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We are delighted to announce a new series of our conversations with designers, Graphic Negotiations.
Book Works sees graphic design as crucial to realising artists and writers’ ideas in the final form of the book. While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the designer in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision.
For this new series, we’ll be joined by four new designers: Martin McGrath; Maeve Redmond; Mark El-Khatib and Abeera Kamran.
The first event ‘Conversations as Methods’ is on 20th September with Martin McGrath who will be speaking on his recent work and artist’s book design (including the forthcoming That Fire Over There, by Prem Sahib).
Martin McGrath is a designer working mostly with museums, publishers and artists. He is interested in storytelling and the narration of lived experiences, the interpretation of material culture, and how design methods can support artistic production. Recent clients include ArtAngel, Book Works, Wellcome Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum. Martin teaches design and visual communication at Central Saint Martins and The Royal College of Art. https://martinmcgrath.com
All events are free and online, at 1pm on a Wednesday. Book your free place here.
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Reminder: Queen For A Day: screening and book launch at ICA
Friday 15 September
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Coinciding with the release of artist Deborah-Joyce Holman’s book Queen for a Day, this event is a day-long screening of Holman’s Moment 2 (2022), followed by an in-person reading by Francis Whorrall-Campbell and conversation with the artist, Imani Mason Jordan and Rebecca Bellantoni.
The new publication features newly commissioned essays by Olamiju Fajemisin, Noémi Michel and Francis Whorrall-Campbell, and an interview with Holman and curator Cédric Fauq, who all offer close analyses of both works, opening up diverse ways of understanding Holman’s aesthetic strategies and politics of representation via film history, decolonial and queer theory.
Co-published by Book Works and Luma Westbau, with the generous support from ICA London, Arts Council England and the Swiss Cultural Fund UK.
Moment was shown at the ICA as part of Image Behaviour. Moment 2 was exhibited at CFGNY at SculptureCenter, New York City (2023), schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau, Zürich (2022) and Cordova, Barcelona (2022).
Queen For A Day will be available in the ICA Bookshop. If you are unable to attend the event, you can preorder the book here.
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Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair 2023
22-24 September 2023
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Book Works is excited to be returning to Berlin in September for Miss Read 2023! We’ll have copies of all our new titles and highlights from the backlist all at special prices for the fair, come and say hi!
For more details, events, full list of exhibitors and more visit the website, and follow the fair on Instagram for updates.
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Upcoming titles for Readers Club members
The Book Works Readers Club is a great way to support the work we do and to build your own library of artist books. For just £5/month or £50/year you’ll receive a copy of everything we publish as soon as it is ready.
Sign up to the Readers Club in September and receive Queen for a Day by Deborah-Joyce Holman as your first title.
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