The Book Works Studio has a new boxmaking evening class starting on 3 March, at our studio and office in Shoreditch. The classes are from 6.30–9pm on Mondays and run for 6 weeks, during which time you’ll learn to make beautiful bespoke two-part and clamshell boxes. The full course costs £240, and all tools and materials are provided. More information 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 +44 (0) 20 7247 2536.
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Book Works is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England. We are currently in the process of applying for the next round of funding, to be submitted in June 2025. As part of this process we are collecting feedback from our audiences, and as a subscriber to our newsletter your feedback would be highly valued and informative to our application.
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Special Edition Sale
Following our half-price winter mega-sale, we are keeping the offers coming in February with 10% off all special edition prints and books.
All funds raised from sales are invested back into our programme supporting new work by emerging artists and practitioners, so you can treat yourself to a bargain while knowing you’re supporting our work.
Editions include work by Phyllis Christopher, Mark Dion, Stewart Home, Katrina Palmer, Laure Prouvost, Fiona Tan, Mark Titchner and many more!
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Book of the Month: I Know Where I’m Going by Michael Bracewell and Linder
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 Linder retrospective, Danger Came Smiling, is open at the Hayward Gallery from 11 February–5 May 2025.
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 a Victorian postcard as ‘The Naples of the North’. Whilst investigating and illustrating how a landscape can recollect its own past with a particular regional intensity, this book is also concerned with how our experience of the future can be discovered through history.
A key section in the book looks at the then semi-derelict Midland Hotel, built overlooking Morecambe Bay and considered to be one of the most important Art Deco buildings in Britain. Constructed in 1933, the ocean-liner shape of Oliver Hill’s breathtaking designs still retain their sense of sleek modernity − its exterior walls were treated with a mixture of carborundum powder and crushed blue glass which was electrically polished so the whiteness of the building literally glittered in the sun. Then there were the guests: Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, the Earl of Derby and Coco Chanel who, as legend has it, flew up from Cap d’Antibes landing her flying boat on Morecambe Bay. I Know Where I’m Going delivers an invaluable and visually demanding insight into the nature of regional studies from two celebrated creative practitioners.
Published in 2003 as part of the New Writing series, guest-edited by Michael Bracewell, and unlikely to be reprinted so these will be the last available copies.
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