We were blown away by the response to the Dark Room Kickstarter campaign, which exceeded its target and raised £20,649. Thank you to everyone who backed or shared it. Design for the book is being finalised, and it will be going to press soon. Meanwhile, production of the handmade gelatin prints is under way and … Continued
In 2020 MAP commissioned The Self-Illuminating Pen – a series of letters by Sarah Tripp and specially commissioned films by Isobel Lutz-Smith, as a companion to her new book, Guitar! (Book Works 2021).
The April issue of Art Monthly is just out and it features an excellent review by Frank Wasser of The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives.
Our Printed Matter Classroom event with Phyllis Christopher, Laura Guy, Lizzie Homersham and Michelle Tea is now available to watch back.
We are very excited to be launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund the publication of Phyllis Christopher’s Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003. Dark Room will bring together for the first time a rare collection of lesbian erotic and protest photographs, taken by Phyllis Christopher…
The London Transport Museum has published an overview of Nina Wakeford’s OUR PINK DEPOT THE GAY UNDERGROUND FLO-N202-236000000- TRK-MST-00002-SAY- HELLO-WAVE-GOODBYE- KEN-NIE-BPS, which we co-published with Art on the Underground in 2019
At the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair, Book Works will present an online event to present Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest 1988-2003 – the first ever collection of Phyllis Christopher’s trailblazing photography of lesbian erotic life and political struggle.
Kate Briggs selected Sarah Tripp’s Guitar! as her book of 2020 in The White Review’s end of year round up.
The Stuart Brisley Interviews: Performance and its Afterlives is now available to pre-order. This series of interviews, held by curator and writer Gilane Tawadros are focused entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him.
In February 2020, Book Works published a new novel, Licorice, by Bridget Penney, as the first book in the Interstices series.