Books

Charlie Prodger
2024
£75.00 + VAT

Free Palestine by Charlie Prodger is commissioned by Book Works for What did you do… (2024), a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to…

Deborah-Joyce Holman
2024
£40.00 + VAT

Free Palestine by Deborah-Joyce Holman is commissioned by Book Works for What did you do… (2024), a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to the urgent…

Kamwangi Njue
2024
£12.00 (Reduced from £14.00) + VAT

…political violence and utopian dreams.  A free download code for the album will be provided on purchase of the book. Kamwangi Njue is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and experimental beatmaker…

Everyone Agrees
2013
£8.00

…a joke than La Nuit, the novel it is based on. If so, it may be one that comes at the expense of its protagonists. The latter – Francis, Savannah,…

Virginija Januškevičiūtė
2018
£9.95

…based in Vilnius who engages in a wide range of solo and group exhibitions, artwork commissions, publications and events. She works at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (www.cac.lt) and…

Falgoush Collective
2024
£40.00 + VAT

Falgoush Collective have been commissioned Book Works for What did you do… (2024), a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to the urgent humanitarian crisis…

Jennet Thomas
2015
£12.00

…to the book of the same name, The Unspeakable Freedom Device is a solo exhibition and installation at the Grundy Art Gallery, July – August 2015. The Unspeakable Freedom Device…

Arts Against Cuts
2015
Out of print

…any access requirements, please contact artsagainstcuts@gmail.com. Published by Book Works as part of Common Objectives, guest edited by Nina Power; edited and designed by Louis Hartnoll, Lucy Killoran, Robyn Minogue,…

…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’

Liam Gillick
1995
Out of print

…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’

Rosalind Nashashibi
2024
£75.00 + VAT

…Nashashibi and designed by Sara De Bondt, as part of What did you do… (2024) a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making….

Elizabeth Price
2001
£12.95

…ten detailed clauses. One of these required the production of a book: ‘Four Guineas to obtain a small Gold Medal and One Guinea in cash for the boy (not being…

Doug Aitken
2000
Out of print

…world’s richest diamond mine, has been sealed off from public access since 1907. Aitken struggled through bureaucratic red tape to obtain permission to film in the Diamond Areas. Aitken’s photographs…

…Explode 27mins (2009); four PDF files of wallpaper designed by the artist, and four sheets of the wallpaper: Two A1 (folded) sheets and two A4 sheets. Presented in a box…

Kit Poulson
2018
£12.00

Imagine an object sitting on the table. It is oblong, and roughly book sized; it weighs about the same as a book. It would certainly sit easily on a shelf….

…way of reviewing an archive. Cuttings, clippings and comments, the stuff of scrapbooks, started in 1964, make up part of the author’s archive, the information that threads through the library,…

David Shrigley
2008
£10.95

David Shrigley, an artist based in Glasgow, has achieved international recognition; the success of this book has increased as his work has reached an ever-wider audience. In 2013 he was…

Harry Josephine Giles & Martin O’Leary
2018
£8.00

…their different disciplines and perspectives over a shared interest in online texts, twitterbots, procedural generation and computer poetry. Dialecty, conceived by Maria Fusco with The Common Guild, considers the uses…

Lucy Kimbell
2002
£9.95

…of management… Some readers will try to establish for themselves if this is a successful book and how that success might be evaluated…’ − Lucy Kimbell. Audit is the result…

…and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was commissioned as part of Beyond Words by the Freedom Festival Arts…

Christian Nold
2001
£7.50

…the counter-tendencies the book then develops its own methodologies of action. Once aligned under a common desire this project reveals the potential force a crowd of people hold when they…

Simon Patterson
1994
£6.00

…must appear in the chosen name for example, Bertolt Brecht (Br, Bromine). A loose logic prevails in the choice of names, for example names in red, gases, are from Greek…

Samuel Hasler
2014
£9.00

…by reader and writer in equal measure, the desire to be carried along by comfortable and comforting genre-tropes, whilst knowing their fictitiousness, the base-fantasy of convention as an escape from…

Simon Grennan
2018
£14.95

…tripping, romance, musical theatre, comics and magazines. This period saw the birth of modern urban cultures of working-class leisure exemplified by the industrial city of Manchester. The Story of a…

Marianne Keating
2024
£40.00 + VAT

…we hereby proclaim the Irish Republic as a Sovereign Independent State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our comrades in arms to the cause of its freedom,…

edited by Federica Bueti
2013
£8.00

Move…ment is the fourth issue of the journal …ment, and is dedicated to protest and language. Contributors were invited to formulate and re-frame the concept of resistance, particularly how it…

Inventory
2018
£9.00 (Reduced from £12.00)

…potent mix of free discourse, solidarity and the production of new desires and prepared to break open old worlds, either in the virtual space of communication and networks, or in…

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…paperback book. If you have any specific requirements then please feel free to ask. All the materials and equipment are provided for the course, and the aim is to give…

Sarah Tripp
2020
£12.00

feeling into words. There is a yearning for meeting, and an idea of love or companionship as a sense of being met. Reading is punctuated by a series of black…

Céline Condorelli
2014
Out of print

…how to work together. Running alongside each conversation is a series of images reproduced from The Company We Keep. The Company She Keeps will be co-published by Book Works, Chisenhale…

…Miller, each of which show a gas cooker turned to ‘off’ − the only physical/visual proof that can allow the sufferer of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to be free to leave…

…science, superstition, religion, comedy and tragedy − and spiky humour.’ – Art Monthly. This book is a companion to Susan Hiller at the Freud Museum, an installation that was originally…

Francis McKee
2017
Out of print

…virtual space of communication and networks, or in the concrete world of action, discourse and distribution. Other projects in the series include: After The Night by Everyone Agrees; Bad Feelings…

Graham Harwood
1996
£23.50 + VAT

…their body to make a ‘composite person’. This appears life-size on the computer screen, turning the screen into a window between the viewer and the virtual world of the hospital….

…Readers Club celebrates the vital role our community of readers has in our mission to support experimental publishing and cultivate an engaged readership for ambitious and innovative new work by…

Victoria Halford & Steve Beard
2013
£8.00

…Mob, and Occupy, gave rise to images of dissident writings stamped into the architectural fabric of drive-through retail parks. Presented as tokens of things to come, Victoria Halford’s and Steve…

Susan Hiller
1995
Out of print

…science, superstition, religion, comedy and tragedy − and spiky humour.’ − Art Monthly This book is a companion to Susan Hiller at the Freud Museum, an installation that was originally…

…strong enough to hold this pair of heavy books, but also to be taken apart easily. The books and slipcase are cloth covered with extensive foil blocking on the covers….

Various silk covered binders designed to hold printed Room Guides for Kew Palace, Hampton Court and other historic houses. The contents can be easily replaced when necessary….

…album containing printed photographs. The covering is made from five different cloths with a foil blocked title across the middle. The spine is left exposed to show the sewing. www.katyandco.co.uk…

Specially produced artist’s multiple to house the free-standing miniature projector showing 32 of the artist’s original animations. The outer case is a paper over board construction that allows the projector…

Archive Items

Curated by Book Works
2011
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…previous regime … / Communism is next …’, Pil & Galia Kollectiv (2011) ‘Rorschach Test, first blot, 1921’, Sarah Pierce (2011) ‘That-which-was-before … / That-which- is-to-come …’, Plastique Fantastique (2011)…

Susan Hiller, photographs by David Cripps
1995
2 leaves (recto)

Test Polaroids of boxed multiples from After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller: preparatory images for the publication….

…Everyone Agrees, and Inventory. Photographs by Camilla Wills. The event took place at SPACE Studios, Hackney on Thursday 20 June 2013. Link to the event on the SPACE webpage: http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/exhibition-programme/shs-3-book-works-common-objectives-tokens-of-things-yet-to-come/…

Katrina Palmer
2014
10 items

…and Sarah Tripp, the exhibition comprises writing, sound recordings, video, sculpture and printed matter, presented in conversation with the physical and symbolic environment of John Latham’s former home and studio. The…

An occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation. #2: Stephen Sutcliffe reads from Much Obliged (2019) here https://soundcloud.com/book-works/bw-presents-stephen-sutcliffe-much-obl……

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…second edition 2018) or to place an order from our website, please visit the following link: https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1917 Please also see the following reviews and media: https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1917 http://review31.co.uk/article/view/494/shyness-isn’t-nice https://www.opendemocracy.net/hsiao-hung-pai/shy-radicals https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/shy-radicals-antisystemic-politics-militant-introvert-hamja-ahsan/ https://www.mixcloud.com/whos-that-girl/whos-that-girl-for-nts-psi-girls/…

News/Events
2020

…services, or are in the process of opening, including: ARTWORDS www.artwords.co.uk GOOD PRESS www.goodpress.co.uk LONDON CENTRE FOR BOOK ARTS www.londonbookarts.org TENDERBOOKS www.tenderbooks.co.uk For orders outside of the UK please try your local bookshop or…

…as agreed, and should be willing to play some active part in the launch/promotion of the book. Fee Commissioned artists will receive a fee of £1,000 and 50 copies of…

…NTS, Arts Council England for support of this project, and, of course, to every contributor and reader of HH over the years. Preorder the final issue now. https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/without-reduction-1a/ https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/without-reduction-2a/ https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/without-reduction-3a/…

…slipcase making. On Monday evenings, starting on 21st September. See PDF for details. Course contact details: Email: jan@bookworks.org.uk Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London EC2A 4JB Telephone: 020 7247 2536 www.bookworks.org.uk/studio…

…which the rhythm of the text is self-consciously questioned. Congratulations to the commissioned artists and we look forward to working with you. The commissioned artists are: Andrew E. Colarusso is…

…with publishing Urdu in digital devices. She designs and co-produces Exhausted Geographies which is a series of publications rethinking hegemonic representations of Karachi. See more of her work at www.abeerakamran.com….

…here: for full submission details: This open submission is now closed. Shortlist to be selected in January 2013 and new commissions offered in February 2014 Download an application form here:…

…from 19 May. Book an exhibition visit HERE. As part of the project, earlier this year Morrison published a zine, Interviews with Critical Workers, which you can download free here. It…

In 2020 MAP commissioned The Self-Illuminating Pen – a series of letters by Sarah Tripp and specially commissioned films by Isobel Lutz-Smith, as a companion to her new book, Guitar!…

…12 drawings, 1 book. Book Works has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for this new publication with Gavin Wade. Please visit our Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723440909/upcycle-this-book-by-gavin-wade-designed-by-james…

For more information and to follow or support our Kickstarter campaign, please click here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723440909/736493386?token=0ae835b9 Book Works is launching a Kickstarter campaign here to raise funds to produce and publish…

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 1pm Online. Free – book a place here. Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books. Graphic Negotiations is our series…

Gay’s the Word and Book Works present the London launch of Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003 by Phyllis Christopher. Phyllis Christopher will be in conversation with Brooke…

…Lindsay Draws / Riso Print Club at Common House AND publishing Odd One Out Other Asias John Lawrence There will be a FREE communal table for people with one-off zines…

…as the Football Association’s 1921 ban of women from playing on their grounds and protest football matches during the 18th Century enclosure of English common land. The event is free

…be joined by four new designers: Martin McGrath (20 Sep); Maeve Redmond (18 Oct); Mark El-Khatib (15 Nov) and Abeera Kamran (13 Dec). All events are free and online, at…

…interdisciplinary projects. With an emphasis on producing unique and beautiful books, we are committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature. Paul Becker has exhibited widely,…

…outline and a sample of between 3000 & 5000 words of the proposed work, along with a completed application form, including submission fee and CV, by 4 January 2016 to:…

This is an essay commissioned by Book Works in response to Diana Georgiou’s novel, Other Reflexes. We asked five writers and artists to each respond to one of the book’s…

News/Events
2024

…have. Didn’t yet pass the residue of our bodies back and forth; that confirmation of life coming alive between two islands. By the time our trip to Somerset came I…

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2011

…Studio. Course Dates: Thursdays from 2nd February to 29th March, 2012 Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm Cost: £200 per student Course contact details: jan@bookworks.org.uk Tel: 020 7247 2506 Click to download:…

…has achieved international recognition; the success of this book has increased as his work has reached an ever-wider audience. In 2013 he was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize. Originally…

…is a writer and academic based in Glasgow. Her first book, Mother State— a political history of motherhood — is forthcoming from Allen Lane. Her latest poetry pamphlet, In the Pleasure Dairy was published by Sad Press in…

News/Events
2020

…to all the staff at Book Works and do our part to prevent the spread of the virus. We are committed to completing projects with artists that are in production,…

News/Events
2014

…Tripp, the exhibition comprises writing, sound recordings, video, sculpture and printed matter, presented in conversation with the physical and symbolic environment of John Latham’s former home and studio. The Fabricator’s…

…to special editions and prints that are published from time to time. Visit our new website to see the full range of titles: www.bookworks.org.uk. Book Works is committed to making…

Preview 15 September, 3.00-5.00pm Edinburgh Printmakers 23 Union Street Edinburgh, EH1 3LR www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk Again, A Time Machine, reappears at Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, with the presentation of Make the Living Look…

https://vimeo.com/bookworks/battles1 The first of four short films commissioned by Book Works to mark the publication of Francesco Pedraglio’s Battles Vol. 1 (2022). Co-published by Book Works and Parallel // Oaxaca,…

This piece was commissioned by Book Works in response to Diana Georgiou’s novel, Other Reflexes. We asked five writers and artists to each respond to one of the book’s chapters,…

News/Events
2014

These are the sounds you can use for the Bird Song exercise in UR… A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning by Marcus Coates https://soundcloud.com/marcus_coates…

…3pm MOMA PS1 / Classroom Series 22-25 Jackson Ave Long Island City New York NY 11101 Readings and performances with Isla Leaver-Yap, Guiseppe Mistretta, Elaine Cameron-Weir and Charlotte Prodger http://nyartbookfair.com/events/…

…2022 Norma Mangione Gallery via Matteo Pescatore 17 10124 Turin normamangione.com Online event. Live readings, and discussions with Francesco Pedraglio and special guests 30 November 2022 Francesco Pedraglio’s new book…

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2020

An occasional series of online readings, performances and more from Book Works artists and authors in isolation. #1: Bridget Penney reads from her new novel Licorice (2020) here https://vimeo.com/403278253…

Tuesday 27 September, 1pm Online, free. RSVP. Graphic Negotiations, our series of online lunchtime talks with designers, is back. In it we invite graphic designers to talk about or present…

for Palestine), Zarina Muhammad (The White Pube), Rachael Jarvis (Director, The Mosaic Rooms) and Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA). All events are free and open to all, but capacity is…

Friday 15 September Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH Screening 12–7pm Talk/book launch 7–8.30pm Book free tickets Coinciding with the release of artist Deborah-Joyce Holman’s book Queen…

Friday 13 September 2024, 5pm. Index Art Book Fair Calle Buccari 3, S.Elena, Venice, Italy Free & open to all Book Works’ Director Gavin Everall will be part of an…

Weirdness Salon Saturday 3 June, 12.30–6pm Corbett Theatre, Hatfields, Loughton, IG10 3RY Free. Book your place here. Hamja Ahsan will be talking about his book, Shy Radicals, (now in its…

…Infants begin to see by noticing the edge of things. How do they know an edge is an edge? By passionately wanting it not to be. When not examining contemporary…

for the hard of hearing and D/deaf. You can book a free ticket here. Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s solo show, Practice Makes Perfect, is open at Bluecoats, Liverpool until 23rd January 2022….

We are very excited to be launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003. Dark Room will bring together…

8 November 2023, 6.45pm Phillida Reid, Grape Street Free and open to all. More info/book. This talk takes place on the occasion of Sahib’s solo exhibition The Life Cycle of a…

…and browse our new titles and all the other great artists books, zines and comics exhibitors. The fair is free to attend, more info on the Duplicate Publishing Fair website….

Wednesday 7 December, 1pm Online, free (RSVP) Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers…

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Saturday 13th June, 11am–6pm Cafe Oto, Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL Free We’ll be back at Cafe Oto this Saturday with a table at their special summer edition of the…

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2023

17 June 2023, 11am-7pm Presse Books at FormaHQ 140 Great Dover Street London, SE1 4GW Join us at Presse Books Fair, a free one-day festival bringing together over 30 independent…

…talks with designers, many of whom we’ve worked with in the past. The format and topic will vary, but all events will be online only, free to attend and will…

News/Events
2024

10–11 February Fruitmarket Edinburgh Free Book Works will be back in Edinburgh for the Artists’ Bookmarket, 10-11 February 2024. Artists’ Bookmarket is Edinburgh’s annual celebration of artists’ book culture and…

18 October 2023 Online Book your free ticket here. Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books. Graphic Negotiations is our series of online lunchtime…

…to book artists about their work and buy works of art. We’ll have a stall, and will also be doing some free artist’s surgeries at the fair – contact BABE…

Sunday 21 August, 3-5pm Free & open to all. Folsom Street Community Center 145 9th Street, Suite 105 San Francisco, CA 94103 Please note masks are required Dark Room by…

…put into action – sometimes it can feel frictionless and safe, but sometimes it also demands risk. Though the beauty of solidarity is that a group can come together and…

Meeting at Conway Hall (slight return) consists of three distinct works that utilise a combination of spoken word, printed matter, slides, and music that respond to existing texts and iconography….

…a visual portfolio. All events will be online only, free to attend and will be between 1-1.45 pm on weekdays. The first four events will be: Thursday 24th March –…

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2004

“The possible, implying the becoming – the passage from one to the other takes place in the infra-thin.” Marcel Duchamp Infra Thin Projects examines the limits and potential of the…

Thursday 22 August, 2024, 6.30pm Artwords Bookshop 2-4 Clarence Road, London E5 8HB Free but RSVP. Book Works’ Louisa Bailey and Gavin Everall will be taking part in this round…

…June for an event on Dark Room at queer bookshop Category Is. The event is currently sold out, but you can join the waiting list for a free ticket here….

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May 2023

12–14 May 2023 Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG Free and open to all. Book Works will be back in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall on the weekend of 12–14…

Saturday 24 February, 2024, 1–5pm Tate Britain Reading Rooms Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG Free but booking required. Book here. Cecilia Vicuña created Saborami in the aftermath of the September 1973…

…What Did You Do….. fundraising series (all proceeds to Medical Aid for Palestinians), as well as a range of recent and backlisted titles. It’s free as ever – come down!…

The Self-Illuminating Pen, published by MAP magazine, is a companion piece to Guitar! (forthcoming from Book Works). It takes the form of a series of ‘letters to the editor’ on writing in the…

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…are free to book for independent practitioners. In the past we have held these meetings in person, but are now offering them online. We are also available to universities and…

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…screen prints onto delicate Japanese Shoji paper. Reflecting the combined nature of the compositions, each book has a unique canvas fabric cover with a black-and-white pattern, screen printed with one of…

…Myers to create the detailed drawings of the contours of each of the 19 lakes so that the Studio could cut the contours from the pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUArSVOq4o The other important…

https://vimeo.com/468450486 An eight week course in hand boxmaking. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand boxmaking techniques including two-part box making, clamshell style box making and a slipcase. All…

https://vimeo.com/468449847 A nine week course in bookbinding taught by Ina Baumeister. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding techniques which can later be applied to their own work….