Books

Sophia Al-Maria
2024
£19.95

…writing by Sophia Al-Maria. ‘When Book Works contacted you about printing a second edition you were both honoured and filled with trepidation… it felt like facing a refrigerator you left…

Deborah-Joyce Holman
2023
£22.00

…this book as a series of textual interludes – to function as camouflage. The publication contains extensive representation of Moment and Moment 2 as still images, added to which are…

Katrina Palmer
2015
£185.00

…and is housed in an ebony black slip case, designed and produced by Book Works Studio with Katrina Palmer. Also containing two b&w C-type matt photographic prints, wrapped in a…

…– for both writer and listener, and also for language itself, forcing an escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness that’s usually imposed on it.What’s My Name? contains…

Mel Jackson
1997
Out of print

…world: economics versus magic. The book contains a fold-out panoramic view of books from the Harry Price Collection which can be cut-up and sent as postcards. The reverse side of…

Paul Etienne Lincoln
1997
Out of print

The World and Its Inhabitants is an impressive publication by Paul Lincoln, an English artist living in New York. It consists of a flip-top cardboard case containing twenty-four cards each…

Hamishi Farah
2020
Out of print

…Spa. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Claude d’Avoine. Airport Love Theme is supported by the Contact series Supporters Circle….

…Subsequent series have invited a wide range of guest editors including Stewart Home (Semina), Clunie Reid (G.S.O.H.), Hannah Black (Contact), Bridget Penney (Interstices) and most recently Katrina Palmer (Arrhythmia). Commissions…

…Spa. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Claude d’Avoine. Airport Love Theme is supported by the Contact series Supporters Circle….

Lucy Skaer
2025
£26.00 (Reduced from £29.00)

…it loose, free. – K Patrick ‘I’m always making one thing’, says Skaer, whose assertion is upheld by the structure of this book: a space that contains her various sensibilities…

Laure Prouvost
2019
£300.00 + VAT

…any additional charges for customs clearance. Please note that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information….

Douglas Gordon
1999
Out of print

…the score along with a CD that contains a complete new recording of the music from Vertigo. The book also contains critical texts by Raymond Bellour and Royal S. Brown….

Maija Timonen
2015
£9.95

…and constitute a kind of precarious – even false – refuge from the trauma of living in it. Maija Timonen is an artist based in London, Berlin and Helsinki. Published…

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. Course dates: TBC Time: Monday evenings 6.30-9pm Cost per students: TBC Contact details: [email protected]

Katrina Palmer
2010
Out of print

…of inter-related but self-contained short stories, The Dark Object explores the tension between the restraint of narrative form, and the explosion of ontic instability. It aims not to subsume fantasy…

Katrina Palmer
2013
Out of print

…Oedipal fantasy, the Rector a scrofulous, paranoid lech. Made up of inter-related but self-contained short stories, The Dark Object explores the tension between the restraint of narrative form, and the…

Paul Etienne Lincoln
1997
Out of print

…to reveal the contents − is an intricate and delicate device that, through an elaborate and complex ritual enables balloons to be expanded by means of ‘humour’ contained in small…

Nick Crowe
1999
Out of print

…their (digital) self-representation. Co-published by Book Works with Channel/Artec as 1,000 downloadable digital copies and as a unique book produced by Book Works, containing a disc and the original hand-rendered…

Simon Patterson
2009
Out of print

…an edition of 20, signed and numbered by the artist. Price £295.00 Set of all four colours £1000.00. To order a complete set please contact Paul Sammut Edition prices will…

Sharon Kivland
1998
Out of print

L’Imaginaire is a lipstick mirror that has been subtly altered by the artist. Contained in a sumptuous raw silk-covered box with cushioned satin lining, the lipstick mirror has been engraved…

Steve Beard
1998
£9.95

…programs. The first program scrambled sentences to form ‘machine poetry’, the second created hybrid letterforms. The final draft of Perfumed Head contains elements of all three versions. This intoxicating, disturbing…

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…additional charges for customs clearance. Please note that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since…

Charles van Otterdijk
2013
£15.00

…those sovereign sites of exception used by democratic states in their effort to eliminate, contain, or otherwise manufacture terror. Exacerbated by these layers of doubling and suggestion, Double Centre feels…

Laure Prouvost
2013
Out of print

…size 455 x 395 mm, folded to 345 x 238 mm. This edition is now sold out. If you would like more information on Book Works’ Special Editions please contact:…

Doug Aitken
2000
Out of print

Diamond Sea is a photographic journey through Diamond Areas One and Two: a highly secure 70,000 square kilometre area along the coastline of the Namibian desert. This area, containing the…

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…the aim is to give each of the students the knowledge and confidence to create the books for themselves after the day is completed. Timetable and further information here. Contact: [email protected]

Stephen Sutcliffe
2019
£14.50

…reminiscences, each containing a reference to ‘Stephen’. John Ashbery described Brainard’s writing as ‘humane smut’, and, drawing on the comedy of childhood, experience of work, and school friends, as well…

…customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe….

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

…that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in…

Sharon Kivland
1994
Out of print

Sharon Kivland’s interests in Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis have resulted in a number of works that explore these themes. J’appelle un chat un chat contains extracts from Freud’s Fragments of…

Derica Sheilds
2021
Forthcoming

…and mothering. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Rose Nordin. Derica Shields is a writer, researcher…

Sophia Al-Maria
2019
Out of print

…first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria is an artist…

Karl Holmqvist
2009
Out of print

…escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness thats usually imposed on it. What’s My Name? contains a selection of work from the last twenty years amounting to…

…Made up of inter-related but self-contained short stories, The Dark Object explores the tension between the restraint of narrative form, and the explosion of ontic instability. It aims not to…

Emily Wardill & Ian White
2010
£15.00

…and quotations, and containing extensive reproductions of Wardill’s work, the book’s content and design reflects the labyrinthine, and sometimes hallucinogenic quality of her films and their radical combination of form,…

Liam Gillick
2009
£375.00

…customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe….

Sarah Tripp
2020
£12.00

…read alongside five specially commissioned films by Isobel Lutz-Smith on mapmagazine.co.uk. For further details contact [email protected] Sarah Tripp is an artist, writer and lecturer based in Glasgow. Previous Book Works…

Christian Nold
2001
£7.50

How do people group together? And what are the methods of containment used in order to regulate the ‘vulgar mob’? These are just two of the questions elicited by Christian…

Gad Hollander & Andrew Bick
1998
£55.00

…to pay any additional charges for customs clearance. Please note that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for…

Silvia Ziranek
1987
Out of print

…cook. At the back of the book a glossary contains instructions for the recipes, which can be cooked as well as read. The recipes are punctuated with images: knick-knacks, objects…

Charles Barber, Sharon Kivland and Conrad Leyser
1991
Out of print

…invited to contribute to the book, grouped into pairs, woman-man, and artist-theorist. Each pair enter into a dialogue with each other through image and text; the sections are self-contained but…

Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane
2005
Out of print

…Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative…

Adrian Piper
1991
Out of print

…about others and those made about art that is delimited as political as a method of containment of what else it may be about, how richly politics may be defined….

Cecilia Vicuña
2024
£28.00

contains a new introduction by art historian and curator Amy Tobin and poet and writer Luke Roberts. It includes rarely seen archival material from Vicuña’s time in London, such as…

Lubaina Himid
2017
Out of print

…customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe….

Pavel Büchler
1997
£4.50

…research within the library, Marx Angels contains extracts from correspondence between Marx and Engels, who both spent time studying in Chetham’s Library. Presented as a journal and illustrated with details…

Brian Catling
1995
£9.50

…handwriting, description and print. The texts for The Blindings are handwritten: each of which contains a pronouncement that a fluid, gas, suspension or extract has been injected into the eye;…

Arts Against Cuts
2015
Out of print

…any access requirements, please contact [email protected]. Published by Book Works as part of Common Objectives, guest edited by Nina Power; edited and designed by Louis Hartnoll, Lucy Killoran, Robyn Minogue,…

…customs clearance. Please note that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that…

Paper covered hinged case containing various books and printed panels for a business proposal. The box automatically illuminates the interior when the lid is opened. The video screen contained inside…

An edition of 25 specially made boxes to contain an artists’ multiple consisting of varying sizes and shapes of Haematite pieces. The interior of the box also contains a small…

…the sculptures contains sets of prints in cloth covered portfolios with foil blocked titles. The individual sculptures are also available as separate works contained in their own leather covered box….

Unique set of solander boxes containing material collected by the artist for the project. Each box has a printed cloth cover creating an overall design across the spines. The whole…

A unique solander box containing a book and DVD contained inside a drawer, and a USB drive in a recess. Designed by Weidemann Lampe, the box is covered in white…

An artists’ book containing abstract Indigo printed images. The paper over board covers have all been hand painted by the artist, and the book is contained in a coloured acrylic…

Design prototype with Indigo printed pages. The calfskin cover is foil blocked in gold and then individually printed with a hand. The book contains different sized inserts amongst the pages….

…replicate the original. The facsimile pages are bound with a specially coloured and aged sheepskin spine with vellum sides. Contained in a slipcase with an aged, sheepskin bound companion volume….

A solander box to contain various digital devices for an artwork produced for Lisson Gallery. The box is cloth covered on the outside with a specially created paper covered interior…

Mock crocodile covered filing cabinet style box containing a series of texts. The drawer slides out to reveal a series of titled files holding texts printed onto cards….

This limited edition artists’ book contains a sequence of highly complex pages working from the artist’s original set of collages. Every element of this book was hand produced for the…

A leather bound book with engraved metal corners and centre panel created as a film prop. The book contained a few printed pages, the remainder were left blank….

A digitally printed five metre long concertina format book containing the artist’s pencil drawings. The black bookcloth cover is blind debossed with the title and each book is housed in…

Two books bound as one with two separate spines, containing text and drawings never to be seen. Bound in alum tawed goatskin with an invisible join, and hand embroidered silk…

Each book contains 200 original screen printed works onto Shoji paper in collaboration with K2 Screen. The printed pages are loosely mounted onto a core paper enabling the light Japanese…

A special cloth covered presentation case housing three separate scrolls authentically replicating the originals. Each of the scrolls is held in a specific compartment and additional facsimile fragments are contained…

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…

Automated flick book displaying a catwalk show by the designer. The pages contained on the loop turn automatically with an adjustable speed control. The outer casing shows the working structure…

This leather bound artist’s book contains a series of hand printed lithographs by the artist to accompany a series of 10 poems by 10 poets. Book Works designed and letterpress…

Christian Barnes

A unique installation of books contained within a huge steel framed case. The secondhand books were collected by the artist with subject matter connected to American history. Each book was…

An artists’ edition created for the Tate Gallery consisting of six different pamphlets and prints contained inside a folding box. The books were held together with a screw post that…

A box with a hinged lid for an artist’s edition containing two crayons created by the artist from the remains of rose petals and stems that formed part of an…

A solander box covered in the fashion designer’s own design of fabric, and containing printed casebound books and gatefold panels of the work….

An edition created for the artist combining two separate books of text and photographs with additional quotations contained within the form of the book. The front and back covers have…

An artist’s multiple consisting of five small books, containing the artist’s writings, fitting into a specially constructed wooden case. Each of the letterpress printed books was printed at the Studio…

A selection of artists’ books containing various printmaking and collage techniques. The featured arttists include Ellis Nadler, Colin Hall, Adam Pendleton, and Beatriz Milhazes…

…end of the hourglass allow it to be lifted out without danger of damaging the work. The hourglasses were specially made for the artist and contain dust that is older…

Anya Gallaccio

A two-part box containing a series of miniature postcards from the artist’s own collection made in an edition of 50 sets. The box is covered in black bookcloth with a…

A cloth covered solander box with paper linings to contain a series of prints. The title letters are cut from pieces of copper and inset into the front cover. …

Two-part presentation box containing various electronic devices for domestic use. The internal lining is created from multiple layers of coloured felt that have been cut away to house the objects….

A one-off presentation box for the annual book awards presented in a specially designed clamshell box containing the winning title. The box is covered in silk with foil blocked design…

Solander boxes containing seven artist’s prints onto goatskin parchment. The box is covered in a black bookcloth with black foil blocked text on the front cover and spine….

A specially commissioned ten sided box containing 20 books and printed objects in different forms showing the architectural design and construction of the Cleveland Museum. The black silk covered box…

Wedding album containing printed photographs. The covering is made from five different cloths with a foil blocked title across the middle. The spine is left exposed to show the sewing….

A large cloth covered box containing a limited edition necklace created by the artist. Each of the stone beads on the necklace is annotated on the printed guide on the…

Two-part cloth covered box to contain a series of DVD cases. The boxes are lined with specially printed Yves Klein blue panels. Foil blocked titles throughout….

Three different editions of books containing cocktail recipes. The books are bound in black hide allowing the covers to be slightly floppy. The outer cover is blind debossed with a…

Cloth covered portfolio to contain a series of prints. The folio is lined with mouldmade paper and has a foil blocked title on the front cover….

A coloured vellum covered two-part box containing a limited edition copy of the book by Julian Barnes with accompanying etchings by the artist….

Unique series of books containing original Japanese calligraphy with letterpress printed text pages. Hand sewn and bound with different coloured goatskin spines and printed aluminium covers….

A series of printed and bound books containing architectural photographs. The cloth bound covers are foil blocked and blind debossed….

Part of a series of large scale solander boxes to contain a set of prints. Various techniques of inlaid and onlaid calfskin and goatskin were used to create four of…

A presentation book containing the history of the jewellery brand. The book is bound in hand marbled calfskin with a foil blocked title. The text pages are digitally printed and…

Unique series of five different books based on the Five Elements each containing original calligraphy by the artist. The bindings were covered using different layered materials revealing coloured cores. Letterpress…

Archive Items

Liam Gillick; Book Works
1995
1 leaf (recto)

A single sheet of Book Works headed paper with a separate sheet containing an illustration attached by Sellotape. A handwritten letter from Rob Hadrill at Book Works to the designer…

Susan Hiller
1994
3 leaves (recto)

A4 (folded into 3 sections) fax strip from Alison Green at the Freud Museum, London to Jane Rolo at Book Works detailing a symposium. Contains handwritten and printed text. Dated…

Liam Gillick
1995
1 leaf (recto)

Fax containing typed communication from Liam Gillick to Rob Hadrill and Jane Rolo at Book Works regarding the first draft for his publication Erasmus is Late. The letter is signed…

Susan Hiller; Freud Museum
1993
3 leaves (recto-verso)

Copy of Athene, the Freud Museum Newsletter, no.4, Winter 1993/94. Page six contains a short article on The Reading Room exhibition organised by Book Works….

Liam Gillick; Gillian Gillick
1995
2 leaves (recto)

Reproduction of 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…

Book Works
1994
1 leaf (recto)

Text containing information for a New Texts commission at Book Works to be placed in Art Monthly, with handwritten annotations by Jane Rolo….

Book Works
1994
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Photocopied sheet of advertisements in Art Monthly, contains a quarter page advertisement from Book Works regarding a New Texts commission (Post-It note on reverse listing the dates of the issues…

News

…The very loose theme is contact. ‘I’m looking for works that encounter the complications of encounter: friendship/enmity, scenes, screens, movements, moments of togetherness. Contact can span from moments of intensity…

Join Book Works at PEER Gallery to celebrate the launch of Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme and the new Contact series, edited by Hannah Black. Readings from Hamishi Farah and…

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…

…address, contact telephone number/skype contact. 4. A completed Equal Opportunities form (download below). 5. A registration fee of £10/£5. If you are on a low income, in receipt of benefits…

News/Events
2025

…On your CV, please ensure that you include: – Your contact details. – Details of your current and previous employment with dates – Contact details for two professional referees (we…

…by and nourishing the activist community in an area that tries to both highlight its historical trauma and to downplay it. Ta Kala Kathoumena, Juliet Jacques, 2022 Cyprus 1974 poster,…

…representation via film history, decolonial and queer theory. Co-published by Book Works and Luma Westbau, with the generous support from ICA London, Arts Council England and the Swiss Cultural Fund…

…I began my research by compiling a document of first-person accounts and testimonies pertaining to experiences of sexual violence and associated trauma. The result was something akin to Svetlana Alexievich’s…

contains extensive representation of Moment and Moment 2 as still images, added to which are installation views of the films’ presentation at the ICA, London, schwarzescafé, Luma Westbau, Zürich, and Cordova, Barcelona. Following this…

…journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking…

News/Events
2020

…and can be contacted on 020 7247 2536 or via [email protected]. The BOOK WORKS PUBLISHING team are currently working remotely, as we think that this is the best way to minimise the risk…

Hamishi Farah’s first UK solo exhibition – London UK – is now open at Arcadia Missa until 30 August 2023. The gallery contains 3 paintings, Roberto Cavalli, Beyoncé, & Whale,…

…book contains hand- and typewritten poems, diary entries, and documentation of assemblages and paintings by Vicuña from the previous ten years. Ehrenberg wrote in his editor’s note that Saborami was…

…practice of hosting informal conversations among friends. Events take place in a private home. Please contact Hamja if you wish to attend. Hamja Ahsan is an artist, activist, curator and…

29–30 June 2024 Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol More info/contact We’ll be back in Bristol for BABE, Bristol Artist’s Book Event, on 29–30 June. The first Bristol Artist’s Book Event was…

…final two weeks will include making a slipcase to contain the books made during the course. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run…

…the negotiation of the complexities of subject/object relations in contemporary capitalism and constitute a kind of precarious – even false – refuge from the trauma of living in it. Maija…

…character. The documentary follows Hamja as he deals with the trauma and despair of his brother’s extradition case, whilst travelling the world inspiring and educating others through creativity and activism….

…novel, in a section written in second person, as if part of an inner monologue during a moment of trauma and paralysis, the protagonist states, by way of explaining her…

…of Before The Mast, a ten-day durational performance that took place in London in 2013. Contact the Lungley Gallery for further info. The Stuart Brisley Interviews is our Book of…

…processes of (mis)translation, contamination, commingling and exchange can take place in ways that redefine conceptions of inside and outside, self and other, guest and host, without privileging strength. With figures…

*** This course is full. Please check the website for our Wednesday evening course. Or contact Jan for the next round of courses in Autumn. *** A nine week Bookbinding…

…here. There are a couple of places left on this course – if you would like to book or have any questions please contact Jan on jan @ bookworks.org.uk or…

…issue also contains a cover profile with Rosa-Johan Uddoh, whose new book, Practice Makes Perfect, we will be publishing later this year, along with Focal Point Gallery, Southend, to mark…

…by contacting either the Una Marson Library or National Poetry Library. Order Practice Makes Perfect. Image: She is Still Alive! by Rosa-Johan Uddoh in Southwark Park. Artist flag co-commissioned by…

contains interviews with 11 UK public sector workers about their experiences working through the COVID-19 pandemic. Book Works is delighted to be publishing Harun Morrison’s first novel, The Escape Artist,…

…and the Flea, implicating them in questions around growth, extraction, contamination and existence within systems of control. It includes new sculpture, painting, installation, light and sound work and runs until…

…publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition published by Book Works contains a new introduction by art historian and curator Amy Tobin and poet and writer Luke…

…presents a personal selection of objects and actions, containing elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, which present us with invaluable evidence of creative life in Britain today. Includes a…

News/Events
2011

…be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio. Course Dates: Thursdays from 2nd February to 29th March, 2012 Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm Cost: £200 per student Course contact details:…

News/Events
2012

…new post, to start early May 2012. Deadline for applications is 5 March 2012 Interviews for shortlisted applicants 19 March 2012 For more details contact: Jane Rolo 020 7247 2203…

…with publishers Book Works and The Showroom, the book contains an interview between the artist and editor, and specially-commissioned essays by Melissa Gronlund and Tom Holert, and is designed by…

…face of defeat. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s original publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition contains a new introduction by art historian and…

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…For more information on sales and distribution, please contact Paul Sammut. To view our current catalogue please click here. On the right is a small selection of bookshops and libraries that…

…of books featuring the artists’ response to one of the seven deadly sins. Published by Seven Sins Press. Envy Adam Pendelton A limited edition of 24 books containing 200 screen…

…The course will feature multi-section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese style binding and a concertina binding. The final two weeks will include making a slipcase to contain the books made…

Farshid Moussavi Architects

…room in the interior of the box complete with staircase rising from the ground. Contained inside the internal box were 22 different sets of prints, packs and books in different…

…to cart Kamwangi Njue 2024 Through the Tinnitus £14.00 Add to cart Featured artists Katrina Palmer Clunie Reid Lubaina Himid Francesco Pedraglio Featured commissions Arrhythmia The Happy Hypocrite Interstices Contact…

…boxmaking workshops in our studio in Shoreditch, London. Check the dates for the above courses or contact [email protected] if you are interested in a one day workshop for a group…

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