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Neil Chapman
2004
£2.50 (Reduced from £5.00)

…evidence of obvious damage to the body, except for some grazing to the left cheek… Within a few hours, large numbers of larvae will hatch and will accelerate the process

…Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the Kickstarter campaign for Upcycle This Book by Gavin…

Paul Buck
2011
£7.50 (Reduced from £15.00)

…forms. Traversing paths pursued in visual art is a key factor, even outside the more obvious image pages. Collage is part of the process, with cuttings scrolling vertically alongside the…

…support Book Works via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the…

…via the Readers Club and Supporters scheme. For more information how to support Book Works please click here. This special edition book was produced on account of the Kickstarter campaign for…

Jonathan Monk
2004
Out of print

‘For me, it’s like buying gifts for myself and some are really fantastic: occasionally I am really amazed by what I have bought when it arrives, as often the catalogue…

Jeremy Millar
1995
£3.48 (Reduced from £6.95)

…punctuated with outrageous incidents and, as the narrative progresses, the actions of the narrator become more and more crude. Confessions is an account of the transformation of faux-naïveté and embarrassment…

Katrina Palmer
2024
£18.00

‘Katrina Palmer’s The Touch Report asks a question that remains in motion for the duration of this extraordinary book. What is here? What’s still here? Here, Palmer writes an account

Maija Timonen
2015
£4.98 (Reduced from £9.95)

…of dating scenarios. In one of these, speed daters smell T-shirts as the narrator desperately tries to account for an alarming absence of desire. The specificities of love and sex…

Iphgenia Baal
2017
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…· Share Benz (11 November 2011 at 8.40am) · Like all these little things – trust me Merced Es Benz is an account of a dysfunctional love affair, narrated via…

Cecilia Vicuña
2024
£28.00

‘An account of political struggle and precarious beauty…today Saborami offers us a delicate, undying vision of collective renewal at a time of desperation, when fury and sorrow might seem the…

OOMK
2018
Out of print

…Library Science, 1931, as they do and don’t apply to the collection of contemporary zines, and an account of the stolen library of the late Saudi novelist Abd al-Rahman Munif….

edited by Federica Bueti
2013
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…well as a first-hand account of the role of social media in the current protest movements in Spain, fiction that counteracts the populist-neoliberal and pervasive PRI political party in Mexico,…

Graham Parker
2009
£7.48 (Reduced from £14.95)

…globalisation and as part of a historical continuum of deceptions played out through the communications technologies of each age. Taking the form of a heavily (and spuriously) footnoted account of…

Daniel Jewesbury
2001
£3.75 (Reduced from £7.50)

In Of Lives Between Lines Daniel Jewesbury uses the fictional account of an Anglo-Indian woman in John Masters’ 1954 novel, Bhowani Junction as a template to construct his own hybrid…

Emma Kay
1999
Out of print

…challenges you not just to correct and question, but to doubt your own account of history. How would you balance pre-history against the Black Death, the Bayeux Tapestry or Reagan’s…

Inventory
2018
£6.00 (Reduced from £12.00)

…tolerate its hereditary and dynastic aspects; to keep our faith in the humane reformist role of the state; to trust in the electoral process and to turn a blind eye…

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
2019
£150.00 + VAT

…1960s. Neilson’s work is framed in a fiction, which locates itself in the historical moment that the landscape of Scottish art was radically transformed – through a process that was dubbed…

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan
2019
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…formative art experiences. Neilson’s work is framed in a fiction, which locates itself in the historical moment that the landscape of Scottish art was radically transformed – through a process

…material extends to the performative relation between writer and reader, where the reader is inculcated into the process through either private reading and listening or in live, public performance. About…

Laure Prouvost
2019
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…is framed in a fiction, which locates itself in the historical moment that the landscape of Scottish art was radically transformed – through a process that was dubbed ‘the Glasgow…

Céline Condorelli
2014
Out of print

‘Perhaps one of my favourite definitions of cultural production is of “making things public”: the process of connecting things, establishing relationships, which in many ways means befriending issues, people, contexts….

Aaron Williamson
2001
£6.25 (Reduced from £12.50)

…are diverted from the artist’s deafness and converted into text by the hearing computer. Hearing things reflects on this process with a stream of prose poems that accompany the generated…

Katrina Palmer
2023
£7.50 (Reduced from £15.00)

BOOK OF THE MONTH – NOVEMBER 2024 Black Slit documents a process whereby Katrina Palmer learned to throw a knife, using vibrantly painted clay objects as her targets. The setting…

Siôn Parkinson
2005
£3.00 (Reduced from £6.00)

…spaces with both photographs and text, Head in the Railings is at first glance a series of humorous encounters between the human body and residual architectural spaces. In the process

process. With you, we want to build a community of support that can help develop the ambitions of this commissioning platform, giving further opportunities to artists, writers and readers. Drawn…

Thomas Hirschhorn
2001
£3.75 (Reduced from £7.50)

…the process of artistic production as a mutual activity. Through the reproduction of correspondence and dialogue between the various parties the hidden support systems of production become transparent. Co-published by…

Curated by Gavin Wade
2008
£9.98 (Reduced from £19.95)

process of the project – an ‘exquisite corpse’ involving collaboration, dissemination and the combining of works. Contributions from: Neil Chapman, Shezad Dawood, Per Hüttner, Juneau Projects, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben…

Gavin Wade
2017
Out of print

The book collects for the first time the writings of Gavin Wade and explores a practice that he refers to as ‘upcycling’, a process of stealing, copying, recycling, using other…

Ruth Ewan
2012
£5.00 (Reduced from £10.00)

…who can afford to guest at the hotel. Through a process of workshops, interviews and essays, young people respond to the demands of liberty through questions of injustice, class division,…

Deborah-Joyce Holman
2023
£11.00 (Reduced from £22.00)

…of images of Black people suffering triggers a retraumatising process of spectacularisation. Newly commissioned essays by Olamiju Fajemisin, Noémi Michel, and Francis Whorrall-Campbell, offer close analysis of Moment and Moment…

Various leather bound account books replicating old volumes produced for the film. The books are bound in the traditional spring-back account book style with indexed internal pages and edge colouring….

Archive Items

Katrina Palmer
2014
10 items

…each of these artists the use of language as material extends to the performative relation between writer and reader, where the reader is inculcated into the process through either private…

2017
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Focusing on the issues of slavery and colonialism, sex and gender, freedom of information, protest and censorship, Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2017
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art and language, and a celebration…

2017
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Focusing on the issues of slavery and colonialism, sex and gender, freedom of information, protest and censorship, Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

2016
1 leaf (recto-verso)

…of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art…

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…and Book Works Editorial staff. Editing is expected to be a collaborative process between the editors and the commissioned artist/author, with the aim of producing a text sympathetic to the…

News/Events
2014

…For each of these artists the use of language as material extends to the performative relation between writer and reader, where the reader is inculcated into the process through either…

News/Events
2020

…placing buying books and editions. Please do take advantage of our online sale, but please also consider ordering from some of our regular stockists who are currently running mail order…

…find safety and strength collectively, to effectively hold power to account.’ Featuring: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Aurelia Guo, Emily LaBarge, So Mayer, Yamen Mekdad, Lucy Mercer, Elaine Mitchener, Zarina Muhammad, Rose Nordin,…

…Mixed into the historical stories are personal accounts, trivial and idiosyncratic events that become elevated to the same status as those that affect history. Each story comes with a drawing,…

…and production process. You will work on new commissions with artists and writers, on projects that are often experimental, and need close reading, developmental edits, copyediting and proofreading, fact checking,…

…browser tabs, a treatment for an unmade film and a variety of dating scenarios. In one of these, speed daters smell T-shirts as the narrator desperately tries to account for…

News/Events
2004

…the open lecture, there is a visual and aural account of doubt, destruction and fear. Originally staged at the Conway Hall Ethical Centre – London’s centre for Humanist free-thinking –…

…as the slide play collides with the open lecture, it is a visual and aural account of doubt, destruction and fear. Originally staged at the Conway Hall Ethical Centre –…

Cecilia Vicuña’s Saborami: Extended facsimile edition is the Editors’ Choice in the Spring issue of BOMB Magazine, reviewed by Henry Broome. “An account of political struggle and precarious beauty, the…

…of a ‘good thing’ are holistic and ever-expanding –  ‘The women who trusted grandma did so on account of her cooking… …a single bite from one of her dishes would…

…chapters, each themed around a particular sense, with a text-based work of some kind. In this photo essay, Juliet Jacques responds to the prompt of ‘Visual Pleasures’ with an account

…a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision. Graphic Negotiations is a series of lunchtime talks…

News/Events
2021

…and publishing.  We would like to invite you to join us and become part of our supportive process of working with emerging artists and audiences. You can do this by…

…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 democratic, to imply a moral…

…often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the designer in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist…

…a destination. They are a process. Something which takes shape in memory, bigger and more imposing than its material form. There is no ending. Just the start of another journey….

…the designer in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision. For this new series, we’ll…

…in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together to create a book that realises the artists’ vision. Graphic Negotiations is a series of lunchtime…

…trapped by Clarke, and the way in which the contemporary circulation of images of Black people suffering triggers a retraumatising process of spectacularisation. Newly commissioned essays by Olamiju Fajemisin, Noémi…

…Wajid, Mark Beasley, Lisa Panting, Stewart Home, and Maria Fusco, to create their own series, and for young, emerging and unknown artists and writers to be commissioned through a process

…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 designer in a collaborative process

…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 design in a collaborative process

…a shared, reflective and open process. Our programme reflects our desire to work with artists and writers that are often unrecognised by mainstream institutions, or those from liberation groups or…

…While conventionally designers often become involved in the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the design in a collaborative process from the start…

…the later stages of a book’s production, and with a limited brief, we involve the designer in a collaborative process from the start, with designer, artist and editor working together…

Hot off the press for 2023 and available to pre-order now, Black Slit documents a process whereby Katrina Palmer learned to throw a knife, using vibrantly painted clay objects as her…

…small hours. The letters relate how habits of writing shape what is written and reflect upon the process of writing Guitar! The five letters are: Guitar and Balloon, The Here-And-Now-Word, Glue Ear, With, Dear Alice. The…

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…calfskin. The beginning of each of the books has a different letterpress printed text by the artist. Once the books were completed the final part of the process involved inking the…

…with audiences to create a change in the landscape of visual art and publishing.  We would like to invite you to join us and become part of our supportive process

…binding methods, and a vast array of different materials. We can work directly to a clients’ requirements, or assist in the design process to make books that will stand apart….

…from different lakes featured on the same page. We worked out a process of overlaying each of the contours so they remained true to the scale and position, and on…