18 October 2023
Online
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Book Works sees graphic design as central to the production of artist books. Graphic Negotiations is our series of online lunchtime talks with designers, launched in 2022. For this ninth event in the series we are delighted to welcome Maeve Redmond.
Our “book” of the month, with 30% off during October, is Helen Cammock’s Moveable Bridge – a 12″ vinyl album of spoken word and song and artist publication in a gatefold sleeve commissioned as part of Beyond Words. Poverty, politics and survival have been a part of the story of Hull as much as wars, … Continued
Rob Tufnell at 47 Bedford Street, London WC2E 9HA
Opening reception Thursday 5 October, 18.00 – 20.00
Exhibition open Saturdays 12.00 – 17.00, and by appointment
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A new show of film works by Stephen Sutcliffe, author of Much Obliged, opens on Thursday at Rob Tufnell.
Book Works is delighted to announce a new facsimile edition of the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami – an artist book created in the aftermath of the September 1973 military coup in Chile. Combining poetry, journal entries, documentation of artworks including assemblages and paintings, the book was published in Devon, England in an edition of 250 hand-made copies by the artist-led Beau Geste Press.
We are delighted to announce a new series of our conversations with designers, Graphic Negotiations, starting on 20 September. 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 … Continued
As part of our series of conversations with designers, Graphic Negotiations, we were delighted to welcome graphic designer, researcher and teacher Rosen Eveleigh for a chat on Zoom on 24 April 2022. Below is a full verbatim transcript. Click here for a plain-text version compatible with screen readers. ROSEN EVELEIGH – As part of the … Continued
In the first of our series of conversations with designers, Graphic Negotiations, we were delighted to welcome graphic designer, writer and professor James Langdon in March 2022 for a fascinating talk and presentation about his practice and thinking about designing artist books as an act of impersonation or negotiation. Below is a full verbatim transcript. … Continued
The Book Works Studio will launch two new evening classes in September. Bookbinding for Beginners runs on Monday evenings from 18 September for eight weeks, and Boxmaking for Beginners is on Wednesdays, starting 20 September for seven weeks. For more info or to book on either course please contact Jan Burgess – jan@bookworks.org. or 020 … Continued
Friday 15 September
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH
Screening 12–7pm
Talk/book launch 7–8.30pm
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Our book of the month, with 30% off until the end of September, is Sketches of Universal History Compiled from Several Authors by Sarah Pierce.
Sketches of Universal History… presents an interplay of voices, legacies, friendships and influences that make up an art practice.