Wednesday 8 March, 6.30pm
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
Free, no booking required. More info.
As part of the public programme around Katrina Palmer’s new exhibition, What’s Already Going On?, Mead Gallery is hosting a late event with music from Bo Ningen and readings from the Arrythmia authors.
25 January 2023, 5.30pm
Brighton CCA, University of Brighton
Free and open to all. Booking required.
Join RESOLVE Collective’s Summer House for a special in conversation between artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh and writer and curator Pacheanne Anderson at the University of Brighton’s CCA.
Opening: Saturday 14 January, 2–5pm
Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, NY
Show open 14 January–26 February 2023
Both free, no booking needed. More info.
A touring exhibition of shortlisted books in the 2022 PhotoBook Awards moves to Printed Matter, New York next week, with an opening reception on Saturday 14 January.
Our Book of the Month for January, with 30% off all month, is Make Everything New – A Project on Communism edited by Grant Watson, Gerrie Van Noord and Gavin Everall (Book Works, 2006).
Communism is routinely defined as defeated and its conquest the subject of regular celebration. Caught in the disappointment and negative connotations of the past, it has become all but unthinkable.
Hot off the press for 2023 and available to pre-order now, Black Slit documents a process whereby Katrina Palmer learned to throw a knife, using vibrantly painted clay objects as her targets, as well as high density foam board blocks.
The setting is a studio/office/classroom/bedsit at night – a multi-purpose space which must be
Tuesday, 13 December, 7-8.30pm
Online, free. RSVP.
To mark the publication of Battles, Vol 1 by Francesco Pedraglio, join us online for an evening of readings and discussion with publishers and readers: Book Works, Juan de la Cosa, MA BIBLIOTHÉQUE, MOIST, and Prototype, and Paul Becker, Jen Calleja, Sharon Kivland, Mira Mattar, Francesco Pedraglio, and Adrian Rifkin.
For the month of December we’re offering a 10% discount on our prints and special editions exclusively via our website. Take a look at the editions on offer here. Whether you’re looking for the perfect gift, or to start or grow your own art collection, we have an exciting inventory of limited edition prints and … Continued
Nan Kemp’s Corner near Lewes in Sussex, said to be the burial place of local woman Nan Kemp who, in 18th Century, was said to have killed her illegitimate child and fed him in a pie to her husband. The story has many versions, which are the subject of the film being made by the … Continued
We are very pleased to share that we will continue as part of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio. We would like to thank Arts Council England for their ongoing support.
This support, as part of the 2023-26 Investment Programme, recognises the role Book Works has within the contemporary art scene nationally and internationally, the importance of our focus on publishing, and the genuine opportunities offered through our commissions, education activities and through the Book Works studio.
Wednesday 7 December, 1pm
Online, free (RSVP)
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