PAST EVENT
Graphic Negotiations 10 – Mark el-Khatib
Wednesday 15 November 2023, 1pm
Online. Free – book a place here.
Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books.
Category: News
HALF-PRICE SALE NOW ON
The Book Works Winter Sale is back! For a limited time we’re offering 50% off all titles published before 2023, with prices starting from just 50p!
Job Opportunity: Editor, Book Works (part-time)
Book Works seeks an experienced new editor to work with the publishing team on our programme of artists’ book commissions.
Editor, Book Works (3 days per week)
Salary: £35,000 (pro-rata £21,000 ) per annum
Permanent Contract, probation period 8 weeks
Location: Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London, EC2A 4JB
Application deadline: 22 November, 5pm
Interviews: 6-12 December, at Book Works or online by arrangement
Prem Sahib and Sita Balani in conversation
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 Flea, now extended until Saturday 11 November. Sita Balani is a contributor to Sahib’s new book, That Fire Over There.
PAST EVENT
Rosa-Johan Uddoh performance at the Somerset House Studios AGM
Friday 13 October, 7–11pm
Somerset House Studios,
Strand
London, WC2R 1LA
More info/tickets
Frieze week and beyond – current artist shows
A new solo show by Prem Sahib, The Life Cycle of a Flea, opened last week at Phillida Reid, Grape Street. The exhibition revolves around two central figures, the Child 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 … Continued
PAST EVENT
Graphic Negotiations #9 – Maeve Redmond
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 talks with designers, launched in 2022. For this ninth event in the series we are delighted to welcome Maeve Redmond.
Book of the Month: Helen Cammock – Moveable Bridge
Our “book” of the month, with 30% off during October, is Helen Cammock’s Moveable Bridge – a 12″ vinyl album of spoken word and song and artist publication in a gatefold sleeve commissioned as part of Beyond Words. Poverty, politics and survival have been a part of the story of Hull as much as wars, … Continued
EVENT
You Can Come In But You Won’t Like It: Stephen Sutcliffe
Rob Tufnell at 47 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9HA
Opening reception Thursday 5 October, 18.00 – 20.00
Exhibition open Saturdays 12.00 – 17.00, and by appointment
More info
A new show of film works by Stephen Sutcliffe, author of Much Obliged, opens on Thursday at Rob Tufnell.
New title: Saborami by Cecilia Vicuña
Book Works is delighted to announce a new facsimile edition of the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami – an artist book created in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led Beau Geste Press.