Palestine Sunbird
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Two new prints by Marcus Coates and Prem Sahib are now available in the What did you do… (2024) series, a poster project commissioned by Book Works to mark 40 years of book making, made in response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters.
Palestine Sunbird by Marcus Coates is an inkjet print on Hannemuhle Photo Rag 183gsm, in an unlimited edition. £75 + VAT. The Palestine sunbird is the National bird of the State of Palestine, and a symbol of freedom, resilience and beauty. Order here.
All Words by Prem Sahib is an inkjet print on Hannemuhle Rag 188gsm, in a signed and numbered edition of 40 + 10 APs. £75 + VAT. Order here.
Book Works would like to thank K2 Screen for their help with both of these prints.
All proceeds from this project will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Artists participating in this project include: Alternative School of Economics, Hamja Ahsan, Banu Cennetoğlu, Marcus Coates, Jesse Darling, Jeremy Deller, Falgoush Collective, Fehras Publishing Practices with Nancy Naser Al Deen and Sina Ahmadi, Dora García, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Karl Holmqvist, Marianne Keating, Rosalind Nashashibi, Prem Sahib, Tai Shani, Sofia Niazi, Katrina Palmer, Charlie Prodger, Anne Tallentire, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, and Cecilia Vicuña.
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All Words
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Book Works Studio annouces new Co-Director
Book Works is delighted to announce that Jan Burgess has been appointed Co-Director of the Studio.
Jan Burgess joined Book Works in 2003 and has made an invaluable contribution to the Studio as a book-binder and Studio Manager. She takes up her position alongside Rob Hadrill, who founded the organisation in 1984.
Book Works’ board of trustees, Studio and Publishing team welcomes this news during our 40th anniversary year.
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Offprint London, 17–19 May 2024
We’ll be back in the Turbine Hall on 17–19 May for Offprint London’s fair of independent arts publishers. We’ll be there with new titles including Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami, the two new Arrhythmia novels and posters from our 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!
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Queer Utopias at Wysing
On 18th May we’ll be back at Wysing Arts Centre for Queer Utopias, their one-day festival of queer arts culture. We’ll be tabling as part of the zine fair, and the programme also features talks, performances, workshops, art, tarot, nails, music, football and more.
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May Book of the Month: Ice Blink
May’s book of the month is Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay by Simon Faithfull. Get it with 30% off all month.
Traveling to Antarctica on RSS Ernest Shackleton from RAF Brize Norton via Ascension Island and the Falklands, Simon Faithfull recorded the displaced and disorienting world he encountered by filming the view out of his cabin porthole and with daily Palm Pilot drawings, transmitted each day to email inboxes around the world. Combined with diary entries and notes, these drawing and films have been incorporated into a series of lectures presented in Edinburgh, Helsinki, Norwich, Berlin and London.
Reproduced in book form, Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay is a dispatch from 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, with images of contested and uncharted territories.
Co-published by Book Works with The Arts Catalyst in 2006.
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