Thank you so much to everyone who bought a book in the Summer Sale. We now return to our regular promotional schedule, with a new Book of the Month for August, Again, A Time Machine (2012) by Jane Rolo and Gavin Everall (Eds), available now with 30% off! Again, A Time Machine: from distribution to … Continued
Guest-edited by artist Katrina Palmer, Arrhythmia is a new series that offers an opportunity for artists and writers whose work explores ideas of being out of joint with the predominant social order, whether through disrupted trajectories, physical displacement, or political dissonance. We are particularly interested in experimental work that articulates a discontinuous sense of identity, and writing, or the combination of writing and images in which the rhythm of the text is self-consciously questioned.
A feature in Art Review by Yen Pham examines artworks that explore the artists’ experiences of detention and deportation at LAX airport while travelling to or through the US. It focuses on two works: Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme (Book Works, 2020) – a graphic novel about Farah’s deportation from LAX en route to a … Continued
All of our backlist titles are half price in the Book Works summer sale. Browse the shop here, discount will be applied automatically. Our backlist includes projects by Hamja Ahsan, Sophia Al Maria, Michael Bracewell & Linder, Paul Buck, Helen Cammock, Brian Catling & Iain Sinclair, Michael Dean, Ruth Ewan, Hamishi Farah, Luca Frei, Liam … Continued
A new show by Maya Balcioglu opened recently at MAC Galleries, Belfast. Comprising drawings made between 2006-10, and more recent latex and fabric works, this is the artist’s first institutional exhibition and will run until 8 August, 2021. Balcioglu makes work which is deliberative, intended for consideration or discussion, a process which she sees as … Continued
Book Works is proud to present an online programme commissioned to mark the launch of the new book by Sarah Tripp, Guitar! In collaboration with Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and the CCA Glasgow, we asked six artists and writers to respond to the book. Each was invited to choose an extract from Guitar! to be shown … Continued
Part three of a new Serpentine Gallery commission, Taraxos: A Wish is a Form of Travel, will be unveiled next week, on the Summer Solstice (Monday 21st June). The previous two parts, an audio work and a conversation and set of drawings were released on the Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. Part three of Taraxos, a … Continued
The British Museum has acquired State Occasion from The Museum of Ordure (2020) by Stuart Brisley, from his show, Recent Paintings from the Museum of Ordure, at the Lungley Gallery in late 2020. It is one of two paintings of the Queen which featured in the show. In the statement from the exhibition, Brisley writes … Continued
Hamishi Farah’s new solo show, Dog Heaven 2: How sweet the wound of Jesus tastes, opens Friday 4th June at Fri Art Kunsthalle in Fribourg, Switzerland. Dog Heaven 2 : How Sweet the Wound of Jesus Tastes is Hamishi Farahʼs first institutional exhibition and a sequel to the artistʼs first solo show in Europe in … Continued
Our Book of the Month for June is David Shrigley’s Err, with 30% off direct orders until 30 June 2021. Order it now. David Shrigley, an artist based in Glasgow has achieved international recognition; the success of this book has increased as his work has reached an ever-wider audience. In 2013 he was nominated for … Continued