Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy (Special Edition, 2018) Each book is housed in a slip case, designed and handmade by Book Works’ studio….
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…or a combination of artworks, developed in response to one of the questions. Of all the questions ‘Has Man A Function In Universe?’ may be the key that binds and…
…last warning: The book is a practical manual. All the exercises have been tried and tested. All are achievable and have realistic aims, and have no need of prior knowledge….
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…
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…
…for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy is both a repository for the detritus of museum life and a working process, classifying the museum’s un-classifiable whilst exploring the bureaucratic…
…museum practice and lain abandoned. Dion’s Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy is both a repository for the detritus of museum life and a…
…and the effect on native wildlife. Presented as a cross-pollination of fact and fiction, this wonderfully inventive book takes the form of an illustrated natural history guide, offset by the…
I Know Where I’m Going is a collaborative book by writer Michael Bracewell and artist Linder. It functions as a gazetteer for the Heysham and Morecambe coast, once described on…
…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…
…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 from…
…to the same status as those that affect history. Each story comes with a drawing, a ‘potential stage’ for re-enacting the battle. Each story could be read as a script…
…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…
…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’…
…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’…
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…
…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…
…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…
…of presence and form that is deeply moving, completely and unbearably real.’ —Bhanu Kapil, author of How To Wash A Heart “[A] deeply moving work nestled in the violent maze…
…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 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…
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…
…book follows a two-year study of the Vauxhall and Nine Elms area by the artist commissioned by Art on the Underground and follows the format developed in Wakeford’s previous work…
‘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…
…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,…
Use this book as a field guide, lovingly prepared with words and images that do not satisfy but irritate – un vandalisme vernaculaire contre la servitude volontaire – a cavalier…
…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…
…Lao Tzu Drawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history of introvert struggles (Introfada), here for the first time is a detailed documentation of the political demands of shy…
…as part of What did you do… (2024) a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in…
…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…
…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…
…History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce provides a comprehensive insight into the complexities and slippages between individual drive and institutional context. An abridged chronology reflects the community of…
Rule Book is an extensive collection of guides, instructions, manuals and rules that have been amassed by Angela Bulloch. They are taken from sources as disparate as: parking restrictions, the…
…Fourier forms the basis of a discussion about the occupation of Sealand, his passional series and visionary designs of the Phalanx rouse the search for an islet of resistance. 3…
…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…
Dark Room San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003 (Special Edition, 2022) Handbound with an inset test print from Phyllis Christopher’s archive, and in a special slipcase designed and produced by…
…the small white monkeys, the text examines the author’s relationship with shame through a series of short studies on, amongst other things, cats, hair as a metonym for the self…
…nowhere, exploring the Antarctic as a hole in the imagination by combining Antarctic myths and fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming,…
…of the 1980s and 90s – combines with extracts from a dream diary and exchanges with family members. Added to this are newly commissioned texts and correspondence by Sita Balani,…
…determines the real. The northern whirlpool weave that provides the novel with its title has been used to confuse evil spirits and protect its wearer while asleep. Almost traditional stories…
…with a real band. In this guise it was a failure and soon 303s turned up in secondhand shops at knock-down prices. Here they were acquired by tech-hungry people, attracted…
…into the everyday, but rather demonstrate that everything is real, and the everyday is fantastical. Katrina Palmer is an artist and writer living in London. The first edition is now…
…explosion of ontic instability. It aims not to subsume fantasy into the everyday, but rather demonstrate that everything is real, and the everyday is fantastical. Katrina Palmer is an artist…
…never made, looking back at me.’ Now in a new third edition, with a newly designed cover, Katrina Palmer’s first ‘novel’ was commissioned from open submission and published as part…
…after four more years of clicking. Then, adequately crushed, my real life could commence. Until then, I’d open my novel in a tiny window in the bottom right-hand corner of…
…the artist: Sarah Tripp is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. Her research focuses on writing as relational research. She is author of Guitar! (Bookworks, 2020), The Self-Illuminating Pen…
…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…
…by the Freedom Festival Arts Trust, Hull Culture and Leisure Library Services and Book Works, in association with Hull History Centre, Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation,…
…Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Shup is an investigation into the cruelties and powerlessness of youth, a study of mutual oppression. Jordan Baseman, who grew up in America and would have turned sixteen…
…using quotations on their record sleeves, merchandising and as part of their live shows – as an escape from the mundane. Referencing Richard Hoggart’s seminal study The Uses of Literacy,…
…and betrayal. The book is a critical study that rewrites one of the key texts in psychoanalysis. A Case of Hysteria reveals an illuminating picture of Dora. The writer-turned detective…
…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…
…that combine illustrated fantasies, anecdotes and vignettes of the artist, alongside collages of the artist’s studio, personal communications and a film on paper. These and other sections demonstrate Prouvost’s peculiar…
…appropriate in a pocket. It might remind one of many things − missal, rhetorical guide, a treatise on aesthetics. If it belongs in no one place, well, that is somewhat…
Guidelines to the System is a book in three distinct parts. The first section ‘Landmarks’, consists of a pattern-cutter’s guide to measuring the body. The second section is a text,…
…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….
…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…
…a form of knowledge production. Reading Karl Marx questions the supposed centrality of the artists’ function, as Ganahl becomes a member of the discussion group thereby destabilising his role. The…
…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…
…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…
…exploring radio as a radical method of distribution, #ACCUMULATOR_PLUS seeks new ways of addressing questions of speed, communications technologies and the dynamics of interaction between local and global space, by…
…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…
…news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and…
…is to explore complex, paradoxical historical moments and the ideologies that shaped them, reflecting on how the redundant utopian elements of the past continue to structure contemporary society and remain…
…a series of drawings and paraphrased stories, extracted from Turkish newspapers from the last four decades. The news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated…
…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,…
…Commissioned for Beyond Words, Ruth Ewan has unearthed an unpublished manuscript of Nan Berger (1914–1998) – international activist, writer and editor, and lifelong member of the Communist Party. Now a…
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…
…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…
…the company of some extremely bright youngsters, the same youngsters I’d sing and drink with in a shabby little dive (the dive from which everything was to spring later). But…
…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 charge. The texts can also be…
…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…
…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,…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…reviews as a teenager to get free records and onto gig guest lists. After trying his hand at factory work and art-class modelling, he settled down to life on the…
…a platform for alternative modes of work and creation. Reporting, in sometimes hysterical, sometimes more poetic language, and with tongue firmly in cheek, the narrator recounts the vacillations of free…
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….
…single or double shelf works titled Nump, Holy Nation and Creature, Come Hither, were created from old copies of books about American history and featured the artists’ poetry on the…
Printed and bound presentation books promoting a real estate property. Bound in bookcloth with a copper triangle inlaid onto the front cover. The paper covered two-part case housing the book…
…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…
A large cloth covered box containing a limited edition necklace created by the artist. Each of the stone beads on the necklace is annotated on the printed guide on the…
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…
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Pamphlet produced for the touring exhibition The Reading Room….
Leaflet produced for the Book Works: A Women’s Perspective conference….
…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…
…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…
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…
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…
…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…
An assortment of test photographs and items of ephemera that were featured in the publication After the Freud Museum….
Test Polaroids of boxed multiples from After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller: preparatory images for the publication….
Documentation of the exhibition and reading room display at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery & Emancipation (WISE). Beyond Words at WISE comprises a reading room showing the…
Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy produced by Mark Dion in response to an invitation from Book Works to participate in the commission Make…
…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……
Article about Red Flag by Pavel Büchler in ‘The Guide’, The Guardian, dated 1 November, 1997….
Visual guide produced by Pavel Büchler to accompany the light installation Red Flag at Chetham’s Library, Manchester as part of the Library Relocations project….
…(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…
…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…
Correspondence from Jane Rolo, Book Works, to the artists’ collective Guerrilla Girls, with details and questions about the conference Book Works: A Women’s Perspective….
…(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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
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…on. And for that, I’m also going to just try to show some stuff on the screen. Yeah, if there is any kind of questions or things that come up,…
…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/…
…that I’m sure he’ll refer to, and one that’s a really good example of the collaborative approach we encourage. Currently, he’s working on a series commissioned from open submission, titled…
…really fortunate because it was almost completely frictionless. And I think it’s not a coincidence, as two creatives coming from the Arab region, who identify as queer, we understand what…
Our book of the month, with 30% off until the end of May, is Mark Dion’s Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy (2018). Recalling…
…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…
…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/…
Our Book of the Month for September, with 30% off all month, is UR… A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning by Marcus Coates. This book comes with a few warnings:…
…own desire running out ahead of me. Just an idea, shooting around the fleshy reality of a person like a dart missing the board completely. You were that, in all…
…produced in collaboration with other activists and other designers and artists. As a graphic designer, there’s something really, really enjoyable we think about making posters; it is like visual communication…
…National Lottery Fund Hamja Ahsan will have a table at the Pagemasters Zine Fair at South London Gallery on 2–3 September 2023 – more info here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTdDvd1PuM&t=3s Buy the book…
…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…
…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 /…
Wednesday 13 December, 1pm Online. Book a free place here. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book….
…around design and visual culture in Cairo and beyond, working under the title ‘Sporadic Schooling.’ https://www.engyaly.com Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in…
Stems Book Fair Helen Marten Studio, 55 Laburnum Street, London, E2 8BD 19-20 July 2025, 11am–6pm Free and open to all A new occasional book fair curated and hosted by…
…Fog. Kathryn Scanlan Jigisha Bhattacharya Idil Tekin Hosted and curated by Bhanu Kapil The venue has step free access. Please contact Bhanu Kapil at [email protected] if you have any questions….
…book launch is free and open to all. Refreshments provided. There is step-free access to the Clore Creative Studio. After 6pm the entrance will be through the Townsend cafe entrance. …
…programme also includes a conversation between Katrina Palmer and Oreet Ashery on 23 February (free but booking essential) and a guided tour with Dr Nadine Elzein on 3 March (more…
…previous series commissioned from open call, including: Semina, G.S.O.H The Rest is Dark, The Rest is Dark, Common Objectives, Contact and our most recent open submissions series, Interstices, guest edited…
…(200-300 words). The successful commissions will be announced in early 2026. Full submission guidelines and terms (download PDF) Equal opportunities monitoring form (download PDF). *See eligibility document for more information…
…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:…
Commissioning editor: Bridget Penney. This open call is now closed. Theme ‘Interstices are very small spaces “standing between” solid objects. Sometimes so minute the eye passes straight over them, yet…
…and we welcome proposals using various formats: from the tabloid, broadsheet, poster and the pamphlet, to web 2.0 platforms. New commissions will be published from Spring/Summer 2012 Click to download:…
…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…
…TATHAM AND TOM O’SULLIVAN BUREAU OF THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF SURREALISM AND ITS LEGACY – MARK DION EVEN THE DEAD RISE UP – FRANCIS MCKEE GO TO RECEPTION AND ASK…
…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…
…‘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,…
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…
…channels for one week, so that anyone in the world can view them. Marcus Coates’ book, UR…A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning, is available from the Book Works shop. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJwYEcePVTSb5i3TLclRD2X9cZX_kRCZj…
…of titles: www.bookworks.org.uk. Book Works is committed to making a positive impact to address inequality and discrimination. Through our work, employment and audience engagement, we pursue a programme that foregrounds…
This workshop 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…
Friday 8 September, 6–8pm Phillida Reid 10 – 16 Grape Street London, WC2H 8DY Free and open to all Come and join Book Works and Phillida Reid Gallery for the…
…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…
…colonialism, sex and gender, freedom of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of…
Wednesday 7 August, 6.30pm London Centre for Book Arts, E3 2NQ Book a free place here. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in…
…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…
‘What would it mean to let the custodian, archivist, librarian guide a research enquiry through her personal testimony of the histories, people and drama of a collection’s narrative? To court…
We are delighted to announce a new series of our conversations with designers, Graphic Negotiations, starting on 20 September. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and…
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…
5–6 October, 2024, 11am–9pm (Sat) 11am–6pm (Sun) Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354, 1190 Brussels Free and open to all, no booking required. Book Works will be in attendance at the Wiels…
…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…
…in London, Glasgow and Birmingham. Please come along and join us at one of these free events . For the London launch at Reference Point on 30 November, Amy 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,…
…(no more than one side A4 please) and a completed equal opportunity form, downloadable on this page. Text submissions should be no more than 2,000 words, 12 point, with a…
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…
…Pierce provides a comprehensive insight into the complexities and slippages between individual drive and institutional context. An abridged chronology reflects the community of curators, students, archivists, reading groups and artists…
Our book of the month, with 30% off during July, is The Unspeakable Freedom Device by Jennet Thomas (2015). ‘This is your new device. The purpose of this device has…
…the project, Fusco will commission six new solo-authored chapbooks drawn from open submission and invitation, which will be co-published by Book Works and The Common Guild throughout 2018. Lisa Robertson…
…utopian dreams. A download code for the album, included as a bookmark insert, is available on purchase of the book. Andrew E. Colarusso’s Black Body Index takes the concept of the…
…and published by Book Works. This audio event will expand upon themes in the printed journal – commissioning new audio work from contributors to this issue, and the eleven previous ones. Contributors…
…Studio. Course Dates: Thursdays from 2nd February to 29th March, 2012 Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm Cost: £200 per student Course contact details: [email protected] Tel: 020 7247 2506 Click to download:…
…at Book Works. You will work directly with our Directors, as well as our Publishing Manager. Download an application pack and full job description here. TO APPLY Email [email protected] with…
…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…
…through research into Glasgow Women’s Library’s Archive Collections and Lending Library, small white monkeys incorporates material from the library’s archives and the work of female creators past and present, including Anna Mendelssohn,…
…Commission on the Private Manufacture of and Trading in Arms. Harry Pollit, General Secretary of the Communist Party, gave evidence both in writing and verbally to the Commission. His evidence…
…combining Antarctic myths and fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories. Co-published by Book Works…
…ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site…
…a world that blurs the boundaries between creator and creation, between real life and the life of the imagination, between reality and imagined fiction in which he is a leading…
…an initial period of research/residency. You Must Locate A Fantasy is Book Works’ ongoing Library Residencies Programme, presenting a series of residencies and commissions for artists to work with libraries,…
…stake driven through their heart, though it’s unclear that this was common practice in reality). The legend of Nan Kemp has it that she murdered her newborn baby, baked it…
…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…
Beyond Words, a new open call seeking proposals for two artists’ residencies based at the Hull History Centre and Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery (WISE) in Hull, with…
…in her analysis as clues to the unlocking of a story of love and betrayal. The book is a critical study that rewrites one of the key texts in psychoanalysis….
…freedom of information, protest and censorship, Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of…
…from the start to realise, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision. Graphic Negotiations is our series of online lunchtime talks…
…slipcase making. On Monday evenings, starting on 21st September. See PDF for details. Course contact details: Email: [email protected] Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London EC2A 4JB Telephone: 020 7247 2536 www.bookworks.org.uk/studio…
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…
…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,…
…12–6pm The Showroom 63 Penfold Street London NW8 8PQ Tel. 020 7724 4300 www.theshowroom.org The Artist Talks is an exhibition of new work by Dublin-based artist Sarah Pierce, co-commissioned by…
A symposium on independent publishing and publishing by artists, exploring why producers feel compelled to deliver such materials, and the economic models and audiences that ensure their cultural presence. Contributors…
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,…
…titled Theological Positions On Fried Chicken, which can be viewed below. For more information on the programme and visiting Kassel go to the documenta fifteen website. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIk899bYfqf6-VdBC7YmZ2QZoDE_B5LWy Order Shy Radicals…
…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…
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,…
…Slavs and Tatars, Mark Titchner and Emily Wardill. Each artist has compiled a list of books and publications of significance to their practice: revealing different methodologies, and idiosyncratic or irreverent…
…a filmed restaging of particular episodes from their lives. Following extensive research and discussion, the five short films challenge cultural stigma through an attempt to understand different realities. Each director…
A new exhibition by Marcus Coates, Peter Liversidge and Goshka Macuga, Notes on Protesting, opens tomorrow at the Kate MacGarry gallery. The show explores ideas around protest and demonstration, and…
I Know Where I’m Going: A Guide to Morecambe and Heysham by Michael Bracewell and Linder is our February 2025 Book of The Month, with 30% off all month. A…
…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 the students,…
…sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated 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…
…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…
…CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, G2 3JD This workshop will act as an introduction to the process of editing in relation to Book Works own programme of commissions. It is…
…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…
…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…
…Cammock has brought together some of the voices that have come out of Hull’s history to ask some questions about what freedom, liberty and openess means for a city, its…
…here. There are a couple of places left on this course – if you would like to book or have any questions please contact Jan on jan @ bookworks.org.uk or…
…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…
Invited to be the 2024 National Gallery Artist in Residence Katrina Palmer’s The Touch Report draws on research made during this year, and forms the centre of the resulting exhibition…
30 June 2024, 2pm Cafe Oto Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL Free but RSVP Come and celebrate with Roy Claire Potter and friends on 30 June at Cafe Oto for…
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…
…performance presented in the context of HANNAH SAWTELL: ACCUMULATOR (New Museum, New York, 2014). Examples include: SAWBAUM, a free-to-use online collaging application developed in 2014 by the artist and programmer…
…back when. It’s August. The rain shows no sign of stopping. Licorice, a reclusive middle-aged filmmaker, has only a brief window of opportunity to realise her long-cherished film project about…
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…
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…
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…
…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….
What did you do… (2024) is a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of commissions and book making. In response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing…
…only, free to attend and will be between 1-1.45 pm on weekdays. This is the final event in this series, and we’ll be announcing a new series starting in Autumn…
…and collectives, as well as a free public programme of talks, workshops and parties. We’ll have all our new titles and backlist bestsellers available all weekend, come and say hi!…
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!…
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…
25 January 2023, 5.30pm Brighton CCA, University of Brighton Free and open to all. Booking required. Join RESOLVE Collective’s Summer House for a special in conversation between artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh…
31 May 2023, 9–9.45pm North Cloisters, Wilkins Building University College, London Free, no booking required. More info. Nina Wakeford will be giving a performance around her book, Our Pink Depot:…
Saturday 18 May 2024, 10.45am Offprint London Turbine Hall, Tate Modern (McAulay Studio) Free, open to all. Come and join us at Tate Modern on Saturday, which we’ll be kicking…
…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…
…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. More about…
The Freedom Deficit by Between the Borders explores the collectives’ ongoing concerns about issues of citizenship and migration. Libita Clayton’s FORGET THAT GUY (message from a freedom fighter), is a…
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…
…Council for Civil Liberties, and the anti-apartheid struggle. Commissioned for Beyond Words, as part of the Freedom Festival in Hull, Ruth Ewan is an artist based in Glasgow, known for…
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…
…and she’ll be signing copies at on the Book Works stall afterwards. See you there! To find out more visit the Offprint site, or book a free ticket via Tate….
Tuesday 27 February, 2024 5.30–7.30pm Newnham College Cambridge Free and open to all. More information/RSVP. Join Cambridge Visual Culture to celebrate the publication of a new edition of Saborami with…
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…
Thursday 11 April 2024, 6:30pm Immersion Room, 7th Floor, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South Free. Open to the public. Non-NYU guests must RSVP here. “‘I think of many…
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…
Marina Vishmidt Claire Makhlouf Carter: Demo – Penfold Street Chicks on Speed: A Modest Proposal 14 February, 6.30–9.00pm The Showroom 63 Penfold Street London NW8 8PQ This event is free,…
…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…
…work with us on Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room, as well as their other work and research interests. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas…
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…
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 new event series exploring the role of designers in creating artists’ books. Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form…
…of the long-awaited Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988–2003. The launch is free and open to all – for more info visit the Grand Union site. Dark Room brings…
Phyllis Christopher will be in conversation about her work with curator and editor of Dark Room Laura Guy, and Book Works commissioning editor Lizzie Homersham, on Wednesday 8th December at…
“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…
…and shame, based on research into the Glasgow Women’s Library’s collections. The book examines the author’s relationship with shame through a series of short studies on, amongst other things, cats, hair as a…
…O’Hare (Ma Bibliothèque, 2024). Readings from 7pm, followed by drinks and a chance to view the current exhibition About A Ray Book: Putting Ray Johnson on the Page. Free, RSVP here…
Kathryn Scanlan is coming to the UK in June to launch Aug 9 – Fog, which we are publishing here for the first time. First on 6th June, Kathryn will…
…The Night and The Night (Michèle Bernstein) as part of the Common Objectives series. Erik and Moa have a background as designers, art directors and writers in the arts, fashion…
Wednesday 13 July, 6pm-9pm The Bower Brunswick Park London SE5 7FH Free and open to all Please join us for the launch of Practice Makes Perfect by Rosa-Johan Uddoh, co-published by Book…
Opening: Saturday 14 January, 2–5pm Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, NY Show open 14 January–26 February 2023 Both free, no booking needed. More info. A touring exhibition of shortlisted books…
23 September 2022, 6.30pm The Photographers’ Gallery 16-18 Ramillies Street London, W1F 7LW Free. More details/RSVP Join artist Mahmoud Khaled and designer Marwan Kaabour as they discuss their collaboration on…
October 23 2024, 1pm Online. Free but RSVP. Graphic Negotiations is back for a fourth series of online conversations with designers, with the first event featuring regular Book Works collaborators,…
…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….
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…
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…
…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!…
Burley Fisher Books Thurs June 1, 2023, 6.30–8.30pm Free but book a place here. Join us for the launch of Other Reflexes, the debut novel by Diana Georgiou. Published by…
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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…events, our workshops, artists surgeries and education activities, and through our interest in collaborating with other organisations and libraries. Our programme of commissions is diverse, and reflects our commitment not…
…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…
…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…
https://vimeo.com/468450486 A three week course in hand boxmaking. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to make a half solander box with a magnetic flap closure. All materials and…
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….