by Canberra Artists Szymborska embraced the dichotomous nature of our Watson Arts Centre, Watson, ACT, Australia human existence, reminding readers that light does not Until 28th April 2013 exist without darkness. Translating her work into visual Canberra has a long and prolific history of artistic book language through their unique interpretations and use of production, encouraged and inspired by our rich array materials the artists Ania Gilmore, Ania Goszczynska and of cultural and creative institutions. There is a vibrant Ania Leliwa come together to celebrate their Polish heritage, community of artists here who use the book form to and honour the genius that Wislawa Szymborska created. explore and extend their broader practice, whether it be printmaking, sculpture or any other medium. Curated by Ania Gilmore. ArtSpace Gallery, 63 Summer Street, Maynard, MA 01754, This exhibition features twenty artists with a strong USA. Gallery Hours: Wed.-Sat. 11am-3pm connection to Canberra, showcasing their work in a way that is both snapshot and survey. Each artist has been invited to show ‘old’ work and ‘recent’ work. The pieces on The Book of Shapes – Allan McCollum show track the beginning of a professional interest in books mfc-michèle didier, Paris for each artist that continues to the present day. Until Saturday 18th May 2013 The Book of Shapes exhibition is based on the eponym Curated by Ampersand Duck (Caren Florance), a book arts publication by the artist Allan McCollum, produced in teacher and practitioner, the chosen range of book-centred 2010 by mfc-michèle didier. As the title indicates, The Book work will enchant book enthusiasts and perhaps challenge of Shapes has a specific interest for shapes; it is directly notions of what a book can be in an art context. From fine related to The Shapes Project, initiated by McCollum press through more sculptural pieces to street press and in 2005. It is therefore interesting to take a moment to zines, this exhibition gives a taste of the breadth remember the origin of the MFC acronym that is part of of contemporary book arts. the name of the publisher, mfc-michèle didier. MFC are the initials of ‘Maîtres de Forme Contemporains’ (Masters Featuring: GW Bot, Patsy Payne, Tanya Myshkin, Franki of contemporary forms) and directly refer to the Bauhaus Sparke, Dianne Fogwell, Nicci Haynes, Jan Hogan, Antonia masters of form. The Bauhaus’ faculty members were form Aitken, Bernie Slater, Ingeborg Hansen, Shellaine Godbold, masters, artists, craftsmen and workshop masters. Walter UK Frederick, Genevieve Swifte, Maryann Mussared, Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919, after the merger of Murray Kirkland, Kirsten Farrell, Hannah Hoyne, Nick the Weimar Academy of Fine Art and the School of Arts Stranks, Iona Walsh. and Crafts:

Events to accompany the show include workshops, “Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the talks and a zine fair (20th April) class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between Contact the Watson Arts Centre for more details: craftsman and artist! Together let us desire, conceive, and [email protected] / 02 6241 1670. create the new structure of the future, which will embrace Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall St, Watson, Canberra, architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity (…)“, Australia. Open Thurs–Sunday 10am – 4pm. he said. http://www.canberrapotters.com.au/wcac.html It was be more complex than he expected to build this future without any division where “autonomous creation” Nothing Twice (Nic dwa razy) would equal “industrial creation”. The Bauhaus masters ArtSpace Gallery, Maynard MA, USA didn’t agree with Gropius’ vision. If they concurred on Until 26th April 2013 the same goal, namely an art shared by all, they were categorically against the idea to turn to the industry. In reality, most of them already thought that the crafts and the arts weren’t subject to the same rules. But they considered that there could be interactions and analogies between both practices. On the other side, the relationship with the industrial process seemed for them impossible. Because of the production methods of mechanical fabrication, they thought the industry would be at opposite ends of what creative work is supposed to be.

In a way, The Shapes Project consists of a possible extension of the Bauhaus’ internal concerns and the ideological conflict between the defenders of the arts & crafts opposed to industrial production and the supporters of Three artists come together to pay tribute to Polish Nobel the disappearance of the limits between discipline and Prize poet Wisława Szymborska, who recently passed production process. Allan McCollum overcomes this away, leaving behind a magnificent collection of literature contention, with the aim to make a work that has an that both enchants and inspires. Known for honouring almost ecumenical dimension. the preciousness of life and welcoming its challenges,

Page 5 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk More concretely, The Shapes Project consists of a system The exhibition includes a group of contemporary artists that generates more than thirty-one billion different shapes, who use the language and imagery of maps to communicate made from a combination of six groups of elements. Each an array of ideas. Artists in this exhibition work in various shape is supposed to be assigned to one individual. Since styles, adapting, manipulating, and inventing maps to the UN established that the world population would peak giving them new meanings. Some of them use fictional at over 9.1 billion people in 2050, this system offers an narratives and create imaginary cartographies; others ample supply of shapes allowing everyone to have their own conceive a work that updates the new geopolitical orders. «form-shape», whose use could be left to each and every Still others approach the map aesthetically or as material one’s discretion. in itself. Humor too plays an important role in defining these borders. Curated by Susan Hoeltzel and Yuneikys Allan McCollum’s The Book of Shapes publication is Villalonga. composed of two volumes. Volume I contains the patterns, while volume II includes the instructions and guides Lehman College Art Gallery, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard for creating all possible combinations made from these West, Bronx, New York 10468-1589, USA. Gallery hours: components. Based on the analysis of mass production, Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm The Shapes Project presents a paradox: the artist’s wish to lehman.edu/gallery produce a work of art at a massive scale, but ensuring at the same time that none of these objects, although created from the same mold, are similar. The Book of Shapes lets thus Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art grasp the magnitude of this plan. The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, USA 23rd May – 6th July 2013 The exhibition at mfc-michèle didier gallery will display the Rebound: Dissections and Excavations in Book Art publication along with a selection of Shapes made by Allan brings together the work of five mixed media artists from McCollum up to this day. around the world who sculpt, scrape, bend and carve to create astonishing compositions using books as a point The foundations of The Shapes Project have today been laid, of departure. but Allan McCollum alone won’t be able to complete the mission he wants to accomplish. The artist invites us thus all to contribute and to really materialise the monumental ensemble. Let’s make the count in 2050.

A presentation of The Shapes Project will be given by the artist on Thursday 25th April at 7pm mfc-michèle didier, 66 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, F-75003 Paris, France. T: +33 (0)1 71 97 49 13. [email protected] – www.micheledidier.com Open Tuesday to Saturday, from 12 to 7pm

Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper Art Brooklyn Public Library, New York, USA Until 1st June 2013 Cutting Edge: Contemporary Paper Art by Doug Beube, Danielle Durchslag, Irwin Susskind & Thomas Witte. A group exhibition that celebrates the renaissance of cut paper as an artistic medium, including artists who choose to draw with a knife, saw or scissors as an integral part of their practice. Curated by Diana Ewer and Christopher Henry.

Foyer Cases & Balcony Cases Brooklyn Public Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USA Interrupted Landscape by Doug Beube

Contemporary Cartographies Curated by Karen Ann Myers, Assistant Director of the Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, USA Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, this exhibition Until 11th May 2013 features works by Brian Dettmer (Atlanta), Long-Bin Kevin Van Aelst, Isabel Barbuzza, Doug Beube, Gail Chen (Taiwanese, now living in New York), Guy Laramee Biederman, Margaret Cusack, Sage Dawson, Lisa Corinne (Montreal), Francesca Pastine (San Francisco), and Doug Davis, Dalia Elsayed, Charley Friedman, Wopo Holup, Beube (New York). Each of these artists transforms Meridith McNeal, Steven Millar, Simonetta Moro, Paula various types of literature and/or printed “books” through Scher, Karen Shaw, and Dannielle Tegeder. sculptural intervention. Despite the individualistic and

Page 6 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm exclusive perspective of each artist, they have remarkable connections in the themes and ideas they respectively mourn and celebrate.

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art has commissioned Rebound artist, Long-Bin Chen, to create a site-specific sculptural work that will be on view in the Sanders Rotunda of the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library concurrent with the exhibition within the Halsey. Chen will create the work during a residency May 1 – 23.

Opening Reception Thursday May 23, 6-8pm

Gallery Walk-through with the artists Thursday May 23, 5-6pm

The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art 161 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29401, USA Open Mon – Sat, 11am – 4pm, until 7pm on Thursdays. Admission free. More information and an online gallery of book works in the exhibition at: http://halsey.cofc.edu/exhibitions/rebound/

The Art of The Book 2013 Seager Gray Gallery, California, USA 1st – 31st May 2013 8th annual exhibition of handmade artists’ books, altered books and book-related materials.

Seager Gray Gallery 23 Sunnyside Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941, USA. One of Ed Boxal’s images inspired by WB Yeat’s collection Tues – Saturday 11am – 6pm, Sunday 12-5pm, Art Walk ‘The Wind among the Reeds’. http://edboxall.co.uk first Tuesday of every month. www.seagergray.com Exhibiting artists: Clare Beattie, Lynne Bingham, Ed Boxall, Laura Broad, Niki Campbell, David Chalkley, Bruno Leti – Intersections Louisa Crispin, Ruth Dent, Christine Gist, Jane Pitt, Julian grahame galleries + editions, Australia Rowe, Pat Savage, Juliet Simpson, Annabel Tilley, Amanda 11th April – 10th May 2013 Thompson, Rob Turner, Sara Wicks. Artists’ books, prints and glass panels. grahame galleries + editions Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery 1 Fernberg Road, Paddington, Brisbane, Qld 4064. Australia Buckhurst Lane, Sevenoaks, TN13 1LQ, UK Gallery opening times: 11 am – 5 pm Wed – Sat during Tel: 08458 247200 exhibitions. Other times by appointment. [email protected] Tel: +61 7 3369 3288 www.grahamegalleries.com Along Some Sympathetic Lines - Martin John Callanan with archive project by Liz Bruchet The Reference Section Or Gallery Berlin, Germany Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Gallery, UK Until 27th April 2013 Until 6th May 2013 Curated by Liz Bruchet. The Or Gallery is pleased to present Proposed and co-curated by members of the Sevenoaks Along Some Sympathetic Lines, an exhibition of artwork by Visual Arts Forum, this is a group show of work inspired by London-based artist Martin John Callanan, and an archive books in the library. Artists were invited to submit work to project by curator Liz Bruchet. The exhibition considers the the gallery which interpreted a book of their choice. poetic possibilities of data and its documentation, and the tenuous process of making meaning. Artwork in this exhibition explores how the written word is translated and represented in visual language and how Or Gallery Berlin narrative inspires the visual artist. Books referenced by the Oranienstraße 37, 10999 Berlin, Germany works in the the exhibition will be available in the Library T. +49 (0) 3060 9595 21. Gallery hours 12 – 5pm Saturdays during the exhibition. or by appointment. Admission Free. http://www.orgallery.org/along-some-sympathetic-lines Page 7 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Pervaja Kniga (FIRST BOOK) Exhibitions at the Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint- State Museum Tsaritsino, Moscow, Russia Yrieix-la-Perche, France Until 21st April 2013 Until 29th June 2013 Organised by the International Artist’s Book Association, curated by Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasilij Vlasov, Viktor Lukin. Salle des conditions atmosphériques The book as an individual form of art has always attracted Hubert Renard & Microcollection – Jeunes pousses d’Italie the attention of many artists. As a medium it offers the artist Hubert Renard in collaboration with Microcollection have the opportunity of defining their own boundaries of the devised a site specific installation Jeunes pousse d’Italie, book format, which they create. The artist’s book owns – dealing with ways art can be inscribed in the real world in addition to its basic ideas and contents – a unique and the quasi anthropological observation of the cultural sculptural form of art and its own internal space. apparatus.

The project “First Book” is an opportunity for artists First floor working in different genres, styles and directions – Enrichissements de la collection 2011-12 – images / images regardless of whether or not they have engaged in the of images / no images creation of a book – to create their “First Book” in the Jean-Marc Berguel, Alain Bernardini, Christian Boltanski, genre of the “artist’s book”. Ernst Caramelle, Philippe Clerc, Céline Duval, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Rinata Kajumova & Achim Riecher, Sharon The understanding of the context of the project “First Book” Kivland, Sol LeWitt, John McDowall, Roberto Martinez, is diverse – this can be the first book for children, the first in Maurizio Nannucci, Hubert Renard, Edward Ruscha & any technical or other embodiment, and the first as a carrier Lawrence Weiner, Joachim Schmid, Andreas Schmidt, Erik of the alphabet or signs or the first Book of books. Steinbrecher, Taroop & Glabel, Endre Tót, Jan Dirk van der Burg, Éric Watier. Each contributor had complete freedom in choosing formats or techniques, and created their own image or The exhibition is structured around 3 ensembles of ‘serial shape of the book, creating book art or an art object, a publication’ – Ohio magazine, Céline Duval’s folded media object, simply a book or a sculpture. Bookworks broadsheet with 4 images and a series of recent booklets utilising any techniques and methods, from modern or by Sharon Kivland – bringing together publications whose classical art. More than 100 artists from Russia, England, primary material and content is the photographic image. Italy, USA, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Ukraine, India, Egypt, Turkish, Jordan, Hungary took part in the For the occasion the cdla has produced a set of 5 posters by project. More information at www.pogarsky.ru Hubert Renard (1994 -1998); BOUM, On ne construit pas des nuages, Nuancier, Le bout du monde, Point de vue...

Books and Prints by Rand Huebsch CDLA, 1 place Attane, F–87500 Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Bloomingdale Library, New York City, USA France. Tel: + 33 (0) 555 75 70 30 4th - 30th April 2013 http://cdla.info/en/ Rand Huebsch is a printmaker and book artist. He has taught at the Center for Book Arts (NYC) and the Newark Museum Arts Workshop, and has work in the collections of John Christie: Constructions And Works On Paper the Victoria and Albert Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, North House Gallery, The Walls, Manningtree, Essex, UK and Cambridge University Library, among others. Until 4th May 2013

In the last year or so John Christie has produced a susbstantial body of immaculate work in pastel on paper. The Dazzle series is inspired by Edward Wadsworth’s dazzle camouflage for ships in the First World War. Other series derive and develop from his own wooden constructions which will be shown alongside.

His perfectionist streak and design credentials have always been apparent in his long career as a maker of artists’ books. From 1975 Christie produced more than 20 limited edition books for the Circle Press and his own imprint Objectif. He co-authored, with John Berger, the award-winning book I Send You This Cadmium Red. His prints, drawings and This retrospective features etchings, embossings, and artists’ books are in many collections worldwide including accordion books. The Bloomingdale branch of the NYC Tate, the V & A, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Public Library is at 150 West 100th Street (between Haven. Amsterdam & Columbus Avenues). Phone: (212) 222-8030 www.randhuebsch.com As a director and cameraman his TV programmes include Another Way of Telling, a BBC series on photography made in collaboration with John Berger and Jean Mohr; Salvage

Page 8 this newsletter can be downloaded from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm of Soho Photographer, a C4 documentary on John Deakin codex: between this and that (workshops) will be taking and First Hand, a series of seven films based on literarary place at Shoreditch Library and Clapham Library between manuscripts from the British Library. 19th April - 3rd May 2013. The workshops are aimed at introducing general public to the creative possibilities of the book. http://collectiveinvestigations.tumblr.com/workshops

The project is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Laura Carey – Surroundings Gallery Lane Cove, NSW, Australia Until 4th May 2013 Laura Carey has been our very first artist in residence at Gallery Lane Cove. Over the last 6 months Laura has been working on a new body of work (in the old ‘Centrehouse’ office on the front veranda of 178 Longueville Road), called Surroundings, which is an investigation into the built environment. Living in the inner city of Sydney and ‘commuting’ across the bridge to Lane Cove, where she teaches children’s art at Centrehouse and works part time in the Gallery as the Gallery Assistant as well as preparing for the exhibition in the studio (busy, busy lady). Laura’s observations are colourful and whimsical with an edginess He is one of four founders of Full Circle Editions, designing that comes from city living. Just recently back from a trip the collectable books of texts, new and classic, relating to to Japan, with it’s rich culture of screen and wood block East Anglia and illustrated by artists of the region. printing, you will see a distinct influence and inspiration Copies of the whole series are available at the gallery. from the Japanese culture and cityscapes in this body of work. For more information, please contact the gallery: North House Gallery, The Walls, Manningtree, Essex CO11 1AS, UK. Tel. 01206 392717 Open on Saturday or by appointment [email protected] www.northhousegallery.co.uk codex: between this and that bookartbookshop, London 19th April - 3rd May 2013 codex: between this and that is an arts project by Collective Investigations, set up by Egidija Čiricaitė, George Cullen and Chris Gibson as a platform to broaden discourse on the idea of the book through investigation into codex, as its prototypical form. The exhibition will showcase her latest screenprints, codex: between this and that (the book) is an artist’s book which are made up of layers of colour, form, photographic which explores thoughts, opinions and ideas that book techniques and unique characters that inhabit her as a codex represents through the many contexts of it’s environments. There will be a number of paintings, existence. The publication contains contributions from an installation and zines that celebrate qualities of the Mark Cockram, Les Bicknell, Riccardo Boglione, Michelle handmade. This Irish las, having studied Fine Arts in Brown, Paul Coldwell, Ali van Dam, Janine Harrington, Ireland and in Sydney at the College of Fine Arts, Laura’s Susan Johanknecht, Sharon Kivland, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, practice as printmaker and artist has brought her to Richard Price, Stevie Ronnie, Erin K. Schmidt, Abi Thomas. Australia, where she now resides. This rich layering of culture and the urban environment will prove to be a The book will be launched on 26th April 2013, 7pm at visually compelling exhibition. Bookartbookshop, London. http://collectiveinvestigations.tumblr.com/book If you are interested in the Artist in Residence programme, please contact Gallery Lane Cove on 02 9428 4898 as we will codex: between this and that (@bookartbookshop) is a project soon be calling for applications for a new artist in residence. exhibition/intervention at bookartbookshop, London from 19th April - 3rd May 2013 Upper level 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066, http://collectiveinvestigations.tumblr.com Australia. http://www.centrehouse.org.au

Page 9 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk 2013 Project by Café Royal FEAST! features the work of the following artists: Naomi Hanover Project, Hanover Building Adams, Islam Aly, Patty Bruce, Cathleen Casey, Minali University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Chatani, Robin Bachtler Cushman, Katie Delay, David 19th April – 6th May 2013 Esslemont, Virginia Flynn, Patricia Freeman-Martin, Books, photographs, and drawings from over 20 countries Jonathan Gerken, Annie Herlocker, Diane Jacobs, Deborah sharing common themes of communication and Kogan, Karen Koshgarian, Elaine Langerman, Woody dissemination will be displayed at Hanover Project - Leslie, Louise Levergneux, Sarah McCoy, Tekla McInerney, the University of Central Lancashire. Bessie Smith Moulton, Jackie Niemi, Kathleen O’Connell, Chandler O’Leary, Lisa Onstad, Bettina Pauly, Linda Piacentini-Yaple, Bob Pliny, Katya Reka, Janet Reynolds, Robert Rowe, Elizabeth Sanford, Marina Sartori, Julie Shaw Lutts, Daniel Smith, Laurie Szujewska, Lane Taplin, Bonnie Thompson Norman, M. L. Van Nice, Elsi Vassdal Ellis, Laurie Weiss, Sandra Winkworth and Pamela Wood.

A full online catalogue of FEAST! can be found at: www.23sandy.com/works/feast To mark the event Café Royal is publishing a series of books: 23 Sandy Gallery Words, Drawings, Photographs, and Publications. 623 NE 23rd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232, USA Words is a collection of essays by leading practitioners and researchers - Sarah Bodman, Jörg Colberg and Lawrence Zeegen

Hanover Project, Hanover Building, off Bhailok Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm

More details about the 2013 Project, and a full list of participants can be found at: http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/project/ international-communication-project/ Funded by the Contemporary Arts Development Group.

FEAST! A Juried Exhibition Celebrating Food and Book Art 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA 10th May - 14th June 2013 23 Sandy Gallery hosts two juried exhibitions each year. These are the gallery’s two BIG events of the year and are always a huge draw for gallery visitors, both in person and online. As the gallery celebrates its six-year anniversary this month it is very exciting to present out first juried show of the year, FEAST!

The book arts offer a banquet of materials, mediums and structures. Food offers a smorgasbord of ideas for the artist. PIERRE PAULIN - Poèmes Mix up generous servings of food and art and you have a Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris sumptuous feast called book arts. This show features 46 Until 27th April 2013 food-related unique and limited edition artist books and Galerie Emmanuel Hervé broadsides by 43 artists. Food can play many roles in book 6 rue Jouye-Rouve, 75020 Paris, France art: cook books, memories of food and family, books about Tel +33 (0)9 51 10 96 58 food issues such as hunger, sustainability or tales of the [email protected] locavore. Go forth and feast on this big wide world of http://www.emmanuelherve.com food inspiration. Open: Wednesday - Saturday: 2 - 7pm and by appointment.

Page 10 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Exhibition hours: Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm or by appointment, The Gallery at 14 Maple, 14 Maple Ave. - 3rd floor, Morristown, NJ 07960, USA. The Arts Council of the Morris Area invited artists to submit work that challenges conventional approaches in media, pushing the limits of traditional uses and processes while addressing themes of transformation, ritual and rebirth to herald the coming of spring. The exhibition will be displayed at the Arts Council’s Gallery at 14 Maple Avenue during our 40th Anniversary celebration. Jeanne Brasile, Director of Seton Hall University’s Walsh Gallery is the guest curator.

A Conversation in Art by Middle Eastern and American Artists Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, USA Until 26th April 2013 This exhibition features local and international artists from the United States, the Middle East, and its Diaspora. Tamziq, meaning “torn” in Arabic, brings together the general public, veterans, students, and refugees as both artists and audience. This exhibit explores the connections and ruptures between artists and communities in the Irmari Nacht of Englewood, NJ is exhibiting her recycled United States and the Middle East, with a focus on Iraq. The artist book “Books93ClassicBotanic” at Gallery14 Maple number of Iraqi refugees resettling in the United States has in Morristown, NJ, USA grown drastically over the past 7 years, and at the same time Until 21st August 2013 a large number of American veterans are returning home This juried exhibition honours the 100th anniversary of Igor from Iraq and Afghanistan. The collaboration between the Stravinsky’s influential ballet score and celebrates the 40th Joiner Center and the Odysseus Project is a response to anniversary of the Arts Council of the Morris Area. The the need for dialogue and exchange within our changing show opened on March 27 and runs to August 21, 2013 communities. This project includes not only an art exhibit,

but also a public discussion as part of the Arsenal Center’s Irmari Nacht’s recycled books, a series entitled “SAVED”, text & conText series, and a calligraphy workshop hosted by uses books that otherwise might be discarded and the centre. transforms them into artworks. Books93ClassicBotanic celebrates colour with the overabundance of floral elements Opening Reception April 22, 2013, 5.30-7.30 pm cascading out from three rather staid books. Artist Panel - April 22, 2013 - part of the Arsenal Center’s Text and Context series

Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472, USA. Tel: 617-923-0100. Directions: http://www.arsenalarts.org/contact.html#gettinghere

For more information, please visit: http://www.odysseusproject.org/tamziq.html

some undisclosed points of remove Melanie Counsell, Sara MacKillop, Anne Tallentire, Sabine Tholen, Joëlle Tuerlinckx Chelsea College of Art & Design, Old College Library 19th April – 13th May 2013 An exhibition of work by five artists based in the UK and Nacht’s bookworks are in several collections and have been Europe, all of whom are represented in the collection of been shown at the BelskieMuseum,NJ, Lichtenstein Center artists’ books at Chelsea College of Art & Design. Taking for the Arts, MA, Doverodde BookArts Festival, Denmark, place in Chelsea’s Old College Library, the project’s starting Westport Library, Conn, NJ State Museum, Newark point was a selection of publications with each artist invited Museum, WAH Center, NY, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, ME, to contribute an additional work, to be installed in the space Univ of Northampton, UK, Bowdoin College, and in solo together. Some undisclosed points of remove is the result of shows at the Atrium Gallery, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, that invitation and includes several pieces made specifically MA and the Intermezzo Gallery, BergenPAC, NJ. for the occasion.

Page 11 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk The selection of these five artists is but a fraction of all Anne Tallentire (b. Co. Armagh, 1949) lives and works in those represented in Chelsea’s Special Collections, yet it London. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Hollybush is a grouping that quietly demanded to be seen together. Gardens, London; Picture This, Bristol; the Contemporary Several comparable interests run through their respective Art Centre, Noisy-Le-Sec; and the Irish Museum of Modern practices: the specifics of space, with its ‘languages’ and Art. She was the sole representative of Ireland at the 1999 temporal dimensions; the conditions of viewing; and modes Venice Biennale. A significant part of her practice since of dissemination and display. In the exploration of these 1993 has been her collaborative work with John Seth as ideas, each of the artists draws on a sensibility that combines work-seth/tallentire. an intuitive, associative approach with a distinct formal precision and material economy. Together the works in Joëlle Tuerlinckx (b. Brussels, 1958) is based in Brussels this project mark out a dialogue, both assured and tacit, where she has recently had her first retrospective exhibition with the Old College Library space itself: a paneled, at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, showing at Munich’s balconied room and the original library of the military Haus der Kunst from June 2013. Other recent solo projects medical college, built 1904, whose extended buildings include exhibitions at Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna; Chelsea occupies today. Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin; Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp; and the Sabatini Building & Palacio de Cristal, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 9.30am – 7.30pm; Wednesday 10.00am – 7.30pm; Friday 9.30am – 5.00pm; Saturday 10.00am – 3.45pm Preview 18th April 5.45pm - 7.15pm

Detail from Annette, by Melanie Counsell, Matt’s Gallery, 1998

Offering an insight into five artistic practices, the exhibition prompts questions about the nature of site-responsivity and contemporary readings of institutional/spatial critique. And, against a backdrop of a resurgent interest in artists’ publications, the show invites a discursive look at the relationship between books and wider creative practice.

Melanie Counsell (b. Cardiff, 1964) lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include solo projects at Works Projects, Bristol; and Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris; as well as group exhibitions at Glyndŵr University, Wrexham; and FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou. She has undertaken several commissions for public institutions including Chapter in Cardiff and Artangel, London. In 2007 she was the recipient of a Sargant Fellowship at the British School at Rome.

Sara MacKillop (b. Bromley, 1973) lives and works in London. She has recently had solo shows at Clockwork Gallery, Berlin; Spike Island, Bristol; White Columns, New York; DCA, Dundee; and Salle de Bains, Lyon. Recent group exhibitions include Jessica Bradley Art & Projects, Toronto, and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.

Sabine Tholen (b. Bonn, 1974) is based in Geneva. Recent projects include solo exhibitions at Ribordy Contemporary and Stargazer, both in Geneva; and group shows at Espace Kugler, Geneva; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Villa Bernasconi, Grand-Lancy; and the Centre pour la Photographie, Geneva.

Page 12 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Mail-art-book Lead and Light: The Evolution of Lumiere Press An international mail-art and artist books project. Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada Museum of Contemporary Art “Erarta”, St.-Petersburg 1st May - 2nd June 2013 15th May – 9th June 2013 Lead and Light explores 27 years of hand-printed, Curator - Mikhail Pogarsky hand-bound photography books published by Toronto’s Lumiere Press. The press, launched in 1986 by Canadian In the 60s mail art developed a separate art direction photographer Michael Torosian, has produced 22 limited alongside a growth of interest in the artist’s book. Mail art edition volumes to date, on a diverse array of photographers and artists’ books of that time developed in the wake of including Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Aaron Siskind, and a protest movement against the commercialisation of art Edward Burtynsky. Using material selected from the press and the dictatorship of the gallery system. Most mail artists archives - from manuscripts to maquettes, as well as original of the 60s worked with the artist’s book format as well. prints by major twentieth-century photographers - the Some years ago, these two areas occupied separate niches exhibition focuses on the creative and intellectual processes in contemporary art, but the point of intersection between by which Lumiere Press publications are researched, them, of course, remains. The development of a dialogue designed, and meticulously produced. between mail art and the artist’s book is the aim of this project. More than 100 artists from 30 countries created a mail-art message, dedicated to the artist’s book, or vice versa - made an artist’s book dedicated to mail-art. More information at: www.pogarsky.ru

Book-Art-Botany International project for the 5th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, State Darwin museum, Moscow 15th May – 24th June 2013 Curators: Mikhail Pogarsky and Janna Rybak Book-Art-Botany is an artist’s book project, devoted to plant life. In this project, botany and book-art complement each other. One half of the project shows artists’ books on various subjects, made with natural plant materials: trunks, A box of magnesium plates used in printing design elements of branches and bark, various flowers, herbs, leaves and seeds. Lumiere Press publications.

This exhibition and accompanying publication have been produced by second-year students in the Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Master of Arts programme at Ryerson University, Toronto, under the direction of Professor David Harris.

Student Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre 33 Gould Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ryerson.ca/ric/index.html

Manifest: poetry beyond text Exhibition of collaborative works by the poet Robert Sheppard and the artist Pete Clarke Edge Hill University Arts Centre, UK 11th – 26th April 2013 Robert Sheppard and Pete Clarke having been making The other part shows artists’ books dedicated to plants, work together over the last three years. Initially Clarke ecology and environmental protection. We wanted to draw was influenced to make paintings by Sheppard’s poems the public’s attention, particularly the younger generation to from his book Twentieth Century Blues. They were then environmental problems; to show by means of modern art, commissioned by the project ‘Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, the opportunities using of plants in the most unexpected Text and Cognition’ the multi-disciplinary research project ways; to emphasise and demonstrate through art the variety funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and and beauty of flora and its natural harmony. Many well- based at the Universities of Dundee and Kent. known artists from Russia, UK, Italy, Brazil took part in the project. This exhibition will present their continuing collaboration making paintings, printmaking and poetic text. Forme, Lyric An opening event will be held 19th May, on the “Night of and Manifest contains poetic text resembling ‘headlines’ Museums”. More information at: www.pogarsky.ru or titles, others reading as fragmented ‘body’ text, a visual

Page 13 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk assembly that is suggestive of Russian Constructivist prints. Robert Sheppard moved to Liverpool in 1997 and works These historical visual influences interact with a ‘poetic at Edge Hill University where he is currently Professor of of increased indeterminacy and discontinuity, the uses of Poetry and Poetics. His poetic project Twentieth Century techniques of disruption and of creative linkage’, to apply Blues appeared from Salt in 2008. Later work, Warrant Sheppard’s own description of the linguistically innovative Error, his innovative sonnet sequence appeared from Poetry movement in which he has played a notable part. Shearsman in 2009, followed by Berlin Bursts in 2011. The word ‘manifest’ teases the viewer with overtones of A Translated Man is due this year. He is also a critic of manifestos, of historical references and political activism contemporary poetry. www.robertsheppard.weebly.com in its dynamic layout. Private View April 16th 5.30 – 7.30pm

Edge Hill University Arts Centre, St Helens Road, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 4QP.

Modo Morandi Dietmar Pfister and Franz Mon Morat – Institut für Kunst und Kunstgeschichte Freiburg i. Br., Germany Until 4th May 2013 This exhibition at the Morat –Institut is the first presentation of Modo Morandi, a portfolio of seven etchings by Dietmar Pfister and 7 poems by Franz Mon - senior master of Concrete poetry, combining literature and art through the alliance of both artists. This artistic project forms a very special relationship between visual and language art. The etchings and images reference the art of Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) supplemented by book objects taken from the artist’s library. The lyrics were written in response and were placed into the picture areas as a truly singular creative collaboration between artist and poet.

Tangled Scree is a quennet (the near-sonnet, but haiku- influenced form invented by the instigator of Oulipo, Raymond Queneau). It was composed using images of derelict sites in Liverpool, with respect to the adjective- noun phrases that make up most of the text. The letterpress uses various fonts to try to replicate and or dislocate patterns of speech, a structural equivalent for the poems. The exhibition features the step-by-step evolution of the portfolio, i.e. many of the attempts and variations of all the Their collaborative project has recently exhibited work at singular parts, growing up to the portfolio as a summary of ‘Kunstraum Dreizwanzig, Cologne, part of the Liverpool all the preceding efforts. and Cologne festival in 2012, The Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh 2011, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2011 Each etching (20 x 28 cm) is printed in chine-collé on and the University of Dundee, 2010. Alt Berlin Bütten (31 x 36 cm), printer Joschi Josephski, Issing. They are interleaved with Zander transparent paper Pete Clarke lives in Liverpool and is the MA Course Leader carrying the lyrics, letterpress printed by Germanisches and Principal Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Nationalmuseum Nürnberg. The etchings are signed and Central Lancashire, Preston. He also makes paintings, prints numbered by the artist, and the whole portfolio (38 x 42 and installations with the artist Georg Gartz from Cologne x 2 cm) is signed and numbered by both artists. The case exploring collaborative strategies within contemporary and title embossing was hand made by Hilmar Wölfel, practice questioning individuality, authorship and Nürnberg. Euros 1,350. This is a limited edition of 21 authenticity in a European context. www.peteclarke.org.uk (plus 7 artists’ proofs). For more information on the exhibition, or to purchase visit: www. morat-institut.de

Page 14 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Press & Release is curated by Karin Mori, and exhibition design is by Ben Thomson.

Preview: Friday 26th April, 6 - 8pm

Exhibitors include: Janet Allsebrook, *Jackie Batey, *John Bently, *Chiara Bianchi, *Deborah Boardman, Sarah Bodman, *Bodman’s Dark Humours, *Booklyn Artists Alliance, Borbonesa, Ed Briggs *Sarah Bryant, Roz Cran, Duncan Bullen, Angie Butler & Phillipa Wood, Otto Dettmer, Jane Diakonicolas & Martyn Lake, Carolina Diaz, Jane Fox, Tony Gammidge, Joanna Gibbs, Harold Graves, Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen, Heather Matthew, Andi McGarry, Christina Mitrentse, Karen Morgan, *Iain Paxon, Jim Sanders, Lucy May Schofield, seekers of lice, Lee Shearman, Dorry Smallman, Graham Smith, Xelís de Toro, Morat – Institut für Kunst und Kunstgeschichte, Sylvia Waltering, Leslie Wilson-Rutterford. Lörracher Str. 31, D 79115 Freiburg i. Br. Germany *Featured installations Tel. +49 (0) 761 476 59 16 Open: Saturdays or by appointment For more information: www.morat-institut.de

Press & Release North Gallery, Phoenix Brighton, UK 27th April – 9th June 2013 Long after the old printing presses have been dismantled and buried, the artist’s book springs to life in all its pulpy glory. With a passion for glittering words, rustling pages and multi-faceted forms, it gathers together the dreams, desires and obsessions of its creators into little repositories of life and light that outshine the Kindle. Detail: Mother Gladys by Chiara Bianchi Press & Release is an oasis for the bleary-eyed, screen- scorched reader. It celebrates the thriving culture of artists’ ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES INCLUDE: books, with a focus on hand-made and limited editions, and some boundary-breaking permutations. Ranging from Museums at Night: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, May 16 – silkscreen, collaged and hand-painted books to poetry, text 18, until 9pm, free entry. Come along to the gallery tonight, and zines, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the many and meet some of the exhibiting artists and gain a deeper insight varied worlds of book artists. into the world of artists’ books.

SHAKING THE SHELF - Performing Books Saturday 25 May, 7 – 10pm Tickets £5 / £4 conc. For one evening only, the books will dust off their jackets and leap onto stage.Iain Paxon spins audio-visual yarns using music, slide projections and fairy tales; Bones & The Aft open their pop-up set and take us on a rock-n-roll bus ride; Carolina Diaz draws together dance and organic forms in a book-inspired dance performance, Laboratoro takes us on a page-turning promenade through the exhibition, and Jackie Batey fills us in on herDamp Flat Books which use humour and satire to rant about the glitches of modern life.

OFF THE PAGE - An Afternoon of Books Saturday 1 June, 2 – 5pm, £1 entry Immerse yourself in a lively mix of talks, workshops and special events, and learn more about resources and networks The centerpiece of the exhibition is a specially designed for book artists. Borbonesa will launch the event at 2 pm installation which invites viewers to engage with the with an illustrated talk. Then roll up your sleeves and try books and escape the constraints of time. It beckons to our some drop-in workshops covering simple book formats, imaginations and tactile curiosities, and once we are drawn collage and working with downloadable books; there will be into its labyrinthine depths we won’t want to leave. a café, stalls, networking activities and more. Page 15 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk ‘Scenic Wonders’- modern masterpieces Alexander Korzer-Robinson The Searchers contemporary, Bristol, UK 21st April - 7th May 2013 Alexander Korzer-Robinson: Through my work in the tradition of collage I am pursuing a very personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. By using antiquarian books, it makes the work simultaneously an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia.

We create our own past from fragments of reality in a process that combines the wilful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious. On a general level, I aim to illustrate this process that forms our inner landscape.

Jackie Batey’s Future Fantasteek

THE BOOKENDS LOUNGE (Actually, the books never end, but you are welcome to lounge.) You will encounter a hive of activity in the furthest reaches of the south gallery, where you can find out about resources and networks for artists’ books, collaborate or create your own artist book, and bring in fanzines and publications to swap and share with others.

BOOK ARTS COURSES

Miniature Bookmaking (with Lee Shearman) By using pre-existing media as a starting point, certain boundaries are set by the material, which I aim to transform Simple Books: Innovative Structures (with Sarah Bryant) through my process. Thus, an encyclopaedia can become a window into an alternate world, much like lived reality Artists’ Books: Content and Structure (with Sarah becomes its alternate in remembered experience. These Bryant) books, having been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer Visit the website for details and registration: tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain http://www.phoenixarts.org/exhibitions/363-press-a- insight about oneself. release-exhibition.html I make book sculptures / cut books by working through a Press & Release is supported by Arts Council England and book, page by page, cutting around some of the illustrations Brighton & Hove Council while removing others. In this way, I build my composition using only the images found in the book. Press & Release North Gallery, Phoenix Brighton, 10–14 Waterloo Place Open day: Sunday 21st April 12 noon - 5pm Brighton BN2 9NB, East Sussex, UK. www.phoenixarts.org The Searchers contemporary, 14 St Michaels Hill, Bristol, Weds - Sun, 11am - 5pm BST 8DT, UK. Tues-Sat 11-5pm. Tel: 07711 541852 Late openings: 16, 17 18 May until 9pm [email protected] www.thesearcherscontemporary.com Page 16 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Spring Exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts, New York COVERED - Beauty and Art in Contemporary 19th April – 29th June 2013 Bookbinding St Bride Foundation, London, UK From Bande Dessinée to Artist’s Book: Testing the Limits 17th April - 10th May 2013 of Franco-Belgian Comics St Bride Foundation is pleased to welcome Designer Organised by Catherine Labio, Independent Curator Bookbinders into the newly refurbished and beautiful Along with American comics and Japanese manga, Layton room. New work by Fellows and Licentiates of bande dessinée (“drawn strip”) is one of the great comics Designer Bookbinders, plus a few invited binders. All the traditions. This exhibition presents key moments in the work is for sale. The exhibition will take place in the newly evolution of bande dessinée volumes, from their initial refurbished Layton Room. standardisation to contemporary explorations into the possibilities offered by the book as three-dimensional object, explorations that have led, in Europe as elsewhere, to a blurring of the distinction between comic books and artists’ books.

Featuring work by: Andreas, Nava Atlas, Lars Arrhenius, Adolpho Avril & Olivier Deprez, Rémy Pierlot & Vincent Fortemps, Jean-Jacques Oost & Gipi, Richard Bawin & ­Thierry Van Hasselt, Dominique ­Théâte & Dominique Goblet, Pome Bernos, Paz Boïra, Claire Bretécher, Julie Chen and Lois Morrison, with Elizabeth McDevitt, Frédéric Coché, David B., Martin tom Dieck, and Jens Balzer, Will Dinski, Vincent Fortemps, André Franquin,Dominique Goblet and Guy Marc Hinant, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier, Hergé, Mamiko Ikeda, Edgar P. Jacobs, Eric Lambé, Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Michael Matthys, Emily Martin, Max, Miles O’Shea and Olivier Deprez, Omar F. Olivera, OuBaPo, Philippe Petit-Roulet, Peyo, John Porcellino,Nicolas Robel, Marjane Satrapi,Francois Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, Joann Sfar and Jean-Christophe Menu, From the 17th - 30th April, members of Designer Stefan J.H. Van Dinther,Th­ierry Van Hasselt and Karine Bookbinders will be available to answer questions and talk Ponties, Chris Ware, Toña Wilson, and Melinda Yale. about the bindings. Entry will be via Bride Lane.

Also on View: Featured Artist Projects 2012 Workspace From 1st - 10th May, the show will not be invigilated and Artists in Residence entry will be via reception. You are advised to check before The Center’s annual exhibition of new work by the previous travelling if you wish to view the exhibition as the room year’s Artists-in-Residence. The 2012 Workspace residents may not be accessible. are Stephanie Beck, Frances Gallardo, Jessica Lagunas, Open: 10am - 6pm Monday to Friday (and Saturday 20th Asuka Ohsawa, and Sarada Rauch. April 10am - 1pm). St Bride Foundation Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Elena Costelian: Chernobyl on Tour Tel: 020 7353 3331. www.sbf.org.uk Chernobyl on Tour seeks to challenge the cartographic representation of the Contaminated Zone: a territory wiped off the maps of the world. Gert & Uwe Tobias Whitechapel Gallery, London All three exhibitions open April 19, on view through June 16th April – 14th June 2013 29, 2013. The Whitechapel Gallery presents a major exhibition of Romanian-born artists Gert and Uwe Tobias, curated by The Center for Book Arts Daniel F. Herrmann, Eisler Curator and Head of Curatorial 28 W. 27th Street 3rd floor, New York, NY 10001, USA Studies. The artists’ collaborative woodcuts, detailed Tel: 212-481-0295 collages, wall paintings and new ceramic sculptures will be www.centerforbookarts.org part of a site-specific installation for the Gallery.

Identical twins Gert and Uwe Tobias paint, sculpt, make traditional woodcuts and draw with a typewriter. They Heide Hatry - NOT A ROSE have worked together since 2001 and when in their studio STUX GALLERY, 530 W 25th St. New York, NY 10001 the artists often complete each other’s work. Their work is Opening Reception: 23rd May, 6 - 8pm full of strange characters and creatures drawn from eastern Exhibition: May 23 - June 22 2013 European folk art combined with diverse influences, from www.stuxgallery.com abstract art of the early 20th century to German post-war

Page 17 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk painting. The exhibition includes work from 2008 to the Tumbler. indie print in China (Project Space Exhibition) present day as well as a series of new works exhibited for the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK first time. The artists will also produce a unique woodcut 9th May - 29th June 2013 exhibition poster, continuing a tradition of creating a Tumbler. indie print in China is a pop-up bookstore- woodcut to mark every one of their solo exhibitions. cum-exhibition presented by 3030Press. It will showcase The Tobias brothers’ giant woodcuts and wall paintings approximately 50 independent art books and zines draw on modernist geometric abstraction; however they produced in China over the past couple of years produced combine line, shape, colour and typography with the by more than 20 artists, design studios and small publishers narrative images and patterns of folk art, using decorative in Mainland China. motifs such as flowers, plants, patterns, embroidery and domestic objects. These elements are often placed against a grid or flat painted background to create dramatic and surreal tableaux. Transforming Gallery 1, the Tobias brothers will create an installation incorporating the tradition of modernist stage design with geometric shapes and lines in bold colours extending from the works across the walls.

Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm, Thursdays 11am – 9pm. Admission free. Whitechapel Gallery, 77 – 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX. Nearest London Underground Station: Aldgate East, Liverpool Street, Tower Gateway DLR. [email protected] www.whitechapelgallery.org

TO PRESERVE & PROTECT Booklyn Artists Alliance, Brooklyn, USA Until 28th April 2013 Featuring artwork by: Elana Adler, Jon Bocksel, Candace Hicks, Jason Kachadourian and Adams Puryear.

In an age of technological revolution, many trades, crafts, and once hand-worked skills are increasingly diminishing The publications will survey the range and character of with advancing computer technology, as we have seen in selected self-published art books, from personal art projects the past with the industrial revolution and the advent of and portfolios to general surveys and compilations, often mechanical production. To Preserve and Protect is a group produced in small print runs, sometimes by hand, for exhibition featuring five artists who incorporate different limited distribution and private sale. time-honored trades and materials into their work, reviving these processes through contemporary art. This exhibition Strict regulations apply to China’s publishing industry yet will feature ceramics and plaster works, sign-painting over the past half-decade self-publishing has become an and hand-lettering, wood-whittling, concrete casting, increasingly popular strategy for young artists and designers needlepoint and embroidery. While these techniques can seeking to bypass burdensome regulations and control the be replaced by more convenient mechanic methods these content of their work, creating an autonomous physical artists prefer to sustain the craftsmanship and the mastery space, an “independent” space, under-the-radar and within of skilled-hand production. Although these techniques are the pages of independently produced books and zines. historically revered as trades and reserved for commercial purposes or crafts, the exhibiting artists are creating new Tumbler. is created by 3030Press publishing, an independent potential incorporating these materials into painting, art and design book publisher based in Hong Kong and sculpture, and book arts, challenging their traditional Shanghai, China, founded by John Millichap. Many of the execution. publications included in Tumbler. are also be available to buy at www.3030press.com To Preserve and Protect is the fifteenth in a series of group exhibitions dedicated to providing self-publishing artists, Preview: Thurs 9th May 2013, 5.30pm - 7.30pm who generally share their work through printed matter http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org and other ephemeral media, with a platform for exhibition, experimentation and exploration outside of the printed One-day Symposium - From Print to Publishing: format. Curated by Aimee Lusty. The Changing Role of the Book in China & the UK Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK BOOKLYN ARTISTS ALLIANCE Thursday 9 May 2013 10am - 5pm, free, RSVP required 37 Greenpoint Avenue 4FL, Brooklyn, NY 11222, USA. In conjunction with the launch of the exhibition, there will Gallery open Thursday - Tuesday, 12 - 5pm & by be one-day symposium event ‘From Print to Publishing: The appointment. http://booklyn.org Changing Role of the Book in China & the UK’, bringing

Page 18 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm together professionals from the fields of publishing in China and the UK to discuss the changing character of print and art book publishing; the developing role of self-publishing and artists’ books initiatives, and the impact of online and digital media on the traditional art book publishing industry. In addition, the symposium will examine practical challenges facing foreign publishers attempting to enter the Mainland Chinese market.

The symposium will also include the first UK screening of the student documentary ‘Ba Bao Fan’, which highlights the work of three emerging photographers from Shanghai. The film is produced by 3030Press and students from China East Normal University, Shanghai, and is based on the upcoming publication New Photography in China 2 that will also be launched on the day, a survey of 30 young and emerging photographers from Mainland China.

The symposium day will run from 10am to 5pm at Chinese Arts Centre and is free to attend. It is organised Passport Please by Ania Gilmore in partnership with Comma Press, a Manchester-based publishing initiative dedicated to exploring both new and Forbush, Ania Gilmore, Ronni Komarow, Julie Shaw Lutts, traditional ways of supporting the short story. Peter Madden, Annie Silverman, Marcella Stasa, Stephanie http://www.commapress.co.uk Mahan Stigliano, Molly Van Nice, Patricia Sarrafian Ward, and Annie Zeybekoglu. Friday 3rd - Saturday 4th May 2013 Talk by John Millichap (3030Press) - Saturday 4th May Mt. Ida College Gallery, Carlson Hall at Mount Ida College, Tumbler. will also be on show as part of ‘Turn the Page: 777 Dedham St., Newton, MA 02459, USA. Artists Book Fair 2013 (TTP2013)’ from the 3rd - 4th Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 1pm - 5pm. May, where John Millichap will give a talk on the work http://www.mountida.edu/sp.cfm?pageid=2001 of Tumbler. during the afternoon of Saturday 4th May. In its second year, TTP2013 will showcase the work of 60 innovative UK and International book artists, providing an COVER ARTIST FOR THIS ISSUE OF THE BAN: exhibiting and selling platform for the contemporary book arts community, embracing all modes of book production Daniel Speight and dissemination, whilst fostering the preservation of ‘BookBlock’ is the latest work by The Soft City, a.k.a traditional skills such as printmaking, letterpress, paper Daniel Speight, a print based artist obsessed by London’s making and bookbinding. An eclectic mix of fine press architecture. Since discovering the various heights and limited editions, sculptural and altered books, zines styles of buildings in his hometown Hackney look like and book related film will be exhibited alongside book books, The Soft City has sought to recreate parts of installations and multiples. London brick by book through directly screenprinting http://turnthepage.org.uk onto the sides of these reclaimed objects. Transforming shelves into streets, the work takes a fresh approach; fusing Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, screenprinting with graphic illustration. Each ‘BookBlock’ Manchester M4 1EU, UK. T +44 (0) 161 832 7271. is unique, created with a random selection of books and Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm. Sun - Mon Closed. Bank Holidays with the resultant image being heavily influenced by its Closed. www.chinese-arts-centre.org relationship with the material it is printed on.

See more Book Blocks at www.thesoftcity.co.uk ‘Visions from Afar’ as TheSoftCity on facebook: Mt. Ida College Gallery, Newton, USA https://www.facebook.com/TheSoftCity?fref=ts Until 27th April 2013 and @The_Soft_City on Twitter. An exhibition of book art inspired by the idea of travel whether in the mind or on the earth. These works use concepts of the book and book- like forms to convey depth and sequence. Approaches range from traditionally – COURSES & WORKSHOPS crafted books to book - like sculptures to art installations. Works combine age – old bookbinding techniques with Leicester Print Workshop, UK textile arts, photography, animation, graphic design Letterpress & Little Books Evening Course principles and digital technology. Tuesday 11th June – Tuesday 16th July, 6pm – 8pm Over the six weeks you will learn how to set and print a Featuring work by Lola Baltzell, Janet Bemis, Carol forme. You will receive an introduction into the letterpress Blackwell, Dennis Dahill, Laura Davidson, Sally Fine, Ann area and gain a good basic knowledge of the processes

Page 19 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk of setting type, working up to A3 in size, using a range of This course is suitable for all levels and is conducted in presses. You will experiment with both lead and wood type, English. 5th – 9th August 2013, Leksands folkhögskola, and will be shown how to make a simple section book and Box 281 793 26 Leksand, Sweden. Enrolments to: cover. Max. 7 participants. £125 / £112.50 concessions [email protected] or call: +46 (0)247 648 00. To book call 0116 2553634 or visit Information about boarding and lodging: http://www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/courses/ [email protected] Information about workshop: [email protected] or [email protected] Booking your Travel - Making journeys into artists’ books www.traceyrowledge.co.uk With Caren Florance. Sturt Winter School, 1–5 July 2013 Mittagong, NSW, Australia Travelling usually leaves people with lots of ephemeral codex: between this and that (workshops) will be taking reminders like tickets, receipts, packaging and photographs. place at Shoreditch Library and Clapham Library It’s very hard to throw these things out, so they end up in between 19th April - 3rd May 2013. boxes somewhere out of sight. However, they are fabulous The workshops are aimed at introducing general public for making artists’ books: either making sculptural works to the creative possibilities of the book. from the materials themselves or using them as a starting http://collectiveinvestigations.tumblr.com/workshops point for something more narrative and traditionally book-like. Upcoming pop-up workshops with Carol Barton: Whether you have plans to go travelling and want a unique April 27th and 28th, Pop-up Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic journal to take with you, or you have years of travelling Center for Paper, Prints and Books, Silver Spring, MD, memorabilia tucked away, this course is definitely for http://www.pyramidatlantic.org you! It will combine technical instruction in a number of traditional and alternative bookbinding structures with June 17th-21st, Paper Engineering and Sculptural Books, personal customisation to ensure that your memories come Oregon College of Art and Crafts, Portland, Oregon, USA out of those boxes and onto your shelves. https://ocac.edu

This course is suitable for any level of experience. I’m a June 29th-30th, Pop-up Workshop, Focus on Book Arts big believer in whole class learning: we all learn from each Conference, Forest Grove, Oregon, USA other, either to skill up, or to slow down and pay attention. http://focusonbookarts.org AUS $595, GST included +$35 material fee Range Rd, Mittagong, NSW, Australia Jan 28th-Feb 2nd, 2014, North Country Studio Workshops, http://www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/course_winter.htm Bennington College, Vermont, USA. http://ncsw.org

Dates for the Diary - St Bride Library Events for 2013 Workshops with Benjamin Elbel 2nd May - Type Tasting - Sarah Hyndman Please visit the website to find an updated list of the 23rd May - Typographic Walk - Phil Baines workshops I currently teach. You’ll also find all the links 4th June - Type Tuesday - Eye Magazine and contact details of the different venues, in case you’re interested in signing-up. Feel free to contact me to organise St Bride Foundation any of these workshops at your place. http://bit.ly/14enGCS Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Tel: 020 7353 3331. www.sbf.org.uk Hanne Matthiesen, weekend and one-day courses for Spring and early Summer 2013 Forthcoming courses with Tracey Rowledge: 21st April: Artists’ books (& art journaling) How to make a finishing tool Brass finishing tools are used for impressing on surfaces 25th - 26th May: Paintings, figures, journals and mixed such as leather, paper or wood. Come and learn how to media collages a la Ovartaci make a tool of your own simple design. 12th August 2013 (Monday). City Lit, Keeley Street, Covent Garden, London 9th June: Transformations. Found objects & papers WC2B 4BA. Tel: 0207 831 7831. [email protected] transformed into mixed media objects, collages, journals. www.citylit.ac.uk 15th June: Art journaling (& artists’ books) Bookbinding – Gold tooling on paper An introduction to the concepts of mixed media in various Supplementary training forms: collages, boards, objects, figures, artists’ books, Tracey Rowledge will share how she approaches gold tooling journals, scrapbooks etc. A review of basic principles, on a paper-covered book to demonstrate how the medium materials, tools, techniques and opportunities for making is brought to life when it is applied to a three-dimensional simple and unique images, collages, journals, books and object. Foundation skills in gold tooling will be taught and book objects. Individual supervision. Inspiration for both then practiced on a series of sample boards. beginners and professional artists. Page 20 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Practical information - “Biblio-Tech II” historical and modern bindings with • WHERE: At my studio in Malling, Denmark. Karen Hanmer We have buses + trains almost to the doorstep • WEEKEND COURSE: Saturday + Sunday, both days: … plus a special opportunity to work with summer Artist- 10 am – 4 pm. ONE DAY SESSIONS: Sunday 9am – 4pm. in-Residence Mandy Bonnell: Wood Engraving: A Creative • I provide the basic material: paper, paint, glue, tape, string, Intensive stamps, scraps, etc. – but please, feel free to also bring a little of your own favorite material – it makes everything so much The centerpiece of MCBA’s summer term is Book Art more interesting! Lunch is homebaked bread, salads etc., Biennial 2013 - register today for one of our three vegetarian & organic. exclusive two-day pre-Biennial Workshops: • Price: WEEKEND course: 1000 DKR. ONE DAY session: 600 DKR (all prices incl. basic materials, coffee/tea + lunch) - Creative Letterpress Printing with Regula Russelle • Any questions – or want to sign up? Please contact me by - The Decorative Sheet with Lin Lacy and Jeff Rathermel email hannematthiesen[@]gmail.com, sms/phone - Historical Binding Primer with Jana Pullman (+45) 21471871. Looking forward to seeing you! http://ihanne.wordpress.com/courses/ Peruse our Adult Workshops page for dozens and dozens more exciting opportunities to feed your curiosity and expand your creative skills! Literary Hybrid/Book Arts Workshop http://www.mnbookarts.org/workshops/adult.html Instructors: Gretchen E. Henderson and Ellen Sheffield 15th - 22nd June 2013 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop BINDING re:DEFINED These Wiltshire- based workshops Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA focus on structures for contemporary bindings. Lunch and Located on the bucolic campus of Kenyon College in the materials are included in the cost. rolling hills of Ohio, the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop is one of the most esteemed summer writing workshops in the country, sponsored by the preeminent literary journal, *The Kenyon Review.*

The Kenyon Review’s NEW *Literary Hybrid/Book Arts Workshop* is an innovative, cross-disciplinary workshop that blends together the visual arts with techniques of different literary genres to generate creative work through the art of the book. Using a range of exercises and materials, participants will create new work through visual and textual explorations.

Whether you are an artist wishing to deepen your engagement with text, or a writer curious about the book arts, this workshop promises to open up a variety of creative practices to generate new content and form. While many 19th – 21st April 2013 book arts workshops focus on book structures and technical Onion Skin Binding - tutor: Benjamin Elbel skills, this workshop concentrates on content and concept Benjamin Elbel has devised a binding in which the spine in the book form. This intensive week-long workshop is co- is built up in layers and produces a stunning pattern. As a taught by book artist, Ellen Sheffield, and cross-genre writer, multi-leaved book format with the spine layering acting as Gretchen Henderson. a continuous compensating guard, the Onion Skin Binding http://bookunbound.wordpress.com/about/ is ideal for mounting single sheets of text, artwork or Ellen Sheffield: http://www.ellensheffield.com/ photographs. Benjamin has already developed variations for this beautiful and contemporary structure, which will be Questions? Email Ellen or Gretchen at: [email protected] offered in future workshops. or [email protected] http://www.kenyonreview.org/workshops/writers/ 7th – 10th May 2013 Limp Bindings - tutor: Monica Langwe MCBA: Summer classes, camps and workshops now We are delighted to have Swedish binder Monica Langwe open for registration! Feast your eyes on a wide variety join us in May for this extended workshop. The techniques of Adult Workshops, from introductory to advanced! presented are based on the tutor’s studies in foreign archives and deal with the variations she discovered from This summer’s schedule includes four exclusive offerings a time when books were made with limited materials and from visiting artists: ingenious binding methods. - mixed media journaling with Quinn McDonald; - Korean paper techniques with Aimee Lee; After an introductory slide show, participants make a series - large-scale letterpress with Shana Agid; and of 10 different models from heavy paper (which serve as

Page 21 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk references for future work). Selected final models are made in leather or parchment with various fastenings. Everyone is given an unbound copy of Monica’s book “Limp Bindings from Tallinn” to bind.

Although highly regarded by German bibliophiles, the structure is little used in the UK and we feel it’s time to This is a wonderful opportunity to gain a wealth of make it more widely known. Basic binding skills required. information about historical bindings and to apply that knowledge to contemporary pieces. These are beautiful, Please visit the website for details and costs and to see tactile bindings with multiple uses that have proven they more workshops: www.bookbindingworkshops.com stand the test of time.

GUY BEGBIE BOOK ARTS WORKSHOPS One-day Workshops Held At Bath Artists Studios

5th June 2013 Pocket Album - tutor: Benjamin Elbel In this one-day workshop participants make a very unique album that uses only friction to hold its pages in to the Sunday 19th May 2013 specially folded spine. The cover is made from a single French Sewn Flat Back Case Bound Book piece of material with acrobatic folds that result in 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes all materials) multi-ply boards. It is very chic and stylish, perfect for This workshop is designed for participants with or without holding postcards, photos, prints or anything printed on bookbinding experience. During the workshop, participants single sheets. will have the opportunity to make and take home a cloth bound hardback French sewn multi section book. This is a traditional classic book structure that is strong and durable; 29th - 30th June 2013 the section page spreads will lie flat when the book is The Edelpappband - tutor: Benjamin Elbel opened. The direct translation of this classic German binding style is ‘noble paper binding’. Structurally, it is a European case This type of book construction can be applied universally binding (bradel) covered in paper with narrow edgings of to books of varying scales and formats, providing a leather along the head and tail, fore-edges or spine. professional binding finish and a neutral elegant space to contain image/text content. Its origins as a way to be miserly with materials discredit its very modern and clean design features. It calls for precise All equipment and materials will be provided for the and careful work that gives extremely satisfying results. workshop. Tutor: Guy Begbie Page 22 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm This workshop is designed for participants with or without bookbinding experience. This is an opportunity to make and take away two bespoke hand made books.

Using Japanese side sewing techniques you will be taught how to produce soft and hardback cover books in a landscape format using paper based materials and book cloth. This bookbinding method can be used to bind sets of single pages together using traditional Japanese sewing patterns. All equipment and materials will be provided for the workshop. Tutor: Guy Begbie

To book a place or enquire about availability and course details, please use one of the contact details below:

Tel: 07989 393015 [email protected] www.guybegbie.com

Workshops are at Bath Artists’ Studios The Old Malthouse, Comfortable Place, Upper Bristol Road, Bath BA1 3AJ, UK

New at Hot Bed Press, Salford Sunday 2nd June 2013 - Concertina Binding Letterpress for Designers 10.30am – 4.30pm course fee £35 (includes all materials) (5 evenings) Tutor: David Armes. Here is your opportunity to make and take away your own Wednesdays: 17th April – 15th May, 6.30pm – 9pm uniquely designed handmade book. Learn the art of book- making, crafting a multi-functional pocket sized hard back concertina book containing a variety of page sequencing, viewing configurations and pull out options for free standing display.

Discover different methods of folding, sewing and pasting and learn how to use various types of paper stock, paper engineering and page cutting techniques. The workshop is designed for participants either with or without previous experience of bookbinding. All equipment and materials will be provided for the workshop. Tutor: Guy Begbie

For those of you with musical bones, be inspired by the design potential of letterpress, move sideways from books and find out about printing on CD covers/packaging.

Over 5 evenings you will be shown how to set type, get a photo-block made and print on to bespoke CD packaging. Combine text and image to print original CD/packaging covers that help you stand out from the crowd. Maximum of 6 people, cost £155 (£135*)

Please get in touch with us by phone on 0161 743 3111 or email us at [email protected] if you would like to reserve a place.

Hot Bed Press 1st Floor, The Casket Works, Cow Lane Salford M5 4NB. Tel: 0161 743 3111 www.hotbedpress.org

Sunday 16th June 2013 - Japanese Bookbinding 10.30am – 4.30pm Course Fee £35 (includes all materials) Page 23 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Spring & Summer Courses with Jenny Smith presentations of ways contemporary artists and makers are using laser cutting. 10am - 5pm. Refreshments provided. Introduction to Laser Cutting Limited to 4. Bring your own lunch & materials, or purchase Weekend Courses in Edinburgh locally. Sat 18th & Sun 19th May / Sat 29th & Sun 30th June In this hands-on course you will then learn how to laser cut Courses are run by Jenny Smith and held at and etch your images onto paper, card, acrylic, fabric and The Edinburgh Laser Cutting Studio in central Edinburgh. wood. Full course notes provided. This workshop is suitable For more details and to download a booking form, see for all levels of ability; the emphasis is on introducing you courses page www.edinburghlaserstudio.org.uk to the full potential of the laser cutter and providing the email : [email protected] opportunity to complete a small personal project. Bring a or phone Jenny on 0771 3901 730. www.jennysmith.org.uk drawing, quotation and photographic image and learn how to prepare these for laser cutting. Making Books: Binding, Pages, Covers and Cuts 10am - 5pm. All Materials & Refreshments provided. Evening CPD course at the Centre for Fine Print Limited to 4 participants to allow for individual attention. Research, UWE, Bristol, UK 29th April 2013 - 27th May 2013. Tutor: Angie Butler This evening course offers an introduction to bookmaking: by looking at hard copy examples and following step-by- step demonstrations covering different techniques - such as simple pamphlet stitch and Japanese stab bound books, a cut-page book, making a sculpted case bound cover, to a hard back binding. Perfect for those who have little or no experience in bookbinding / artists’ books, or just need a refresher.

Mondays, 2.5 hours per week 5.30-8.00pm. N.B. due to Bank Holidays, the class will run on Tuesday instead of Monday on the following dates: Tues 7th May; Tues 28th May. £190 / £152 concessions, includes materials, teas and coffees. Bookbinding tools will be provided for use, and are also available to buy for future work.

Angie is a Multidisciplinary artist, producing artists’ books and printed matter with letterpress and hand-typed text. Find out more about Angie and her work at: Summer School - Introduction to Laser Cutting http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/people.htm 5th - 8th August, £300 www.petgaleriepress.com This four-day summer school combines the 2 day http://printerspie.blogspot.co.uk Introductory Course (above) with a further 2 days to complete a personal laser cut project within a small group, Any questions on the course content e-mail: with dedicated technical support. [email protected] Bookings e-mail Jesse Heckstall-Smith: Ideal for creating laser cut 2-D and 3-D paper cuts, creating [email protected] laser cut artist books, cutting a fabric or textile project, Or, book online at: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm combining laser cutting with printing and laser engraving photographic images onto paper, acrylic/wood, slate or glass. The only limits are your own imagination. Lin Charlston will be running an intensive Book Arts Weekend workshop in the summer from Friday 14th – 10am - 5pm. Refreshments and all materials provided for Sunday 16th June at the Sidney Nolan Trust, UK the 2 intro days. Bring your own lunch and additional What an opportunity! Immerse yourself an artist’s book materials, or purchase locally. Limited to 4 participants to project in the idyllic setting of The Rodd organic farm, allow for individual attention and time on the laser woodland and barns. There will be a structured approach for newcomers to the field while experienced book artists Laser Cutting Summer School (Post Beginners) can dip into optional activities and keep on track through 22nd - 25th July, £280 discussion and feedback. Accommodation available. Full This four day summer school is aimed at those who have details are in the process of being confirmed. completed an Introductory Course, and/or have some experience of laser cutting. It provides the opportunity Contact us for further information and to book. to complete a laser cut project within a small group, with Tel: 01544 260149. [email protected] full dedicated technical support. An opportunity to learn new laser cutting and software skills relevant to your areas Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne, LD8 2LL, UK. of interest. Includes group discussions and power point www.sidneynolantrust.org

Page 24 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm The Grange, Ellesmere, Shropshire Classes at the London Centre for Book Arts Centre for the Book Arts courses www.thegrange.uk.com The London Centre for Book Arts is an open-access resource centre for people of all abilities interested in the Bookbinding with Christopher Rowlatt production of artists’ books and printed matter, on April 25th - 28th and 31st - 3rd November Fish Island in Hackney Wick, East London. The April and November long weekends each provide an introductory course for aspiring bookbinders but can also be tailored to those with some experience. The two weekends are entirely self-contained so participants can attend just one weekend, but may wish to develop their skills further by attending the next one or the Summer School. The aim of the course is to give a background to bookbinding, an introduction to the tools and techniques and for each participant to produce, by the end of the three days, a case-bound book. Christopher is a qualified teacher and inspiring bookbinder. Tools and equipment will be provided and will also be available to purchase for those who want to continue with their new skill at home. The course will be held in our recently restored and refurbished bindery. The course is residential and prices include full board. The Centre’s mission is to keep book-making skills alive by Letterpress Printing with Ken Burnley and Jon Ward- offering expertise and teaching in bookbinding, letterpress Allen, April 25th - 28th and 31st - 3rd November printing, papermaking, and related disciplines. These two introductory courses are for anyone interested in the traditional methods of letterpress printing. They will A great selection of classes can be booked online at: provide an introduction to the history of printing and will http://londonbookarts.eventbrite.co.uk cover basic typography, design and letterpress techniques. By the end of the three days you should be able to design, Studio membership is now available, for details visit: lay out and print your own work using our Vandercook and http://londonbookarts.tumblr.com Eagle and Adana presses. The courses will be held in our recently restored and refurbished press rooms. London Centre for Book Arts Ground Floor, Britannia Works Dace Road, Fish Island Bookbinding Summer School, July 8th - 12th London, England E3 2NQ, United Kingdom The beautiful house, the comfortable rooms and the http://londonbookarts.tumblr.com delicious cuisine of the Grange will make the Bookbinding Summer School in the Grange Bindery a relaxed, informative and constructive four days. Any level of skill Binding Workshop - Drop Spine Cradle Box and bookbinding knowledge is welcome. Christopher Instructor: Jeffrey S. Peachey Rowlatt of the Presteigne Bindery and Christopher Marbling 24th & 25th May 2013, 10am - 5pm will be the tutor. Participants can bring along their own Center for Book and Paper Arts (Columbia College projects, some may be work in progress and others could be Chicago), 1104 South Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor, USA the beginning of a new endeavour, such as a leather binding A cloth-covered drop spine (aka. clamshell) box is the or a difficult cleaning job! Beginners welcome. standard for protection of books or a suite of prints. Having an integral cradle adds another level of preservation, All course details can be found at: by protecting the book when it is consulted. www.thegrange.uk.com/Grange/Programme_2013.html This two-day workshop focuses on refining and applying Book Arts Open Day, June 29th essential bookbinding skills - accurately measuring, cutting, A great day out for anyone with a passion for books. gluing - to the construction of a drop spine cradle box. The Come and visit our Book Arts Centre and find out how use of non-numerical methods of measurement and jigs will beautiful books are made - the traditional way. There be emphasised. Techniques for the efficient production of a will be demonstrations of letterpress printing, hot metal single verses multiple boxes will be discussed. The pros and casting, sewing, paper marbling and bookbinding - and cons of variant structures and construction methods will opportunities to talk to the skilled craftsmen and women be examined. Participants will construct a one-piece cradle who practise these arts. If the weather is good we hope you and box, which was designed by Peachey and announced in will stay for a cup of tea and cake in our conservatory tea a blog post: http://jeffpeachey.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/ room and have a wander round the grounds. The day is drop-spine-box-with-an-integral-cradle. supported by the Presteigne Binder, the Silver Birch Press, the Hedge Sparrow Press, Gregynog Press and the Medlar $225 + $25 materials fee. Limit 10 students. Center for Book Press. Please visit our website at www.thegrange.uk.com and Paper Arts (Columbia College Chicago), 1104 South for further details. Wabash Ave, 2nd Floor. www.colum.edu/book_and_paper/

Page 25 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Welcome to Leksand! Creative book structures by Hedi Joachim Schmid is an artist based in Berlin who has Kyle - Workshop with Suzanne Schmollgruber exhibited extensively all over the world, including Hedi Kyle’s extraordinary book constructions, placed Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence, Printed Matter between historical and modern designs, will be reconsidered in New York, Galerie Alain Gutharc in Paris and at Les and further interpreted in this workshop. In these four Rencontres d’Arles (2008). His work is held at many major days we will work with artful foldings, cutting and sewing international institutions such as the Berlinische Galerie, techniques. Suzanne will present a numerous variations of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris or the San Francisco concertina to codex bindings. In the evenings you will have Museum of Modern Art. Schmid is the founder of the ABC, the classroom at your disposal for as long as you want.. he has been working with found photography since the 30th July - 2nd August 2013. Leksands folkhögskola early 1980s. His use of extended series reflects his concern Students: Max 12. Participation fee: 9,400 SEK with photography as an encompassing, culturally dispersed The fee includes: Course, full board, lodging 5 nights and and ubiquitous social and aesthetic discourse that runs materials. throughout the public and private spheres of modern life. www.schmid.wordpress.com Enrolments to: [email protected] Closing date: May 1, 2013 Elisabeth Tonnard is an artist and poet working in artists’ More information: www.leksand.fhsk.se/summer-courses books, photography and conceptual literature. Since 2003 she has published twenty-six books which are included in numerous private and public collections. Her books have won several awards, most recently the Jury Prize in the 2011 Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize. Tonnard received an MA in literature from the Radboud University in The Netherlands and a MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. In her work, literature is processed by visual culture and visual events are seen in the light of literature. www.elisabethtonnard.com

Price: Euros 385 (£327). For the schedule, accommodation info and registration: http://www.widephotoworkshops. com/Workshop-Joachim-Schmid-Elisabeth-Tonnard-17-18- 19-May-Registration

Widephoto Workshop, Carrer Sant Joaquim 23, 08012, Barcelona, Spain.

Summer Institute 2013 at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK, June - July 2013. Continuing Professional Development summer classes in bookbinding, letterpress, laser cutting, rubber stamps, experimenting, meeting and discussing. Build your skills with the team and meet some new friends…

Practice-oriented workshop for Photographers and visual artists with Joachim Schmid and Elisabeth Tonnard Widephoto, Barcelona, Spain 17th – 19th May 2013

Language English

In this workshop we’ll focus on artists’ books that involve Letterpress prints by Hazel Grainger found photography and found text with special attention to various ways of combining text and photography. Artists’ Letterpress and Laser Cut Type with Angie Butler Participants will develop concepts for own books and and Tom Sowden, Monday 24th – Friday 28th June 2013 ideally produce a book dummy during the three days. Learn how to set type and print letterpress using metal and

Page 26 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm wood type. Letterpress offers beautiful qualities for printing text for books, bookmarks, postcards, posters or pamphlets. A range of inks and papers will be supplied. We will print on Vandercook presses which allow editioning of multiples. For the first three days of the summer school participants will be shown the correct way to set metal type; how to cut simple wooden typefaces or blocks from hand drawn originals using the laser cutter; how to set up the Vandercook proofing presses; how wooden type is set and printed, with the opportunity to experiment with printing larger wooden type.

The last two days of the summer school will offer an opportunity for participants to develop any ideas they have been working on during the summer school, and provide extended time with full support, to consolidate these and produce a series of prints or even a small pamphlet.

Maximum 8 participants. Date: Monday 24th – Friday 28th June 2013. Time: Each day runs from 9.30am - 4.30pm Artist’s Book Week - with Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, Price: £400 per person /£320 concessions (materials, lunch Stephen Fowler and Tom Sowden. Monday 8th – Friday vouchers, teas and coffees are included in course fee). 12th July 2013 A new course: due to demand for time Booking info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm to experiment in the studio and work alongside other artists we have designed this class for creative exploration of the book by artists. Bring your ideas, projects, stamps or typewriter, and spend some time with other makers experimenting with book formats and contents. We will have experts on hand to help with rubber stamps, pop-ups, letterpress on different days, and you can dip into our artists’ books archive and get advice on current and future book projects. This is an opportunity to develop some new ideas or produce a small edition, to meet other creative, swap ideas and learn some new skills.

Maximum 8 participants. Date: Monday 8th – Friday 12th July 2013. Time: Each day runs from 9.30am - 4.30pm Price: £400 per person /£320 concessions (some materials, lunch vouchers, teas and coffees are included in course fee) Booking info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm

Bookbinding for Book Artists - Led by Guy Begbie Monday 1st – Friday 5th July 2013 The book is a viable, visual medium that can provide links and meeting points between many art disciplines such as print, painting and sculpture. It is perhaps the most intimate, easily accessible and portable of all the art forms. In this intensive five-day course both traditional and unorthodox bookbinding structures will be taught. The course is designed to be appropriate for people with or without previous experience.

Guy Begbie is an established book artist and designer. He has been teaching in UK universities since 1995. As a multi-disciplinary artist he makes works that extend parameters regarding concept and production approaches to the book form. He has run book arts courses nationally and internationally. http://www.guybegbie.com Advanced bookbinding - Led by Guy Begbie Maximum 10 participants. Date: Monday 1st – Friday 5th Monday 15th – Friday 19th July 2013 July 2013. Time: Each day runs from 9.30am - 4.30pm An intensive five-day advanced course of bookbinding Price: £450 per person /£360 concessions (materials, lunch structures. The course is designed to be appropriate for vouchers, teas and coffees are included in course fee) people with some previous experience in basic bookbinding. Booking info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm Guy Begbie is an internationally-established book artist and Page 27 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk traditionally trained bookbinder who has been teaching materials and special jaunts. Monica Watson Horton gave a book arts in UK Universities since 1995. As a multi- testimonial about the last one: disciplinary artist he makes works using a variety of media that include traditional and experimental approaches “A molte fabulosa personal geographies w’shop week in to bookbinding. Venezia with the inspiring Rachel. So delighted with my book & mini books & superb origami envelopes...not to mention what books we should read, and restaurants to try and where to find the best gelati. A woman of many talents.”

Pre-register today, and start dreaming of canals and bells, boats and biscotti, ink and vellum…

www.hazelldesignsbooks.co.uk [email protected]

OPPORTUNITIES

Maximum 10 participants. Date: Monday 15th – Friday 19th July 2013. Time: Each day runs from 9.30am - 4.30pm Price: £450 per person /£360 concessions (materials, lunch vouchers, teas and coffees are included in course fee) Booking info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm

Print & Book Binding Workshops @36 Lime Street, Newcastle, UK, with Theresa Easton Ideal for beginners and those with some experience of printmaking or bookmaking, these two-evening introductory workshops are a great way of making original books, with a special handmade quality.

Bone folders, baby bone folders ...

Plain ones or carved with different lovely motifs. You have some choices: to own them, work with them, or give them away in your training kits to your workshop or event participants.

These folders are made of genuine bone / horn collected Next workshop: June 25th & July 2nd 6.30-9pm from farm raised water buffalos. You will be so proud to Price: £55 (including all materials) own them. To Book: contact Theresa Easton 07981381830 Email: [email protected] Web: http://theresaeaston.wordpress.com Please visit our website: Address: Ouseburn Warehouse Studios & Workshops, 36 www.chinocrafts.com Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle, NE1 2PQ, UK For inquiries email us: [email protected]

Workshops with The Travelling Bookbinder Rachel Hazell, 8th - 13th October 2013 Personal Geographies in Venice This writing bookbinder is delighted to announce an unexpected addition to the calendar: Exploring historical, contemporary and personal maps in the form of a variety of artists’ books, by the Grand Canal. £700 for five days tuition,

Page 28 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm We are also able to showcase up to 3 publications per individual photographer/artist on independent tables. These cannot be sold on the day, however business cards/ ARTIST’S BOOK information can be displayed and connections made to potential buyers. FAIR AT » In line with the wider event, there is a submission process and tables will be charged at £60. Individual book submissions are free; however SAEs must be included if they Friday 14 & Saturday 15 June 2013 are to be returned. If not they will be donated to BALTIC 10.00-18.00 / Level 2 / FREE Library and Archive or NEPN. This two day event at BALTIC showcases artist’s books from national and regional makers, with opportunities for visitors to purchase artwork Deadline Friday 27 April 2013. and take part in hands on book making activities, as part of The Festival of the North East. Artists interested in taking part please contact: Public admission to the book fair is free. Theresa Easton at: [email protected] Artists interested in taking part should contact Theresa Easton [email protected] fabulousbooksfantasticplaces.wordpress.com POINT (2013) CALL FOR ENTRIES we love your books invite innovative, creative and well crafted book-works on the theme of POINT. Any interpretation of the theme can be explored. Entry is open to all – students, hobbyists and professional ARTIST’S BOOK FAIR AT BALTIC, UK book artists. For this exhibition there are no size restrictions Friday 14 & Saturday 15 June 2013 / 10.00-18.00 as entry will be by photograph and selected work will appear LEVEL 1 & 2 / FREE on our website. For POINT 2013 there will be no physical This two-day event at BALTIC will showcase artists’ books exhibition as we need to take a bit of time out. from national and regional makers, with opportunities for visitors to purchase artwork and take part in hands on book DEADLINE JUNE 1ST 2013 making activities. Public admission to the book fair is free. All information about entry and conditions at: www.weloveyourbooks.com BALTIC celebrates the Festival of the North East and becomes a market place of exhibiting book stalls. The Festival of the North East is a month long celebration of the region’s creativity and innovation jam packed with over 200 events happening in every part of England’s North East during June 2013.

Artists interested in taking part please contact: Theresa Easton at: [email protected]

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, South Shore Road, Call for entries for Volume: Birmingham’s Art, Book, & Gateshead, NE8 3BA, UK. festivalne.com Print Fair, Thursday 5th – Saturday 7th December 2013 balticmill.com fabulousbooksfantasticplaces.wordpress.com The Library of Birmingham, UK On Tuesday 3rd September 2013 the Library of Birmingham BALTIC Artist’s Book Fair - NEPN Participation will re-open in its brand new, purpose-built premises in For two days only, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Centenary Square, becoming the largest public library plays host to a national two-day Artist’s Book Fair. in Europe. It will be a major new cultural destination, The North East Photography Network has been invited to rewriting the book for 21st century public libraries. participate by organiser Theresa Easton and is delighted Birmingham-based arts producers Capsule have been to take this opportunity to showcase the vibrancy of appointed to curate the opening festival season of cultural contemporary photography book-work. events that will run from 3rd September through to December 2013. Capsule will produce a dynamic mix of NEPN is interested in presenting high quality publications events, activities, exhibitions, projects and performances and editions, reflecting the breadth of practice in this area for residents of and visitors to Birmingham on the theme from handmade books, zines, newspapers, published and of Discovery. self-published issues, to the more traditional ‘photobook.’ This will be an event of international ambition, including Tables are available for collectives, artists, publishers and speakers, panel discussions, workshops and a fair, selling distributors. Tables will need to be ‘manned’ at all times books, prints and art work from an international selection where sales are desired. Table sizes are 90 x 180 cm. of independent publishers, printworks, artists and organisations.

Page 29 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk The event aims to showcase and celebrate the very best in independent publishing, artist books and zines. The cost of taking up a stall is £60 for two days.

If you would like to take up a stall, or find out more about Volume and the Library of Birmingham opening season curated by Capsule please contact Sarah Lafford [email protected]

KALEID 2013 London

On Saturday 20th July, KALEID 2013 London will showcase the best of artists’ books to an international audience of collectors. Focusing on the form of the book as an interdisciplinary activity, the annual curated event Call for Submissions - 4th Sheffield International Artist’s encourages artists practising in different disciplines to Book Prize and Exhibition apply; installation, drawing, printmaking, art writing, The Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize is a biennial, photography, painting, sculpture, book arts, video, digital open submission exhibition, which takes place in Sheffield, media and performance. during the months of October and November.

Selection Panel - We are delighted to announce a high The Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize and profile international panel to select this years artists’ books: Exhibition is open to makers of artists’ books in any Sofie Dederen - Director, Frans Masereel Centrum for Print, format and from anywhere in the world. This year’s prize is Belgium; Elizabeth James - Senior Librarian for Artists’ supported using public funding by Arts Council England Books, National Art Library, V&A Museum, UK, and and sponsored by the Open College of the Arts. David Senior - Bibliographer, MoMA Library, USA • The prize is FREE TO ENTER. Artists are invited to submit one book per submission. • ALL BOOKS submitted for the Prize will feature in the Galleries and publishers may also submit on behalf of an Exhibition. artist, however exhibition catalogues will not be considered. • PRIZE MONEY of £2000 (US$3000) will be awarded in Visit KALEID editions for submission guidelines. 2013 and there will be a minimum of four Prize winners.

Email: [email protected] The main Exhibition Prize is decided by visitors to the - Complete a Paypal payment of 10 Euros for each artist’s exhibition, who are asked to vote for their favourite entry. book submission and place the receipt number in the All books entered for the Prize will be displayed in the subject line of the email Exhibition in October/November 2013. In addition to the - Attach a maximum of four jpegs Exhibition Prize, this year we will offer several additional - Attach a completed Submission Form prizes, including a Student Prize and Special Jury Prize.

Submissions Deadline - 1st May 2013 This year’s jury is headed up by Elizabeth James, Senior www.kaleideditions.com Librarian, National Art Library Collections, V&A Museum, London. Prizes are made up of cash and an offer of a solo exhibition in Sheffield in 2014.

Funding for students! Closing date for entries: 31st July 2013 Last year, Sponsorcraft helped over 50 students raise funds Exhibition dates: 5th October - 30th November, 2013 for their degree shows, and many more for other creative For further information visit the website projects. https://sponsorcraft.com http://artistsbookprize.co.uk where you can find

Page 30 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm entry forms, rules and further information about the venue, This is an open invitation for craftspeople, artists and exhibition and submission procedure. Please address any illustrators whose work uses books or illustration either enquiries to [email protected] as a material, inspiration or both. We are looking for both Please note: submissions will not be accepted without a 3D and 2D pieces and all work will be for sale. completed Entry Form which can only be obtained from the website or by e-mail. To apply, please complete the application form at http://www.hawthorncraft.co.uk and return this along with The Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize is hosted 6 clear images of your current work (no more than 1mb and organised by Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. Bank Street each) to Stephanie at [email protected]. Arts is an independent, cross-disciplinary arts centre and a registered charity. Closing date for applications 5pm Friday 7th June 2013. http://www.hawthorncraft.co.uk/news.html

Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York - It’s never too early to start planning ahead! Visit our website to explore our ongoing opportunities and deadlines: www.wsworkshop.org/program/opportunity-calendar/

The London Art Book Fair, 13th–15th September 2013 2013 will be the fifth year of Pushing Print! The London Art Book Fair is an annual event at the Each year we organise an open submission print exhibition Whitechapel Gallery where more than eighty exhibitors and alongside this we run a programme of talks and including galleries, magazines, colleges, arts publishing workshops. The event takes place in October each year in houses, distributors, rare book dealers and individual artist Margate. publishers meet to showcase and sell their work over a weekend dedicated to art publishing. Pushing Print Aims - to raise awareness of the quality and diversity of print as a APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON 20TH MAY 2013 Fine Art medium http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/book-fair/the-london- - to promote the work of both local and national and art-book-fair/apply international printmakers and those whose work encounters print - to provide artists with the opportunity to exhibit, sell and EDITION LIDU - ART BOOKS WANTED reach new audiences EDITION LIDU is searching for authors’ books and zines, - to provide an opportunity for as wide a range of people graphic books, comic strips, illustrated short stories, photo as possible to participate in and engage with print related books, hand-printed books, pop-up books, PDF Layouts, activities Interactive books and stories using digital media, ePub, - to raise awareness of Creative Margate iBooks, and other original book forms. The 2nd edition of - to develop Pushing Print as an annual event ART BOOKS WANTED brings a prize of 1000 Euros for the winner and many interesting opportunities for participating Talks and Workshops - Artists’ Books artists and authors. Alongside the open submission exhibition each year we run a programme of talks and workshops and this year the To take part in the Call for Entries all participants have theme for these will be artists’ books. to Register, fill in all the necessary information in the submission form (PDF Form or Online Form), send We are looking for ideas and proposals from book artists/ presentable photos or physical copy/prototype of the printmakers who may be interested in participating in any Artwork and pay the Submission Fee (Students 10 Euros of these. Ideas could be for practical workshops, talks about Professionals 25 Euros). Participants have multiple the artist book and its place in your practice, professional possibilities of registering and submitting their proposals. development, starting points for work, pricing.

Submission deadline 21st May 2013 If you have any other ideas and would like to find out more http://www.editionlidu.com/artbookswanted/submissions/ please contact us- we would love to hear from you. We are also proposing to run a book fair at the same time.

Contact: Letitia Tunstall, Education Officer Call for Entries Pushing Print. Tel: 01732 822356 By the Book [email protected] An exhibition of illustration and book art www.pushingprint.co.uk 1st August – 12th October 2013 Hawthorn Gallery, Blandford Forum, Dorset, UK Hawthorn Gallery would like to invite artists and craftspeople to participate in our next show ‘By the Book’ An exhibition of Illustration and Book Art.

Page 31 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk The MCBA Prize 2013 - Entries closing soon! Buses: From Town Centre to Sainsbury’s, Lewes Road Take The MCBA Prize is the first honour to recognise book art 49 or 49a (Moulsecoomb) / 25 (Universities). Alight at from across the field and around the world. The MCBA Melbourne St. Directions from Brighton Station: Exit the Prize celebrates the diversity of book art and encourages station to the bus stand outside the front entrance, take discussion rather than limiting recognition to one aspect of the 48 bus (Lower Bevendean) alight at Melbourne Street. this vital field. Or exit the Station via Trafalgar Street (directly under concourse), walk down Trafalgar Street to main London Five (5) finalists will each receive a $500 cash award, Road junction. Take 49,49a (Moulsecoomb) northbound plus $750 travel/lodging stipend to attend the Book Art from St. Peter’s Church. Alight at Melbourne Street. Biennial and MCBA Prize Gala on July 27, 2013.

One (1) winner will receive an additional $2000 cash Call for entries from artists who are working in New award (in addition to the $500 finalist award and $750 England or New York to submit works for UNBOUND travel/lodging stipend to attend the Biennial and Gala). III, the 3rd annual juried exhibit of unique works of art using ‘the book” as a material or format. A jury of three distinguished leaders in the field of book arts will review all submissions, and narrow the field to five Presented by ArtisTree Gallery and Pentangle Arts Council, finalists. in conjunction with Bookstock Festival in Woodstock, VT, USA. Open to all 2D and 3D, installation, and assemblage These five works will appear on display at Minnesota Center artists who are working in New England or New York. for Book Arts during Book Art Biennial 2013 on July 27-28, 2013. From these five works, the jury will select the recipient Cash Prizes. ENTRY DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2013. of this year’s MCBA Prize. Prospectus and details: www.artistreevt.org/gallery

Work must have been completed since April 1, 2011. Entry fee $40. Funded PhD Studentship: The Poetry and Practice of Thomas A. Clark THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS APRIL 30, 2013 University of Dundee / Scottish Poetry Library AT 5PM (Central U.S. time zone). All submissions must Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded be made electronically. Review additional submission Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship. guidelines and submit your work at www.mcbaprize.org The successful candidate will undertake a critical and To view the work of past winners, finalists and honourable historical study of the career and oeuvre of Thomas A. mention recipients, visit our MCBA Prize 2011 gallery. Clark, poet, artist, and bookmaker, a significant figure in http://www.mnbookarts.org/events/mcbaprize2011.html late 20th-century and early 21st-century experimental poetry and poetics. Within this area, the postgraduate will Registration for Book Art Biennial 2013 and tickets for have scope to define the topic and approach in conjunction The MCBA Prize Gala can now be booked online: with the two supervisors, Professor Andrew Roberts (School www.mcbaprize.org of Humanities, University of Dundee) and Julie Johnstone (Librarian, Scottish Poetry Library). The SPL, which has an unrivalled collection of materials relating to Clark’s work, Sussex Book Art Collective! will provide archival resources, training and specialist If you are fascinated with book art in its many and expertise in bibliographic, curatorial and book historical varying forms, we are the place to be… aspects of Clark’s work and context, as well as access to a network of contacts and events. The postgraduate will be We are forming this group devoted to the discussion and provided with work space and access to a computer in a practice of book arts, including bookbinding, letterpress, private study area of the Library, as well as the normal range altered books, artists’ books, paper cutting, collage, silk of facilities and postgraduate activities at the University of screen for books, collage, and other paper-related art. Dundee.

Our meetings will include discussions, workshopping, The studentship is funded for three years and will begin ideas, practical demonstrations, talks and any other brilliant 1st October 2013. It offers an outstanding opportunity bookarts-o-sphere happenings. We will be run by members to pursue a fully-funded doctoral research while gaining and a small charge of £3 is payable to cover costs. training and work experience in areas such as archive management and exhibition curation. Come to our next meeting in Brighton on 21st May 2013 and meet us at INK SPOT PRESS - map and directions: Candidates should have an undergraduate degree in Ink Spot Press is at Module 1, Enterprise Point, Melbourne English or other relevant discipline and a postgraduate Street, Brighton BN2 3LH. The entrance to the studio is to master’s degree, including some specialisation in recent and the right of the front entrance, round the side. contemporary poetry and poetics. https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=21293763812262 6478645.0004d6027a8c398470376&msa=0&ll=50.836096,- Enquiries can be directed to Professor Andrew Roberts: 0.124004&spn=0.015516,0.03577 [email protected]

Page 32 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae (including field of fine binding. Every three years there will be funding the names and contact details of two academic referees), available for a research project concerning new aesthetic together with a short letter outlining the reasons for approaches in bookbinding, its techniques, function, their interest in this research topic. They should also concept, theory and practice. The person who will receive submit a writing sample (for example, a Masters-level the grant is required to present the development of their essay or a chapter of a dissertation). Applications should research every four months, in person, to the committee, be submitted to: Professor Andrew Roberts, School of including practical results as well as a written report. These Humanities, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN meetings will take place in the Musée royal de Mariemont (Belgium). Quote Reference: CDA/AMR Procedure - Duration of research: Closing Date: 30 April 2013 1 September 2013 – 31 December 2014 Application entry deadline: 15 June 2013 Employer Profiles: www.dundee.ac.uk The application consists of: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk - a personal CV, detailing the studies and training, exhibitions, competitions… - a documentation of past work and projects ARTISAN BOOKS - 8th Annual Artist’s Book Exhibition - concept of the proposed research and specifications on The Exhibition will be held at Artisan Books, 159 Gertrude planned realisation. Street, Fitzroy, from 14th September - 12th October 2013. The application must be presented in French and may not Exhibitors may submit 1 book. Entry fee: AUD $25 exceed 10 pages A4. Deadline for all entries: August 31st, 2013 159 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065, Australia The jury (Sün Evrard, Pierre-Jean Foulon, André Lamblin, [email protected] Jacqueline Liekens and Michel Wittock) will examine each www.artisan.com.au application. Their decision cannot be contested. The jury reserves the right not to give out the grant if none of the projects seems interesting. The results of the research Introducing Studio Membership at the London Centre project will be prepared for publication by the applicant. for Book Arts The publishing and the exhibition of the results shall be held We are happy to announce that we are launching studio in and organised by l’Atelier du Livre de Mariemont. membership at LCBA now. There are currently three types of membership to choose from: The stipend is 8000 Euro and paid in four instalments • Full Studio Membership, includes access to all (30% in September 2013, 30% in January 2014, 30% in printing, bookbinding and print finishing equipment June 2014, 10% at conclusion of project). It includes • Day Membership, project-based daily access to all everything connected to the research (material, equipment, printing, bookbinding and print finishing equipment travel). Participation is open for all residents within the • Bindery Membership, includes access to bindery EU (including Switzerland), professionals and self-taught. equipment, nipping presses, board shear and blocking Board members of l’Atelier du Livre de Mariemont cannot presses. apply.

Read more about studio membership and download Coordination and contact: an application form at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ Atelier du Livre de Mariemont as04kcrzff1syi2/LCBA%20Membership%20Application.pdf c/o Musée royal de Mariemont Chaussée de Mariemont 100 You can also stop by the Centre during open hours and pick 7140 Morlanwelz, Belgium up a copy. Nadia Corazzini 0032 (0)64 27 37 00 [email protected] We have exciting programmes in the works for the upcoming season, including shows, editions, and many more new workshops. Stay up-to-date and follow us on ANIMATED TYPE - Call for submissions Facebook, Twitter: @londonbookarts, or at A Showcase of Letterpress-printed Animation. http://londonbookarts.tumblr.com Organised by Marilyn Zornado and Barb Tetenbaum of Portland, OR, USA. We’ve quite a few upcoming workshops. You can book a spot on any of our workshops by visiting: This call is for submissions of any form of animation created http://londonbookarts.eventbrite.co.uk where you can find using letterpress printing. This may include short films, flip the complete and most recent listing of workshops. books, zoetropes, thaumatropes, praxinascopes, retroscopes. etc. Award categories, venues for screenings and exhibition, etc. will be posted on the website later this year. Grant for research in fine binding The Atelier du Livre de Mariemont, sponsored by the Deadline: December 1, 2013 department for fine arts of the ministry for the French Entry form and further information can be found at: community, offers a grant for further research within the www.marilynz.com

Page 33 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk August 10 - 21 print residency at Druckwerk Basel, Switzerland & workshop Etching, Monotype, & Letterpress

24-hour studio access Wide range of materials available in-shop Exhibition on 21. August

Near the old city center, restaurants, museums, & the mighty Rhine river d Residency $250

Questions: [email protected]

druckwerk.ch summer printmaking in switzerland

Established in a former brewery, Druckwerk specializes in printing and producing artists books, posters and multiples. The shop includes facilities for etching, wood- and linocut, monotype, typographic handsetting and letterpress printing. Many types of paper, board, and book cloth are available in the studio for use during the residency, at very reasonable cost to the participant.

The residency will span ten days, from August 10 - 21. Cost to use the workshop, including materials, is CHF 250 for experienced printers, with the option of extra help for CHF 60/hour. At the close of the workshop, the work will be presented in a public exhibition. A variety of housing options are available, and can be worked out individually with the organizers. An apartment in the city may be rented; in addition, in the Werkraum Warteck, which houses Druckwerk, there are several Guest Ateliers that may be available for rental by the participants.

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Basel, Switzerland’s third-largest city, is home to a great tradition of printmaking and typography. (The Haas Foundry, where Helvetica was originally produced, was located 20 minutes outside of the city.) Basel is ideally located in the center of Europe, and is minutes by bicycle from both France and Germany. Although its population is only around 160,000, the city has 30 museums, excellent public transportation, and an international airport. The Swiss Alps are easily reached by train.

Page 34 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm LECTURES & CONFERENCES motionpoems 2013 Premiere Screenings in Minneapolis St Paul, USA Events 2013 for Laurence Sterne’s Tercentenary. Wednesday, April 24; 6pm & 8pm - Walker Art Center A full programme of events organised by the Laurence Monday, April 29; 7pm - GrandView Cinema Saint Paul Sterne Trust includes iShandy at York Theatre motionpoems (http://www.motionpoems.com) introduces Royal, from 19th April - 11th May 2013, screenings, video artists to literary artists, transforming great performances and a conference. For a full list visit: contemporary poems into compelling short films. www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/exhibitions-events.php Join MCBA and other motionpoems partners at the Walker Art Center on April 24 for the premiere screening of a Jaap Blonk and the Ursonate dozen new works! The event is free but tickets are required; 22nd April, 5.30pm available at the door (while supplies last) or in advance Lecture Theatre, Joseph Rowntree School, York. through the Walker box office (612-375-7622), FREE. Limited numbers - registration essential: www.walkerart.org/calendar/2013/motionpoems-2013 www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/contact.php?event=129 This poetry / performance event will concentrate on Jaap A special screening featuring 12 works by Minnesota Blonk’s performance of the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters. authors will be held on April 29 in celebration of the Jaap is artist-in-residence at Shandy Hall for the last week Minnesota Book Awards 25th Anniversary. Hosted by the of April and will be performing at the University of Leeds, Grandview Cinema; sponsored by Friends of the St Paul Teesside University, Leamington Spa and London. Public Library. Free and open to the public. http://www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/ontour.html www.thefriends.org/programs/mnbookawards.html

The performance at Joseph Rowntree Secondary School is by special request and will last for approximately 45mins - 4 Days at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK followed by questions. 4 Days is a quarterly programme of performance, activating Arnolfini spaces for visitors to experience multiple live Jaap Blonk (born 1953 in Woerden, Holland) is a self-taught propositions during a single visit. composer, performer and poet. He went to university for mathematics and musicology but did not finish those Performance Double Bill. Emma Bennett & Antonia studies. In the late 1970s he took up saxophone and started Barnett McIntosh + VerySmallKitchen with Press Free to compose music. http://www.jaapblonk.com Press and seekers of lice Friday 26 April 2013, 18:30 A few years later he discovered his potential as a vocal With: Emma Bennett, Press Free Press, seekers of lice, performer, at first in reciting poetry and later on in VerySmallKitchen, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh. improvisations and his own compositions. For almost two VerySmallKitchen present THEATRE OF OBJECTS, decades the voice was his main means for the discovery a new performance for 4 Days featuring Press Free Press and development of new sounds. As a vocalist, Jaap Blonk and seekers of lice which they describe as follows: is unique for his powerful stage presence and almost childlike freedom in improvisation, combined with a keen A poetic dialogue over two months. grasp of structure. He performed around the world, on all continents. At the beginning there are: 2 x 104 notecards ‘Jaap Blonk and the Ursonate’ is part of the Poetry by Heart 2 present bodies Poetry, Memorisation and Performance programme which 1 absent body has been organised by the National Association of Writers 1 metronome in Education (NAWE) and is hosted by the Laurence Sterne a continual stream of objects / texts / to build texture Trust and Joseph Rowntree Secondary School. For details of Poetry by Heart, The Poetry Archive’s national poetry + recitation programme, see website at www.poetrybyheart.org.uk or contact Emma Bennett & Antonia Barnett-McIntosh: Accent [email protected] (0117 905 5338). Using extensive transcriptions, close listening and http://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk improvisatory techniques, Accent is a duet, conversation and mutual impersonation by Antonia, a composer and Emma, a performer. Tercentenary Conference on Laurence Sterne 8th July 13 - 11th July 13 This performance is a loose reconstruction, a formal Sterne scholars from all over the world will meet from experiment, a stupid game in which Emma and Antonia 8th to 11th July at the Tercentenary Conference on attempt to impersonate one another’s voices (accents, Laurence Sterne at Royal Holloway, University of London. vocal tones, intonation, sentences). They imitate imitations, talk about talking, and mispronounce words. With keynote lectures by David Brewer, Thomas Keymer, They hear themselves again, filtered through one another. Melvyn New and Pat Rogers. Sometimes personal, sometimes cultural. And sometimes www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/exhibitions-events.php just like music.

Page 35 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk £5. Please note that places for this performance are limited ARTIST’S BOOK FAIRS and booking in advance is recommended. Please call Box Office on 0117 917 2300 or use the online booking link at: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/emma-bennett- antonia-barnett-mcintosh For the full 4 Days programme visit: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/4-days-1

Sarah Bodman, ‘The Artist and The Book’ John Rylands University Library, Deansgate, Manchester, Wednesday 10 July, 7pm. Exploring some of the ways in which national and international artists present their ideas within the format of the book today. From paper-based to experimental works, artists are utilising the book as document, performance manual, or device for collecting and curating text and image.

This public lecture is part of a series of events commemorating the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s 700th anniversary. An exhibition of historic printed books and manuscripts, as well as artists’ books commissioned for the anniversary, opens at the Rylands library on 11 July and runs until 24 November 2013. Admission to the exhibition is free. For more details see: http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/events

Admission to the lecture is free but booking is essential via the Customer Services Team: [email protected] or Tel. 0161 306 0555. The booking system will open on Thursday 30th May. Priority booking operates for those who have signed up to the mailing list using the same Customer Services contact details. Artists’ BookMarket - Beautiful books to browse and buy The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Saturday 20th April 2013, 11am - 6pm MCBA Book Art Biennial Artists’ BookMarket returns to The Fruitmarket Gallery this Directed: the intersection of book, film and visual narrative spring, the fair will run throughout Saturday in our spacious 27th - 28th July 2013 galleries, accompanied by a programme of talks and events Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA and supported by our own bookshop, with its range of Through workshops, lectures, panel conversations, film artists’ books and cultural titles. screenings and exhibitions, MCBA’s Book Art Biennial www.fruitmarket.co.uk invites artists, educators, curators and scholars to explore current issues in contemporary artists’ books. Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Arnolfini, UK This year’s Biennial programming explores in depth the Saturday 20th April & Sunday 21st April 2013 common threads between book art and film. Historically as 11am - 6pm Saturday and 11am – 5pm Sunday well as in contemporary practice, artists blur and perforate Arnolfini and The Centre for Fine Print Research at the the boundaries between these two disciplines, both of University of the West of England, Bristol, are pleased to which are time-based and grounded in sequential visual present the fourth Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Arnolfini. communication. From examinations of contemporary innovations in visual narrative to the influence of classic BABE will take place on Saturday 20th April and Sunday filmmaking on mid-century book design, the 2013 21st April 2013 with more than 80 artists, presses and Symposium will continue a tradition of stimulating publishers stands at Arnolfini. There will also be lots of free critical thinking and dialogue. workshops, tours of the event, ‘book surgeries’, exhibitions of books and events running over the weekend: Full information and booking online at: http://www.mnbookarts.org/events/bookartbiennial.html BABE tour 2pm, free, each day, no booking needed.

Artist’s book surgeries 11am–3.30pm, each day, free, booking essential.

Bookmaking Workshop Saturday, 11.30am–1.30pm, free, ages 16+, booking essential.

Page 36 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Book Badge Making, Drop-in Workshop, Saturday, two word contribution using the name of a person, place, 2pm–3pm, free, all ages object or feeling that they miss. Inspired by the ‘triangular letters’ Russian soldiers wrote home during WWII these Rubber Stamp Roller Workshop, Sunday, 11.30am– secret longings will form a collection of anonymous 1.30pm, free, ages 16+, booking essential nostalgia notes by the close of the book fair.

Exhibition: Don Celender, Surveyed, Saturday 20–Sunday Admission free. Do come along! 28 April, 11am–6pm, free Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA www.arnolfini.org.uk

LemonMelon - Saturday 20 April Don’t be alarmed! Throughout the day LemonMelon will fill BABE with reading/book situations. Occupying the intermediate spaces of Arnolfini LemonMelon will ‘activate’ publications on the stairs, in the lift or maybe the café. You may be asked to read a LemonMelon publication with Marit in silence or aloud or you may just discover an impromptu reading in an unexpected place

Abigail ThomasAnd here we have… someone reading Saturday 20 April, 3.30pm, Free, Meeting Room “And here we have… someone reading” is a short, live, performance-lecture as a reading event or, perhaps, a book happening. It combines visual elements with text in a vocally annotated, projected presentation. There will be a bookwork in the form of a free lecture handout to accompany the performance.

The Bristol Art Library Saturday 20 April & Sunday 21 April, Foyer. The Bristol Art Library is a fully functioning public library housed in a wooden cabinet the size of a suitcase. Created by artist and head librarian Annabel Other, the library’s volumes (all 5” x 4”) were made by artists and practitioners from all areas of the arts and sciences and cover a wide range of subjects.

Lucy May Schofield – ‘Missing Letters’ Project Sunday 21 April, 2pm, Free, Meeting Room Celebrating the launch of her new artist’s book Lucy May Schofield invites visitors to BABE to create a simple one or

Page 37 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Délires de Livres 2013 - 27th April to 19th May 22nd Mainzer Minipressen-Messe Collégiale Saint André Chartres, France Thursday 30th May - Sunday 2nd June 2013 Already the fifth edition of Délires de Livres! What a Mainz, Germany wonderful opportunity to be hosted again in the 12th The Mainzer Minipressen-Messe is a Book Fair especially century Church of St. Andrew. The exhibition hosts 150 devoted to smaller publishers and private presses. It takes book creators from France and elsewhere in the world place every two years with a participation of nearly 360 (Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, small publishers and private presses. USA…). Artists have created unique works of art for the fifth edition on “Desire”. Again, like 2011, the fair will be held in two big tents at the bank of the river Rhine and we hope it will be an even Conference hosted by Inge Bruggeman greater success than the last one! The American artist’s book: tendency and theme http://en.minipresse.de Sunday 19th May, 3pm

Delires de Livres has become a highly anticipated date in 8th Moscow International Artist’s Book Fair the calendar for artists, visitors, collectors and takes an Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia important place not only in the cultural life of Chartres 7th - 9th June 2013 but also regionally and nationally. This event will provide Curator: Mikhail Pogarsky the public, this year, with a walk off the beaten track, as The fair takes place in the most famous exhibition hall surprising and magical as the creative diversity of the works of Moscow and is covered by mass media: newspapers, presented. Open every day (except Monday) from 1.30pm – magazines, radio, TV and the Internet. The Artist’s Book 6.30pm. www.am-arts.com Fair is shown alongside the large Moscow International Open Book Festival. Many countries will be taking part in the Fair. A special Russian-Netherlands project “Wine and turn the page artists book fair 2013 Dreams of Art” will also be shown at the fair. Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th May The Forum, Norwich. Open 10am to 6pm Contact: Mikhail Pogarsky, Curator of the Fair ‘turn the page’ returns in spectacular form for its second Email: [email protected] / www.pogarsky.ru year, showcasing the work of over 50 innovative UK and Post: Russia, 143400, Krasnogorsk, ul. Lenina, 31-32 International book artists. ttp aims to provide an exhibiting and selling platform for the contemporary book arts community, embracing all modes of book production INTERNET NEWS and dissemination, whilst fostering the preservation of traditional skills such as printmaking, letterpress, paper making and bookbinding. An eclectic mix of fine press Books as Art, Books as Sculpture, Sculpture as a Poem: limited editions, sculptural and altered books, zines and Marilyn R. Rosenberg. Interview by Nance Van Winckel book related film will be shown alongside book installations for Numéro Cinq magazine, can be read at: and multiples. http://numerocinqmagazine.com

This year’s programme of events includes Poetry Readings, Anne-Marie Culhane has a completely new website at: Demonstrations, Storytelling, Drop-in workshops and the www.amculhane.co.uk Writers Centre Norwich ‘Summer Reads’ PLUS the first ever appearance of the ‘Norfolk Longbook’, an ever growing Dietmar Pfister has a newly updated website with recent community project for people who live in or are inspired news, details and photos of exhibitions and events over by the beautiful county of Norfolk. Lucy-May Schofield’s the last year. Please have a look at current work, listen fabulous converted 1950’s Citroen van will also be on hand to a highly interesting intro/video by Nora Gomringer to offer Bibliotherapy ‘to those in need of a dose of handheld (on the occasion of his solo exhibition Gallery Pfaff, art and a pair of listening ears’. Schwarzenbruck) and get some new information on the artist: www.dietmarpfister.de To find out more visit: www.turnthepage.org.uk www.theforumnorwich.co.uk ABC - Artists’ Books Cooperative - is an international group of artists seeking to create, engage, and communicate on issues concerning self-publishing. Group interactions are WAYZGOOSE - Saturday 4th May 2013 centred on book fairs, exhibitions, and our online forum, 10am – 4pm, Campden Town Hall, UK where we discuss all aspects of making and proliferating From the Fine Press Book Association UK Newsletter work. We are pleased to announce a new online home for (fpba.com): As part of Campden Literature Festival, UK, ABC at: http://abcoop.tumblr.com Louisa Hare and other printers hold a sale of rare and irresistible books, posters, cards, bookplates, wood A new video by Andi McGarry, published on Mar 5, 2013 engravings, antiquarian fine press volumes, letterpress A selection of hand made boats spanning the last twenty equipment and papers. Free entry. For more information years and also Andi talking about a few artists’ books. on the Wayzgoose and lots of other events over the festival http://www.youtube.com/user/AAAAAAndi?feature=watch (30th April – 5th May) visit: www.campdenlitfest.co.uk

Page 38 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Luisa Boyd has a new website showcasing recent book Tivoli is morphing from Bookshop with Art Wall to Art works. “My work is inspired by the natural world, and the Space with Book Alley. Art exhibits will be given more human connection with it and I am fascinated by the innate display space while those categories of books few other human response to nature. Working with books sculpturally stores in New Zealand stock (artists’ books, graphic novels, allows me to represent these ideas. Pages can be used New Zealand Private Press books, old Penguins, see restrictively and may only give glimpses of the information www.tivolinz.com) will be focused on. Selected political within them due to cut work, the way that they are and poetry books plus a quirky ‘Miscellaneous’ section bound and exhibited. will continue, as will special New Zealand and Waiheke publications.

No Guts No Glory is a shop in Exeter, UK, founded by Nathan Blaker & Hayley Marchant, and filled with illustration prints, zines, comics and a whole range of independent press productions.

No Guts No Glory, McCoy’s Arcade, Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AN,UK. They are about to launch a new website, a taster can be found at: www.ngngdesign.com

Gracia & Louise have completely updated their website. It now includes information on all of their books and zines to date, alongside interviews & reviews, projects and exhibitions. http://gracialouise.com

Paul Soulellis - Library of the Printed Web is a collection of works by artists who use screen capture, image grab, site scrape and search query to create printed matter from content found on the web. LotPW includes self-published artists’ books, photo books, texts and other print works gathered around the casual concept of “search, compile and publish.” http://soulellis.com/2013/02/library-of-the-printed-web/

Martin Degn has recently shown his book works, bookbinding and decorated papers at the Skanderborg Museum in Denmark. You can see images of the installation on his website at www.mdp.dk or follow his blog http://martindegnblog.wordpress.com/book-bind-and- decorated-papers/

From Ed Boxall: I have made a short film of my storytelling performance of ‘Me and the Night Lion’. http://edboxall.co.uk/education/ Helical from Luisa Boyd’s current project, The Infinity Series The Most Difficult Thing Ever Many of my books are not meant to be opened with pages Last October Kevin Boniface’s blog, The Most Difficult turned, instead viewed only as a 3D form. Some books Thing Ever, won the award for Best Writing at the Blog depict birds flying from them, released from their binding, North Awards in Manchester. Last month it featured in the others use the edges of the pages to show a broken image of Huddersfield Literature Festival. Keep up to date with all his a landscape.” http://louisaboyd.com recent stories at: http://themostdifficultthingever.blogspot.co.uk Ton Martens. A recent short documentary made about the artist and his work can be viewed (in Dutch) at: Bron Bradshaw has been adding information and images http://youtu.be/tRnVYu8l75Q to her Paper Pilgrim blog of a trip to Kyushu island last year, looking at papermaking and other cultural inspirations: TIVOLI art | books | film http://aroundthekyushu.wordpress.com/ Having been ‘imminent’ for some time the Tivoli website is now up and running. Designed by Fenner Eastmond, check out www.tivolinz.com for new books, exhibits, events etc. Tivoli’s specialist book stock - artists’ books, graphic novels, New Zealand Private Press books, Old Penguins - are all on www.tivolinz.com

Page 39 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk NEW ARTISTS’ PUBLICATIONS again to Munari’s poster and imagery, echoing in their work themes of reading, architecture, and performance. The Night She Slept With A Bear Holly Anderson Leonor Antunes proposes eight dance “grids” as Publication Studio Portland, Oregon environment, creating an optical and physical experience www.publicationstudio.biz/books/186 from photograms of industrial metallic railings applied directly to photographic paper (“grid dancing”, 8 posters - The Night She Slept With A Bear is a collection of flash 50 x 50 cm - offset - 250 copies - Price: 100 euros) fictions and mesostic poems where an intrepid reader will encounter an exploding cabin and a flying woman, Koenraad Dedobbeleer proposes a two-sided poster; a self a live turkey in a basement, milk of amnesia cocktails portrait of the artist in his studio and apartment (“Seeking served by a 4-point buck, lots of hard, cross-country driving Comfort in an Uncomfortable World”, 2 posters both sides - and herds of high clouds and burnt stars while listening 90 x 65 cm - offset - 250 copies - Price: 50 euros) to a majestically austere instrumental score written and performed by Chris Brokaw. Readers will delight in cunning Johannes Wohnseifer echoes the layout of Munari’s poster pages decorated with BWCA lake maps, crankshafts and with 14 photographs of an abandoned and damaged bees, found photos and zoology illustrations circa 1902 skateboard (“Reconstruction of a Toenage Sculpture”, poster designed by Susan Archie. - 50 x 77,5 cm - offset - 250 copies - Price: 10 euros)

Erwin Wurm offers a drawing with its accompanying legend instructing one to realise a “One Minute Sculpture”, along with the possibility of using the poster by transforming it into a jacket covering the monograph, “The Artist Who Swallowed”, ed. Cantz (“Take your Most Loved Philosophers” - poster - 11 x 70 cm - offset - 250 copies - Price: 10 euros).

Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes 34 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris. Tel: + 33(0)1 53 79 05 95 davietthery.wordpress.com

Enitharmon has just published a new catalogue of artists’ books for 2013, including standard and de luxe editions. All of which can be viewed on the website: http://www.enitharmon.co.uk/books.asp?s=E

Glamour Is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea 1969-1978 The print version ships with a (35) track CD (illo.) in a Philip Monk perfect bound soft cover (56 pp) book. The book is now Art Gallery of York University, 2013 also available at iTunes as an app with all music embedded From its origins in the mail art movement through to its within the texts and videos, star and terrestrial maps added “destruction” of The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in plus spoken word audio tracks thanks to Bob Moses who 1977, the Canadian collective General Idea constructed built this app with Atavist Create software. https://itunes. a comprehensive body of work as a performative fiction. apple.com/us/app/holly-anderson/id582089103?mt=8 Glamour is Theft examines this “pageantry of camp parody” through the logic of its mythic system. The You can also read a review of the book at: book reconstructs this system from statements that were http://notanotherbookreview.blogspot.com/2013/03/holly- dispersed and disguised within General Idea’s work andersons-night-she-slept-with.html and writing as a whole, including the publication FILE Megazine. In General Idea’s system, there is one concept: Glamour; one operation: reversibility; one technique: cut- Christophe Daviet-Thery has the pleasure of presenting up; one strategy: theft; one tactic: camouflage. Following the a new project “Reading dance” collective’s strategies, the book in turn mimics the language In the 1970s Remy Charlip (dancer, choreographer, of structuralist and semiological publications of the 1970s author of children’s books, and friend of Bruno Munari) while also considering the influences of Roland Barthes, countered Munari’s poster by an armchair dance which he William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and choreographed entitled “Reading Dance”, providing today Marshall McLuhan on the work. the title of this exhibition. In the spirit which inspired Charlip to counter Munari, the contemporary artists Leonor Designed by Barr Gilmore. 8 × 10 in, 256 pp, 8 col, 71 B&W, Antunes, Pablo Bronstein, Koenrad Dedobbeleer, Yann hardcover. ISBN 978-0-921972-66-2. $40.00 Serandour, and Erwin Wurm were invited to react once http://theagyuisoutthere.org/everywhere/?p=4212

Page 40 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Bukezine 10 and 11 Andres Gatti

For more information, or to order a copy, contact: Barb at [email protected] or Julie at www.flyingfishpress.com

The Artist Book Laure Prouvost (2013) Each issue: 13.7 x 21.5 cm. 40 pages. 6 USD plus shipping Published by Book Works costs. Images of the books can be viewed online at: Beginning: ‘LP wake up and have toast every morning, LP http://www.flickr.com/photos/digipops/ use to own 6 fishes, 3 birds one called peter, now own an Contact: [email protected] animal called gelati, she likes drawing and inventing stories, she is not professional, she enjoys the sun and making some art stuff. And make bottoms and feel weird and enjoy Announcing a newly-published tool for idea-generation making when it works…’ What is it to make an artist book from Flying Fish Press and Triangular Press about oneself? To construct a biography in which the formal structures and chapter divisions develop a narrative, into which the self dissolves?

Laure Prouvost explores the processes of narrative, translation and reflection, and the substantial mis- communications, cultural slippages, inventive opportunities and transformations inherent to these processes. Each mis- translation allows a new episode or incident to form that The “Artist’s Book Ideation Cards” was designed as an aid to can disorder and reassemble its origin. In this project she the book artist, to jump start a new project or inform one uses the material format and expectations of the artist book in progress. There are two decks in the set: Category Cards as a means to make new work. containing approx. 8 cards in each of the 7 categories (text - image - structure - paper - layout - technique - colour) and The Artist Book includes multi-voiced biographies by 54 Adjective Cards of which 3 are ‘wild cards’. Choosing a anonymous contributors, that combine illustrated fantasies, card randomly from each of the seven categories and five anecdotes and vignettes of the artist, alongside collages of cards from the adjectives offers an unexpected recipe for a the artist’s studio, personal communications and a film on project. paper. These and other sections demonstrate Prouvost’s peculiar and complex navigation of influence, humour, art The cards are available for $30 + $5 shipping from both history and methodologies that informs her idiosyncratic Barb Tetenbaum and Julie Chen. language. Insistent gesticulations and perceptual cues guide

Page 41 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Slavs and Tatars is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China, and, is joined here by Agata Araszkiewicz, Ramin Jahanbegloo and Adam Michnik, Mara Goldwyn, Shiva Balaghi and Michael D. Kennedy.

Former Slavs and Tatars’ projects with Book Works the reader’s attention and transmit information, as the include Kidnapping Mountains (2009), 79.89.09. subject, or narrator, merges with the book itself. (2010), commissioned for Again, A Time Machine, and Winner of the 2013 Max Mara Prize for Women Artists, contributions to the publication Again, A Time Machine: Laure Prouvost’s two-part installation Farfromwords is from archive to distribution. Slavs and Tatars recently currently showing at Whitechapel Gallery. A new film exhibited at 10th Sharjah Biennale, UAE (2011), Tate commissioned by Tate in collaboration with Grizedale Modern, (2011), MoMA, NY (2012), Secession, Vienna Arts is currently showing as part of Schwitters in Britain (2012). Forthcoming exhibitions are at: Istanbul Modern, at Tate Britain. and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz toured from 10th Sharjah Biennial, to Kiosk The Artist Book is published by Book Works; edition of Gallery, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Gent; 1,000 copies; b/w and colour; 296pp; designed by Fraser Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk; Karlin Studios, Prague, Muggeridge Studio; 230 x 155 mm is currently showing at REDCAT, LA, and will tour to ISBN 978 1 906012 44 1. £20.00 Presentation House, Vancouver. ISBN 978 1 9060120 42 7. http://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1760 £22.00. To purchase this title please visit: http://bookworks.org.uk/node/1758

Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz Slavs and Tatars (2013) Next is the Next Level Published by Book Works / Sharjah Art Foundation By Sto Len, Anna Hellsgård & Christian Gfeller Beginning as an investigation into the apparently disparate events that bookend the twentieth and twenty-first century – the collapse of Communism and the Islamic Revolution in Iran – Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi’ite Showbiz traces unlikely points of convergence in Iran and Poland’s economic, social, political, religious and cultural histories. Drawing on Slavs and Tatars’ multi-disciplinary practice encompassing research, sculpture, installations, lecture- performances and print media, this publication embraces new contributions in the form of essays, interviews, Improvised screenprinted book, 14 colours on different and archival presentation on subjects that range from heavy papers. 29.5 x 21 cm, edition of 59, signed & seventeenth-century Sarmatism to the twenty-first-century numbered. 25 EUR Incl. shipping in Europe, 28.50 EUR Green Movement, taking in along the way, tales of the worlwide. http://www.resurgo-berlin.com/2013/03/next-is- Polish Exodus, Wojtek the bear, craft, hospitality, Passion next-level-by-sto-len-anna.html plays and taziyeh, and the political lessons of a Polish slow burn revolution for contemporary Iran.

Page 42 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm New titles from Café Royal Books: He loved the East End, and for a time during the 60s used to spend his days off from Fleet Street roaming around taking Preston Bus Station: Lost and Found photographs (often making his way from pub to pub). Craig Atkinson The first of Atkinson’s series of Preston Bus Station books is now available. “I have been documenting the bus station since 2009. The classic Brutalist structure is a meeting place, changing place and an at-risk place. For years the bus stations future has been unknown. Recently local businessmen have put forward a plan to ‘save’ the building, but no one really knows at this point what will happen. I have been debating publishing the images for some time, For a retrospective exhibition of his photographs at the now seems the right time to begin, as the change of function Hackney Museum in 2011, I came up with the title of the bus station is also about to begin. ‘Through an Affectionate Lens’. I think that described well the way Tony saw the East End. More of Tony’s photographs can be seen at www.spitalfieldslife.com The ‘Tony Hall Collection’ of photographs is held at Bishopsgate Institute www.bishopsgate.org.uk. Libby Hall 2013, 28 pages, 14cm x 20cm, b/w digital. Numbered edition of 100. Published with the help of Libby Hall and the Bishopsgate Institute. £5.00. www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/shop/east-end-shops/ For years the cleaners and caretakers at the bus station have gathered, collected and displayed the items found, lost at the bus station, and on the buses arriving in Preston. The small office room, with no natural light is almost an underground museum or archive of daily life.” 2013, 28 pages, 14 x 20 cm, b/w digital. Numbered edition of 150, £5 each. www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/shop/preston-bus- station-lost-and-found/

Holy Mountain Laurent Impeduglia Laurent Impeduglia is Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Liege. His work sits between comic book and fine art. Much of his work is ‘easy’ looking, fun seeming, but has a darker meaning. Impeduglia often uses powerful symbols to suggest the demise of society, structure and systems. “Holy Mountain is about the quest for spirituality. The destruction of all the excesses of a system - pollution, capitalism, fascism, religion.”

2013, 24 pages, 14cm x 20cm, b/w digital. Numbered edition of 100. £4 each. http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/index.php/ shop/holy-mountain/

East End Shops Tony Hall Tony Hall (12.11.36 – 21.2.08) studied painting at the He Wanted All Galenans To Know He Was Real Royal College of Art. After getting his degree he earned Stacey Levine his living as a portrait painter, but soon decided he didn’t Published by Louffa Press, New York want to continue doing one-off original paintings that only A letterpress, numbered, limited edition of 100, April 2013. the affluent could afford. Instead he worked as a graphic Cover art by Beatriz Albuquerque. designer, illustrator and political cartoonist. In the early 60s http://www.louffapress.com he moved from Ealing, where he had been brought up, to Hackney, where he spent the rest of his life.

Page 43 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Two new books by Julie Caves of Little Black Press: #50–#63 Reproductions III Du Monde/Of the World Sharon Kivland – 12 Part Subscription Package Domo Baal and Sharon Kivland are delighted to announce a new subscription series, following the success of Reproductions I in 2012 (with many satisfied customers). The next series is subtitled Du Monde/Of the World, and if you will forgive a perhaps grandiose notion, the artist has been thinking about Maurice Merleau–Ponty’s account of vision and visibility (that we are looked at, in the spectacle of the world), and Jacques Lacan’s commentary thereon (that the world is not exhibitionistic, it does not provoke our gaze, but when it does, the feeling of strangeness begins). But enough of that!

Twelve 12-Minute Drawings On December 12th 2012, to celebrate this once-in-a- millennium date, Julie Caves created twelve, 12-minute drawings of everyday objects. Inkjet printed, 28 pages, hand-sewn with linen thread. Edition of 50, 21 x 15 cm. 2013, London. £12

There will be twelve books in the series, which is limited to an edition of 50, with an additional thirteenth book offered free in March to early subscribers (Femmes du Monde). Each book, between 16 and 36 pages, draws on the artist’s collections of postcards, magazines, cuttings, and other printed ephemera, in another attempt to organise, catalogue, and archive. There is little text, apart from the title and usual colophon material. The books are black and white, printed on an ivory 120gsm Munken paper, stapled with a square spine, each: 19cm by 15cm. Subscribers will receive one The Hollywood Diet book each month. Julie Caves and H Locke A concertina book of puns involving the names of famous At its completion, the series will be neatly and attractively actors. A collaboration between Julie Caves and H Locke housed in a handsome bespoke slipcase, made by Book with watercolour illustrations by H Locke. Edition of 50, Works studio, and potential subscribers should budget 10 x 10 cm. 2013, London. £12 for this (we cannot confirm the cost at this point, but we imagine somewhere around £50 – this is offered at cost Available at: www.littleblackpress.co.uk price). The cost of subscription for the full set of books alone is £125 and includes post and packing.

Titles may include: Femmes du Monde/Women of the World, Hommes du Monde/Men of the World, Rosièristes du Monde/Rosegrowers of the World, Barmen du Monde/

Page 44 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm Barmen of the World, Amants du Monde/Lovers of the Sharon Kivland – Reproductions II World, Philosophes du Monde/Philosophers of the World, Arrangements floraux du Monde/Flower arrangements of the World.

DOMOBAAL editions, 2013. ISBN 978-1-905957-30-9 (Reproductions III – vol 1: Femmes du Monde). To subscribe, visit: http://domobaal.com/publications.html

Sharon Kivland – Freud on Holiday, Appendices I–IV Freud’s Weather, Freud’s Dining, Freud’s Hotels, Freud’s shopping: “No need here for the overcoat worn by Freud’s patients, ‘woven of a tissue of lies, as though the weather were bad in the world of sexuality’. Sharon Kivland brings us close to Freud at ease – relaxed, ordinary, and invigorated by travel – these little books are talismans for those who value pleasure and freedom.” Sarah Wood, Oxford Literary Review.

A publication in two volumes, bound together to accompany Sharon Kivland’s eponymous exhibition, by Jan Campbell and Steve Pile. Dr Jan Campbell is a Reader in English Literature and Psychoanalysis in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. Jan Campbell has also worked clinically for thirteen years as a psychoanalyst, as well as writing widely on psychoanalysis in relation to feminism, queer theory, autobiography, social and cultural theory, literature, and film. Her most recent book is on the telepathic movement of a maternal form, which she argues is the necessary transferential sublimation of the repressed ‘Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature’ published by Karnac in the Spring of 2013. Professor Steve Pile teaches Geography in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The Open University. He has published on issues concerning place and the politics of identity. He is author of ‘Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life’ (2005) and ‘The Body and The City: psychoanalysis, subjectivity and space’ (1996). His many collaborative projects include the forthcoming collection, ‘Psychoanalytic Published by information as material, 2013. Geographies’ (edited with Paul Kingsbury). He is currently ISBN 978-1-907468-16-2. £24. Available at Cornerhouse working on early Freudian psychoanalysis and geographies Manchester and Domo Baal, London. of the body. Edition of 100. DOMOBAAL editions – 2013 http://domobaal.com/publications.html ISBN 987-1-905957-29-3 (£10). http://domobaal.com/publications.html

Sharon Kivland – Le Style Louis XVI A small catalogue of Louis XVI furniture, which makes Forgotten, Lost and Found a rapport between style and revolution, furniture and its Amandine Nabarra Piomelli naming, femininity and the neo–classical. The ambience A new edition of “Forgotten, Lost and Found”, 2013. This is welcoming, despite its sobriety and a whiff of the Terror. tunnel book created in 2006 in a small edition of 4 sold The book is published in a edition of 50 copies at the out rapidly. So I am pleased to present this new edition of kind invitation of AM Bruno on the occasion of the 16th 20 signed and numbered books nested in a black fabric International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, Leeds. clamshell box. 17×10.5cm, stapled, this sixteen-page book contains six duo–tone photographic plates, tipped–in by hand. “Forgotten, Lost and Found” is a book of photographs that DOMOBAAL editions – 2013. ISBN 987-1-905957-31-6 represents thoughts and feelings, scenes of vivid memories (£16) http://domobaal.com/publications.html or forgotten experiences. The images inside the tunnel

Page 45 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk have warm tones of red and yellow which suggest a happy Otto, Graphic Artist. Marshfield Screen Print, Martor ending. Whereas the stories on the sides of the tunnel Industrial Estate, Tormarton Rd, Marshfield SN14 8LJ, UK. have cool tones, green and blue, which represent the issues Tel +44 1225 891 581. www.ottographic.co.uk that haven’t been resolved in life-searching, doubting, and [email protected] forgetting. The tunnel structure allows for the intertwining of these three aspects. The depth of the book reminds us of the passing of time. Preston is my Paris is pleased to announce the launch of two new publications: We don’t mind people on shoulders. Just not under the ceiling fan. and Edith’s Scrapbook. We don’t mind… is a return to a Northern Soul night at Brierfield W.M.C, which was also the subject of a 2010 project by PPP. This brief photographic document was taken over 6 hours on New Year’s Eve 2012/13 and is produced in recognisable b&w zine-style format in an 5 inches x 6.5 inches closed; extends to 9 inches. A tunnel edition of 100. book in the form of two parallel accordions supported by 6 frame-like panels. Pigmented digital prints on Japanese Edith’s Scrapbook is an exploration of a personal collection mulberry paper. Housed in a black corrugated box with a of documents relating to various political protests that Mrs digital image tipped onto black paper. More information Edith Spalding was involved with in the 1970s and 80s. and images at: http://anpfotos.com/work/316/ A range of posters, newspaper articles and diagrams has been reproduced in a risograph publication produced in an edition of 100. Four new books by Otto A set of 4 screenprinted concertinas, each in an edition of 45

Paper Plane, Narrow Boat, Folding Bike, Wooden Horse The concertinas are designed in the style of Chinese screens, Both publications will be available for the first time at a with a pictorial narrative on one side, interacting with the special launch event held from 6pm on Thursday 18th folds of the card, and decorative pattern on reverse April at Village Book Store, Leeds. A series of posters have (book jacket). The imagery contains original designs as been produced specifically for this event and an original well as collages from the Jane and Peter ‘Ladybird’ books soundtrack will play throughout the evening featuring rare and combines them to form new narratives: modern protest songs and field recordings from protests that have adventures with Jane and Peter in four respective types taken place at various English cities in recent years. of transportation. For more information please contact Adam Murray at [email protected] http://prestonismyparis.blogspot.co.uk http://www.villagebookstore.co.uk

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Page 46 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm writers, thinkers and makers who participate in a creative Mike Absalom - Scorpion Month public discourse. The Periodical is inspired by 17th Century Mike Absalom, an Irish poet, painter and printmaker, was pamphleteering as much as by today’s contemporary born in Devon in 1940. His mother was Irish. His father was digital communications and continues our exploration Welsh. Educated in Quebec, Sweden, Iran and England, he of how we create and share now forms of ‘Public Goods’. majored in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Farsi) at Oxford Browse bookleteer’s libraries of free to read and download and Gothenburg Universities before embarking on a career publications, check out what’s been selected for previous as a singer/songwriter during the 1960s and 70s. issues and sign up to create your own for free.

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Love in the Time of War Robin Price, Publisher Yusef Komunyakaa (http://www.poets.org/ykomu/) began writing these poems when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003; his context later expanded in scope, reaching back to “the old masters of Shock & Awe.” In this 25-poem sequence of sonnets (some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The Nation), Komunyakaa explores ancient and A5 box with contributions from 23 invited artists from 9 contemporary, satirical and metaphysical tableaux where countries. Visual poetry, collages, prints, multiples and love and war converge. In translating the manuscript into a objects. Contributions from: limited edition artist’s book, I knew there had to be a lot Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Greece - Reed Altemus, USA - of sweat involved, but I thought it would be in the form Tiziana Baracchi, Italy - Vittore Baroni, Italy of numerous press runs, so much ink coverage it would John M. Bennett, USA - Bruno Chiarlone, Italy - Fernando smell for years. Garcia Delgado, Argentina - David Dellafiora, Australia Joaquin Gomez, Spain - Klaus Groh, Germany - Scott Helmes, USA - Miguel Jimenez, Italy Mikula Luellwitz, Germany - Serse Luigetti, Italy - Emilio Morandi, Italy - Leo Morrissey, USA Keiichi Nakamura, Japan - Juergen Olbrich, Germany - Litsa Spathi, Netherlands - Pete Spence, Australia Carol Stetser, USA - Giovanni Strada, Italy - Christine Tarantino, USA Yet after a press trial on a sheet of silk fabric (discovered in 40 copies signed and numbered 1/40 to 40/40, March 2013. a flat file drawer at a local art supply store), my approach Only 15 copies available for sale. Price: 70 euro / 100 $ / 60 began to pivot on the expressive qualitites of that material. GBP. You can order online with Paypal or through Amazon The studio became a makeshift chemistry lab, and after at http://www.redfoxpress.com/ass.box22.html many disappointing trials, we learned just how to coax our You can order also by email at [email protected] peat-based walnut pigments into the fibres of silk, and to

Page 47 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk prepare each richly darkened sheet for the luminescent ink devotional books in the library at Traquair. In its dialogue of the poems. As of mid-March, my apprentice Brittany with both house and reader, this contemporary manuscript DeNigris and I are halfway through the dyeing, flattening, calls forth the histories of the house and the book in a and trimming process, and soon we begin printing. Daniel fashion that reclaims their importance for the twenty-first Kelm will enclose the gossamer pages between metal plates century. of armor, creating an integrated articulation of vulnerability and strength. Emma Powell explores the development of we love your books – a book arts collaboration that held its first exhibition Here are the details: in 2005. The article charts the eight exhibitions that have been held: Meeting in the Middle; Full Circle / Random Journey; ABC; re: closure; (e)motive; Crop and minute. This is integrated with a discussion of the work of twelve book artists who have exhibited with we love your books. The book-work of Melanie Bush and Emma Powell, co- founders of we love your books, is then explored and the article concludes with a summary and a Call For Entries.

Jim Butler explores printmaking and the artist’s book. While the rise to prominence of printed multiples opens up new possibilities, it presents particular problems for the printmaker, especially those working with non-digital media. This is due in no small measure to the economics of the artist’s book. The development of the concept of an original limited edition print in the late 19th century Printed letterpress with silver ink in Adobe Jenson onto established an artistic and economic framework for artist individually dyed & painted silk, sewn into a modified printmakers which is still largely valid today. The article paper-case binding. Thin aluminum covers are etched with considers how this framework might apply to artist a pattern derived from camouflage fabric. Torn and cut printmakers working in book form. glassine inserts are embedded within fore edge-folded sheets to provide rattle & an additional visual layer. Book structure co-designed with Daniel E. Kelm. 38 silk pages; 10.5 x 7.5 inches. First edition for this poem sequence is limited to approximately 70 copies. Forthcoming summer 2013. $2000

Pre-publication offer through June 15, 2013: $1800. Payment must accompany order. For more information, please contact the press: Robin Price, Publisher Starr Mill, 91 Beverly Heights, Middletown, Connecticut 06457, USA. Tel: 860-344-8644. [email protected] http://www.robinpricepublisher.com

The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books Volume 7 No 2, April 2013 is out this month!

Essays include:

A history of alternative publishing reflecting the evolution of print. An edited extract from Chapter 2 of a new book by Alessandro Ludovico, offers an analysis of the strategic use of print, by avant-garde artistic movements throughout the 20th century, as well as in the context of the underground Artists’ pages by: Ellen Golla, Alexander Mouton, Benedict press from the 1950s through the 1980s, and finally in light Phillips, Aymee Smith and Daniel Speight. of the most recent developments in underground publishing (such as the production of technically perfect ‘fakes’ made Cover design by Tom Sowden. possible through digital technology). Subscribe today! The journal is published in two formats: Beth Williamson in conversation with Helen Douglas, an electronic colour version to be accessed at any time explores Douglas’s Traquair House, a bookwork online, and a paper, black and white version. commissioned in 2012 as part of Reflective Histories: Subscription covers both formats at £10 GBP per annum Contemporary Art Interventions at Traquair House. including UK or international postage. Responding to the oldest inhabited house in Scotland, http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bnotebk.htm and its contents, this manuscript book echoes the small

Page 48 this newsletter can be downloaded in colour from www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/banlists.htm One Swimming Pool Persefoneia Elisabeth Tonnard Maro Vandorou, Atelier Vandorou This book is a portable swimming pool that can be put on a bookshelf. It is based on Ed Ruscha’s book Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass from which one swimming pool was photographed. If the sheets are carefully removed from the book and laid down next to each other, this swimming pool can be installed at the size of a small swimming pool. The book was bound using an adhesive that allows the sheets to be taken out. Doing so will of course destroy the book in its bound form.

Persefoneia is a handmade book of 6 platinotypes printed on tissue-thin Japanese handmade paper and letterpress printing of essay and poems in English and Greek.

The conceptual focus is on personal transformation with Persephone as a prominent archetype. 25.4 x 25.4 cm, Edition of 11, 2013, California, USA. £2,500 For more information visit: www.marovandorou.com Published in an edition of nine copies and an artist proof [email protected] by Elisabeth Tonnard in Leerdam, The Netherlands, 2013. Installation size ± 648 x 648 cm. Book size 14.8 x 18.8 x 19 cm. Full colour digital print, 3164 pages, bound in 9 sections Xu Bing - Passages in the Making of a Book attached to each other, plus inserted fold-out sheet with MACK + MAPP overview and instructions for installation. See more images at: http://elisabethtonnard.com/works/one-swimming-pool/

On view at the Gagosian Gallery, Ed Ruscha Books & Co, 980 Madison Avenue, New York City, until 27th April 2013. The work can also be purchased there, and at Johan Deumens Gallery. http://elisabethtonnard.com/works/one-swimming-pool/

The Shakespeare Project Valeria Brancaforte

Tian shu (Book from the Sky) is a legendary ‘unreadable’ book by Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing, and it is explored here in the most comprehensive study to date. Tian shu consists of four volumes of unreadable ‘Chinese’ characters printed in a traditional Chinese style using hand-carved wood. First exhibited in 1989 at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Tian shu encapsulates Xu Bing’s meticulous attention to detail, masterly word play, craftsmanship and ability to challenge both Eastern and The Shakespeare Project is a small edition in giant size Western audiences. (150 x 60 cm // 60 x 24 inches), a typographic broadside print telling Shakespeare’s Sonnet XIV. 15 plates in different The ebook published by MAPP, builds on the acclaimed compositions hand printed onto Japanese Kozo paper, in print edition published by Bernard Quaritch, London. either light green or dark red. The ebook contains Xu Bing’s account of the genesis of the work in Mandarin and in English translation, as well as You can watch a short film about the making of it here: essays by numerous scholars including John Cayley (Brown http://vimeo.com/49283390 University), Professor Lydia Liu (Columbia University) and For more info, please email Valeria Brancaforte at Professor Haun Saussy (Yale University). [email protected]

Page 49 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Xu Bing is vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Most find new homes in the annual book sale; with the Art, Beijing. He was awarded the MacArthur Foundation proceeds invested back into the service. But the small ‘Genius Award’ in 1999, and the Artes Mundi Prize in 2004. number of books that are left are being used in a His work is currently on show at the Ashmolean Museum in competition designed to bring out people’s creative sides Oxford. http://mappeditions.com/publications/passages-in- for a chance to win an EBook reader the-making-of-a-book Councillor David Dixon (Lib-Dem, Oldfield), Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods, said: “Libraries have always STOP PRESS! been places that inspire us to explore our imaginations. This is a great opportunity for everyone, young or old, to take a trip to their creative side. Last year we received over 50 entries for the competition and this year we hope to do even better.

“We also hope it will encourage more people to pop back into Bath & North East Somerset Council’s libraries to discover what else we have available for them to enjoy – including an amazing range of books, CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.”

If you would like to take part just visit any of Bath & North East Somerset Council’s libraries from 28th May to choose an ex-library book and pick up an entry form. You have until 31st August to remake the book into anything you like. To take part you must be a member of Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Libraries and you Ellen Knudson’s Subject, Verb, Object, selected for the fourth have to use ex-library books supplied by the Council’s annual Artist’s Book Cornucopia exhibition Library Service. Apart from that you are free to remake your book in any way. The fourth annual Artist’s Book Cornucopia Exhibition opens April 19th at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, If you need some inspiration, take a look at the “Bathnes Colorado, USA and remains on view through June 8. Libraries” Facebook page to see last year’s entries. This year 50 bookworks by 42 artists from the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom were selected by Mary Murphy, Visual Resources Librarian at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia. Both a print and online catalogue of the selected works will be available via the gallery website www.abecedariangallery.com along with postings about the individual works at the gallery blog http://abecedariangallery.wordpress.com

Also on view in the Reading Room: Books, Printing and Process by Casey Gardner. Casey is the recipient of last year’s Cornucopia Gallery Director’s Award. She will be exhibiting final versions of recent projects, along with project notes and models for her delightful Body of Inquiry. Book art workshops Abecedarian Gallery 910 Santa Fe Dr, #101, Denver, CO 80204 USA Bath & North East Somerset Council is also running a Tel: +1 720 282 4052. www.abecedariangallery.com series of book recycling workshops at Bath Central Library Hours: 1-6pm Thursday & Friday, noon to 4pm Saturday. starting on Tuesday 28 May. These workshops are free but places are limited so book your tickets by coming into one of our libraries or e-mailing: Recycle an ex-library book into a work of art and win a [email protected] prize. Library members of all ages are being encouraged by Bath & North East Somerset Council (UK) to get creative • Tuesday 28 May: Upcycled Paper Cut-through Workshops and turn old books into works of art. with Nina Davis; 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm (over 18s only)

Every year, the Council’s library service has books that have • Wednesday 29 May: Recycled Book Workshops with reached the end of their life; either through the amount of Jessica Palmer; 11am-1pm (under 12s) and 2pm-4pm (ages times they have been issued or due to an updated version 12-17). All children must be accompanied and supervised becoming available. by a parent or guardian throughout the workshop.

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and equipment to this workshop. In this course we will make small decorative elements (primarily out of silver) that can be incorporated into a binding. After an introduction to the fundamentals of silversmithing such as sawing, bending and soldering, these techniques can be applied in combination with other materials such as precious stones and woods and worked onto a book cover.

Language: German and explanations in a second language Date: 27th – 31st May 2013. Course fee: CHF 1050.00 Last year’s launch of the project. Tel: +41 (0) 91 791 72 34. [email protected] www.cbl-ascona.ch Registration until 28th April 2013 A full exhibition will run at Bath Central Library and on the “Bathnes Libraries” Facebook page in September; featuring all the competition entries and offering the public the Wire Edge Binding: Codex, Accordion and Album chance to vote for their favourite, with the overall winner in 10th – 14th June 2013, Switzerland each category receiving an EBook reader. Wire edge styles use metal wire along the binding edge, exposed at regular intervals, creating knotting stations More information and full terms and conditions are where thread attaches one page or section to the next. Wire available at: www.bathnes.gov.uk/libraries edge bindings open exceptionally smoothly and flexibly, affording the option of unusual shapes. During the first two days, you will learn with Daniel Kelm (www.danielkelm. Upcoming courses at centro del bel libro the International com) wire edge basics as you produce a simple codex, as School for the advanced training in Bookbinding and well as an accordion model that forms a tetrahedron. Your Design / Book and Paper Conservation, Switzerland third project is an album that lies flat for effective display. The album features an archival page structure (called a Cloth Bindings - New Approaches “page panel”) that protects the image by holding it in a 13th – 17th May 2013, Switzerland recessed well. All levels of experience are welcome! Did you ever bind a book with tights? In this course Edwin Heim takes us on a journey into a secret of an innovation in Language: English and explanations in a second language. the realm of cloth bindings! With an astoundingly simple Date: 10th – 14th June 2013. Course fee: CHF 1150.00 method and this common, everyday material, we will create Place: centro del bel libro ascona, Via Collegio 17, CH-6612 an interesting, filigree-like material for use in bindings. Ascona. Registration until 21st April 2013. Subsequently we will bind two books using the covering Tel: +41 (0) 91 791 72 34. [email protected] material created during the course. www.cbl-ascona.ch Registration until 12th May 2013

UWE Bristol Exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library Opening hours term time: Mon - Thursday 8.45am - 8pm, Friday 8.45am - 5pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am - 5pm. Please check before travelling as opening hours vary dur- ing vacation periods and bank holidays. Library main desk telephone: 0117 328 4750. http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/library/ Language: German and explanations in a second language visitingthelibrary/campuslibraries/bowerashton.aspx Date: 13th – 17th May 2013. Course fee: CHF 1050.00. Place: centro del bel libro ascona, Via Collegio 17, CH-6612 If you have news, please email items for the BAN to: Ascona. Tel: +41 (0) 91 791 72 34. [email protected] [email protected] Please supply any images as www.cbl-ascona.ch Registration until 21st April 2013 good quality RGB jpegs (300 dpi) c. 9 x 6 cm

Precious Metals, Precious Stones and Fine Wood - NEXT DEADLINE: 12TH MAY FOR THE JUNE Bookbinding Design with a Goldsmith NEWSLETTER 27th – 31st May 2013, Switzerland Felix Stüssi, goldsmith and qualified designer, brings his www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk / [email protected] experience in metalwork along with all the necessary tools

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