We’re very excited to be back in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall at the weekend for Offprint London, the annual fair for experimental and independent arts publishers. On Saturday 14th May, 2.30pm, Phyllis Christopher will be giving a talk in the MacAulay Studio about her new book Dark Room (no booking necessary), and she’ll be … Continued
Our Book of the Month for May is Twenty–Nine Thousand Nights: A Communist Life by Nan Berger, a project by Ruth Ewan (2017). Commissioned for Beyond Words, Ruth Ewan unearthed an unpublished manuscript of Nan Berger (1914–1998) – international activist, writer and editor, and lifelong member of the Communist Party. Now a forgotten figure she gained … Continued
Join us online on 28 April, 1pm for the second in our Graphic Negotiations series of events, this time with Rosen Eveleigh (RSVP).
Rosen Eveleigh is a designer and researcher working independently or with artists, archives, editors, cultural institutions and publishers to produce graphic identities, typefaces, websites, texts, lectures, books and other works.
A new eight-week bookbinding class run by the Book Works Studio begins on 9th May and places are still available.
Taught by Ina Baumeister, students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding techniques which can later be applied to their own work. The course will feature multi-section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese style binding and a concertina binding. The final two weeks will include making a slipcase
Our Book of the Month for April is Sharon Kivland’s A Case of Hysteria (1999), which draws on Freud’s famous analysis of Dora, a young woman who is brought to him by her father. Dora is suffering from repeated loss of voice and a nervous cough. Sharon Kivland has created a mystery novel about Dora, which investigates the events discussed in her analysis as clues to the unlocking of a story of love and betrayal.
Radio Ballads is the culmination of a three-year series of collaborative commissions exploring stories about labour and who cares for whom, and in what way. Over the past three years, Helen Cammock, Sonia Boyce, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar have collaborated with social workers, carers, organisers, and communities. Four films and bodies of research have emerged from these long-term artistic processes. The work will show simultaneously from tomorrow at the Serpentine Gallery and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham…
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