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
The Book Works winter sale is now on! Save 50% on all our backlist titles. The sale includes Hamja Ahsan’s bestseller Shy Radicals; Bridget Penney’s Licorice and Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme, and all titles in Stewart Home’s Semina series – including Katrina Palmer’s The Dark Object, Mara Coson’s Aliasing, and Iphgenia Baal’s Merced Es Benz – all available for around a fiver! Delve … Continued
A major new solo exhibition by Lubaina Himid opens today at Tate Modern. As part of the Tate Late event tomorrow, a newly captioned & remastered version of Rosa-Johan Uddoh‘s film Black Poirot will have its UK Premiere. Artist Rosa-Johan Uddoh recasts Agatha Christie’s fictional detective as Martinican philosopher Édouard Glissant in this engaging and … Continued
The Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual (DABF21), the eleventh edition of Ireland’s only art book fair, opens today at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Taking place both online and on-site, the gallery in the heart of Dublin’s Cultural Quarter transforms into a centre for art and artist books. Dublin Art Book Fair champions artists and creative, … Continued
Phyllis Christopher will be in conversation about her work with curator and editor of Dark Room Laura Guy, and Book Works commissioning editor Lizzie Homersham, on Wednesday 8th December at 6pm. The event is hosted by BALTIC, where Phyllis Christopher’s first solo retrospective, Contacts, is now open. Visit the BALTIC website for more details and … Continued
Our book of the month for November is Friendship of Nations: Polish-Shi’ite Showbiz by Slavs and Tatars (2nd edition, 2017). Previously £25, you can get it for just £17.50 until the end of November. Beginning as an investigation into the apparently disparate events that bookend the twentieth and twenty-first century – the collapse of Communism … Continued
Contacts, which opens today at BALTIC, Newcastle, is an intimate glimpse at lesbian community in San Francisco in the ‘90s through the archive of photographer Phyllis Christopher. Belonging to a politicised tradition of documentary photography, Christopher’s handprinted and tinted images reflect how the camera participated in the performance of queer identities and feminist politics in … Continued
We are now at wet proof stage with Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room, and it’s exciting to see the book taking shape. However, we have been hit by another unexpected supply chain issue and due to the global paper shortages we are facing additional delays of twelve weeks+ before the book can go to press. That … Continued
Our Book of the Month for October is Bouchra Khalili’s The Tempest Society (2019) – previously £25, get it for £17.50 until 31 October 2021 (30% off). Gathering together interviews, essays, rare archival material and translations, The Tempest Society revisits and resuscitates the forgotten heritage of a politicised theatre group – ‘Al Assifa’ – that was born … Continued