ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 64 March - April 2011

Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE BY guylaine couture In t h i s i s s u e : Na t i o n a l a n d In t e r n a t i o n a l Ar t i s t s ’ Bo o k s Ex h i b i t i o n s Pa g e s 1 - 13 Announcements Pa g e s 13 - 14 Co u r s e s , Co n f e r e n c e s & Wo r k s h o p s Pa g e s 14 - 19 Opp o r t u n i t i e s Pa g e s 19 - 24 In t e r n e t Ne w s Pa g e s 24 - 25 Ar t i s t ’s Bo o k Fa i r s Pa g e s 26 - 28 Ne w Ar t i s t s ’ Pu b l i c at i o n s Pa g e s 29 - 34 Re p o r t s & Re v i e w s Pa g e s 34 - 38 St o p Pr e s s ! Pa g e 39

Artists’ Exhibitions Additionally, the sequencing provided by the pagination of University of the West of England, Bristol, UK the book form can enhance and reflect the aspect of time Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases which underpins so much of self-documentation, allowing a story to unfold in a sequence proposed by the artist and Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton at a pace determined by the viewer. The Artist’s Book As Document Curated by Natalie McGrorty 8th March - 25th April 2011

They bear witness to voyages of discovery, of achievement, of loss, of homecoming. They give enduring form to a great span of human experience, from a simple personal journal though all the complicated transactions of civilization, to the spiritual vision. Books are vessels of human experience as it is worked through and passed on to others. They embody our activities and intentions, our schemes and our insights; our various journeys, both individual and collective. (The Book As Vessel: A Catalogue of the 1991 Oregon Book Biennial. p3)

This exhibition brings together artists’ books from Dreamlog 1998 by Genie Shenk twenty-three practitioners across Europe and America. Each work embodies the activity of self-documentation; In terms of production, photography, photocopying and demonstrating in a variety of ways, the virtues of the book digital scanning increasingly facilitate documentational as a place to document a personal , experience, work, providing a fast and efficient way of documenting or period of time. artifacts and events pertaining to daily life. The facility to make copies of personal documentation allows items to be From a young age we are intimately acquainted with books used that might otherwise be considered too precious to and they have long provided a holding space in which to part with, or too awkward to include in book form. More record human experience, enabling stories and ideas to traditional methods of reproduction are still very much in be collected and preserved. The book form itself offers a use however, such as drawing, screen-, Letterpress degree of privacy for its contents, revealing or concealing and Lithography. its innermost secrets in a controllable and intimate way, making it ideal for use as a diary or lending itself to work Researching acts of self-documentation, with regard to my of a personal nature. own practice, led me to curate this exhibition and I am delighted to present such a diverse collection of work. Today we have at our disposal the means to document and share our lives in a growing number of ways, both physically, The artists exhibiting are: and virtually through the Internet. Yet, in a culture engulfed by the outpouring of information, artists’ books offer a Ahlrich van Ohlen, Bea Nettles, Caryl Burtner, Donald creative alternative for working with and recording personal Baechler, Francis Elliott, Frans Baake, Genie Shenk, Harland experience and ideas in a more considered and creative way. Miller, Imi Maufe, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kristen Merola, In contrast to other more ephemeral types of document, Laurie Clark, Lucy May Schofield, Michael Landy, Sally artists’ books provide something desirably tangible and long Alatalo, Sarah Bodman, Scott McCarney, Skúta Helgason, lasting, and are often engaging in form as well as content. Sophie Calle, Susan Johnson, Susan Kae Grant, Tom Sowden The tactile nature of these books not only invites interaction and Victoria Lucas. and engagement but demands such interaction if the work is to be animated and its content revealed. Held in close proximity to the body, the viewer partakes in the intimate www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/natext.htm performance of the book’s contents, gaining insight into another’s world with the turning of each page.

Pa g e 1 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Again, A Time Machine Again, A Time Machine reappears at Motto, Berlin with A Book Works touring exhibition in five parts a Book Works’ archive, presentation and one-night of Part one, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK performance with Maria Fusco, Stewart Home, Katrina Until 16th April 2011 Palmer, and Archive Books. A new commission for Sarah Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, Pierce at the Showroom, London will start in June 2010, bringing the dead to life, making the living look dead. and is accompanied by a monthly series of spoken word Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a and performative writing events, to include Paul Buck, practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that Alex Cecchetti, Mark Geffriaud, Melissa Gronlund, The begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and Happy Hypocrite, Plastique Fantastique, Kit Poulson and re-visit alternative futures. others. A new commission with Laure Prouvost at Spike Island, Bristol, accompanies a rethinking of Book Works Again, A Time Machine is a fluid tour, reinventing itself archive and the annual ‘zine fair on 9 October 2010 . White as work moves from venue to venue. Based on new Columns, will host the first retrospective of artist commissions and archival presentations, it will generate and writer Stewart Home. Again, A Time Machine makes ephemera, performance and printed material, in response its last appearance back at the Showroom, London in April to a theme that plays with and inverts notions of time, 2012, with a final exhibition, and the publication of a new archive, distribution and received pasts and perfect futures. anthology. New commissions for Eastside Projects sees the start of a poster project by Jonathan Monk, the reimagining of Open Thursday 12 - 6.30pm, Friday and Saturday 12 - 5pm a Polish–Iranian solidarity by Slavs and Tatars, Eastside Projects, 86 Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham B9 4AR of Dora Garcia’s All the Stories, artists’ talks, The Happy www.eastsideprojects.org Hypocrite-Say What You See: a cycle of readings co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco, and a newspaper.

Events Délires de Livres 2011 Collégiale Saint André Chartres, France Slavs and Tatars artist’s talk 16th April - 8th May 2011 Thursday 24 March, 6.30 - 8pm

Only Solidarity and Patience will secure our victory billboard, 594.6 cm x 296.8 cm, Slavs and Tatars, 2011 Presenting the work of the collective Slavs and Tatars, in particular the use and influence of books and printed material in their practice, with a particular focus on the archive of Iranian and Polish books used for Again, A Time Machine, in their installation Dear 1979, please meet 1989

The Happy Hypocrite - Say What You See Co-hosted by An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco Thursday 31 March, 6.30 - 10pm Drawing on the methodology of one of the sections from The Happy Hypocrite, An Endless Supply and Maria Fusco present a series of artists’ readings and spoken word performances.

Dora Garcia artist’s talk 160 artists respond to the theme of: Blue/white/or black. Thursday 14 April, 6.30 - 8pm An exhibition of artists’ books and book objects. Dora Garcia and Gavin Wade discuss All the Stories, and Daily: 1.30 - 6.30 pm. More information on the website: future collaborations. www.am-arts.com

Pa g e 2 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m COVER-ED The Performance Re-enactment Society (PRS), Tom Sowden & Michalis Pichler, and Arnolfini Archive Exhibition, Events, and a New Publication at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK until 30th April

“By the way, what salad dressing do you prefer?”

Cover-ed is a series of curatorial and creative interventions into and around Ed Ruscha and Mason Williams’ bookwork Crackers, a copy of which is held in Arnolfini’s Archive. Over two months the book will become the script, score, instruction, and inspiration for a three-day performance of photography, a participatory performance event, an installation, and a new artist’s book.

Three exhibitions at the cdla, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France run until June 2011 From now until June, cdla is showing three exhibitions and hosting three informal seminars around the concept of a collection. Probably any collection (of stamps or of anything else) aims towards a state of completion. The collection of the Centre des livres d’artistes is of course lacking. The new exhibition uses this as a starting point and displays a few incomplete series of works and publications. piéces manquantes. Until 25/06/11. Poésies concrète, visuelle (pour mémoire). Until 16th April. Pour information 1 (passe à ton voisin). 20th April - 25th June

For the full programme, please see http://cdla.info/en cdla, 1 place Attane, F-87500 Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France. Tel + 33 (0)555 75 70 30

JOCKUM NORDSTRÖM - BY AND TO JOCKUM follow-ed (after hokusai) Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France 15th March - 1st May 2011 Until 27th March 2011 Arnolfini Room Christophe Daviet-Thery Curated by Tom Sowden and Michalis Pichler. Previous 34, rue Louise Weiss 75013 Paris re-makes of Ed Ruscha bookworks will be displayed in the Tel. +33 1 53 79 05 95 set of the new cover version of Crackers. Sit or lounge on the [email protected] bed in the hotel room relocated to Arnolfini’s reading room http://www.daviet-thery.com and read from this collection of playful homages, rip-offs and re-creations.

Evelyn Eller - Artists’ Books and Collages Gallery Tour - Sat 12 March 2pm. Join Clare Thornton, a Two exhibitions in New Jersey and Baltimore, USA member of the PRS, for a free gallery tour. John Cotton Dana Library Rutgers University, 185 University Avenue RE-USE, RE-MAKE, RE-ENACT Newark, New Jersey, USA Thursday 24 March 6.30pm £7.00/£5.50 Concs April 11 - June 30, 2011 An evening of talks and performative readings reflecting Reception - April 14th 5-7pm on why we re-make, re-enact and re-create past artworks or historical events. Participants include Rod Dickinson, Evelyn Eller’s work is also included in the exhibition and Maria Fusco, PRS & Tom Sowden. the catalogue, Women of the Book, The Park School of Baltimore, 2425 Old Court Rd. Baltimore, MD, USA Family Activity. Sat 30 April 12.00 - 4.00pm. Feb 10 to April 20, 2011 Re-use, remake and re-enact; Join us for an afternoon of www.evelyneller.com free family activity.

Pa g e 3 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k SALAD DRESSING: A COVER OF CRACKERS From Press to Page: Book Arts in Minnesota BOOK LAUNCH & PERFORMANCE Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA Sat 30 April 6pm Until 8th May 2011 The launch of the new book Salad Dressing from the This exhibition highlights the creativity and craftsmanship COVER-ED Photoshoot in March, where the PRS / Tom of some of Minnesota’s leading contemporary book artists Sowden re-imagined their cover version of Crackers scene by and fine presses. The featured selection includes books by scene. such prominent figures as Harriet Bart, Robert Bly, Philip Gallo, Fred Hagstrom, Patricia Hampl, Bill Holm, Frank A sophisticated opening, complete with limo, elegantly Kacmarcik, Allan Kornblum, Paulette Myers-Rich, David dressed special guests and mysterious crudités. Join us and Rathman, Tom Rose, Gaylord Schanilec, Chip Shilling, Jody participate in the climactic final act as it unfolds somewhat Williams, and Emerson G. Wulling. differently than in the original Crackers. Including costume design by David Curtis and performance artist Samantha Gallery 369, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2400 Third Sweeting. www.davidcurtis-ring.blogspot.com Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404, USA Free Exhibition. http://artsmia.org For all related COVER-ED Events see: www.arnolfini.org.uk/event_seasons/index/86/ Ceramic Soliloquies Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, CO, USA follow-ed (after hokusai) Until 2nd April 2011 P74 Gallery, Prušnikova 74, Ljubljana The focus of the exhibition is on narrative sculptural works 11 March – 3 April 2011 and books that incorporate clay as a primary element in follow-ed (after hokusai), curated by Michalis Pichler their production. The exhibition includes works by US and Tom Sowden, is on show concurrently in Bristol artists Al Shenck, Alicia Bailey, Andrea Peterson, Andrew and Ljubljana. Featuring conceptual artworks, which for Eastwood, Judith Serebrin, Katie Taft, Marie E.V.B. Gibbons the most part use photography, the book form, and are and Steve Gordon. somewhat ruschaish. Lorenzo Perrone - selections from Libri Bianchi, is also on The opening at Gallery P74 is on Friday March 11, 8pm show in the Reading Room at Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA, until April 2, 2011. Lorenzo Perrone, of The assembly attempts to span a larger arc of tension, Florence, Italy has been engaged with the process of creating integrate Ruscha’s own books and put him into an white book objects for the past seven years. His works are evolutionary line, in particular with the publications of created by a initially stripping down the selected book and Hiroshige and Hokusai, whose titles show great parallels thus removing all content. in rhythm and use of numeric and vague enumerations (e.g. SEVEN ASPECTS OF THE ACTOR, FIFTYTHREE Abecedarian Gallery, 910 Santa Fe, Unit #101 STATIONS OF THE TOKAIDO, FOUR SAMURAI Denver, CO 80204, USA FAMILIES, THIRTYSIX VIEWS OF MT FUJI, ONE Tel: 720.282.4052 or 303.340.2110 HUNDRED VIEWS OF MOUNT FUJI, UNUSUAL VIEWS www.abecedariangallery.com OF FAMOUS BRIDGES IN VARIOUS PROVINCES). Gallery hours are 1-5pm Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and until 8pm 1st & 3rd Fridays. The missing link could be Yoshikazu Suzuki’s GINZA HACCHO, buildings on Ginza, Tokyo, published as an accordion foldout book – in 1952, hence preceding Ruscha’s Cuban Artists’ Books and Prints: 1985 - 2008 Sunset Strip by 13 years- in the same street-view-style which Austin/Burch Gallery was for very long considered essentially Ruscha. San Francisco Center for the Book, USA Another missing link could be Henri Riviere’s Thirtysix Until 16th April 2011 Views of Eiffel Tower, one of the first western explicit Cuban Artists’ Books and Prints: 1985 - 2008 features the paraphrases of Hokusai’s Thirtysix Views of Mount Fuji, that work of 13 Cuban artists and more than 50 books that by now has been ‘redone’ dozens of times, both by Japanese expand definitions of the book to express Cuban identities, and international artists. international trends and national sensibilities. The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue that is On occasion of the opening at Gallery P74 a new available for purchase. bookwork will be launched: SIX HANDS AND A CHEESE A frequent visitor to Cuba, curator Linda S. Howe, SANDWICH by Michalis Pichler (featuring an excessive developed this exhibition to view the period beginning in after-Ruscha ). 1984, when Cuba hosted its own art biennial and artists http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/archives/728 became empowered by access to the Internet to find new outlets for their work. Prior to this, state controlled cultural

Pa g e 4 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m institutions supplied everything to artists, including the Bookworks by Tracey Bush, Mandy Bonnell, Julia Farrer, distribution of their work. James Fisher and Ron KIng, amongst others. www.emmahilleagle.com While known to Cuban critics and curators since the early 1990’s, the work of many Cuban artists, including the feminist painter Rocio Garcia, were relatively unknown in F r i e d e r u n F r i e d e r i c h s - Wi t h a L a c u e s t a the U.S. Censorship and retribution somewhat subsided in SISTER II ART the early 1990’s while Cuba was hit by a crippled economy, (T)reib-Art Gallery, Lenningen, which produced the influx of global interest in the work. 23rd April - 20 July 2011 As a result, the prices of the work of Cuban artists more Zwei Schwestern: ja! Aber gleiche Kunstwerke? Nein! than tripled. The government saw the possibility of An exhibition of artists’ books by Friederun Friederichs and offsetting economic losses in other sectors and joined forces watercolour paintings by her sister Witha Lacuesta. with Cuban artists to disseminate Cuban Art internationally. Bissinger Str. 56, 73252 Lenningen, Germany We invite you to come and enjoy this remarkable collection http://www.treib-art.de of Cuban book art and printing.

San Francisco Center for the Book Global Villaging - Stories of Cosmopolitan Anthropologists 300 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands http://sfcb.org/events/exhibitions 8th April – 29th May 2011 With: Allard van Hoorn, Fanny Zaman, Filip van Dingenen, Huda Smitshuizen Abifares (Khatt Foundation), Jack THE BOOK(S) 1968 - 2010 Segbars, Maria Barnas, Paul Hendrikse, Richtje Reinsma, deSingel, Internationale Kunstcampus Rieneke de Vries, Simon Kentgens, Wouter Osterholt & Desguinlei 25, Antwerp, Belgium Elke Uitentuis. Come and experience personal exchange Until 22nd May 2011 in a globalising world: a post-exotic transcultural play of positions! Various Dutch and Flemish artists tempt us to experience a present-day cultural economy through experimental visual and literary narratives, acquired during exchanges with locals from China to Bahrain, from the Argentinian pampas to Ethiopia!

Onomatopee bleekstraat 23, 5611 VB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Opening April 8, 20:00. Onomatopee is open from Thursday to Sunday 13:00-17:00 and by appointment www.onomatopee.net

Spring Fling 2011 Taster Exhibitions Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries and Stranraer Museum, Stranraer, March - May 2011 Paper/ book artist and photographer Isabell Buenz is taking part in this year’s Spring Fling event. She displays samples of her work during the Taster Exhibitions for the Spring The American artist Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Jersey, Fling Open Studio Event in Dumfries and Galloway. Isabell’s lives in Brussels) studied art and architecture, and, together sample books show the objects of her latest obsession: her with Robert Barry, Sol Lewitt and , new collection of paper stilettos, transforming her and is one of the very first conceptual book artists. friends’ shoes into her unique pieces of art. Since the start of the seventies he has incorporated text and line drawings into his books, and later geographical Opening times of Taster Exhibtions. Until 12th March: maps and photos of urban spaces too. Stranraer Museum, The Old Town Hall, George Street, For more information www.desingel.be Stranraer DG9 7JP. Open: Mon to Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm

Emma Hill of Eagle Gallery will be showing a large scale 19th March – 7th May: Gracefield Arts Centre, exhibition of artists’ books at the London Original Print 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries DG1 1JQ. Fair at the Royal Academy, 19 - 22 April 2011 Open: Tue to Sat 10am – 5pm

Pa g e 5 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k ... Newsflash, Future Fantasteek! Going On Tour... Jackie Batey’s Future Fantasteek! issues 1-10 and sketchbooks are touring the UK and USA 2011-2012

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Celebrating ten issues, Future Fantasteek! and the train sketchbooks are touring the UK and USA in 2011-2012

U.K.

1 March 2011 - 6 April 2011 University of the Arts London, LCC, London.

27 April 2011 - 14 June 2011 Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol. In addition, Isabell will show a range of new work, including 5 Sept 2011 - 28 Oct 2011 The Library, Hereford College of Arts, Hereford. altered books, paper shoes and photography during the 21 Nov 2011 - 13 Jan 2012 Open Studio Event in May (Sat 28th May – Mon 30th May) INVIA, Institute of International Visual Arts, London. 1 Feb 2012 - 1 March 2012 For more details visit: www.isabellbuenz.co.uk/news.html The Ministry of Books, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth. U.S.A. or www.spring-fling.co.uk 1 April - 31 May 2011 Colorado College Special Collections, Colorado Springs, CO.

27 June - 7 Oct 2011 The Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University, Durham, NC.

30 Oct - 20 Nov 2011 Hand, Voice & Vision touring exhibition Joan Flasch Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. After the exhibition and events at The Grolier Club, New York Hand, Voice & Vision: Artists’ Books from Women’s Studio Workshop, curated by Kathleen Walkup is now touring. You can watch a video, filmed at The Grolier Club, where Kathleen Walkup speaks about the exhibition. www.futurefantasteek.com http://vimeo.com/17973267 Upcoming UK Dates: Upcoming stops for Hand, Voice & Vision include: Now until 6 April 2011 - University of the Arts London, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME LCC, London. March 15 - April 30, 2011 27 April 2011 - 14 June 2011 - Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Smith College, Northampton, MA Bristol. Sept 6 - Dec 20, 2011 Upcoming USA Dates: Does your gallery want to be part of the exhibition tour? 1 April - 31 May 2011 - Colorado College Special Contact WSW’s artistic director Tatana Kellner at Collections, Colorado Springs, CO. [email protected] 27 June - 7 Oct 2011 - The Sallie Bingham Center, Duke The Catalogue: A wonderful resource for artists, enthusiasts, University, Durham, NC. and art-educators alike and contains beautiful full colour- images of books in the show. The catalogue also contains For full dates and venues please visit: essays by the exhibition curator, librarians, teachers, http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/ curators, and artists on the topic of artists’ books and future10/tour/index.htm WSW’s role in the field, as well as interviews with the four founders. Order via the website for $35, includes shipping and handling in the USA: www.handvoicevision.com Sharon Kivland: I am sick of my thoughts Domo Baal, London 5th March - 9th April 2011 The Curious Nature of Things: Sue Johnson Domo Baal is pleased to present Sharon Kivland’s second Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford solo exhibition in the gallery. Kivland will exhibit recent Until 2 May, 2011 works that draw on her archive of magazines, prints, More information at: http://www.suejohnson1.com publicity leaflets or objects, postcards, and advertising

Pa g e 6 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m from different eras. Kivland employs the movement designated public/private status, as well as the collection and and displacement of ideas, words, images, and objects. curation of personal possessions within those spaces. Often Connections are woven in series, using strategies of our sense of self and security is linked to feeling ‘at home’, appearances, disguise, impersonation, vulgar and faithful insinuating that this sensation is not always related to a copying, subtle dialogues, intimate suggestion, and a lack particular place or building. of historical fixity. Working with reproductions that are in their turn reproduced and reworked, Kivland’s approach At first glance, Home from Home gives an impression of is that of the amateur and collector, doing her very best family, refuge and sanctuary, but upon closer inspection, with diligence and dedication. There is affection as much as it also begins to uncover associated feelings of anxiety and irony in the works, often displayed in the titles, which reveal uncertainty relating to superstition, illness and transience. and the claiming of possession. There is also http://abcarchive.blogspot.com fatigue, insufficiency, and failure.

This is Sharon Kivland’s second solo exhibition in the Two exhibitions at Galerie & Marlene Frei, Zürich gallery, she also is currently having a solo exhibition Reproductions at amt_projects, Bratislava, Slovakia. Emmett Williams: Self-Portraits and Dedications 4th March - 15th April 2011 Domo Baal, 3 John Street, London WC1N 2ES www.domobaal.com Jan Voss: Leute, hängt die Bilder ab, sonst machen noch die Nägel schlapp! 4th March - 15th April 2011 Home from Home at 153 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, UK 11th - 18th March 2011 Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei With ideas ranging from the domestic to displacement, over Zwinglistr. 36 (Hof) CH–8004 Zürich 80 artists from 7 different countries have contributed to this www.marlenefrei.com years Artist Book Collective exhibition around the theme of Home. 153 Woodhouse Lane is the setting for Home from Home, to be shown alongside the 14th Leeds International Metamorphosis in a shade and light Artist Book Fair. As a spacious Victorian terrace situated Exhibition of an artist’s book by Danielle Ubéda over three floors, it provides the perfect backdrop for this Atelier Vis-à-Vis, France. Until 10th March 2011 site-specific exhibition. Eight colour screenprint and collage, edition of 20.

Contemporary Russian Artists’ Books in Marseilles Atelier Vis-à-Vis, France 24th March - 30th April 2011 I.A. Dmintrenko - Olga Kahn - Viktor Lukin - M.M. Press/ Still Life, Bernard Fairhurst, video, 2010 Michael Molochnikov - M.K. Publishers/ Michail Karasik - Mikhail Pogarsky - Recycling Press/ Michael Benssman - Artists responded to the brief through exploring and Andrej Suzdalev - Leonid Tishkov. expanding on the book as a time-based medium, whilst incorporating the notion of the Everyday. Traditional Atelier Vis-à-Vis book works as well as sculptural objects, text, narrative, Paradigme/Comptoir International du Livre d’Artiste video, furniture, audio and performance are represented Contemporain throughout the show. 41 rue Clovis Hugues 13003 - Marseille, France Tel: 04 91 33 20 80 The concept of Home evokes various associations, including www.ateliervisavis.com our experience of domestic spaces in relation to their

Pa g e 7 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Parts of a Whole: New Work by MCBA’s Artist Community Mcardle. Janis Nedela. Amanda O’Sullivan. Alison Jane Rice. MCBA Star Tribune Foundation Gallery, USA Sarah Ritchie. Lucy May Schofield & Sylvia Waltering. Until 24th April 2011 Laura Stekovic. Normana Wight. Sandra Winkworth. MCBA presents an exhibition of new work by members of our “artist community” - faculty, co-op members, past Gallery Hours: 10am - 4pm Wednesday - Friday. artists-in-residence, fellowship and mentorship grant 89 Magellan Street, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia recipients, current and former staff and board members, www.scu.edu.au/schools/sass/visarts/next/ and others - curated by the MCBA Artist Cooperative. Featured artists include: Brian Aldrich, Kent Aldrich, Julie Baugnet, Laura Brown, Angie Butler, Jeff Dahlin, Peter Piller - I prefer to sit alone in a car Lilla Duignan, Dean Ebben, Monica Edwards Larson, Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch Wendy Fernstrum, Jean Formo, Georgia Greeley and Sue Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher Bjerke, Mary Hark, Angela Hed, Emily Hoisington, Cole Until April 15, 2011 Hoyer-Winfield, MC Hyland, Jill Jevne, Lin Lacy, Curt Lund, I prefer to sit alone in a car is the title of the fourth solo Erin Malkowski, Paulette Myers-Rich, Chandler O’Leary, exhibition of Peter Piller in the gallery. The habit of Jana Pullman, Erica Rasmussen, Jeff Rathermel, Regula underlining sentences in books in order to keep them in Russelle, Dennis Ruud, Cathy Ryan, Wilber H. “Chip” mind is the starting point for the new series Anstreichungen Schilling, CB Sherlock, Aki Shibata, Jes Lee Shimek, (Markings). It is about markings which Piller made in Julie Sirek, Tom Spence, Roz Stendahl, Richard Stephens, books from his own library, and they stem from texts about Abigail Woods Anderson matters in sciences by Goethe or Heisenberg for example.

These talented artists demonstrate their innovative The photo book Schlaf (Sleep) is published on occasion approaches, creative skills and diversity of styles in Parts of of our exhibition. The photos have been taken by the a Whole. A variety of artists’ books, broadsides, prints and artist’s son Ludwig. He is 8 years old and, besides flowers other bookish artistic endeavours will be on view from this and beautifully coloured details of the artist’s household, vibrant and eclectic group. Ludwig takes primarily photos of his sleeping father, Peter Piller. Piller has chosen 38 of these photographs for the new Minnesota Center for Book Arts is open to the public: publication Schlaf which is published in an edition of 30 Mon, Weds-Sat: 10am-5pm, Tues: 10am-9pm, Sun: 12-4pm copies only and during the exhibition exclusively available Minnesota Center for Book Arts in our gallery. Open Book Building, 1011 Washington Ave S, First Floor Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA. Tel: 612 215 2520 Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch www.mnbookarts.org [email protected] Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher Linienstrasse 158, 10115 Berlin, Germany www.barbarawien.de Susanne Nickel “Gut frisiert ist halb so alt” [email protected] Galerie DRUCK & BUCH, Tübingen, Germany 12th March - 7th May 2011 An exhibition of artists’ books, collages and altered books Poetry Beyond Text, Vision, Text + Cognition by Suzanne Nickel. An exhibition of artists’ books and related materials is at Galerie DRUCK & BUCH / Susanne Padberg the Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Bachgasse 15, D - 72070 Tübingen, Germany until 1st April 2011 [email protected] www.druckundbuch.de The exhibition features works commissioned as part of a research project as well as exhibits about the work the research team involved has been doing, and will later Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists’ Book Award transfer to the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh in May, Exhibition. Next Art Gallery, Lismore, Australia where it will remain until late July. A showing at the Royal Until March 12 2011 Scottish Academy in Edinburgh is planned for Autumn 2011. http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Home.html The exhibition features selected works by the following For more details on the project, see: artists: Babette Angell. Brenard Appassamy. Lyn Ashby. http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org Rhonda Ayliff. Elizabeth Banfield. Julie Barratt. Book/Art/ Object. Sara Bowen. Peter E. Charuk. Liz Caffin. Helen Cooper. Victoria Cooper & Doug Spowart. Angela Cullip. Prospero’s Library - an international project curated by Fiona Dempster. Lisa Giles. Annique Goldenberg. Diane Mikhail Pogarsky and Gillian McIver Hamilton. Nicci Haynes. Keira Hudson. Kate Hughes. Studio 75, London, UK Taycee-Lea Jones. Jenny Kitchener. Louise Levergneux. Peter 28th April – 2nd May 2011 Lyssiotis & Ann-Maree Hunter. Heather Matthew. Deborah The artist’s book and video-art project “Prospero Library”

Pa g e 8 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m was shown in many galleries and museums in Russia and Italy. Artists from Russia, England, Italy, Norwegian, Germany, USA, Netherlands and France have participated.

Tatjana Alëshina’s Life and Death pages

death, and these views may drastically change over time. For some people, death is a complete non-existence, for some, “We were starting from a small episode in Shakespeare’s an other-existence, for the some - reincarnation, and so on. The Tempest. Within a timescale of one year, artists from However, all agree - death is the last point of the earth, the different countries tried to create the poetic description of final chord of human life, after which comes something else the Earth, as a universal archive of elements, which would unknown. But, as Hippocrates said “Viva brevis, ars longa” describe the whole world. Certainly it is impossible to create (Life is short, art is longevity). Art defies death and decay. this library in a real physical space, but if we look at is as a Art confronts the destructive madness bubbling in the metaphor, we can find a solution. We have tried to create world. Art, like fairy tale living water, enlivens and animates this collective metaphor and, in my opinion, it appeared the dead space. vivid and poetic. It is a mysterious outburst of texts and images. It is the movement of ideas and feelings. It is an In this project, death appears as the twin of life, which attempt to archive the space...” Mikhail Pogarsky through the arts, frees immortal spirit from matter. Each of the 12 Italian or Russian artists has exactly one page for Life 75 Hebden Court, Laburnum Street, London E2 8BG and one for Death. www.studio75.org.uk The exhibition was launched at the Contemporary Art Museam “Erarta” St. Petersburg, Russia. It is now on show Life and Death: an International artist’s book project until 8th April at Gallery ARTEELITE C Via Alessi 11 – between Italy-Russia (12+12) Milan, Italy, and until 13th April at the National Centre Curators: Mikhail Pogarsky (Russia) of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. It then tours from Gino Gini and Fernanda Fedi (Italy) 15 April – 10 May to the Museum “Necropolis”, Tula, Russia. This is the first project in a large International programme For more information visit: www.pogarsky.ru of “12+12” (initiator and curator – Mikhail Pogarsky). This programme consists of 12 different projects and includes 13 countries. Number 12 has been chosen because “Pop-ups!” the Harold M. Goralnick Pop-up Book it has many symbolic meanings. The first project is devoted Collection, Bowdoin College, Maine, USA to existential thought on “Life and Death”. There were Until 4th June 2011 12 Italian artists and 12 Russian artists who interpreted An exhibition of over 150 items from the collection, this subject. which numbers over 1,800 volumes and was donated to the College in 2008. Displayed works range from the late Memento mori – is the greeting of monks from Trappist nineteenth century to the present and includes a selection Order, which was founded in 1664. At that time, numerous of other books in Special Collections, mainly artists’ books theologians predicted that in two years time the world that employ pop-up features in their design. would end. The end of the world did not come but the Trappist greeting became a well-known phrase. According Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, Second Floor to many philosophers, the understanding of his own death Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, USA makes man a spiritual man (Homo spiritus). Animals and http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/exhibitions/popup/ children protect their lives instinctively, but they do not understand what death means. Of course, even the spiritual man has the most vague and contradictory views about

Pa g e 9 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Printed Matter is pleased to announce: Still, Life Pt. 2: Fabricated Authenticity A solo exhibition of new works by Jesse Hlebo Throughout March 2011 Jesse Hlebo is an artist, editor and publisher living in Brooklyn. He is the founder of Swill Children, an umbrella initiative started in 2009 for various projects, audio objects (records, cassettes and small run CD’s), as well as Party Lab, Quarterly and Commonism. The idea of value as a variable substance is the project’s fundamental concept.

This exhibition of original and newly created artworks echoes many of Hlebo’s concerns as a maker of artists’ books, which he produces under Swill Children. Exploring Shattering the Glass Ceiling V (detail), at the Freud Museum questions of impermanence, value and hierarchy, the body of work represents both an effort in extraordinary Wharepuke Print Gallery. Bay of Islands New Zealand. production - in one case a stack of 13,500 Risograph www.a4printmakers.com/prizewinners2010.htm prints - as well as the concertedly unique, as with the three NSA Print Show. The Engine Room-Exchange Gallery. screen print reproductions of blown-up dust particles in Penzance. 29th April - 7th May 2011 Not Nothing, for which all digital and physical traces have since been destroyed. Other works are similarly formed Book Artists Exhibition. Cardiff Central Library. and articulated through a process of destruction; negatives 1st-31st March 2011 are damaged and distressed, paper is punctured, print runs exhaust their ink. Small Print Big Impression. New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester. Until 2nd May 2011 Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue, between http://www.phillipsandevans.co.uk/products.php?type=2 21st and 22nd Street in New York City, USA http://printedmatter.org Patrick Sauze, Eric Watier, documentation céline duval Médiathèque les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France SuperPress Artists’ Books by Sumi Perera - will be shown at 4th March - 21st May 2011 the following venues: An exhibition of artists’ books and other works. Médiathèque les Abattoirs - 76, allées Charles de Fitte Dreams. Freud Museum, London. 31300 Toulouse, France 2nd March-10th April 2011 www.lesabattoirs.org http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/74033/dreams/

The Sketchbook Project. The Space Gallery, Portland ME. USA 30th March-2nd April 2011 CABINET DU LIVRE D’ARTISTE: “LA PHOTOCOPIE” Université Rennes, France. Until 4th April 2011 http://arthousecoop.com/users/sumiperera An exhibition of book and paper works produced on the The London Original Print Fair. The Royal Academy of photocopier from the 1960s to the present. Art,London, 19th-21st April 2011 Artists include: Dieter Roth, Sol Lewitt, Stanley Brouwn, http://www.londonprintfair.com/view-gallery.php?id=37 Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Michael Gibbs, Ben Kinmont, Eric Doeringer, Continuous Project, Temporary art Services, Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition. Sara MacKillop, David Shrigley, Eugenia Balcells, Philippe The Mall Galleries. 2nd -12th March 2011 Clerc, Lefevre Jean Claude, Jean-François Bergez, Andrew http://www.royalsocietyofbritishartists.org.uk/imageinfo. Dadson, Sean Landers, John Coplans, Patrick Dubrac, asp?imageid=1137 Jean-Luc Moulène, Véronique Hubert, Ben, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jean-François Robic, Jonathan Monk, LOOP 2011. Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street London. 19th-25th April 2011 Michalis Pichler, Eric Watier, Louise Neaderland, Geoffrey http://loopartists.wordpress.com/sumi-perera/ Detrani, Barbara Rosenthal, Roy Colmer...

At A Tangent. Oldham Gallery, Old Cultural Quarter, Université Rennes 2 – Campus Villejean Oldham. Until 1st April 2011 Bât. Érève, Place du recteur Henri Le Moal 35000 Rennes www.galleryoldham.org.uk/exhibitions/at_a_tangent.htm Métro Villejean – université Tel. 0299141586 / [email protected] Bristol Artists’ Book Event 2011. Arnolfini, Bristol. www.incertain-sens.org 30th April-1st May 2011 Monday - Thursday 11am - 6pm in term time. Free entry. http://arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/951

Pa g e 10 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Field Study International Current and upcoming Exhibitions and Events for National Art Library Entrance Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides V&A Museum, South Kensington, London 4th April – 4th September 2011 Field Study began in 1993 started by David Dellafiora, Eamon Kirwan and Benedict Phillips. During the following years, artists from different countries joined the initiative, evolving into a truly international group. One of their main aims is that everyone is welcome to become a member, irrespective of their arts practice, and to contribute. Field Study sees work by individual artists as emanations and collective work as manifestations and was originally influenced by the Surrealist and Fluxus movements.

An exhibition organised by Frans Baake and Joop Visser Until 12th March 2011 at Museum Joure (above). Geelgietersstraat 1-11, 8501 CA Joure, The Netherlands. http://www.museumjoure.nl

An exhibition organised by Evelyn Conlon, at Ilac Centre Library, Henry St. Dublin 1, Republic of Ireland, from 14th to 31st March 2011. A panel discussion will be held during at The Irish Writers’ Centre, chaired by Professor Michael Cronin, Translation Studies, DCU.

In Arizona, USA, The Literary Southwest, in partnership with the Yavapai College Art Gallery, offers a moving double tribute to both the al-Mutanabbi Street incident and the significance of the book in world culture. Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here is an exhibition of the full set of 130 collaborative broadsides (one for each person killed or injured in the bomb blast) by global letterpress artists and writers who created their pieces in response to the al-Mutanabbi Street bombing. The exhibition runs until 26th March. Yavapai College, 1100 East Sheldon St., Prescott, AZ 86301 www.yc.edu/webtools/apps/opi/news/story.asp?nid=1221 The annual Field Study International Journal was their first publication, but throughout the years the group has The Death and Life of Al-Mutanabbi Street developed new assembling periodicals such as WIPE, ReSite A display of broadsides in the Historic Reading Room and in collaboration with the Disability Service Provider The John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK Karingal - KART. A selection of this material will be on 7 April to 26 June 2011 show. Exhibitions of these broadsides have toured the world, raising awareness of the attack, and they are now coming to Also on display there will be works by Erica Van Horn, the Library as part of a joint project with the Imperial War Patricia Collins and Benedict Phillips as the ‘Agresiv Museum North. Jeremy Deller’s Baghdad, 5 March 2007 – Dislecksick’, with artwork revolving around his dyslexia. the twisted wreckage of a car destroyed in the bombing, He will be giving a special lunchtime lecture on Wednesday will be on display at IWMN from April 2011. July 27th in the V&A Sackler Centre. The John Rylands Library www.nal.vam.ac.uk 150 Deansgate, Manchester M3 3EH Tel: 0161 306 0555 web: www.manchester.ac.uk/library

Pa g e 11 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Everything in Time. Organised by Tate Shaw The University of Southampton presents The Center for Book Arts, New York Print Matters: Three exhibitions of Artists’ Publications Until 2nd April 2011 Print Matters is the title for a group of three exhibitions, Everything in Time, a group exhibition, presents prints, each related to artists’ publications. These range from installations, videos, conceptual poetry, and bookworks seminal artists’ books produced in the 1960s, a homage to about the experience of an excess of imagery and the books of , through to contemporary information. The exhibition includes twenty-six artists zines by Graphic Arts students at Winchester School of Art. with clever approaches to the surplus of information encountered in ordinary life. Using the everyday as a A visual journey through the artist’s book, curated by foundation, works are linked through themes of collection, Linda Newington, takes place in the Special Collections categorisation, boredom, and scale. Why would cultural Gallery on Level 4 of the Hartley Library. This exhibition producers in the computer age choose to collect and is grouped around four themes: beginnings, narratives, catalogue unfiltered masses of information? The problem interventions and constructions. Until 25th March 2011 of managing a constant glut of images and language is a challenge of contemporary life. Without the time to inform follow-ed (after hokusai) is an exhibition of books inspired ourselves of everything, we subcontract our attention to by the American artist Edward Ruscha, collected and a trusted cable news channel, a particular photo blog, or curated by Tom Sowden and Michalis Pichler, on show in specific publisher who can filter things for us. What if the the Winchester Gallery. Until 10th March 2011 filters were removed, so that we were truly informed about every specific detail of a subject? Zines, curated by James Branch and Ciu Su, is displayed in the Level 4 Gallery, Hartley Library. Related activities are Everything in Time is organised by Tate Shaw, Director of taking place both in the Hartley Library and at Winchester Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. School of Art. Until 25th March 2011 Admission Free. The Center for Book Arts 28 W. 27th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY, USA Maps and travel information are available on the University www.centerforbookarts.org website: www.soton.ac.uk

Miriam Schaer is exhibiting works in Counting on Chance: The Book: A Contemporary View 25 Years of Artists’ Books by Robin Price, Publisher Until 17th April 2011 Center for Book & Paper Arts, Chicago, USA Carole Bieber and Marc Ham Gallery Until 9th April 2011 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, USA This mid-career retrospective celebrates contemporary book This exhibition addresses the themes of the book as object, artist and fine press printer Robin Price. The exhibition subject, and concept. Stretching the definition of book, the showcases Price’s work from her beginnings as a feminist show includes artist-made books, deconstructed books, and printer, through her fine-press work in traditional formats book installations. In an age where the printed book may and her most recent art, which is intensely collaborative and soon be an anachronism, artists remain fascinated by the incorporates chance. Internationally known, Robin Price subject and materials of the book. The exhibition presents, combines the highest levels of aesthetics, craftsmanship, and through the work of 48 nationally-known American artists, technique with risk-taking in her complex, exquisite books. various conceptual and formal approaches related to the Counting on Chance was adapted from an exhibition that idea of the “book.” originated at the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, curated by Suzy Taraba, Head of Special Collections, Olin 2011 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium: The Art of the Book Library, Wesleyan University. in the 21st Century, will be on the theme of the exhibition with presentations by artists Buzz Spector, Brian Dettmer, Center for Book & Paper Arts Doug Beube, Melissa Jay Craig, and the Chief of the Rare 1104 S Wabash Ave # 2, Chicago, IL, USA Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Tel: (312) 369-6630. http://bookandpaper.org Mark Dimunation on Friday evening, March 25th and Gallery Hours, Monday - Saturday, 10am to 6pm Saturday, March 26th at the DCCA. For times, see: http://www.thedcca.org/content/annual-gretchen-hupfel- symposium On Both Sides of the Road Johan Deumens Gallery, , Germany Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Until 13th March 2011 200 South Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801, USA Kasper Andreasen, drawings print and books; Anett Hours: Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat: 10 - 5, Weds & Sun: 12 - 5 Frontzek, collage drawings and books; Hans Scholten, Mon: Closed. Admission Always Free. photographs and books. Books by Frans Baake, Peter www.thedcca.org Spaans, Marinus van Dijke and Hans Waanders.

Pa g e 12 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Johan Deumens Gallery at Spinnerei Leipzig Phil Gibbs - Artists’ Books Questionnaire Halle 4B, Spinnereistrasse 7, 04179 Leipzig, Germany The new category in the Royal Academy’s 2010 Summer Opening hours: Tues - Fri 12 - 5 pm, Sat 11am - 4 pm exhibition seems to have been an introduction for a lot www.johandeumens.blogspot.com of people into the world of artists’ books. I’ve relatively recently started to make my own books and I’ve been a bit surprised to encounter (in an art education environment) a lack of understanding of the term ‘artists’ books’. Inheritance So, now that I’m making them I need to promote them and Drawings, watercolours, prints and limited edition books I’ve compiled this simple questionnaire to help inform and by Raoul Veroni (Milan 1913 – Buenos Aires 1992) to gather some data. It’s not exactly scientifically engineered Galería Mar Dulce, Buenos Aires, Argentina but will hopefully throw up something interesting for Until 12th March 2011 analysis. Wherever you’re coming from, artist or not, Inheritance is an exhibition that brings together some of the please submit your answers. You can access the form via many passions of this multi-faceted artist. Across a period my website: www.eyetrace.co.uk of almost 45 years, his love of the image, poetry, nature and books are brought together to form a refined production that reflects a constant search for excellence. The Pacific Center for the Book Arts exists to provide support for the development of our members in the various Mar Dulce is honoured to present these artworks, many fields of the book arts, including typography, printing, of which have never before been exhibited and in other calligraphy, illustration, , conservation, cases have waited up to 70 years to once again see the papermaking and printmaking; to provide social activities light. To accompany Inheritance, in +COLLECTIVE6 we for the member community; to encourage the development present a specially curated collective of works by Tulio de of professional practices in the various book arts through Sagastizábal, James Peck, Juliana Ceci, Pablo Cabrera, Irene exhibits and educational programs; to create opportunities Banchero, Santiago Porter, María Elina Méndez, Ral Veroni, to promote the work of our members; and to engage other Javier Mazzeo, Lola Goldstein, Cristian Turdera, Paula activities necessary or incident to the above. Gruschky and Walter Álvarez, amongst others. Upcoming events in 2011 for members: Galería Mar Dulce, Uriarte 1490 (Palermo Soho) C1414 DAN Buenos Aires, Argentina PCBA Book Arts and Printers’ Fair Tuesday-Friday 3-8pm / Saturday 11am-2pm & 3-8pm Saturday, May 7, 2011, 9:00 - 3:00 pm Tel: 15 5319 3597 / [email protected] Fort Mason, Building A, San Francisco http://galeriamardulce.blogspot.com Free and open to the public! Come see bookbinders, printers, book artists, calligraphers, paper dealers and more at our fabulous annual event that is not to be missed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BOOKWORKS: Triennial Members’ Exhibition San Francisco Public Library Skylight Gallery, Sixth Floor 100 Larkin Street at Grove. June 18 – August 7, 2011 Cover Artist for this issue of the ban: Join Today! Membership is open to anyone interested in Guylaine Couture, Canada the book arts: $40/year standard subscription, $30 student/ After years of working in drawing, gouache and collage, senior, $50 institutional/overseas, $100. Our office is located a short bookbinding workshop set me on the trail of the within the San Francisco Center for the Book (www.sfcb. artist’s book. It has since become one of the final form of org), an organizational friend of PCBA’s which hosts many my artistic work. I harvest papers: calendar pages, flower PCBA-sponsored events and activities. shop wrapping papers, failed photocopies, catalogue pages, event programmes, etc. PCBA, 300 De Haro Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 USA http://www.pcba.info/index.html This obsession for re-using printed documents, to preserve the forgotten zone in a photograph, to exploit a word is a permanent game for me. Revisiting the message, the A message from Steven C. Daiber meaning of words and images, pushing forward the use Dear friends and colleagues of Red Trillium Press: of this material, such is my approach. I will return to Havana March 13, 2011 for six weeks to start the 2nd book in the trilogy, PRIVACY and to continue www.gycouture.com presenting book arts to students at San Alejandro Academy http://gycouture.blogspot.com of Art and at ISA- Institute of Superior Art. Will you help by making a contribution?

Pa g e 13 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate/3035 Please go to the Red Trillium Press Campaign on Indie In 2010 Red Trillium Press/ Aqui en la lucha, with the GoGo to for watch updates and additional gifts for your support of friends like you: donations. http://www.indiegogo.com/Red-Trillium-Press

• Taught two weeklong book arts workshops at San Red Trillium Press is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, Alejandro and ISA art schools in Havana. a non-profit arts service organisation. Contributions for the purposes of Red Trillium Press must be made payable to Fractured Atlas. The value of the gifts are $5 to $600. Any contributions above that amount are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Please email [email protected] or call (413-695- 7990) with any questions about donating to Red Trillium Press or about donating materials needed for this visit to Cuba.

With my deepest gratitude and warmest regards Steven Daiber

A Call to Book Artists from Beau Beausoleil, for: • Presented a three-day book arts workshop with children’s An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street book illustrators at Edicion Nueva, the children’s book The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition is issuing a call to book publishing house in Cuba. artists to work on a project to “reassemble” some of the • Published PODER, the first book of 3 on themes common “inventory” of the reading material that was lost in the 2007 to all Cubans: Power, Privacy and Waiting car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street. We are asking book artists to join our project and further enhance the work of the Coalition by honouring al-Mutanabbi Street, by creating work that holds both “memory and future,” exactly what was lost that day. We ask that you create 3 books for the project, which is raising funds for Médecins Sans Frontières. We have 130! artists on board to date.

If you would like to know more, or would like to join this project, please download the pdf at www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mutancall10.htm If you have any questions please contact us, we would love to have you contribute to the project. An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street Beau Beausoleil - [email protected] Sarah Bodman - [email protected] •Developed the Mis Amigos web page to help represent Contact either one of us from any other Book Artist Cuban artists who have limited web access. worktable around the globe!! http://redtrilliumpress.com/mis-amigo/ • Published Cuban Book Arts Collaborations, in The Bonefolder, Vol. 7, an e-journal for the book arts COURSES, LECTURES, CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS community. New courses for 2011 at Rabley Drawing School in Will you donate on-line $50 or more today, so Red Trillium Wilthsire include: Press can continue developing a dialogue for the future with these amazing Cuban artists? SKETCHBOOK WORKSHOP with Sandy Sykes www.fracturedatlas.org/site/contribute/donate/3035 Thursday 26 May 2011 One-day Drawing workshop An intensive ‘ideas’ sketchbook workshop. Working in • For a $50 donation: Vaya Cuba, by Lilly Daiber. A story of response to a cascade of inspiring prompts you will use meeting a Black Panther in Havana at the age of 12 selected drawn imagery with a range of materials and tools • For a $200 donation: Flags from the 2004 march protesting within the space of a sketchbook and develop new creative President Bush’s policies against Cuba. methods. To see all available courses and to book online • For a $800 donation: The 2005 screenprint Mapa de Cuba. visit: http://www.rableydrawingcentre.com

Pa g e 14 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Evening Classes at the Centre for Fine Print Research, 2-day bookmaking Weekend 26 & 27 March UWE Bristol With Ciara Healy A 2-day bookmaking course introducing a number of Bookbinding for beginners, 5-week Evening Class different creative bookmaking techniques and approaches. Tuesday 3rd May - Tuesday 31st May 2011 The book types will include an Accordion Book, a Tunnel Led by Tom Sowden Book, a Flutter Book, Japanese Stab Binding and a Case Bound Note Book. Participants will be able to use these book forms to adapt them to suit own creative projects, be it to integrate and present prints, make a tailor-made sketchbook or journal, use it for telling a story etc. The Workshop is suitable for both beginners and those with more experience. Some materials will be provided. This course proved very popular last term and was over- subscribed, so book early to avoid disappointment. Fee: £110 Tutor: Ciara Healy (http://www.ciarahealy.com) Badger Press. Unit 4, Claylands Road Industrial Estate, Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, SO32 1BH, UK. http://badgerpress.org/blog/courses/

(2.5 hours per week 5.30-8pm) Limited to 8 places. Simon Goode - Book Workshops - Spring 2011: An introduction to bookbinding covering 5 different techniques from a simple pamphlet stitch and Japanese stab bound books, through to long stitch, the French sewn flatback and perfect binding. The course fee covers all basic materials, and teas / coffees. Bookbinding tools will be provided for use, and are also available to buy for future work. £175 full price / £140 concessions Any questions on the course content email: [email protected] Bookings email Jesse Heckstall-Smith: [email protected]

2011 Summer Schools at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol include: Saturday 19th March 2011 No Glue Required Bookbinding for artists Birmingham Printmakers Led by Guy Begbie. Monday 4th - Friday 8th July 2011 £45 (£40 for members and students) One-day introduction to non-adhesive binding, including Inkjet and Laser Cutting for Arts and Crafts Japanese stab binding and Coptic binding techniques. Led by Paul Laidler and Tom Sowden Monday 11th - Weds 13th July 2011 Saturday 9 April 2011 No Glue Required 2 Advanced Bookbinding for artists Birmingham Printmakers Led by Guy Begbie. Monday 18th - Friday 22nd July 2011 £45 (£40 for members and students) A second, one-day session exploring non-adhesive binding. Creative Laser Cutting The day will cover longstitch and buttonhole stitch binding Led by Claire Phipps techniques. Monday 18th - Wednesday 20th July 2011 www.simongoode.co.uk Letterpress e: [email protected] Led by Tom Sowden. Monday 25th - Friday 29th July 2011 t: twitter.com/simongoode

Home Made Rubber Stamp and book Workshop Led by Stephen Fowler. Tuesday 26th-Weds 27th July 2011 Learn to make your own pop-up and sculptural books by enrolling in one of Carol Barton’s classes. To book a place on any of these courses, or for more Here’s her 2011 calendar: information please see: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm May 7- 8, Pop-Up Workshop, Society for Contemporary

Pa g e 15 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Craft, Pittsburgh, www.contemporarycraft.org in the same building for participants. Cost for the room is May 16 - 27, Paper Engineering Workshop, Paper and Book $300 (with shared kitchen). Great terrace and view of Basel, Intensive, Oxbow, Michigan, www.paperbookintensive.org situated near to the Rhein river. June 11, Free Family Day Workshop, National Building http://www.werkraumwarteckpp.ch Museum, Washington, http://www.nbm.org/families-kids For further information, correspondence and reservations: June 24 - 25, Carousel and Tunnel Book Workshops, Focus [email protected] on Book Arts Conference, Forest Grove, Oregon Pacific University Campus, www.focusonbookarts.org July 31 - August 6, Sculptural Books, Arrowmont School of Artist Book Workshops with Jenny Smith - Spring 2011 Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, www.arrowmont.org http://www.popularkinetics.com Saturday 12 March - Creative Hardback Binding Make a hardback book out of recycled envelopes. This course is suitable as an introduction to hardback International Artists’ Books Summer Workshop 2011 binding if you haven’t done it before or a refresher. Five Days, July 18 - 22 Taught by Marcel Göhring Druckwerk is a printing studio in the Center of Basel, Switzerland. http://www.druckwerk.ch

Established in a former brewery, Druckwerk specialises in printing and producing artists’ books, posters and multiples. Recycled envelopes provided, or bring your own to make It offers an inspiring ambiance to create individual projects your book more personal. with professional assistance. This workshop is open to students and artists, limited to 9 Persons. Assistance can Sunday 13th March - Make a Hardback slip-case be given in English, French or German. The goal of the Guest Tutor Susie Wilson workshop is the realisation of a limited edition, in the In this course we will make a hardback slipcase in a day. form of a book, book-object, poster or map. Participants A hardback slipcase can compliment a hardback book, or can propose concrete projects ahead of time, or develop a house and protect any other soft cover or coverless book. project during the week. Bring a book you already have to create a slipcase for, or create the slipcase first and make a book to fit it into it on Projects can be made using the following techniques: one of the other workshops. This workshop will be taught Etching, Wood- and Linocut, Monotype, Typographic be Susie Wilson an Edinburgh based Printmaker with handsetting and Letterpress printing. The possibility also extensive experience of teaching bookmaking at ECA and in exists to bind books in a traditional or experimental way; Adult Education. a wide variety of materials (papers, cardboards, textiles) is available. Saturday 7 May - Pop-Up and Paper Engineering Create a book of pop-up structures. This course will The workshop will run each day from 9 - 5, with an hour’s introduce different pop-up structures to previous courses, break for lunch; access to the studio is possible during the so is suitable for those new to pop-up, or those wanting other hours of the day. Different excursions in the evening to learn some new structures. There will be a number of are proposed, including the Swiss Museum for Typography structures taught, with time to personalise and adapt them and Printing http://www.papiermuseum.ch and other places to make them your own. in town. Sunday 8 May - Typography and the Artist’s Book Participation fee is $750 (including materials, inquiries Not all artists’ books use text, but if they do, the relationship welcome). Two guest rooms and other lodging is available between text and image is a central element. This course

Pa g e 16 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m will explore the early influence of the Futurists on an active participant in establishing an international artists’ typography, through to the way contemporary artists network. This floor talk will explore how his collection incorporate these two elements into their work, providing a presents a fascinating firsthand account of in fun and informative introduction to ways of combining text the 1970s. and image into artists’ books in innovative ways. NGV International All workshops take place in Jenny’s spacious WASPS studio 180 St Kilda Road, Robert Raynor Gallery Level 3 in Stockbridge. Numbers limited to 6 http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/programs/public- All materials and refreshments provided programs/floor-talk-collecting-ideas-conceptual-art-and- 10am – 4.30pm. Cost: £50 a day artists-books

Jenny Smith is a practicing artist who exhibits nationally and internationally. She gained a 1st class degree in Bookbinding workshops at the Owl & Lion Gallery Drawing and Painting from Duncan of Jordanstone College A schedule of workshops in bookbinding, including evening of Art, Dundee and an MA in Print at UWE in Bristol. courses and full day workshops are taught at Owl & Lion She has many years experience of teaching in innovative Gallery by resident Master Bookbinder Isabelle Ting. and exciting ways and delivereing CPD courses for artists Isabelle Ting, Owl & Lion Gallery and teachers. Her own books are held in the collection of 15 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HS the Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. www.owlandliongallery.com

www.jennysmith.org.uk www.theartistbookgroup.org.ukFor Masterclass with Ellen Bell For more details or to book a place please email Saturday 28th May 2011, 2 - 5pm [email protected] or phone 0771 3901 730 The Gallery in Redchurch Street 50 Redchurch Street, London E2 This is a unique opportunity to attend a masterclass with a well-known conceptual artist, Ellen Bell. By the end of the ASSOCIAZIONE PROFESSIONE LIBRO class you will have produced a one-off piece of conceptual Some upcoming courses book art. Bell will work closely with each attendee, discussing ideas and guiding them towards the realisation of LOOSE AND SIMPLE BINDINGS I, Stockholm, a very personal piece of art work. This is principally a class Sweden, 31st March - 3rd April, with Cristina Balbiano about how to express and distil responses to found books. d’Aramengo. After other eight successful editions in a few Each attendee will be required to bring their own book to years, this amazing and surprising collection of models is the class, cutting mat and knife. Cost £50 again offered to open-minded lovers of bookbinding and related crafts. The masterclass takes place during Ellen Bell’s solo exhibition Camera Obscura & Other Stories, an offsite LOOSE AND SIMPLE BINDINGS II, Monte Mesma, exhibition from Four Square Fine Arts, at The Gallery in 20th - 25th June, with Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo and Redchurch Street, 50 Redchurch Street, London E2, 24th – Cor Aerssens. After the great success of Loose & simple 29th May, 2011. Nearest underground: Liverpool Street or Bindings I, the follow-up with, again all kind of unusual Old Street. Overground: Shoreditch High Street booklets, envelopes, pamphlets, cases, folders and so forth, Tel: 020 7287 8408 based just on folding, cutting and sometimes sewing, without any glue. Shetland Lighthouse Workshop 2011 More information on these and other new courses can be This Easter, instead of rolling eggs down hills, you could found at: http://www.professionelibro.it be painting them at a lighthouse on the Shetland Islands. ASSOCIAZIONE PROFESSIONE LIBRO Fine Bindings, From 22nd - 24th April, Rachel Hazell will be teaching a Book Conservation. Via A. Del Bon, 1 - 20158 Milan, Italy. three day workshop in the chief keeper’s offices; creating a unique artist’s book, in a limp leather binding (sexier than it sounds) with the theme of Recipes. Write up the ingredients Collecting ideas - Conceptual art and artists’ books of a long relationship, illustrate how to flip a pancake or National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia hide your grandmother’s tip for the best sloe gin in a sealed March 20, 2011 from 1.30-2pm envelope before saying hello to the seals and finding the Speaker: Dr Steven Tonkin, Curator, Public Art Collection, bottle opener. The accommodation is very basic, numbers the Arts Centre. Artists’ books played a crucial role in the are limited. For information, see: circulation of conceptual art to and from Australia. In www.hazelldesignsbooks.co.uk assembling a library of artists’ books, Robert Rooney was

Pa g e 17 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k AccessArt presents: The Sketchbook Conference Type Writing Symposium A practical conference celebrating, exploring and 16th March 2011 promoting sketchbooks as essential tools for creative Alan Fletcher Lecture Theatre thought and process. 19th March 2011 Birmingham, Institue of Art & Design, Birmingham, UK The Kaetsu Centre, Cambridge, CB3 0SH, UK This symposium will explore the link between the Registration opens 9.15am. Conference 10am - 6.45pm typographer and the writer of words, be their texts literary, An inspirational day, with lectures, seminars and workshops commercial, instructional or inspirational; whether they which share practice, enable and inspire. £130 Full delegate. have been produced by a professional writer, graphic auteur £91 Concessionary Ticket (Students in Full time Education, or the casual passer-by who has simply given form to his Over 60, Unwaged) Register online at www.accessart.org.uk thoughts. or phone 01223 262134 if you require an invoice. See the full programme at: Speakers: Gregg Bernstein, Georgia State University, USA; http://www.accessart.org.uk/events/?p=185 Henrik Birkvig, Danish School of Media & Journalism, Denmark; Jessica Glaser, University of Wolverhampton, UK; Borja Goyarrola, Graphic Design Associate, Will The Society of Bookbinders’ eighteenth biennial Education Alsop at RMJM, London, UK; Juliette Kristensen, Kingston & Training Conference will be held at the University of University, London, UK; Alex Lazarou, Designer, Editor, Warwick. Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th August 2011 London UK; Mathieu Lommen, University of Amsterdam, Speakers: Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo (Italy) • Clare Netherlands; Rachel Marsden, Artist, curator, Stafford, Bryan • Mark Cockram • Maureen Duke • Deborah Evetts UK; Sarah Maxey, Artist, Wellington, New Zealand; Steven (USA) • Annette Friedrich • Chris Hicks • Kate Hore • McCarthy, University of Minnesota, USA; Kathryn Moore, Daniel Kelm (USA) • Jen Lindsay • Steve Orriss & Doug Birmingham City University, UK; John Neilson, Letter Mitchell (British Library) • Dominic Riley • Jane Rutherston cutter, Wales; Ben Waddington, Historian, Birmingham UK • Jan Sobota (Czech Republic) • Bill Tulloch • Laura West. Exhibitors: Daniel Jasper, University of Minnesota, USA; Demonstrations • Lectures • Suppliers’ Fair • Exhibition David Osbaldestin, Birmingham City University, UK; Final Year Undergraduates, Birmingham City University, For further information and to download a booking form UK; Tracy Allanson-Smith, University of Derby, UK; John go to: www.societyofbookbinders.com Rooney, University of Salford, UK or write to: SoB Conference Organiser 38 Bowes Hill, Rowlands Castle, Booking for the symposium is now open. Tickets cost Hampshire, PO9 6BP, UK £35.00, or £15.00 for full-time students, which includes email: [email protected] refreshments and a sandwich lunch. Tickets must be booked in advance of the event. Download a PDF of the programme and booking form at: 2011 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium http://www.typographichub.org/diary/entry/type-writing/ The Art of the Book in the 21st Century Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, USA 25th and 26th March 2011 2011 Bookbinding workshops organised by Lori Sauer The 2011Gretchen Hupfel Symposium, The Art of To see examples of work for these bindings visit: the Book in the 21st Century, complements The Book: www.bookbindingworkshops.com/workshops/what.html A Contemporary View exhibition at DCCA. The Symposium During the calendar year we offer two programmes of one, begins Friday evening with a keynote talk by Buzz Spector, two and three day workshops covering a range of topics book artist and Dean of the College and Graduate School - some are suitable for those with little or no exposure of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, to bookbinding while others are for those with more Washington University, St. Louis, followed by a cocktail experience. Lori Sauer is the tutor unless noted otherwise. reception. Saturday will begin with a continental breakfast All workshops include the cost of materials. followed by morning presentations by artists Douglas The Maidenhead workshops include B&B and lunch and Beube and Melissa Jay Craig and a talk by Mark Marden includes lunch. One-day courses run from 10 to 5. Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special Longer courses start at 10am on the first day and 9am on Collections Division, Library of Congress. After lunch, the second with free time to work in the evenings. afternoon speakers will include artist Brian Dettmer and Bettina Richards, founder of Thrill Jockey records. Crossed-Structure Binding, 2 days. Date: 12 - 13th April Presenters will explore the myriad approaches that Suitable for those with no experience. contemporary artists take when exploring books as vessels Location: Marden. Cost: £140 for ideas, how limited editions are collected and preserved, and how limited edition books are used in the music Simplified Binding, 2 days. Date: 10 - 11th May industry. Visit the symposium page at: http://www.thedcca. Bookbinding experience required. org/content/annual-gretchen-hupfel-symposium Location: Marden. Cost: £140

Pa g e 18 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Folding Books I, 1 day. Date: 20th April and 2nd November Foundations, 2 days. Dates: 4 - 5th May; 28 - 29th October. Blizzard Book Workshop. Suitable for those with no The case binding: a basic course in how to sew a text block bookbinding experience. Location: Marden. Cost: £72 and make and attach a case binding. Participants will learn about the properties of paper and become familiar with the Folding Books II, 1 day, with Benjamin Elbel. tools of the trade. The case binding is also the jumping off Date: October 1st point for all other types of book structures. Picture Book. Suitable for those with no bookbinding Location: Maidenhead. Cost: £170 experience. Location: Marden. Cost: £72 Forwarding, 3 days. Date: 24 - 26th November Travel Journal, 1 day Date: 8th June Over 3 days participants will prepare a book for the No special prior knowledge is needed to make this book - application of leather, otherwise known as forwarding. you will surprise yourself at the results. Location: Marden It involves making end papers, rounding and backing, Cost: £75 sewn end-bands, sanded spine linings, hollows, laced- in and bevelled boards, and leather paring. It is the next Paper Engineering I, 2 days, with Paul Johnson. progression on from case binding and a very rewarding Date: June 23 - 24th experience. Students must already be familiar with basic The Enchanted Garden. Make a delightful pop-up house binding to enrol (competent with rounding and backing). and its twelve walled gardens each with interconnecting It will be useful for those who wish to refresh their skills or doors and labyrinthine pathways. There is a maximum of have an uncompleted project asking for a binding. There is 10 for this course. Location: Marden. Cost: £120 a maximum of 4 people for this course. Location: Maidenhead. Cost: £265 Paper Engineering II, 2 days, with Paul Johnson Market Day pop-up book. Date: June 25 - 26th We are prepared to travel and bring the workshops to your local area if you are able to find at least four people to enrol and source a suitable location (village halls are ideal). Most courses only require light equipment that can be carried by car and this is a perfect way for small groups to pool resources. We can also tailor workshops to fit specific needs, so if none of the following topics suit immediate requirements then get in touch. Full details of all these courses can be found at: www.bookbindingworkshops.com

OPPORTUNITIES

ARTIST’S BOOK YEARBOOK 2012 - 2013 This movable book is inspired by Maison de Poupee, one Publication date: Autumn 2011 of the finest and most captivating “toy books” to come Yes, it is that time again already! Artists, publishers, from France in the 1900s. We make four connecting pop- bookshops, galleries, , organisations, institutions, up shops - florist, toy shop, candy store and fashion shop centres, studios, presses, etc. can list their relevant artworks, using paper joints. The premises, which are free-standing, books or services in the next issue of the Artist’s Book drop forward on canopies. The beauty of this structure is Yearbook. that all the items in it, from a bouquet of flowers to a tiny bag hanging from the shopkeeper’s counter, are all hinged Listings sections of international book activity: publishers, together. There is maximum of 10 for this course. organisations, presses, studios, collections, galleries, Location: Marden. Cost: £120 bookshops, journals, reference books, design, print and bind services, fairs and festivals, competitions and events. Photo Album, 2 days. Date: 13 - 14th July THESE LISTINGS ARE FREE OF CHARGE. Learn how to make an attractive and unique album for your Download the form at: photos. Suitable for those with no experience. http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsdata.htm#abyb Location: Marden. Cost: £140 Or email [email protected] for a copy to fill in and return. ALL LISTINGS DUE BY 12th APRIL 2011 Dos Rapporté, 2 days, with Benjamin Elbel. Date: 30 - 31st July. There is no direct English translation for this structure but it is equivalent to ‘spine that is made off the book and Café Royal are now selecting books and zines for online attached later’. Bookbinding experience required. review. For submission details please visit Location: Marden. Cost: £140 http://www.caferoyalbooks.com/library/submission-details/

Pa g e 19 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Doverodde Book Arts Festival, 2nd - 5th June 2011 A beautiful meeting place in North Jutland for book artists In the old restored merchant’s warehouse in Doverodde by the Limfjord, our festival is a meeting place for both participants and visitors. Amidst the beautiful countryside you can experience book arts both formally - exhibition and talks - and informally - stands, workshops and book café. Themed exhibition of book arts 2nd June - 26th June Participants: practising artists and crafts folk. Works: artists’ books, book-objects, hand bound books, etc. selected from submissions. Theme for 2011: ... in the air Only works treating the theme will be included in the main exhibition. Official opening 3rd June. Insurance: works in our care will be covered by our insurance. We will return works by, and cover the cost of, regular parcel post. Emma Powell’s Crop book

The theme is from any type of book artist – student or professional. “… in the air” Email submission date – for completed submission forms … in the air / ... i luften (available from our website) and photos: June 1st 2011 (UK …something is in the air and worldwide). something invisible? something intangible? something physical? something mechanical? oxygen, nitrogen, Co2, As usual we are looking for work that is innovative, creative particles, clouds, kites, planes, ghosts, spaceships, castles, rain, and very well crafted. These are our selection criteria and we snow, wind, birds, bees, flying bicycles, ... love? stick to them closely. The curators’ decision is final and we or maybe it’s just your book hanging from above. will not exhibit work that is deemed by us to be offensive. Our exhibitions are open to the public including children. Stands 3rd - 5th June, 10am - 5 pm each day On top floor of warehouse - 24 tables (85 x 120 cm) - show, About us discuss and sell. Some tables have wall space available for We organise these exhibitions because we love books. display. There is a 100 DKK / EUR 13.50 booking fee – All our time is volunteered. We have no funds! Please payable on arrival – incl. rental of white tablecloth for stand. support us by buying one of our previous exhibition Coffee/tea is provided (free) for stand-holders during catalogues - available from .com and Magcloud.com. opening hours Please do not send in any bookworks to us unless we have pre-selected you for the physical cropped exhibition. Contact information: Full submission details are on our website: Liz Hempel-Jørgensen: Project coordinator www.weloveyourbooks.com Mette-Sofie Ambeck: Consultant, network site http://nordicbookarts.ning.com Karin Nikolaus: Leader, Limfjordscentret, +45 97959266 The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh is seeking book www.bookarts-doverodde.dk artists to participate in a fair on 29 March. [email protected] Artists’ Bookmarket builds on the success of the Gallery’s Christmas Bookmarket, which brought together an array of talents from across book and design worlds and drew Call for entries for the we love your books 500 visitors to the Gallery during the course of a very 2011 Exhibition – Crop busy evening. Full details are at: www.weloveyourbooks.com Please start thinking about your bookwork ideas on the This forthcoming event focuses on artists’ books and books theme of crop. As ever you can interpret the theme in any about art and sets up stall in our gallery spaces. The evening way that you like. Crop will be slightly different to our will be supported by our own popular bookshop, with a previous exhibitions. We are taking some time out to make lively programme of talks by artists and practitioners and by plans for 2012 and our subsequent exhibitions. Our plan drinks and refreshments served in our café. for Crop is that it will be an exhibition where all the selected The fair runs from 4–9pm and stalls are priced at £40+VAT. entries will be on-line and a cropped selection will appear in If you are interested in being involved, either as an exhibition cases at The University of Northampton, UK. individual artist or as part of a group, please contact: Iain Morrison, Commercial Opportunities Manager Initially we are asking for 3 photos of your bookwork [email protected] – we will then make a selection from these for the on- The Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh line and physical cropped exhibition. Entries welcomed www.fruitmarket.co.uk Pa g e 20 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Artistbooks is a book arts venture established in 2010. Michael Abrahams has published a number of artist books over the past 10 years and following a journey to Nepal with Richard Berry in 2009, they formed the partnership to pursue their interest in the genre. As Artistbooks, they recently published their first collaborative work, A Nepalese Alphabet. and are soon to complete a small edition book of numbers, 1-100. The interaction of differing creative approaches and perceptions that are nevertheless focused on the same experience is an important dynamic in the making of both books, and is an aspect of creativity that they now intend to subject to further investigation and research.

Artistbooks is inviting other practitioners interested T by Richard Berry, from A Nepalese Alphabet in a collaborative approach to book arts creation and publication to participate in Twenty Six Alphabets, a project Artistbooks intends to produce 56 sets of the work. Each which, as the title suggests, will be a work comprising artist will be responsible for meeting the printing costs 26 artists’ books, one for each letter of the alphabet. of the to which they have contributed. It will be Each volume will be a collection of 26 annotated the responsibility of collaborating groups to determine photographic images, with an additional cover image. appropriate cost-sharing arrangements. Artistbooks has In creating an overarching A-Z, the title of each volume identified several print companies who are able to produce is important - not only does it define the subject, topic high quality, low volume print runs at a reasonable cost. or theme linking each of the component letters, the first At this point, the estimate for printing the required quantity letter of the title (normally a single word) provides one of of each volume is in region of £500. One complete set the letters of the complete work. There are no pre-defined of the work and 10 copies of the respective volume constraints on the choice of subject or topic. will be distributed to the artist or artists responsible for its creation.

A comprehensive briefing document is available as a download from the Artistbooks website: www.artistbooks.co.uk

The 21 Mainzer Minipressen-Messe, June 2 - 5, 2011 You are cordially invited to come to this book fair, either as an exhibitor or as a visitor. Nearly 360 exhibitors from more than 15 countries and 10,000 visitors form the largest marketplace in Europe for books by small publishers and for private presses. For four days, visitors will find what has been produced in workshops on printing presses, some of which are decades C by Michael Abrahams, from A Nepalese Alphabet old: Approximately 10,000 titles, of which 1000 are new publications. The activities at this central meeting point While Berry and Abrahams will be making a significant always have a cultural focus as well. More than 30 cultural contribution, the participation of others is aimed at and book-related events inform attendees about the latest extending the collaborative scope of the work. There are ideas and trends for the publishing of literature and art and several ways by which artists may become involved: provide entertainment as well. • The individual submission of a complete alphabet. • The submission of an alphabet made in collaboration The Mainzer Minipressen-Messe also offers room with others. for development: Seminars for young talents in the • The contribution to an alphabet with Abrahams and/or publishing trade, for up and coming publishers, or Berry. workshops by experts on red-hot subjects, whatever the case, this International Book Fair is frequently ahead For its part, Artistbooks will coordinate editorial and pre of its times and offers themes which will prove to be trends and post production processes, commission the printing, in the coming years. Be it in the areas of multimedia, audio maintain the interactive website and use its best endeavours books or the Internet, at the Mainz Minipressen-Messe to promote Twenty Six Alphabets to galleries, collectors and you will experience the authors and their publishers live the media. and close up.

Pa g e 21 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k We look forward to welcoming you to the 21st International Submission guidelines Book Fair for Small Publishers and Private Presses from • Work to be no larger than: 21 x 15 x 1 cm June 2 - 5, 2011 in Mainz, Germany on the banks of the • The artist can choose the edition size, but must be a Rhine River. http://en.minipresse.de minimum of 3. The exhibition will require two copies for www.minipresse.de / [email protected] exhibition. The artist can retain the third copy for their records. • Deadline for receipt of work Friday 29th July 2011 The MCBA Prize 2011 • The selectors decision is final Be a part of our world-wide celebration of book arts - • To submit work, email [email protected] with over $8,000 in awards! requesting a submission form. The MCBA Prize is the first honour in the United States to recognise book art from across the field and around the world. Five finalists will be selected to each receive a $500 The 3rd Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize 2011 cash award, and up to $750 travel and lodging stipend to be Closing date for entries: 31 July 2011 honored at a gala celebration at MCBA’s Book Art Biennial. Exhibition dates: October/November, 2011 From these five finalists, the jury will select the MCBA Prize http://bankstreetarts.com/news/sheffield-artists-book-prize/ winner and award them an additional $2,000 (winner’s total The Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize and Exhibition is cash award $2,500). open to makers of artists’ books in any format and from anywhere in the world. No definition is being given of All artists who use the book format are eligible, and what constitutes an artist’s book beyond clarifying that the all techniques and methods -from fine press works to prize is not concerned with books about art or artists, but inexpensive multiples, to installation or sculptural book books as art. work - will be considered. Work must have been completed since August 1, 2009. Complete eligibility guidelines are History and Overview available on MCBA’s website. Deadline for entries is The inaugural Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize in 2008 attracted April 8, 2011. Submit your entry today! over 50 entries from all over the world while the second Learn more at: http://www.mnbookarts.org/mcbaprize installment in 2009 attracted over 85 entries. Prizes included cash and exhibitions Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. In order to continue to develop the profile of the Prize we have The Sunderland Book Project - Open Call for Submissions decided to make it a biennial event. The Sunderland Book Project invites national and international artists, designers, bookmakers and For the 3rd Sheffield Artist’s Book Prize there will be three printmakers to design and make an artist’s book, pamphlet, prizes: a Student Prize, a Jury Prize and the main Exhibition zine or comic inspired by the North East of Englands coastal Prize; with a combination of cash prizes and exhibitions city of Sunderland. Choose from the city’s rich history in awarded in each category. Last year’s Student Prize winner, seafaring, industrial heritage and glass making, (to name Angie Butler, will be exhibiting at Bank Street Arts alongside just a few) or document contemporary landmarks such this year’s Prize and Exhibition and over the last 6 months as the Stadium of Light, University City and the Aquatic we have hosted exhibitions by prize winners, Artrovert, Centre boasting the only 50m swimming pool between Claire Tindale and Ann Rook. Leeds and Edinburgh! Entrants are encouraged (though not obliged) to donate Exhibition - The project kicks off with an exhibition of their books to our collection at Bank Street Arts. This work made by Sunderland enthusiasts who recently took is exclusively made up of entries to the Book Prize and part in a 10-week print & bookmaking workshop led by is available for public view and shown intermittently in Theresa Easton. Based at Creative Cohesion, Sunderland’s exhibitions and fairs. Donating books in this way also allows new cultural venue in the heart of Sunniside, the exhibition them to find their way into other collections (with sale brings together a series of hand made printed books proceeds going to the artists). Notably, Katherine Johnson’s exploring the geography, history and cultural calendar of 2008 Book Prize Winner ‘Make’, was acquired by the Centre the city. Creative Cohesion, 20-21 Nile St, Sunderland, for Fine Print Research Collection at UWE in Bristol, while Tyne and Wear SR1 1EY. Tel: 0191 565 5331 Claire Tindale’s ‘Memory Loss’ was acquired by the Tate Collection in London. Background - The aim of the project is to collect a wide range of unique interpretations of the city of Sunderland As in previous years, this year’s exhibition will feature all from around the world. The books will be exhibited in books submitted and will be staged as part of the Off The national and international venues, reflecting the cities Shelf Festival in Sheffield in October 2011. international export tradition. This is a touring exhibition and has strict guidelines. The Prize and Exhibition was in part created to find an appropriate context in which to show and display artists’

Pa g e 22 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m books and encourage their being looked at and handled. Call for Entries: 6th International Artist’s Book Triennial Visitors to the exhibition are asked to vote for their favourite Vilnius 2012. Exhibition theme: “Love” entry and this determines the Exhibition Prize winner. “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do The Jury for this year’s Student and Jury prize comprises not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Sarah Bodman of UWE in Bristol, Maria White, Chief And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all Cataloguer at the Tate in London and John Clark, Creative mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to Director of Bank Street Arts in Sheffield. remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body Eligibility so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” The SABP is open to artists/makers living and working 1Cor 13,1-3. anywhere in the world. Deadline: 15th of November 2011 Artists may submit one entry only. In the case of joint authorship, each author may submit a second work of Time and place: 2012 March, Leipzig Book Fair, Germany; individual authorship. In the case of the Student Prize, 2012 April, Gallery “Titanikas”, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2012 group entries are permitted and do not disallow further France; 2012 September, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany; individual or joint entries. 2012 October-November, in Bengladesh; 2013 China.

Each entry must be the original work of the entrant(s) History and the date of completion must be clearly stated on the The 1st International Artist’s Book Triennial took part in Application Form. 1997, in Gallery “Kaire Desine”. The theme of it was “Diary: Eight Days”. 65 artists from 13 countries took part in the Whilst we do not define what constitutes an artist’s book, we Triennial. The 2nd International Artist’s Book Triennial will disqualify any entry that cannot be handled or requires took part in 2000, in Gallery “Arka” and in “Galerie 5020” specific installation or display. in Salzburg. The theme of it was “Apocalypse”. 138 artists from 29 countries took part in the Triennial. The 3rd Artists Book Collection @ Bank Street Arts International Artist’s Book Triennial took part in 2003, in Bank Street Arts requests that artists agree to donate entries the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius. The theme of it to its Collection in the Centre at the end of the exhibition, was “23 Sins”. 118 artists from 37 countries took part in the which is on public display in our Education Space. However, Triennial. After the exhibition in Vilnius the Triennial was this is not a Condition of Entry. showed in 2004 in Art Fair in Frankfurt on Main, Germany; in 2004 in Thomas Mannas’ House in Nida, All books donated to our collection will be offered for sale Lithuania; in 2004 in Gallery “Le Carre” in Lille, France; at fairs and other promotional events and artists will be The 4th International Artist’s Book Triennial took part in paid 75% of any sums received. In such cases, where a book 2006, in the Gallery “Arka” in Vilnius. The theme of it was is not a unique copy we will request a replacement for our “Rabbit and House”. 130 artists from 29 countries took part collection (at artist’s discretion, obviously). in the Triennial. After the exhibition in Vilnius the Triennial was showed in 2007 in Leipzig Book Fair in Leipzig, Please note: neither the donation of books nor the sale and Germany and in Seoul International Book Arts Fair, South provision of replacement copies are Conditions of Entry. Korea. The 5th International Artist’s Book Triennial took part in 2009. The theme of it was “Text”. For the Triennial Conditions of Entry - see: jury selected 131 artists from 34 countries. The Triennial http://bankstreetarts.com/news/sheffield-artists-book-prize/ was showed in Leipzig Book Fair, in Germany; in Gallery “Arka”, in Vilnius; in Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, in Silkeborg, Any queries regarding the entry form and the prize should Denmark; in “Hübner Bokform”, in Halmstad, Sweden; in be addressed to [email protected] “Scuola Internazionale di Grafica”, in Venice, Italy;

All submissions (books and completed entry forms) should Curator: Kestutis Vasiliunas be sent to: Bank Street Arts Ltd E-mail: [email protected] 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS, UK Http://vasiliunas.arts.lt/ and http://artistsbook.lt/ Tel. +370 5 2154796 in Vilnius, Lithuania; Works to arrive by 31st July, 2011 at the latest. mob. tel. +370 656 05379

Late entries will not be accepted. All entrants must For more information, please visit our homepages: complete the Entry Form and submit this with their entry. http://vasiliunas.arts.lt/ and http://artistsbook.lt/

Pa g e 23 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Call for Zines - Deadline 31st March When I’m not working as a graphic designer, I’m still busy cutting, folding and finding inspiration from paper artists To coincide with the June Issue of IMPRINT, which is and engineers. Whenever I come across a beautiful object themed ‘Artists Books’, The Print Council of Australia is made of paper I wish I had a place to put it on show for all encouraging its members and friends to produce zines in an to see and enjoy. So, ta-da, here it is… Upon a Fold.” enormous random zine exchange. http://uponafold.com.au/about

Your zine can be filled with your writing- story, poetry, From Jürgen Wegner, Australia: the Bodleian’s website, musings, and/ or your drawing, doodling, photographs etc. Early Printing in Europe: examples and evidence in It can be a personal story or factual observations, written Bodleian collections. The Bodleian’s collections of early or illustrative, the content is entirely up to you, our only printed books contain over 6000 (books printed requirement is in order to include the zine in the postage before 1500). http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/digitalimagelibrary/ of Imprint, we need the zine to be small and lightweight. early_print_home.html [Finished size: no larger than A6 - 10.5 x 15 cm. Up to 16 pages = 2 x A4 sheets cut and folded.] Also from Jürgen Wegner: Just a bit of fun for those And we ask that the content not be offensive in any way to typophiles who might be in need of a bit of light relief a broad audience. http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org

If you can produce an edition of 15 [or 30 would be even From Kevin Boniface, UK: A link to Ian Breakwell’s The better] zines by photocopying and post them to us, we Walking Man Diary, with audio file, The Walking Man. would love to have them. They can be left unsigned if you http://www.anthonyreynolds.com/breakwell/diary/diaries/ prefer anonymity, or you can use a pseudonym, or of course projects/walking_man/audio_walking_man#audio_ you can sign them. If you have any further questions, please walking_man do not hesitate to get in contact, and as we need 1400 zines in total, please encourage your friends to make an edition From Natalie McGrorty, UK: a link to reworked books - for us too. from altered books and sculpture to video and installation. http://inspirationgreen.com/art-from-old-books.html Please post as many zines as you can to me at the address below before March the 31st. From WSW, USA: A Correspondent in the Field, New Blog Posts from Abigail Uhteg. Have you been to the WSW Blog I thank you in advance. lately? Abby is our new “correspondent in the field,” sending Kind Regards, Georgia Thorpe transmissions to us while working on her MA in book Advertising/ Subscriptions Manager conservation at West Dean College in England. Please take IMPRINT, Print Council of Australia a look at her latest tutorials and expect more to come! Postal address: Office 5, 5 Blackwood Street, North http://blog.wsworkshop.org Melbourne, Vic 3051, Australia Website: http://www.printcouncil.org.au

The Print Council of Australia Inc is a national, not- for-profit visual arts organisation which promotes an appreciation of contemporary Australian printmedia - artist’s books + zines, digital art, works on paper, and printmaking - through exhibitions, publications and commissioned editions.

INTERNET NEWS From Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck / Ambeck, Denmark: Change of website. After years with www.ambeck.mdd.dk From Tortie Rye, UK: A link to ‘A two pipe problem’, my website is undergoing changes and until my new website a letterpress studio established in 2008 by Stephen Kenny. at www.ambeckdesign.dk is up and running, my work can The press runs workshops, and produces Stone canyon be found on: www.ambeckdesign.blogspot.com where nocturne, a broadside publication edited by Stephen Kenny both past and most recent work have been uploaded. and Colin Ledwith (www.stonecanyonnocturne.com). http://www.atwopipeproblem.com Isabell Buenz launched her new website in February. It provides a portal to her paper and book art, her Also from Tortie Rye, a link to Upon a Fold: photography and latest art news. www.isabellbuenz.co.uk A paper shop and blog by Justine: “I’ve been collecting and making things with paper for as long as I can remember.

Pa g e 24 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m From Andrew Norris, Croatia: The latest film from the alongside the anonymous binders of years past, and she village, The Mystery of the Lost Church has drawn all these different groups into a continuum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpeA5Wz0Mk She builds from this synergy, and the synergy lends her book force and weight. Read the full review at: Maria G Pisano of Memory Press / MGP Studio Arts has http://bonefolderextras.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-do- now established a website exhibiting artists’ books and books-speak-critical-review-of.html prints from Memory Press. There are a variety of books and themes combined with poetry, seen in works such as Hecatombe 9-11, Patterned to the Fabric, Breathe and the No Dutch Details latest Viva Voce (shown below) a book that is a response to Tom Sowden and Sarah Bodman, January 2011 Afghan women’s poetry. www.mariagpisano.com Sarah and Tom were working at AKI /ArtEZ in The Netherlands in January 2011, with Tom running workshops and showing the exhibition Drawing with Fire. As Tom is organising the Follow-Ed (after Hokusai) touring exhibition with Michalis Pichler, Sarah and Tom decided to make a video-book tribute to Ed Ruscha’s Dutch Details whilst travelling (Ed Ruscha, Dutch Details, Deventer, The Netherlands: Stichting Octopus / Sonsbeek 71, 1971).

The p’s & q’s press prints mainly intaglio and letterpress books, also small books using new technologies, always in search of more expressive combinations of image and text. Recent publications include collaborations, translations, anthologies and other collections. New works can be viewed online at: http://christinetacq.blogspot.com

These words of dead poets fall like corpses from my No Dutch Details was produced on an intercity train from mouth: the artwork of Christopher Robinson is newly Amsterdam Schiphol to Enschede, The Netherlands (which launched online at: www.wordsofdeadpoets.co.uk stopped at Deventer) between 19.47 and 20.00 on Sunday 16th January 2011. The film recreated the zoom-in image Artists’ books by Pere Salinas in Barcelona can be viewed format of Ruscha’s Dutch Details, as a chronological tribute at: http://www.peresalinas.com/libros-artista.htm to of all his books published between 1963 and 1978, but using only props found or created in miniature that could From: Peter D. Verheyen, Editor/Publisher of be photographed on the train. ‘The Bonefolder: an e-journal for the bookbinder’: How do Books Speak? A critical review by Chela Metzger The video-book, of course fails to produce a faithful of Julia Miller’s ‘Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for reproduction of any of Ruscha’s books, as the end titles Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings’ indicate: 2.6 Gasoline Stations; Various small fires and a “The book is dead” is a phrase that seems to have generated carton and glass of milk (image above); A building that a cottage industry of keynote speakers and opinion pieces could be a Los Angeles apartment block; Every building we over the years. Let’s leave questions of the book’s relative could find, but not on the Sunset Strip; 3 or 4 parking lots in death or life until the end of this review. Let’s agree Los Angeles; Royal (plastic) Road Test; No Business Cards; 2 that both dead and living things can be carefully and Swimming Pools and a broken glass (of milk); Some stains: lovingly described, and an accurate description may be tea, coffee, blood and tears; Crackers; Babycakes without the best way to honor a book, dead or alive. Julia Miller, weights; Real Estate Opportunities from the Internet; A Few conservator, binder and book historian, has undertaken an Palm Trees; Records; Colored People and chewing gum; A bit enormous task in her Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook of Hard Light. for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings. She has championed the miles of shelves holding historic bindings You can watch the video-book at Youtube: in America’s research collections. She has tapped into the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qW2q8XOCx0 unique perspectives of book conservators and librarians, as Or on the bookarts website: well as book historians. She has placed today’s book artists http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/nodutchb.htm

Pa g e 25 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k ARTIST’S BOOK FAIRS Leipzig art book fair & workshop It’s a book, It’s a stage, It’s a public space Saturday 19th March 2011, 12 - 8pm 2011 International Contemporary Spector Books invited more than 20 “Micro-éditeurs” from Artists’ Book Fair all over Europe for the Leiziger Buchmesse on March 19 in Friday 11th March 11am-6pm the foyer and on the stairs of the Centraltheater in Leipzig. Saturday 12th March 10am -5pm The talks and presentations given on the theatre stairs will be dedicated to the conception and design of : Parkinson Court, University of Leeds participants include, among others, graphic designer Zak Unique and multiple book works by national and international artists, Kyes about Architecture Words, the AA School of London’s imprints and publishers with an accompanying programme of exhibitions, displays and installations: book series, and editor Jan Frederik Bandel about the HOTEL/MOTEL/MOTET video installation by Simon Lewandowski and Richard Price – (curated by Chris Taylor) the Wild Pansy Press Project Space, history of the Fundus series. Old Mining Building, UoL Centraltheater, Bosestrasse 1, 04109 Leipzig, Germany Launch on the Lawn bring your artist’s books for a launch to remember – (piloted by Alex Lightman) outside the Old Mining Building, Woodhouse Lane, UoL http://www.spectorbooks.com Home from Home an international array of artists from the Artist Book Collective respond to the book as a time-based medium, incorporating the notion of the ‘everyday’ – (curated by Louise Atkinson) 153 Woodhouse Lane, UoL 30 Years of the New Arcadian Journal & Broadsheet shedding new light on the politics of historical landscapes and contemporary Artists’ Bookmarket artists’ gardens – The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, UoL Between Shelves an interelated display of artists’ books on the theme of The Fruitmarket Gallery’s book art and art book fair libraries and reading – (curated by John McDowall) the Brotherton library, UoL, Henry Moore Institute library and Leeds College of Art library Fine art bookworks to browse and buy Where spheres intersect (Geo Art Cache) an invitation from book Tuesday 29th March at The Fruitmarket Gallery artist Stuart Mugridge to participate in a treasure hunt across the North Yorkshire landscape for newly commissioned artifacts – Parkinson Court, UoL 4pm–9pm. Free

Free admission to the fair and events We are teasing out a particularly beautiful strand from A fully illustrated catalogue is available December’s Bookmarket and weaving it once more through The Parkinson Court is located within the Parkinson Building on Woodhouse Lane, University of Leeds LS2 9JT the Gallery for you to admire. Artists’ books and books www.leedsartbookfair.com about art will be presented for sale in our gallery space and Image: Where Spheres Intersect, Stuart Mugridge for the special occasion we will dress up The Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop in its finest bookworks, with FMG titles The 14th International Contemporary Artist’s Book Fair offered at warehouse sale prices. will take place in the Parkinson Court building at the University of Leeds on 11th & 12th March 2011 The event forms the core of PAGES, an ongoing project of inter-related events which establish critical engagement with the medium of the artist’s book, encouraging production and awareness. A series of events and exhibitions will complement the fair. Parkinson Court, University of Leeds 11.00am - 6.00pm, Friday 11th & Saturday 12th March. Admission free.

Artists’ Publications Fair Reference Library, Bristol, UK Saturday 12th March 2011 As part of Bristol Libraries’ celebrations of World Book Christmas Bookmarket at Fruitmarket. Photo: Sally Jubb 2010 Month 2011, Bristol Reference Library is hosting an exhibition, bookbinding workshops, and other art-bookish We will sequin the night with talks and presentations while events, with an artists’ publications fair as part of this refreshments will be on hand to allow you to make an global event. evening of it. Beautiful books to browse and buy.

It’s happening in the café area of Bristol Central Library on Confirmed participants include: Jane Hyslop, David Saturday 12th March, open to the public 9.30-5.00. Entry is Faithfull and The Book Tree Press. free. Bristol Central Library, College Green, Bristol For more information contact Andrew Eason at The Fruitmarket Gallery [email protected] 45 Market Street, Edinburgh www.fruitmarket.co.uk

Pa g e 26 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m PA / PER VIEW Artbook Fair of investigation. WIELS, Centre for Contemporary Art, Belgium By way of an open 31st March - 3rd April 2011 call for entries and PA / PER VIEW will bring together a selection of some specific invitations 30 leading artist’s book publishers at WIELS during the first to artists working in major retrospective of David Claerbout’s work. Exhibitors: different idioms, the 2ND Cannons, A Etsante, A Prior, AKV Berlin Publishing, Cultural Association Archive Books, Arts Libris, Bartleby & Co, Bookworks, ILDE collects Culturgest, Daviet-Thery, Editions Fink, GAGARIN, prototypes, one Gevaert Editions, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Kaleid Editions, of a kind books and Kaleidoscope, Lubok Verlag, Making Do, Manifesta limited first editions Journal, Mer. Paper Kunsthalle, More Publishers, Mousse, for the publication Onomatopee, Pork Salad Press, Post Editions, Raina Lupa, of a book-catalogue Ridinghouse, Roma Publications, Torpedo, Tulipe and for international Roses, Witte de With, Zabludowicz Collection, Zavod exchange. P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. and more from Motto... Thus creating a living WIELS, Centre for Contemporary Art, Van Voxemlaan 354, meeting place until 1190 Brussels, Belgium. Thursday, 6 - 9pm (preview) the next festival. Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 6pm Each year, the books are shown have been developed from a theme which functions as a common thread; as well as addressing the multiple aspects of techniques and concepts that surround The Little International Artists Books Fair books and bookmaking. Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice 1st and 2nd April 2011 In 2011 with the theme Use a Book, ILDE wants to discuss For the first time the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica the use and usefulness of the book as a vehicle of expression is to host an Artists Books fair with a small number of and artistic production. invited publishers and artists. The event will also include “Edible Books Day” held in diverse locations all over the The books will be on shown from 9th April in the world, now in its tenth year and the launch of SG-press. Catalonian Craft Center (Artesania Catalunya), where SG-press is a new initiative of the Scuola to support and there will be a series of lectures for artists, publishers and publish work by artists. To this end SG-press will institute specialists. The books will also be on display on the 23rd of an annual prize with a special section open to students of April in the Plaça Sant Just, accompanied by the artists who the Scuola. have been invited to present their work.

Participating in the Fair: We are hoping the festival will become an exciting open-air CappaZeta Edizioni di Loretta Cappanera e Andrea Zuccolo; laboratory of ideas. For the full programme see: Helen Douglas: WeProductions, Scotland; Paupers Press www.ilde.info & Publications, UK; Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia; ST.ART.47 Associazione Culturale e Nedda Bonini; Wild Pansy Press, UK. The 15th Bookbinders’ Fair Sunday May 8th 2011 (11am - 5pm) at the Stadszalen Friday 1 April, 11:00 - 19:30, Saturday 2 April, 11:00 - 16:00 (City Hall), Sint Niklaas, Belgium Edible Books: Friday 1 April, 18:00 The Bookbinders’ Fair (est. 1997) is a highly esteemed event Cannaregio 1798, 30121 Venezia, Italy that attracts more than 50 well established participants who Tel: 041·721· 950 / 041·524·2374 offer a broad range of products, skills and information. www.scuolagrafica.it / [email protected] Free entry. Some 750 bookbinders, paper artists, calligraphers and other interested parties from Belgium, the Netherlands, France Germany and other European countries find their The ILDE’s IV Festival of artists’ books and limited way to Sint Niklaas and thus make the Bookbinders’ Fair first editions, Barcelona an attractive and animated meeting point. 9th - 25th April and 26th April - 7th May 2011 This initiative was born to disseminate and promote the For more informtaion visit: www.boekbindbeurs.nl culture of the book as a creative object and as an object

Pa g e 27 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Arnolfini, in collaboration with The Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE Bristol, will hold the biennial Br�stol Art�sts Book Event Bristol Artists’ Book Event (BABE), at Arnolfini, Bristol Saturday 30th April and Sunday 1st May 2011 BABE 80 stands of artists’ books by national and international exhibitors, dealers and small presses. There will also be workshops, surgeries, performances and related exhibitions will be on show. BABE is an opportunity for artists working in these areas to meet with others about their work and for the public to buy affordable works of art. Artists and publishers are coming again from over Europe, USA and Wear the South Korea. Established artists show their work alongside collectives, student groups and universities.

old coat Imi Maufe’s World Atlas. Free, running over the weekend.

Free Workshops and buy Guy Begbie’s brilliant pop-up paper engineering workshop (for ages 13+). Sat 30 April, 11.30am - 1.30pm Free / Booking Advised - contact Box Office to reserve a the new ticket: 0117 917 2300

Stephen Fowler’s fabulous rubber stamp making book. workshop (for ages 16+). Sun 1 May, 11.30am - 1.30pm Austin Phelps Free / Booking Advised - contact Box Office to reserve a ticket: 0117 917 2300

Artist Book Surgeries Sat 30 Apr - Sun 1 May, 11am - 3.30pm An opportunity for artists to discuss and receive advice on any aspect of a book related project be it conceptual, technical or otherwise. Individual surgeries held by artist & writer Nancy Campbell on Saturday, and Sarah Bodman on Sunday are up to 25 minutes each. Free / Booking Advised - call Box Office to reserve a place: 0117 917 2300

BABE Tours - Free Meet in Arnolfini Foyer. No Booking needed Sat 30 Apr, 2pm - Tanya Peixoto, founder Bookartbookshop Sun 1 May, 2pm - Julian Warren, Archivist, Arnolfini

Lucy May Schofield Artists Book Library (Babl) 80 stalls of artists Sat 30 Apr - Sun 1 May, 1pm - 4pm each day Are you broken hearted / need inspiration or your faith bookworks restoring in the postal system? Whatever your symptoms Lucy May Schofield invites you to sit down and tell her all. She will diagnose an appropriate artist’s publication to Arnolfini help you find a way through your woes. The Bibliotherapy Saturday 30 April Artist’s Book Library has a wide selection of books on loan ranging in therapeutic benefit. The fee for this service 11am–6pm will be £1, entitling the client to a pair of listening ears, & Sunday 1 May an artist’s book prescription and a letterpress printed 11am–5pm philosophical aphorism. Quayside, pay on the day. Admission free Admission free. Saturday 11-6 and Sunday 11-5. Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA http://arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/951

Pa g e 28 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m NEW ARTISTS’ PUBLICATIONS valise and to Fluxus Collections. The box contains laser- etched glass with a plan view of the apartment. Beneath The next issue of The Blue Notebook will be out in April the glass, separated spaces hold a DVD with images of 2011, if you subscribe now to Volume 5, you will receive Arthur, Barbara and their apartment, a hand-bound codex Vol 5 No 1 now, and Vol 5 No 2 in April. exploring oral and written language, a glass block laser- etched with an illustration by Barbara Westman, two chairs, handmade dice, and a spinner. A drawer holds a folio of letters written by Sean Scully, Shirin Neshat and Barbara Westman, and an introduction by David Carrier.

The new issue includes:

READING versus WATCHING by Radoslaw Nowakowski.

Dr Anne Hammond on artists making books in Hawai’i.

James Merrick’s essay Words, explores the Book Works of CJ Robinson

Tom Sowden on his project Paper Models, to encourage more book artists to explore the amazingly creative tool of laser cutting. Arthur & Barbara is the last book in Memory and Experience, a quartet of artists’ books by Thomas Rose, David Trigg interviews Sarah J Trigg on her recent project in collaboration with Chip Schilling, which includes and resulting publication Unsaid Words. Where Do We Start?, 1018 W. Scott and Time Frames.

Chris Newlove Horton reviews a random dispersal of dust Edition size: 20. Published: 2011. Size: 13 x 12 x 7 inches (mutely understood) by Sean Kaye & Jenny West. Medium: Mahogany, aluminum, DVD, letterpress and archival pigment printing, laser etching, duplex plastic, Artists’ pages by: paper, and Van Heek book cloth. Pre-publication price: Helen Allsebrook, Kevin Boniface, Mishka Henner, $1,200 USD (through March 2011) Barbara Tetenbaum and Agnes Wolkowicz. Arthur & Barbara - Book Release Party Cover design by Tom Sowden. Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6.30-8.30pm, artist’s talk at 7pm Minnesota Center for Book Arts All this for just 10 GBP, including international postage. 1011 Washington Avenue South To subscribe, please download the form at: Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415, USA http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bnotebk.htm or email [email protected] for a hard copy. Indulgence Press, Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art 250 North 3rd Avenue, Suite 224, Minneapolis, MN 55401 Tel: 612-803-5617 Arthur & Barbara www.indulgencepress.com By Thomas Rose in collaboration with Wilber H. “Chip” Schilling, Indulgence Press, Minneapolis, MN USA Arthur & Barbara is a portrait of art critic/philosopher Arthur Danto and artist Barbara Westman seen reflected Limes - a new bookwork in a limited edition by in the space of their New York City apartment on Riverside Tommaso Durante and Chris Wallace-Crabbe Drive. This book embodies their life and work in symbolic Limes is a creative collaboration between a visual artist forms of thoughtful play. and a poet who were inspired from the medieval imaginary of ‘Inferno Canto III’ from Dante Alighieri’s ‘Divine Arthur & Barbara is a collection of simple objects, images Comedy’ to explore human nature in the context of the and “games” referring to both Duchamp’s Boîte-en- twenty-first century’s global culture.

Pa g e 29 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k My visual and philosophycal journey springs from a trip Tommaso Durante is represented in the USA by to Aotearoa [The Land of the Long White Cloud], New Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, LLC Zealand, in the autumn of 2009, where I collected digital www.vampandtramp.com images of Rotorua ‘Hell’s Gate’ under the suggestion of Dante’s Inferno. Limes is a provocative bookwork that Limes by Tommaso Durante and Chris Wallace-Crabbe combines photographs and images of a geothermal will be launched on Thursday 7th April 2011, at 6.30pm landscape with the poetical-philosophical meditation of at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Chris Wallace-Crabbe on the contemporary human destiny Melbourne, Swanston Street, Parkville, Melbourne, at the dawn of this new century. Victoria 3010, Australia. 6.30 pm (for 7.00 pm start), a series of talks and a reading from the book. Free public event, After a glass of wine and a conversation between friends, RSVP essential by Monday 4 April. Chris and I felt like being, paraphrasing Dante, in the Bookings: [email protected] middle of the journey of our life within a global world http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au where the straight way was lost. Limes was born by our uneasiness. New works by Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison FOUR NEW ZINES BY LOUISE: Birds that have caught my eye in print, but I’ve never been lucky enough to see in reality, An aurora of polar bears I have dreamt of, Five proud birds, + One more than three, a set of four zines.

Beyond the allegorical description of sin and virtue, I have always been impressed by the value of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ as a truly political and antelitteram global-book. In fact Dante’s meditation in the medioeval age is still very appropriate to the present discourses around the ethics of the New Global Economy and of the ‘liquid time’ of global epochal transformation we are living in. Dante wrote: ‘The darkest places in the Hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis’. THREE NEW ZINES BY GRACIA: But I just got here a minute ago. (vol I) But I just got here a minute ago. (vol It is worth recalling the ancient Latin word limes [limit], II) But I just got here a minute ago. (vol III), + But I just which refers to a fortified boundary, a delimiting system of got here a minute ago limited edition boxed set. ancient Rome, as well as to a way to go through. By crossing space-time and cultural boundaries from Middle Age to Global Age and through an aesthetics visionary journey of art and poetry, text and images, Limes intends to put a philosophical as well as a political question about our phenomenological existence of being-in-a-global world. Tommaso Durante Warrandyte, Australia, 17 November, 2010

Limes, 2011, Limited edition of 15 + 6 artist’s proofs 92 pages, 210mm x 210mm, 10 colour inkjet pigment print by Brian Gilkes (Pharos Edition) on Awagami Inbe 125gsm, hand made case bound in buckram and sewn with waxed linen thread by Elke Ahokas, printed paper . Signed and numbered by the artist and poet. English text with Italian translation. AUD 1,900 USD 1,900 EUR 1,400 Enquiries can be addressed to Tommaso Durante: All available, with international shipping from [email protected] http://www.gracialouise.com

Pa g e 30 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Silence is an Orchard, Lauren Henkin’s second handmade publication has just been released The artist’s book is a limited edition of 30 plus five artist proofs and contains 14 original prints on Japanese kozo with an original etching cover of one field in Acadia National Park in Maine.

There is also a catalogue available celebrating 10 issues of Future Fantasteek! 78 page catalogue covering the first 5 years of FF including images from the sketchbooks, available to order in hard back or soft back at Blurb: http://www.blurb.com/books/1943328

Printed on Japanese kozo paper, Silence is an Orchard presents the work of five Northwest women artists including Lauren Henkin (photography), Kirsten Rian (poetry), Sarah Horowitz (cover etching), Inge Bruggeman (letterpress printing), and Sandy Tilcock (binding) - whose contributions combine to create a beautiful meditation, a visual journal of solitude and quiet.

Specifications: Photography and design: Lauren Henkin and sequencing: Lauren Henkin, Kirsten Rian, Fieldnotes Poem: Kirsten Rian; Cover etching: Sarah Horowitz; Letterpress Printing: Inge Bruggeman, Textura Printing, Portland, Oregon, USA; Bookbinding: Sandy Tilcock, lone goose press, Eugene,Oregon, USA. Paper: Japanese Kozo. Covering: Bhutan mitsumata over New books by Joachim Schmid: boards with original etching. Endsheets: Bhutan mitsumata Images: 14. Edition size: 30 plus five artist proofs. Seventy-Five Are Better Than Thirty-Two Dimensions: 11” x 15”. Book Price: $650 Millions of tourists travel to New York City every year. All books are signed and numbered by the artist. Many of them visit the Museum of Modern Art. Many of them take photographs inside the museum. Many of them For more information on Lauren Henkin’s books, show Andy Warhol‘s thirty-two pictures of Campbell‘s please visit www.laurenhenkinbooks.com soup cans. Thousands of these snapshots are to be found Original prints are also available for purchase. on photo sharing sites. Seventy-five of them are collected in For more information on artist Lauren Henkin, this book – works of art in the age of digital photography. visit www.laurenhenkin.com Nearly forty years after Warhol made his Mona Lisa paraphrase, Thirty Are Better Than One he might well agree today that seventy-five are better than thirty-two. 18×18 cm, ... Future Fantasteek! No.10... 160 pages, softcover 30 Euros By Jackie Batey, is now available. Future Fantasteek! Issue Ten Royal Wedding Souvenir. Other People’s Photographs To preview issue 10, or to purchase at £5 + P&P, see: There are also ten new books in the Other People’s http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/ Photographs series: Apparel, Blue, Evidence, Fauna, Impact, future10/index.htm Models, Parking Lots, Portraits, Television, and Writings.

Pa g e 31 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Interested parties can find photographs of the books and A new publication from LENDROIT Éditions sample pages in my Flickr photostream (http://www.flickr. Nuit by Laurent Grivet com/photos/joachimschmid/). Each book is 18 x 18 cm, Livre d’artiste / Collection A5. Night is a unique , 36 pages each. These books are numbered and photographic trip, a dreamlike wandering through the signed and they are obtainable only through my website. night-time of a residential neighbourhood. schmid.wordpress.com · abcoop.wordpress.com

A new publication from Editorial Krausse MIQUEL NAVARRO & RAFA MARÍ 12 CIUDADES DEL MUNDO - 12 World Cities We all leave traces when travelling to a city. And these urban areas follow us into our memories. The artist Miquel Navarro and the journalist Rafa Marí unite their experiences in this edition to sensualise this personal souvenir; their view of 12 cities they visited together: Rome, Venice, San Gimignano, Berlin, São Paulo, Kyoto, Bandiagara, Oaxaca, Valencia, Córdoba, Istanbul and New York.

The cinematic look of Rafa Marí sees beyond the scenes, all the details that hide behind the corner of every street, 44 pages. Format 15 x 20 cm. Edition of 500. 9 euros. behind the characters of every city, and its inhabitants. Published by LENDROIT Éditions (Rennes), Le Carré d’Art His view joins the artistic and architectural contemplation (Chartres de Bretagne), l’Imagerie (Lannion) of Miquel Navarro, the geometry of the cities, that convert ISBN 978-2-917427-17-0 into a movement, into organic elements, into human beings. LENDROIT Éditions / In Print We Trust The city’s heart beats, lives, shapes itself. 23 rue Quineleu, 35000 Rennes, France Tel: +33 (0)2 23 30 42 27 [email protected] www.lendroit.org

METABOOK VOL. I A limited edition screenprinted book by Christina Mitrentse The METABOOK presents a serial viewing of ten (hand) screenprinted plates produced in a four-colour separation process. The viewer is confronted with a humorous representation of universal Flags/ Emblems, appropriating books from the artists’ collection as part of an ongoing series. A montage of reproductions of radical philosophy, popular novels, science books, critical essays and catalogues.

A limited edition of 100, handbound, numbered and signed. Enclosed - German and English translations. Miquel Navarro. B. Valencia, 1946. A selection of works in museums and collections: IVAM, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, MACBA, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum A cross-section of Mitrentses’ reading that have formed New York. www.editorialkrausse.com her own artistic identity. The images allude to the mystique [email protected] of a personal institution, questioning the notion of

Pa g e 32 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m Education. They call us to interpret the individual ‘believe A new publication from Redfoxpress systems’ of humanity, symbolised within these ’Emblems’. Anna Boschi - Correspondences The conceptual use of book connects inextricably with Anna Boschi was born the Artist’s sense of the importance of questioning the in Bologna and lives and transmission of knowledge and thought, through time/ works in Castel S. Pietro history. Also with her awareness of the fragility of such Terme, Italy. She began transmission within the contemporary socio-political her painting research era of persecution. The METABOOK begins with an at the end of Sixties, interpretation of the ‘Union Jack’ as if viewed from the sky, experimenting with and ends with a ‘Constellation flag’, as seen from the earth. various materials. Since The work proposes a methodology that would allow viewers 1982 she has devoted to re-contextualise it through visualizing the structure of herself exclusively to their own bibliographic histories. artistic activity, organising about sixty personal Edition of 30 copies. Printed in London by DEUS EX exhibitions and numerous MACHINA editions. For more information and images see: group shows in Italy and www.christinamitrentse.com abroad. Artists’ books and visual poetry are important in her work and she participates in this field to international exhibitions. A Month of Sundays by Mike Nicholson, March 2011 She collaborates Artist and writer Mike also with “Visual Nicholson is pleased to Poetry” magazines. announce the arrival of a Since 1984 she new volume in his ongoing is active in the ‘bio auto graphic’ series. international Mail Art network, Created throughout organising and February 2011 and entitled participating in A Month of Sundays, this many shows edition of text and image in Italy and abroad, leading to the Mailartmeeting Archives graphic narrative continues (www.mailartmeeting.com). Visual poetry / Collages and his exploration of ‘4D drawings. A6 format,48 pages, laser printing. Thread and Storytelling’. The work quarter cloth binding. Price: 15 euro / 20 US $ / 13 UK remixes, reinterprets and reacts to life as we know it, Jim, Sterling. You can order by email at [email protected] mapping daily experiences onto a particularly eventful or with Paypal at www.redfoxpress.com/dada-boschi.html month of global news.

Two new titles available from Café Royal books

With time and space as his plaything this edition is a significant step forward for the Ensixteen Editions imprint. You will be able to acquire the book at upcoming Leeds International Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair and BABE 3 at Arnolfini, Bristol, in April. Please do check out Nicholson’s blog for more on the above: La Sagrada Familia by Daniel Evans www.ensixteeneditions.blogspot.com La Sagrada Familia is a series of images taken in Barcelona As well as contacting him directly on: in January 2011. Named after the famous Gaudi Cathedral, [email protected] the publication shows no trace of the building, rather the

Pa g e 33 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k mass of tourist spectators. 24 Pages , 14 cm x 20 cm , Tom Sowden has been working on republishing his b/w digital, numbered edition of 100, 2011. £4.50 including original series of Ed Ruscha tribute books as digitally shipping. www.caferoyalbooks.com printed (POD) publications.

Lietuva. Stories of Everyday by Paul Paper Only now, when I‘m abroad, I can make a book about Lithuania. It is personal and subjective (like everything I do) and not about how my country is or how it looks like. For that, check tourist leaflets. It’s about growing up in a young country full of new enthusiasm. As someone born in a nation that doesn’t exist (Soviet Union), I feel strange roots carving me and my creativity. In dialogue with tradition of romantic depiction of Lithuania, this small tribute tries to avoid telling highly-coloured visual stories of places that The new 2nd editions include Fiftytwo Shopping Trolleys don’t look so nice once you actually visit them. It is here in Parking Lots and Homeless People. Each book is rather, through objects and moments of everyday, evoke £25.00, and can be previewed online. All of Tom Sowden’s clues and insights about land that is not easy to find on publications are available on his Lulu store page at: the map. 32 Pages, 14 cm x 20 cm, b/w digital, numbered http://stores.lulu.com/tomsowden edition of 100. 2011. £5.00 including shipping http://www.caferoyalbooks.com

REPORTS & REVIEWS

Overleaf is the second of two bibilographies published in the BAN over issues 63 - 64, as extracts from Private presses and fine printing in Australia and New Zealand : a bibliographical extract, 2009, compiled by Jürgen Wegner, Librarian, Brandywine Archive, Sydney.

The following bibliography is an extract from his larger new series, the Annual bibliography of books and printing in Australia and New Zealand, which is produced by the Blackdawn Press for friends and supporters of the Brandywine Archive, Sydney…

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Jürgen Wegner was, until it ceased publication in 2006, the Australian editor of the ABHB, Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries and its electronic version, Book history online, until this too was discontinued. The following bibliography is an extract from his larger new series, the Annual bibliography of books and printing in Australia and New Zealand, which is produced by the Blackdawn Press for friends and supporters of the Brandywine Archive, Sydney ([email protected]).

These 30 entries are for material published in 2009 plus some earlier material from 2005 - the starting date for this bibliography. Links are provided for items which are only available online. The note “also available online” with no link is given where both a print and an online version are available. The numbers in the entries refer to the original reference numbers in the bibliography.

& what? IN: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand broadsheet, 81 (2009), p. [2]. N: The Ampersand Duck private press and book artist; #09/791.

Arnold, Peter. The Fanfrolico Press : satyrs, fauns & fine books. Pinner, Middlesex : Private Libraries Association, 2009. 328 p. : ill., B165-269, I. N: Review: Biblionews and Australian notes & queries, 361/362 (2009), p. 63-64 (Colin Steele); #09/792.

Auckland City Libraries. The book as art [electronic resource] : contemporary artists’ books and fine press books. [Auckland] : Auckland City Libraries, 2008. 1 electronic document : B. N: http://www. aucklandcitylibraries.com/aboutthelibraries/Collections/Special_Collections/exhibitionarchives/2008/booksasart .aspx; for a review see #09/140; for an “earlier” version see #08/70; #09/793.

Auckland City Libraries. Special feature, William Blake [electronic resource] : an introduction to William Blake’s ‘America and Europe’. [Auckland] : Auckland City Libraries, 2008. 1 electronic document : ill. N: http://www.aucklandcitylibraries.com/getdoc/Collections/1d8b9abf-0369-4fe1-bbc6- o3c1eca03/williamblake.aspx; #09/794.

Brockman, James; Kelly, Rod. The silver Kelmscott Chaucer. IN: Newsletter (Victorian Bookbinders’ Guild), 26 (2007) 9, p. 5-7 ; ill. N: Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer’s Works (1896) rebound by Brockman with silver work by Kelly; #09/795.

Cole, Helen. Art in the Australian Library of Art : the State Library houses significant and fascinating collections relating to visual and book arts. IN: State Library of Queensland magazine, 5 (2009), p. 12-13 : ill. N: Includes art, artists’ and private press books; also available online; #09/796.

Florance, Caren. Books to hold or let go. IN: Raised bands, 26 (2009) 3, p. 7-[9] : ill. N: Exhibition held at Craft ACT of binding of her private press book of Rosemary Dobson’s Poems to hold or let go; #09/797.

Pa g e 35 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k Florance, Caren. Uncommon press [electronic resource]. [Canberra] : Ampersand Duck, 2009. 1 electronic document : ill. N: Richard Jermyn (Indian Head Press) and his reconstruction of a wooden hand press; http://ampersandduck.blogspot.com/2009/10/uncommonpress.html; #09/798.

Florance, Caren. Uncommon press [electronic resource] / guest post by Ampersand Duck [i.e. Caren Florance]. [Melbourne] : Meanjin, 2009. 1 electronic document : ill. (Spike ; 26/10/09). N: Richard Jermyn (Indian Head Press) and his reconstruction of a wooden hand press; http://www.meanjin.com.au/spike-the-meanjin-blog; #09/799.

Gifford, Adam. Making a case for book-keeping. IN: New Zealand herald, 20 June, 2009, p. B7. N: Peter Simpson and the Holloway Press’ latest two books; #09/800.

The Imprint Gallery goes live : artists travel to Feilding for expert printing. IN: Art news, 28 (2008) 3, p. 29. N: Includes printing at the Homeprint Studio, Feilding, N.Z.; #09/801.

Johnston, Gwenda. Artists’ books, 1996-2006. IN: State Library of New South Wales. Heritage collection, Nelson Meers Foundation, 2009, p. 34-35 : ill. N: Includes work from the Wayzgoose Press; #09/802.

Leo Bensemann : the ‘Fantastica’ drawings. IN: Off the record, 17 (2009), p. 9 : ill. N: Originally published at Caxton Press (1937) and reprinted by Holloway Press (1997); #09/803.

Lock, Margaret. Locks’ Press, 1979-2006. IN: Private library, 5th ser., 10 (2007) 1, p. [2]-26 : ill., B20-26. N: Brisbane thence Kingston, Canada; #09/804.

Loney, Alan. Fifty books old, 1975-2006. IN: Private library, 5th ser., 10 (2007) 4, p. 157-187 : ill., B177-187. N: His work as Hawk Press, Black Light Press, Holloway Press and Electio Editions; #09/805.

The Lytlewode Press : a survey. IN: Antiques & art in Victoria, Apr.-Aug. 2006, p. 16 : ill.; #09/806.

Martin, Kate. When printers had balls and monks were a problem. IN: Russell review, 2009, p. 55-57. N: Printing on a common press at Pompallier Mission, Russell, N.Z.; #09/807.

Mawer, Allen. Light in the South. IN: National Library magazine, 1 (2009) 1, p. 8-11 : ill. N: Printing At the Sign of the Penguins, Antarctica, 1907; #09/808.

Newbown, Linda. William Morris : vellum bindings of the Kelmscott Press. IN: Raised bands, May-June 2005, p. 6-7. N: On correspondence with the William Morris Society about Kelmscott’s “temporary” bindings; #09/809.

O’Brien, Brendan. The embodiment of dreams. IN: New Zealand books, 19 (2009) 1, p. 22 : ill. N: Review of Alan Loney’s The printing of a masterpiece (Melbourne : Black Pepper Press, 2008) (q.v. #08/712); #09/810.

Ritale, Jo. ‘A gardener at midnight : travels in the Holy Land’. IN: Fryer folios, 1 (2006) 1, p. 16-17: ill. N: Artists’ book by Peter Lyssiotis and Peter Wolseley; also available online; #09/811.

Schuller, Andrew. Outing 1 : Studio Duck. IN: Raised bands, 26 (2009) 5, p. 7, 10 : ill. N: On Canberra’s Ampersand Duck; #09/812.

Skinner, Carolynne. ‘The Wayzgoose affair’. IN: Craft arts international, 73 (2008), p. 117-119 : ill. N: Review article of Jadwiga Jarvis’ The Wayzgoose affair (Katoomba, [NSW] : Wayzgoose Press, 2007); #09/813.

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Thompson, John. Fanfrolico days. IN: Australian , 314 (2009/10), p. 57-58 : ill. N: Review of John Arnold’s The Fanfrolico Press (Pinner, Middlesex : Private Libraries Association, 2009) (q.v. #09/792); #09/815.

University of Otago. Library. Special Collections. Initials : in the beginning— : 17 October to 14 December, 2007 ... [Dunedin] : University of Otago, [2007]. 1 folded sheet ([4] p.) : ill., B. N: From the to modern press books; exhibition brochure; #09/816.

Vangioni, Peter. A fork lunch and a drink or two : ephemera from the Templar Press, 1966-1983. IN: NZ ephemerist, 2 (2009), p. 10-16, 32. N: Collection in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery; #09/817.

Wegner, J.P. Ampersand Duck, Canberra. IN: Brandywine bookman’s vade mecum, 22 (2009), p. [3-7]. N: Also produced in electronic form in Brandywine bookman’s repository for Australia & New Zealand, 22 (2009); #09/818.

Wegner, J.P. Kingscliff Astronomical Observatory Press. IN: Brandywine bookman’s vade mecum, 21 (2009), p. [14-17]. N: Also produced in electronic form in Brandywine bookman’s repository for Australia & New Zealand, 21 (2009); #09/819.

Wild, Jane. The book as art : contemporary artists’ and fine press books : an exhibition by Special Collections, Auckland City Libraries, 10 March to 31 May, 2008. IN: ARLIS/ANZ journal, 64 (2007/8), p. 30-35 : ill., B34- 35. N: For the online exhibition see #09/793; also available online; #09/820.

Homeprint 100 years old, and a vast selection of type. In wood type A report from New Zealand by Claire Kennedy alone he has 100 fonts and even more vast collection of lead type. John and Alison are renowned bookmakers, and regularly invited to exhibit in Europe, Korea and the United Stated. The resources at Homeprint are extensive – not only do they have a large catalogue of artists’ books and books about bookmaking, there is a large selection of their own published titles available to view.

After completing my Fine Art degree at Cardiff School of Art of Design in July of last year, I decided to travel to New Zealand, and prior to my trip, had posted a discussion on Artist Books 3.0 inquiring about books arts in New Zealand. My post was answered by book artists John and Alison Brebner, who run Homeprint Studio in Feilding, in the Northern Island of New Zealand. John informed me of an My time spent at Homeprint was busy to say the least. Artist in Residence programme they offer at their studio, I helped John in the studio in the mornings starting a which is operated from their converted house in Feilding. project of cataloguing his collection of type, where he was The house was converted to a print studio and gallery many able to teach me the fundamentals of letterpress printing. years ago, and John and Alison now live in a cottage built The afternoons I spent on my own project, the task of at the other end of the extensive organic vegetable garden. making a limited edition hand set, printed and bound artist book. My work previously has often been focused around For the month of January I took up residence in the transforming the structure of the book itself testing the Homeprint studio and began exploring the world of properties of the materials of the book, re-organising the letterpress. John has numerous printing presses, many over book structure to transform it into an art object.

Pa g e 37 w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k 13A de 13L A report on the exhibition by the artists’ books group 13L, by one of the artist members - Enric Mas

The artist’s book exhibition entitled 13A de 13L: tretze anys d´edició i creació de llibres (thirteen years of books’ creation and edition) took place from 29th January to 22nd February at the Casa Soler i Palet in Terrassa, Barcelona.

The exhibition was organised to celebrate the 13th anniversary of 13L, a group of 13 artists related to printmaking, who teach art in different Universities in At Homeprint I felt inspired by the traditional printing Barcelona. Throughout its 13 years of existence, the group workshop environment, and wanted to create a book which has been exhibiting artists’ books at many different national explored the medium of letterpress printing. As such I and international venues and fairs. wanted the book form to be in keeping with its traditional content, so with John’s tutelage I learnt the art of traditional book binding. The final outcome was a limited edition of 11 handset printed and bound books. The title is “A Collaboration (of sorts)”; the subject matter of the book came for a four-month correspondence of e-mails received whilst on my travels. I collected and gathered words, phrases, quotes from these e-mails which were significant to me. Taken out of their original context these words and sentences, take on a meaning of their own – some are humorous, others are thought provoking and poignant.

My time a Homeprint was very rewarding – John teaches print making and book making workshops regularly at the studio and elsewhere upon request, I would highly recommend a visit or a lesson to anyone living in, or travelling to New Zealand. 13L was formed by a group of artists with different personalities and artistic backgrounds but who all share a I will be showing “A Collaboration (of sorts)” and others passion for the graphic arts in general, and the artist’s book works at the University of the West of England, Bristol in in particular. Apart from each artist’s individual pieces, they the Tom Trusky Exhibition Cases, Special Collections Room, also collaborate to create joint artworks as is the case of Bower Ashton Library from 17th June – 30th July 2011. Cadàver Exquisit, Paradís or Atmosfera. Whereas Cadàver Exquisit emulates the surrealistic practice by which an image www.clairekennedy.co.uk is collectively assembled, with each collaborator adding an [email protected] element to a sequential composition, Paradís and Atmosfera are thematic publications made up only of images. They gather each artist’s interpretation relating to the themes of paradise or atmosphere. More of these publications will be edited around different subject matters in the near future.

Pa g e 38 t h i s n e w s l e t t e r c a n b e d o w n l o a d e d i n c o l o u r f r o m w w w .b o o k a r t s .u w e .a c .u k /b a n l i s t s .h t m A selection of more than 90 artists of various art tendencies: Constructivism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Visual Poetry – explores, in an unexpected and surprising way, the richness of sculpture. All the works, from fixed objects to works to be cut out and mounted, have in common the fact that they are three dimensional and have been published – either independently or in books, ranging from the late 1950s to now.

Study Room,The Research Centre for Artists’ Publications Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art Teerhof 20, 28199 Bremen, Germany http://weserburg.de

Robbin Ami Silverberg has an artist’s book exhibition: Hand. Voice. Paper, at the Stadtbibliothek Reutlingen, Germany, March 15 - June 4, 2011

These artists are interested in showing how notions can be constructed by means of different visual resources. They like the hybridisation of text and image, the dialogue arising between varied and contradictory artistic fields, materials and forms of posing ideas. Their work method includes traditional printmaking techniques to digital and multimedia processes, from work on paper to computer- based images, from prints and multiples to wall projections, from book-like objects to installations, and from poetical pieces to socially-committed works of art. UWE Bristol Exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library Opening hours, term time: Mon - Thur. 08.45 - 20.00. The group’s statement is based on the belief that the Fri. 08.45 - 17.00. Sat. 09.30 - 13.00. creativity entailed by artists’ books is so great and allows so Please call to check opening hours before travelling many materials, techniques and exploration of concepts, as times vary during inter-semester weeks and vacation that the possibilities become poetically infinite. Therefore, periods. Library main desk telephone: 0117 328 4750 its boundaries are only defined by the artist’s own limitations. We are 13L editions: If you have any book arts news, please email items for the http://ed13l.wordpress.com/author/13llibres Book Arts Newsletter to: [email protected] [email protected] Please supply images as good quality RGB jpegs (300 dpi)

Next deadline: STOP PRESS! 15th April for the May - (early) June newsletter From Page to Space - Published paper Sculptures Sarah Bodman, Centre for Fine Print Research Until 31st July 2011 UWE Bristol Faculty of Creative Arts, Humanities and Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Germany Education, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol BS3 2JT, UK The exhibition From Page To Space, curated by Guy www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk / [email protected] Schraenen, is an unusual journey into contemporary art.

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