The Book Works Spring Sale continues, with 50% off a huge range of our available backlist titles for the rest of March.
Featuring titles from a huge range of artists, including: Stuart Brisley, Helen Cammock, Brian Catling & Iain Sinclair, Ruth Ewan, Luca Frei, Maria Fusco, Liam Gillick, Stewart Home, Susan Hiller, Bouchra Khalili, Jarett Kobek, Ahmet Ögüt, Katrina Palmer, Francesco Pedraglio, Bridget Penney, Holly Pester, Olivia Plender, Clunie Reid, David Shrigley, Praneet Soi, Slavs & Tatars, Stephen Sutcliffe, Fiona Tan, Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan, Jennet Thomas, Mark Titchner, Sarah Tripp, and many more.
All available back issues of our journal of experimental art writing, The Happy Hypocrite, are available in the Spring Sale for under £5! Founded and overseen by Maria Fusco, who edited the first five issues, each issue had a new theme and contributors. Later issues were commissioned by guest editors – Lynne Tillman; Mason Leaver-Yap; Sophia Al-Maria; Hannah Sawtell; Virginija Januškevičiūtė; Erica Scourti, and the final issue, Without Reduction, edited by Maria Fusco.
A twelve-hour radio broadcast of Without Reduction, made to celebrate the life and death of The Happy Hypocrite, took place on Resonance FM and is available to listen back here.
Palmer’s first book, The Dark Object (2010) was commissioned from an open call for Book Works Semina series, edited by Stewart Home, and has recently been published in a new edition. Her most recent work, Black Slit, is co-published with MEAD Gallery to coincide with the recent solo show, What’s Already Going On. Read more about Palmer’s work and recent exhibition in this review from Burlington Contemporary.
“I think that’s why I make holes. I mean, there is certainly a pathos to remaining in the institution as a non-being and if I have to work with the futility of not being represented in the dominant representational schema then I’m going to actively pursue a negative kind of subject formation through the presentation of holes. It’s more like a being-in-formation that comes with a less determined sense of belonging to a space or to an identity. I end up pursuing what’s missing, following the absences, around the show, into the targets, across the space of the missing words, through the various empty shelves or galleries.” – Katrina Palmer, from an interview with Chris McCormack in Art Monthly (February 2023)
Be among the first to read Black Slit and future titles by signing up to the Book Works Readers Club. It costs just ÂŁ5 a month, and you’ll receive all new titles as soon as they’re available, plus special offers and invites to events. More information.
ABOUT US
Book Works is a leading contemporary arts organisation with a unique role as makers and publishers of books.
Established in 1984, we are dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects. Book Works consists of a publishing and commissioning department; and a studio specialising in binding, box-making and multiples.
STUDIO
The Book Works Studio offers a specialist bespoke service for a range of clients, from artists, designers, galleries, and businesses. We provide binding solutions, develop prototypes and specialise in unique book artworks, boxes, and portfolios. We have an extensive archive, and offer tailored educational events, and bookbinding courses. The Studio generates income from clients and is self-sufficient.
PUBLISHING
Book Works Publishing is dedicated to supporting new work by emerging artists. Our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects and include publishing, a lecture and seminar programme, exhibitions, the development of an online archive, and artists’ surgeries and workshops.
Our audience is vital to our work. The process of engaging and developing our audience is initiated with our commissioning programme, and driven through all aspects of our activities, particularly our public programme of 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 just to work with cultural workers from all backgrounds, but to invest in networks and programmes that engage, and develop and create new artistic voices.
Recent Commissions
Include new projects with: Phyllis Christopher; Francesco Pedraglio; Sarah Tripp; Praneet Soi; Stuart Brisley; Nina Wakeford and Art on the Underground; Erica Scourti; Sophia Al-Maria; Bouchra Khalili; Laure Prouvost; Stephen Sutcliffe; Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan;  Contact – a series guest edited by Hannah Black with Hamishi Farah, Momtaza Mehri and Derica Shields; and Interstices, a fiction series edited by Bridget Penney with Harun Morrison, Diana Georgiou and Licorice by Bridget Penney.
SUPPORT US
By supporting Book Works you will help support artists and writers at the emerging stage of their careers through our diverse commissioning programme of open submissions, guest editorships, public events, exhibitions and publications.
CHARITY
Book Works is a registered charity, dedicated to advance education for the benefit of the public in the visual arts, particularly books which may be recognised as works of art in their own right.
TRUSTEES
We have a board of trustees who input their range of diverse expertise and interests into our development:
Teresa Drace-Francis (Chair)
Maria Amidu
Nick Brown
Aliya Gulamani
Claire Malcolm
Gerrie van Noord
