Books

Kit Poulson
2018
£12.00

…However, it is not a book, it is constructed from silver plastic and has a line of small knobs and a rudimentary button keyboard. Along one side are a series…

Sophia Al-Maria
2019
Out of print

…Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the…

Nick Crowe
1999
Out of print

The Citizens is both an on-line project and unique publication that marks a particular moment in the development of the internet. It is a tribute to people’s constant desire to…

Gad Hollander and Andrew Bick
1998
£9.95

…felt whilst traveling. This feeling is compounded by the addition of blue line drawings super-imposed on each image that operate as a form of ‘punctuation’ and accentuate potential meanings within…

David Shrigley
1999
Out of print

The Human Body is a signed, limited edition screenprint taken from an original line drawing commissioned by Book Works. Turner prize 2013 nominee Shrigley describes his own work as having…

Liam Gillick
2009
£375.00

…wider body of work includes published essays and texts, lectures, curatorial and collaborative projects, all of which inform (and are informed by) his art practice. Gillick’s line of enquiry is…

Dora García
2013
Out of print

…places will have passed through her lips…’ With the minimum of instructions and a restricted format of four lines, Dora García’s collaborative and participatory project has now collected over 2,500…

Céline Condorelli
2014
Out of print

…Friendship in this sense is both a set-up for working and a dimension of production. The line of thought that threads through the following pages is thus that of friendship…

Gad Hollander & Andrew Bick
1998
£55.00

…whilst travelling. This feeling is compounded by the addition of blue line drawings super-imposed on each image that operate as a form of ‘punctuation’ and accentuate potential meanings within the…

Eva Weinmayr
2005
Out of print

Eva Weinmayr presents a collection of newsstand posters − capitalized handwritten legends that condense complex realities into three or four-line news splashes. Charged with meaning, these headlines give no information;…

Slavs and Tatars
2009
Out of print

…eponymous section addressing the complexity of languages and identities on the fault line of Eurasia, and Steppe by Steppe, a restoration of the regions seemingly reactionary approaches to romance. Slavs…

Bridget Penney
2008
£9.95

…the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king’s unsuccessful…

Liam Gillick
1995
Out of print

…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’…

Deborah-Joyce Holman
2023
£22.00

…with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his…

Katrina Palmer
2024
£18.00

…solo exhibitions are What’s Already Going On (Mead Gallery 2023); Hello (England’s Creative Coast 2021); The Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute 2015); End Matter (Artangel, BBC Radio 4, Book Works…

Dora García
2011
Out of print

…all the stories, all men and women, all time and all places will have passed through her lips…’ With the minimum of instructions and a restricted format of four lines,…

…sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to ‘unfree’…

Bridget Penney
2015
£9.95

…the line between what might have happened and what is merely imagined. Mapped onto this web of memory and imagination are Roland and Julie, the survivors of a king’s unsuccessful…

Boxed set of 3 digitally printed books containing pencil drawings printed onto Zerkall mouldmade paper. Each concertina format book is covered in a different shade of grey card with titles…

Archive Items

Liam Gillick; Gillian Gillick
1995
2 leaves (recto)

…one of the illustrations for the publication Erasmus is Late, with a strip of fax paper containing handwritten text from Liam Gillick to Book Works regarding the accompanying credit line….

News

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…

…see the politically-charged football match between Omonoia and APOEL, whose rivalry is based not on the Greek/Turkish divide (there are separate competitions) but on familiar ideological lines: Omonoia are traditionally…

News/Events
2024

…alongside a brilliant line up of local and international publishers, artist presses and collectives, as well as a free public programme of talks, workshops and parties. We’ll have all our…

…an artist and writer, Palmer’s solo exhibitions are What’s Already Going On (Mead Gallery 2023); Hello (England’s Creative Coast 2021); The Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute 2015); End Matter (Artangel,…

…of Clarke’s film with whom Holman wants to act in solidarity. Finding Jason captured by the extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works…

…extractive gaze and exhausting line of questioning of a white female director, Holman works to reproduce his words, rather than his image, placing them as looping samples of script in…

…Coffin Jump (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 14-18NOW, 2018); The Necropolitan Line (Henry Moore Institute, 2015); End Matter (Artangel, BBC Radio 4, Book Works, 2015) ; The Dark Object (Book Works, 2010)….

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…our projects are initiated by invitation, open submission, and through guest-curated projects. Our activities include publishing, a lecture and seminar programme, exhibitions, the development of an on-line archive, and artists’…