100+ Elaine Knight Linda Landers SketchLook Abigail Thomas Ellen McMahon Liz Workman Somayeh Al-Mutanabbi Encyclopaedia Lizanne van Essen Farzaneh Street Starts Here Britannica Looks@books Sons of the Sea Alice Maude- Challenge Loretta Cappanera Sophie Loss Roxby Erin K. Schmidt Luci Gorell Barnes Stacey Wilding AMBruno Faction Lucy Harrington State University of Amy Davies Field Study Lucy May Santa Catarina Andi McGarry Fluxjob Schofield Stephen Fowler Andrew Eason Francis Elliott Maureen Gamble Stephen LeWinter Andrew Norris Grahame Galleries Media and Design Steve McPherson Angie Butler + Editions Academy, Genk Stevie Ronnie Arcadia id est Guy Begbie Meir Agassi Stroud College Artist’s Book Club Guy Bigland Museum Sumi Perera Artists’ Publishing Hazel Grainger Mette-Sofie D. Susan Part I & II Heather Hunter Ambeck Johanknecht Barbara Barnes Heidy Micro-Pages The Art of the Allen Hollemweguer Mike Brunwin Book: Journals Barbara Sykes Campos Mike Nicholson Then and Now Batool Showghi Helen Allsebrook Mikhail Pogarsky The Caseroom Baysan Yüksel Helga Kos Minnesota Center Press Beatrice Coron Herefordshire for Book Arts The Daily Twit Benedict Philips College of Art & Nancy Campbell The Sunderland Benjamin Prosser Design Natalie McGrorty Book Project Black/White [and Hibrida Neil Bousfield Theresa Easton Read] Bookworks Noëlle Griffiths Thy Bottle -Top Bob Cobbing Hibrida III Norske bøker Badge Project Boccaccio and the Ian Tyson O Pão Nosso - Tizzi Fib Artist’s Book Invisible Cities Livros de Artista to be done Book Art Object and Hidden Open Books Tom Sowden Edition 4 Landscapes Otto Tom Trusky Book Works Isabelle Buenz Patrick Lears Tony Kemplen Bound Jackie Batey Preacher’s Biscuit Treena Markland Bridget Cole James Castle Books Tribe Bronwen John Bently Productiongray University of Bradshaw John Dilnot Editions Missouri Carrie Galbraith John McDowall Ral Veroni University of Claire Kennedy Tracey Bush Randy Klein Tennessee at CoCoLlab Jon Bentley Reading Around Chattanooga Connecting Small Julie Barratt Regards Croisés University of the Artists’ Books Karen Hanmer Regenerator I & II West, Timisoara, Cunning Chapters Kate Farley RUKSSIAN Artists’ Romania Dark Globe Katharine Meynell Books Victoria Bianchetti David Dellafiora Lawrence Upton Salt+Shaw Wendy Lockwood David Kirby Les Bicknell Scuola Wexford Artist’s Deb Rindl Les Coleman Internazionale Di Book Exhibition Edinburgh College Librarians’ Books Grafica What’s In the Box? of Art Exhibition Sitting Room Yen-Hua Lee Lilla Duignan Sketch Club Zitouna Press BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER ISSN 1754-9086 No. 100 November 2015 Published by Impact Press at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK ARTIST’S COVER PAGE: A HISTORY OF 100+ EXHIBITORS AT UWE! In this issue: National and International Artists’ Books Exhibitions Pages 1 - 19 Announcements Pages 19 - 21 Courses, Conferences, Lectures & Workshops Pages 21 - 26 Opportunities Pages 27 - 32 Artist’s Book Fairs & Events Pages 32 - 35 Internet News Pages 35 - 36 New Artists’ Publications Pages 36 - 47 Reports & Reviews Pages 47 - 49 Stop Press! Pages 49 - 50 Artists’ Books Exhibitions in the Bower Ashton Library The exhibition is part of Arctica, a year-long series of cases, UWE, Bristol, UK interlinked artworks on the subject of climate change taking place across the UK. The works are interdisciplinary in Stevie Ronnie - Arctica nature encompassing literature, performance, photography, Monday 2nd November - Monday 30th November 2015 artists’ books, film and a public art installation. In 2013 interdisciplinary artist and writer Stevie Ronnie visited the High Arctic as part of the Arctic Circle international residency programme. This exhibition of artist’s books was produced onboard the Barkentine Antigua during the artist’s journey through the alien and rapidly changing landscape of the frozen North. The books in the series were made using materials that Stevie found on his travels. Even in this remote and sparsely populated part of the planet vast amounts of human debris can be found. The artist has re-purposed this debris using traditional bookmaking techniques and materials to produce a series of beautiful and curious book objects. Stevie returned from the High Arctic with a new perspective on our consumer culture: “I’d known that change was necessary but visiting this remote, medialess place where nature is clearly in control brought home the enormity of the challenges that face us as human beings. And what can I, a mere speck on the map, do about it? As a writer, as an artist, I can protest in the Latin sense of the word: protestari The Arctic Was a Poem Twisted into Rope is a collaboration – “to declare publicly, testify”. with US-based book artist and printmaker Amanda Thackray. A weather balloon winch has been mounted with Arctica been made possible through the financial support a paper rope that can be unwound to recreate the sound that of Arts Council England, Durham Book Festival and is produced when a weather balloon is launched. The rope New Writing North with additional support from is made from the lines of a poem that is written in a form The Arctic Circle, Free Word Centre, the Arvon Foundation, that reflects the patterns used in maritime rope making. NewBridge Books, Filmpoem and the Centre for Fine Print Other books in the series utilise discarded plastics, weather Research at UWE, Bristol. balloon brackets, copper wire found in an abandoned Arctic coal mine and waste materials from the shipping Further information on Arctica can be found at: and fishing industries. http://arctica.stevieronnie.com Page 1 www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk Exhibitions at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, USA: Printmaker Amira F. Pualwan Origami artist and painter Ioana Stoian Exceptional: Handmade Paper Beyond Substrate Until 7th February 2016 For more information, visit our Mentorship page: Co-curated by Jeff Rathermel and Mary Hark. http://www.mnbookarts.org/mentorships/ Paper is often thought of as just the material art is created on. Exceptional explores handmade paper itself as a Minnesota Center for Book Arts powerful messaging device. 1011 Washington Ave. S. #100 Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA http://www.mnbookarts.org Monday – Saturday: 9.30am to 6.30pm Tuesdays open late: 9.30am to 9pm. Sundays: noon to 5pm Exhibitions at The Center for Book Arts, New York: Archive Bound Until 12th December 2015 Main gallery. Organised by Karen E. Jones, Independent Curator. Archive Bound examines methodologies within the presentation, documentation, historiography, and exhibition display of non-object based and site-specific artworks. Additionally, the exhibition includes books, photographs, and ephemera associated with Conceptual, Performance, Jocelyn Châteauvert Amethyst Spiral and Site-Specific Art practices. Several first generation avant-garde figures lay the groundwork for a discourse on Featured artists: the contemporary utilisation of these crucial genres. Islam Aly (Iowa City, IA) Jocelyn Châteauvert (Charleston, SC) The premise of Conceptual, Installation, and Performance Mandy Coppes-Martin (Johannesburg, South Africa) practices emerging in the 1970s was a polemic based on Melissa Jay Craig (Chicago, IL) non-material art production. Artists were aggressively Ann Marie Kennedy (Raleigh, NC) refusing both the materiality of the art object, the gallery/ Nnenna Okore (Chicago, IL) museum circulation and the resultant commercial value Trisha Oralie Martin (Chicago, IL) of the art product within the context of the art market. The ephemeral nature of the performance and the MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Mentorship Series V dematerialization of the art object were the intellectual 6th November 2015 – 19th February 2016 currency of the performance and conceptual movements. These historical practices set in place the groundwork for Opening reception Friday 6th November, 6-9pm a second-generation of performance and conceptually The Book Arts Mentorship is an artist development based artworks and ushered in the present day conundrum programme aimed at introducing book arts to emerging regarding their (re)presentation within a museum setting. artists whose primary medium is in another discipline. There are many reasons to explore book arts as a new Artists included are: Laylah Ali, Justin Amrhein, Cory artistic medium. As a highly malleable and versatile form Arcangel, Aurora De Armendi, Sophie Calle, Paul Chan, of expression, book arts extend the possibilities of other art Rainer Ganahl, Jacqueline Goss & Jenny Perlin, Guerrilla forms. You can create a conceptual space. Experiment with Girls, Paula Hayes, Thomas Hirschhorn, Sasha Huber, Liz sequence and visual or verbal narrative. Use book art forms Magic Laser, Dean Moss, Karyn Olivier, James Romberger, to extend, explore, document or re-examine work produced Martha Rosler, Marion Scemama, Seth Siegelaub & Robert in other artistic disciplines. Projansky, Situationist International, Marguerite Van Cook, Martha Wilson, and David Wojnarowicz. This exhibition represents the culmination of a year-long http://centerforbookarts.org/event/archive-bound/ mentorship and study of new artistic disciplines and one- on-one work with master artist mentors. Artist mentors for Buzz Spector: The Book Under (De-) Construction Series V were: papermaker Mary Hark; letterpress printer Until 12th December 2015 and book artist Monica Edwards Larson; and printmaker Master Faculty Fellow / Featured Artist Project and book artist Wilber H. “Chip” Schilling. Organised by Alexander Campos, Executive Director & Curator,