A new event series exploring the role of designers in creating artists’ books. 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 … Continued
After many unforeseen and unavoidable delays, the first finished copies of Phyllis Christopher’s long-awaited collection, Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest 1988-2003 have finally arrived at the Book Works office and it’s wonderful to finally hold it in our hands. Pre-orders Kickstarter rewards and website pre-orders will start being sent out over the weekend. … Continued
Join Phyllis Christopher, Grand Union and Book Works on Friday 4 March (6.30–8.30pm) at Grand Union to mark the end of the Heads and Tails exhibition and celebrate the launch of the long-awaited Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988–2003. The launch is free and open to all – for more info visit the … Continued
Our book of the month for February 2022 is Simon Grennan’s Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (2018). In the collection at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, is an illustrated novel, published in 1877. Titled The Story of a Honeymoon, the novel was written and illustrated by Charles H. Ross and Ambrose Clarke. Thousands of novels like it … Continued
A new exhibition by Marcus Coates, Peter Liversidge and Goshka Macuga, Notes on Protesting, opens tomorrow at the Kate MacGarry gallery. The show explores ideas around protest and demonstration, and includes Marcus Coates’ 2019 installation, Conference for the Birds (pictured). UR…A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning was published in a new edition in 2020 and … Continued
Book Works has a long history of championing artists at early or pivotal stages of their careers, often those who are without other institutional support. Giving genuine opportunity to new and emerging artists is core to our aims. We work with artists, writers and readers, to commission new, ambitious and innovative work in the form … Continued
The second edition of small white monkeys: on self-expression, self-help and shame is out now, with a beautiful new cover, new poems and a new introduction by Helen Charman. Made through research into Glasgow Women’s Library’s Archive Collections and Lending Library, small white monkeys incorporates material from the library’s archives and the work of female creators past … Continued
Coinciding with Phyllis Christopher’s exhibition Contacts at BALTIC, and the publication of her book Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003; Ariel Goldberg, Languid Hands and Sam Dolbear contribute to a digital noticeboard reflecting on their own encounters with queer photographic archives. Phyllis Christopher prints her photographs in home and community darkrooms, using various … Continued
We work with artists, writers and readers to commission new, ambitious and innovative work in the form of artists books through our publishing programme. Giving genuine opportunities to emerging artists is core to our aims and we have a long history of championing artists at early or pivotal stages of their careers, often those who … Continued
Susan Morris – de Umbris Idæarum [on the Shadow Cast by our Thoughts], 2021. This series of twelve books takes the form of a diary recorded over the course of a single year. Fragments from the artist’s own interior monologue are tangled up with material transcribed from the radio, from overheard conversations, the entire year’s … Continued