Books

Rosa-Johan Uddoh
2022
£15.00

Comprising of new writing and works drawn from, and a part of, Uddoh’s 2021 exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Practice Makes Perfect focuses on themes of radical self-love, inspired by…

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…

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…

Derica Sheilds
2021
Forthcoming

…researcher and cultural worker from London. As part of a 2017 Triple Canopy commission, she is completing an oral history project around Black people’s accounts of the UK welfare state….

Jennet Thomas
2015
£12.00

search again. Jennet Thomas is an artist based in London, whose primary medium is experimental narrative video, driven by a writing practice that sometimes manifests as performed monologues. In addition…

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…lid box with a magnetic closure. All materials and tools will be supplied. Timetable and further information here. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will…

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…

Céline Condorelli
2014
Out of print

…of Céline Condorelli, whether in the sculptural structures of her artwork, through the writing and discourse that is embedded in her work, or in the practice of support that frames…

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…

Arts Against Cuts
2015
Out of print

…art practices engaged with emerging political struggles, rejecting the idea of culture as a playground for the elite, engaging in the potent mix of free discourse, solidarity and the production…

Liam Gillick
2009
£375.00

…(and are informed by) his art practice. Gillick’s line of enquiry is into conditions of production, including how it continues to operate in a post-industrial landscape: questions of economy, labour…

Rainer Ganahl
2001
£7.50

…the discussion of issues and ideas. Often seen as an extra-artistic activity the notion of reading and discussion is used by Ganahl as a means to question artistic practice as…

edited by Gavin Everall and Jane Rolo
2012
£17.50

…circuits of practice that have materialised in the form of books, writing, magazines, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice, contributors include: A Estante, An Endless Supply, AND, Banner…

Victoria Halford & Steve Beard
2013
£8.00

…Works as part of Common Objectives, guest edited by Nina Power; edition of 1,000 copies; 56 pages; 27 b/w images, soft cover; designed by A Practice for Everyday Life; 210…

…is a Swedish artist known for his text based works, poetry and readings. His work involves writing, installation, video and performance, often in combination. In his eclectic practice, language works…

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…

Christian Nold
2001
£7.50

…act as a cohesive whole. At once a textual treatise, a visual manual and an audio tool, Mobile Vulgus has developed out of in-depth research, alongside test situations in Bristol…

…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…

Francesco Pedrgalio
2022
£16.50

…characterise almost all of historical events and end up changing the course of their action. Mixed into the historical stories are personal accounts, trivial and idiosyncratic events that become elevated…

Everyone Agrees
2013
£8.00

…art practices engaged with emerging political struggles, rejecting the idea of culture as a playground for the elite, engaging in the potent mix of free discourse, solidarity and the production…

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…

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…

Lucy Kimbell
2002
£9.95

‘Some readers will find this book extremely irritating… Some readers will want to know if the methods explored in this book have any relevance as research tools in the field…

Mike Nelson
2003
Out of print

…suggests an ‘Interzone’ − demonstrating a parallel experience which questions the purpose of Nelson’s constructed spaces and examines what is really going on behind the scenes. Magazine can be experienced…

Francis McKee
2017
Out of print

…a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art. Since 2011 he has been working as lead researcher on an AHRC research project – The Glasgow Miracle: Materials Towards…

Maria Lindberg
2002
£20.00

Inspired by Fluxus, Lindberg’s practice spans different media and concepts, however the material nature of the work is key, materials and objects are often found and given back to us…

Helen Cammock
2017
£25.00

Moveable Bridge is our Book of The Month, October 2023 The research has looked at how communities can open up and close down – offering freedom and sanctuary to those…

Michèle Bernstein
2021
£12.95

…individual art practices engaged with emerging political struggles, rejecting the idea of culture as a playground for the elite, engaging in the potent mix of free discourse, solidarity and the…

Edited by Maria Fusco
2010
Out of print

…their embrace of poetic analysis. Drawing theme and method from a new translation of Roland Barthes’ notes for a lecture course The Preparation of the Novel, which starts ‘…as if…

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….

…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’

Maria Fusco
2015
Out of print

…of Cruachan itself as a main character. Fusco uses original writing, archival materiality and topographical reportage as her tools to compress geology, mythology and technology: to write the inside of…

Bouchra Khalili
2019
£25.00

…installation commissioned for documenta 14, which took Athens as a site to reflect on radical equality, democracy and theatre as a civic space, the book brings to light the specific…

Alun Rowlands
2007
£12.00

Communiqués is a documentary fiction charting a journey through the marginal histories of communalism, self-presentation and collective agency. It forges a subjunctive archaeology that renegotiates utopian propositions as a way…

Iphgenia Baal
2017
£9.95

Merced Es (10 November 2011 at 11.03pm) whenever i write things on facefuck, i can always imagine them being read out at a later date in court… Like · Comment…

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…

Janice Kerbel
2000
Out of print

…floor plans that mark the building’s blind spots. Kerbel’s meticulous plans include every possible detail required to commit the perfect crime. The ubiquitous fantasy of a bank robbery functions as…

commissioned as part of our most successful and most experimental commissioning platform – our annual open submission programme. This programme is developed with a guest editor to commission new works…

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…

Edited by Maria Fusco with Ian Hunt
2004
Out of print

…of production through to distribution. Combining an interest in what and why publishers and artists feel compelled to deliver such materials, together with the economic models, audience and networks of…

Ruth Ewan
2012
£10.00

…riots and racial inequality, in voices that resonate with the ancient call for freedom, common ownership and equality. The book presents the plans, drawings, photographs, interviews and texts led by…

Steve Beard
1998
£9.95

…and sometimes unreadable prose propels writing/reading to its limits. Steve Beard has, through his use of writing manipulated by computer technology, produced a book that questions the relevance of the…

Daniel Jewesbury
2001
£7.50

…from his past that denote potential sites for events in the novel. A newly-commissioned text by Kathleen J. Cassity, Identity in Motion, further questions the nature of this fluid subject….

Ahmet Öğüt
2007
£9.95

questions what we perceive to be news and the construction of truth, fiction and history. Text in Turkish and English. Co-published by Book Works and Platform Garanti, and edited with…

…from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and questions what we perceive to be news and the construction of truth, fiction…

Eva Weinmayr
2005
Out of print

Eva Weinmayr presents a collection of newsstand posters − capitalized handwritten legends that condense complex realities into three or four-line news splashes. Charged with meaning, these headlines give no information;…

Amy Ching-Yan Lam
2024
£18.00 (Reduced from £20.00)

…home when I was seventeen. They said that this year would be a revisiting of that event, but it would happen in a completely different way.’ From December 2021 to…

Sarah Tripp
2020
£12.00

…new. With cover artwork by Ciara Phillips, it comprises five letters, five writing exercises and over 100 blank notebook pages. Published by Glasgow-based MAP Editions it is available free of…

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…

edited by Federica Bueti
2013
£8.00

…Supply; 198 x 287 mm; ISBN 978 1 906012 49 6 – Price £8.00. Common Objectives is a series of quick-fire, rapid-response projects from artist/writer collectives or individual art practices…

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…

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…

…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…

…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…

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,…

Christine Borland
2001
£17.50

…Borland is an artist who likes to play detective. Her practice has constantly embraced scientific thought and research as a means of exploring the ‘fragile yet resilient nature of our…

edited by Jane Rolo and Camilla Wills
2014
£3.50

compiled a list of books and publications of significance to their practice: revealing different methodologies, and idiosyncratic or irreverent ways of researching and gaining knowledge. The selection ranges from Shelley’s…

Emily Wardill & Ian White
2010
£15.00

…and quotations, and containing extensive reproductions of Wardill’s work, the book’s content and design reflects the labyrinthine, and sometimes hallucinogenic quality of her films and their radical combination of form,…

Heather and Ivan Morison
2009
£12.95

…These interests are continued in a series of newly commissioned sculptures and shelters. Continuing their explorations and investigations into cultures of self-sufficiency, Falling into Place brings many elements of the…

Frances Stark
1999
Out of print

…contemporary art practice. Stark’s wry, humane and often playful text, examines the inherent tensions − both emotional and social − that operate at the juncture where the private and the…

Ayo Akingbade
2023
£20.00

…Ikeja Industrial Estate. Completed in 1962, in the wake of Nigeria’s independence from Britain, Akingbade aims to highlight the politics embedded in the beverage’s production, by focusing on the way…

Edited by Maria Fusco
2009
Out of print

Out of Print. Reading lists by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Maria Fusco, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors, Francesco Pedraglio and Gail Pickering and The Great Books Foundation Primer, as…

curated by Jane Rolo and Camilla Wills
2014
Out of print

compiled a list of books and publications of significance to their practice: revealing different methodologies, and idiosyncratic or irreverent ways of researching and gaining knowledge. The selection ranges from Shelley’s…

Laure Prouvost
2019
Out of print

…19 May 2019. Legsicon delves into the philosophical depths of the artist’s practice, through the familiar, if transformed, format of a lexicon, to portray the work of an artist developing…

…traverse and negotiate knowledge. This issue comprises a temporary assembly of individuals who are acutely and intelligently aware that what we choose to do with our bodies, how we express…

Laure Prouvost
2019
£300.00 + VAT

…anniversary programme of support towards our new commissions. Book Works would like to thank Laure Prouvost for her ongoing generosity, and support. About the work: The octopus is taken from…

Sarah Tripp
2014
£12.00

A collection of short stories and vignettes concerned with the dynamics of social interaction and the construction of character. These stories employ a variety of tones and forms to examine…

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
2019
£14.95

…Tom O’Sullivan have been working together in a collaborative art practice since meeting on the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art. Published by Book Works in association with Hospitalfield,…

…Wade and explores a practice that he refers to as ‘upcycling’, a process of stealing, copying, recycling, using other texts and artworks, and responding to existing conditions. ‘Upcycle this book….

Avis Newman
1993
Out of print

Avis Newman is an artist whose practice takes many forms. Supplement represents an opportunity for Newman, whose work has persistently focused on the relationship between description and knowledge to address…

…explores a practice that he refers to as ‘upcycling’, a process of stealing, copying, recycling, using other texts and artworks, and responding to existing conditions. ‘Upcycle this book. Rewrite it…

Frances Stark
2003
Out of print

…create meandering, off-centred texts that are often humorous and at the same time highly readable. This book also includes facsimiles of The Unspeakable Compromise of the Portable Work of Art…

Praneet Soi
2020
£17.50

for his explorations of socio-political nuances and media representations. His practice incorporates traditional methods of miniature painting and sculpture, as well as time-based media such as video and sound. Recent…

…contributions, this issue takes a hoarding, brutally accelerative approach and considers reading, too, as an unsustainable activity. Guest editor Sophia Al-Maria’s archive acts a sort of proto-Tumblr composed of school…

Mo-Leeza Roberts
2015
£9.95

…sponsors, gives out MAs in curatorial practice, commissions spiritual tracts, does expert restoration where apoc-damage is concerned, plans corporate events and retreats, disappears interns, holds alcohol support group sessions, funds…

Alice Walter
2024
£14.00

…in Fine Art, Film and Video from Central Saint Martins, UAL and a MFA from The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University. Her practice combines collage, psychosexual sculpture, VHS and…

Slavs and Tatars
2013
Out of print

…of convergence in Iran and Poland’s economic, social, political, religious and cultural histories. Drawing on Slavs and Tatars’ multi-disciplinary practice encompassing research, installations, lecture-performances and print media, this publication embraces…

Gavin Wade
2017
Out of print

The book collects for the first time the writings of Gavin Wade and explores a practice that he refers to as ‘upcycling’, a process of stealing, copying, recycling, using other…

Hannah Dawn Henderson
2017
Out of print

Being, In a State of Erasureis currently out of print. ‘My artistic practice is concerned with locating performative and narrative methods with which to bring contemporary socio-political discourse into dialogue…

Edited by Robert Garnett & Andrew Hunt
2008
£9.95

…academic journal in order to create new conjunctions and productive disjunctions between theory and practice out of which new voices and new modes of art writing emerge. Contributors include: Jennifer…

guest edited by Lynne Tillman
2013
£8.00

…to Kafka – to that which we don’t know has damaged us – freedom is presented as an important and urgent concept, and a complicated word, in which and beside…

Harun Morrison
2022
Forthcoming

…exhibition at Eastside Projects, Birmingham in 2021, new soundwork in the Dakar Biennial 2020 and the design of a community garden in Liverpool, Merseyside, commissioned by Rule of Threes. Since…

…illuminates the interior when the lid is opened. The video screen contained inside the lid is operated by simply touching the ‘on’ button to the top right of the screen….

…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…

Menu holders for a variety of clients covered in a variety of different materials, and showing different approaches of housing the contents….

A short-run presentation book for the owners of the residence in Riyadh. Printed and bound by the Studio incorporating a series of applied panels in different materials combined with gold…

Unique series of five different books based on the Five Elements each containing original calligraphy by the artist. The bindings were covered using different layered materials revealing coloured cores. Letterpress…

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

David Bunn
1997
1 leaf (recto)

Photographic print (one of several copies) that formed the visual material for the installation and performances Here, There and Everywhere by David Bunn. Commissioned as part of the Library Relocations…

Beatriz Milhazes; Book Works Studio
2008
1 leaf (recto)

A piece of foil blocked material produced by Book Works Studio to be used within collaged elements of the book Meu Bem by Beatriz Milhazes….

Andrew Dodds
2006
5 leaves (recto)

Four postcard sized collages produced by Andrew Dodds for his publication Lost in Space, no. 4 in the Chap Books series….

Mel Jackson
1997
8 leaves (recto)

Photographs of varied sizes, comprising the visual material to accompany the publication, The Brazen Oracle by Mel Jackson….

Katrina Palmer
2014
10 items

…act as an introduction to the process of editing in relation to artists’ books, covering questions relating to both writing and images, collaborative writing practices, rules and protocol, grammar and…

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

…responses to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’ ‘The previous regime … / Communism is next …’, Pil & Galia Kollectiv (2011) ‘Rorschach Test, first blot, 1921’, Sarah…

2017
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Focusing on the issues of slavery and colonialism, sex and gender, freedom of information, protest and censorship, Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of…

2017
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Focusing on the issues of slavery and colonialism, sex and gender, freedom of information, protest and censorship, Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of…

…Book Works has commissioned three projects that extend and develop the interest and issues of freedom, from archive re-search, through family history, personal memories, and political conjuncture. Two artists, Helen…

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/…

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……

A selection of visual documentation from the exhibition Mutter by the artist and writer Kit Poulson, who was the library residency artist during 2016/17 through a collaborative commission platform titled…

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

…responses to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’ by Katrina Palmer, 2011 Again, A Time Machine, Printed Matter A Poster Project, Jonathan Monk 79.89.09, newspaper by Slavs and…

Curated by Book Works
2012
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…Make the Living Look Dead by Sarah Pierce (2011) Artist response to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’ Extract from ‘Autonomy is not worth the paper it is…

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

…from The Wanderer (The Storage) by Laure Prouvost Artists’ responses to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’ This Exhist in the Passed Ony … This Will Survive The…

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

…(1993). From the moment you read …, extract from letter to Book Works Douglas Gordon (1993). Artists’ responses to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’: All the things…

Curated by Book Works
2012
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…(2011) and The Ice Cream Empire by Kit Poulson (2011) Time Machine VOX, from open submission advertisement (2010) Artists’ responses to the questions ‘What is previous?’ ‘What is next?’: ‘Learn…

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

…an installation by Glyn Banks and Hannah Vowels at Book Works (1985). Images from Stewart Home’s archive, including Becoming (M)other, Prostitution II and Smile ephemera. Artist’s response to the questions

…from 25 January – 3 March 2017. The reading exercises were printed on pink A4 paper, and made available in the library and gallery over the course of the show….

News

…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/…

*** This course is full. Please check the website for our Monday evening course. *** A nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Course on Wednesdays. Students will have the opportunity…

…the 2021 exhibition at Focal Point Gallery,  Practice Makes Perfect focuses on themes of radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing. The book comprises a collection of experimental writing…

…work by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, an interdisciplinary artist working towards radical self-love, inspired by black feminist practice and writing…‘Practice Makes Perfect’ explores the relationship of childhood education with popular ideas 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/…

Due to our October Bookbinding for Beginners course having filled up so quickly we are running another course in February. Course details are below. A nine week course in hand…

…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…

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…

*** Only few places left. *** A nine week Concertina & Boxmaking Evening Course on Wednesdays. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including concertina…

A nine week Bookbinding & Boxmaking Evening Course on Mondays. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including concertina binding, starbook with pop- up elements,…

News/Events
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:…

…Peter Maybury. Following the American sociologist C. Wright Mills’ suggested practice of filing the ideas that compel you, then periodically unpacking, shuffling and spreading out the contents in search of…

…I began my research by compiling a document of first-person accounts and testimonies pertaining to experiences of sexual violence and associated trauma. The result was something akin to Svetlana Alexievich’s…

…unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will…

…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,…

…of Art, Oxford University. Her practice combines collage, psychosexual sculpture, VHS and shamanism. Through these disciplines, Alice creates surreal and sensory spaces that open channels for the unseen. www.alicewalter.info /…

*** This course is full. Please check the website for our Wednesday evening course. Or contact Jan for the next round of courses in Autumn. *** A nine week Bookbinding…

…final two weeks will include making a slipcase to contain the books made during the course. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run…

…and features a selection of artwork, including Art Strike Bed, Vermeer II and Becoming (M)other, with publications and ephemera. It presents a comprehensive overview of a practice that demonstrates a…

…or genre or come up with some completely different way of investigating the “spaces between”. ’ – Bridget Penney Listen to the theme of Interstices elaborated with readings by Bridget Penney, alongside…

…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…

…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…

…Department of Typography and Graphic Communication, at the University of Reading, where she is also a Lecturer in Design. Her research investigates the design and technological challenges associated with publishing…

Book Works is running two evening classes, Bookbinding for Beginners and Boxmaking for Beginners. Bookbinding for Beginners is a nine week course on Monday evenings starting on 29th January. Students…

News/Events
2014

…will act as an introduction to the process of editing in relation to artists’ books, covering questions relating to both writing and images, collaborative writing practices, rules and protocol, grammar…

…architects and cultural institutions to realise projects together. Recent work includes exhibition graphics for Wellcome Collection, publications with artist Pablo Bronstein, and a visual identity for architecture practice Counterspace. https://markelkhatib.com

…of books, writing, magazines, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice, contributors include: A Estante, An Endless Supply, AND, Banner Repeater, Claire Makhlouf Carter, Eastside Projects, Maria Fusco, Dora…

…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

News/Events
2023

…motifs in Western art history. The script, written by the artist, takes a pantomime like approach and is inspired by the artist’s archival research into Black presences in Europe, as…

…the circuits of practice that have materialised in the form of books, writing, printed matter, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice – where each new manifestation of the…

…by contacting either the Una Marson Library or National Poetry Library. Order Practice Makes Perfect. Image: She is Still Alive! by Rosa-Johan Uddoh in Southwark Park. Artist flag co-commissioned by…

Artists are playing with words again – raiding the archive, bringing the dead to life, making the living look dead. Quicker than the ever-elusive present, they are forging a practice

…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:…

…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…

…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…

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,…

…unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will…

…contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The course will be for

…contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The course will be for

…and contemporary styles. During the courses we will use a range of different materials. Each course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina…

A nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Course on Wednesdays. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including multi section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese…

New dates for our bookbinding courses. We are running two courses (Traditional Structures & Alternative Structures), both of which are open to all comers. The course for Traditional Structures is…

Course. He completed a practice-based PhD entitled ‘A Knowing Wrongness: Innovation in graphic design through combinations of traditional mastery and deliberately unconventional techniques’ at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, in January 2022…

…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…

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…

…non-profit forms of publishing and instigate research into the agency of the artists publication and the capacities of the artist-led press. Looking to the pasts, presents and futures of the…

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…

…fellow Contact authors Momtaza Mehri, and Derica Shields. Friday 17 January 2020, 7pm-9pm PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL Free – book a place here. Airport Love Theme is…

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….

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…

…methodological relationship between graphic design and queer culture. Alongside their practice they teach on the MA Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts. They will be discussing their recent…

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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…

Practice Makes Perfect author Rosa-Johan Uddoh will be appearing alongside an excellent array of artists, performers and activities at the Jupiter Rising festival this weekend (26-28 August) at the Jupiter…

practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works. Citing the Brazilian writer…

…are focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of…

…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…

…with metal rods rising out of tree trunks cut to look like bouquets of flowers. It’s by Cypriot contemporary artist Theodoulos Gregoriou, commissioned in 1995 and simply titled Resolution.Walking the…

“As commander-in-chief of the introvert resistance, Hamja is on a never-ending tour to overthrow Extrovert Supremacy. This film is just the beginning.” – Tom Dream A new film by Tom…

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…

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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,…

…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/…

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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…

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,…

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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…

…to work with the publishing team on our programme of artists’ book commissions. You will assist the Director with the commissioning of new publications and projects, and managing the editorial…

…and the Flea, implicating them in questions around growth, extraction, contamination and existence within systems of control. It includes new sculpture, painting, installation, light and sound work and runs until…

…‘thing’, ‘good’ becomes unassailable. My claim will be supported by biased comparison. ‘Excellent’ infers a simpering interest in competition, in excelling beyond others. It introduces a hierarchical feel to proceedings,…

News/Events
2024

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…

The Game An interview with Michèle Bernstein, novelist and founding member of the Situationist International by Gavin Everall frieze magazine, September 2013 ‘We were all Marxists, or course – still…

…and producing Blunt Instrument, a new limited-edition book for the artist Mary Ramsden. This combined new writing by various invited authors with Ramsden’s latest collaged works and featured an amazing…

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…

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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…

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…

…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….

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…

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!…

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…

Sunday 3 December, 4 – 6:30pm Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London Free, booking required. Poetry, readings, screenings and listening sessions with a closing performance by Elaine Mitchener Inspired…

…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…

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

…works commissioned by Book Works, that utilize a combination of spoken word, printed matter, slides and music that respond to existing texts and iconography. As the slide play collides with…

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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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…

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…

…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!…

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…

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…

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…

…the end of November. Beginning as an investigation into the apparently disparate events that bookend the twentieth and twenty-first century – the collapse of Communism and the Islamic Revolution in…

…statement here. In 2020 Book Works also published The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and Its Afterlives, in which the artist reflects on his seven decades of practice. Order it here….

…November as part of a day of events celebrating the Jarman Awards shortlist. Rosa will be reading from their new book, Practice Makes Perfect (order it here) The other shortlisted…

…Fellow. Forthcoming activities include an exhibition at Eastside Projects, Birmingham in 2021, new soundwork in the Dakar Biennial 2020 and the design of a community garden in Liverpool, Merseyside, commissioned…

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2008

…carves out new territories and disrupts established forms. No consensus of practice is aimed for, rather these six events present a range of singular and contesting voices, including: Eileen Daly,…

…Jane has led publishing and commissioning at Book Works, building a singular approach to working with artists. Her incomparable contribution to art and publishing has been to foreground a unique…

practice through words, images, books, and ephemera, that begins to anticipate the past, forecast possible histories and re-visit alternative futures. Again, A Time Machine reappears at Motto, Berlin with a…

…this exhibition proceeds from an assumption that the elliptical thrust that animated the development of conceptual art practice stems from a libidinal attempt to recover and make into surplus the…

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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….

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…

…Art, Minneapolis, USA Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, USA Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, USA Landesbibliothek…

…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…

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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…

Farshid Moussavi Architects

This was a commission from architect Farshid Moussavi who wanted to present a gift to the Royal Academy of Arts in London after being elected as a member. The idea…

…solutions, develop prototypes and specialise in unique book artworks, boxes and portfolios. We have an extensive range of examples of work and a huge stock of materials for clients to…

…almost any form and we have access to a huge variety of materials. We are also happy to provide design input into your project, or work to your own specifications….

…binding methods, and a vast array of different materials. We can work directly to a clients’ requirements, or assist in the design process to make books that will stand apart….

Douglas Gordon A limited edition of a seven volume set of books featuring the artists’ response to one of the seven deadly sins. Published by Seven Sins Press. Envy Christian…

…bookbinding courses. The Studio generates income from clients and is self-sufficient. PUBLISHING Book Works Publishing is dedicated to commissioning and supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated…