The Contemporary Picturesque addresses two areas of contemporary architecture and design. One is the development of a repressive form of urban architecture and design: Nils Norman has collected photographs of…
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…and residual histories of resource extraction and colonial authority in the context of contemporary culture and society. Al-Maria has had solo exhibitions at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Mathaf: Arab Museum…
…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…
…their emotion and subject of contestation. The texts, the contributors, the ideas, the aesthetics, and the arguments disagree, and so do we. Ordered against order, Bad Feelings attempts to manifest…
Extract from The Mu Particle In Communism by Wu Ming, from Make Everything New – A Project On Communism. Screen Print printed by Calvert….
…material and personal narratives about abolition, that no one gets anything significant done by themselves.’ –Lubaina Himid About the artist: Lubaina Himid, born 1954 in Zanzibar, Tanzania, is a contemporary…
Again and again, Pierce can be seen to break open moments that strive towards hierarchies, towards the discrete or the contained. And although one cannot ‘get rid’ of such moments…
…guest edited by Michael Bracewell, that responded to a growing interest in artists writing, and the experimental novel form, and has since continued as a core element of our programme….
…in the context of the European economic crisis and its effect on Greece, contemporary migration and the conditions of immigrant workers and refugees. Conversations with the artist, and participants and…
…its activities up to 1996. It is also an introduction to artists’ books and their points of contact with the larger cultures of contemporary visual arts and of the written…
…all contributors to the Without Reduction broadcast event on Resonance Extra, midday to midnight, 25 September 2021, including, in addition to the issue 12 print contributors: Sophia Al-Maria; Ruth Angel…
…articulated truck, loaded with crates containing the artist’s entire archive departed for Barcelona. Their prints, negatives, intimate notes, sketches of unfulfilled projects, and catalogue of books, will be displayed at…
…lecture-performances and print media, this publication embraces new contributions in the form of essays, interviews, and archival presentation on subjects that range from seventeenth-century Sarmatism to the twenty-first-century Green Movement,…
…of speculative activism that might actually change they way you think, also way more imaginative and actionable that any of that so-called theory that you read. Sick of extroverts controlling…
…2015). Her publications include Black Slit, The Fabricator’s Tale, The Dark Object (Book Works, 2023, 2014, 2010), and contributions to Documents of Contemporary Art, (Whitechapel/MIT 2013 2021). Palmer was a recipient…
…Nina Wakeford is an artist, and Senior Tutor in Contemporary Art Practice and Reader in Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. Wakeford’s practice begins with what she considers…
…With its collage of documents, MI5 surveillance reports and contemporary photographs, this is a vivid account of the transforming power of progressive politics in one woman’s life.’ – Alison Light…
…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…
Being, In a State of Erasureis currently out of print. ‘My artistic practice is concerned with locating performative and narrative methods with which to bring contemporary socio-political discourse into dialogue…
…new contributions in the form of essays, interviews, and archival presentation on subjects that range from seventeenth-century Sarmatism to the twenty-first-century Green Movement, taking in along the way, tales of…
…‘On Our Backs: An Archive’ (The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2017) and ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’ (Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, Bristol, 2019). She is a…
…the context of regeneration as an inspiration and hindrance for contemporary artists. The Master Plan by Stephen Hodge, is co-published by Book Works and Situations, as part of Co-Series, in…
…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….
Move…ment is the fourth issue of the journal …ment, and is dedicated to protest and language. Contributors were invited to formulate and re-frame the concept of resistance, particularly how it…
…in various exhibitions including ‘On Our Backs: An Archive’ (The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2017) and ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’ (Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, Bristol,…
…new, expanded facsimile edition remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous…
…2017) and ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’ (Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion and Arnolfini, Bristol, 2019). She is a 2020 finalist of Queer|Art’s, Robert Giard Grant for Emerging…
…contemporary culture. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, Germany, USA, India since 2001. Winner of the Observer Hodge Photographic Award, 2003, selected for the National…
…in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, Germany, USA, India since 2001. Winner of the…
…to construct witty and finely controlled poems from the titles of books. As part of his contribution to the Book Works project Library Relocations in Liverpool Central Library, David Bunn…
…events spiral out of control, and growing mistrust and exhaustion take their toll on all four filmmakers, the horror tropes they’re working with contextualise an immediate, inescapable sense of unease….
…/ Author: Contemporary Artists’ Books, a touring exhibition organised by the American Federation of Arts. Itinerant Texts takes as its starting point the idea of the artist as itinerant worker,…
…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…
…magazine Curtains, which blasted French contemporary writing into British culture, he is the author, editor and translator of numerous published and unpublished works, appended in this book as Selected Context….
…contributors, the pervasiveness of popular culture and the possibilities of the imagination. Collected in the form of a book for the first time, this publication presents all the contributions up…
…Government Art Collection and Tate Gallery. Titchner is fascinated by the myriad systems of belief that permeate contemporary culture. He often revisits defunct and outmoded philosophies, especially those born out…
…an accidental moment become an eternal imprint in the minds of so many people? How do you capture those moments where time is wrecked, elongated, paused, contorted, wielded into a…
…the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, Germany, USA, India since 2001. Winner of the Observer…
…eyes contort as your own tongue does trying to shape the words, tempted to twist, stretch or replicate the graphic tonguing on the page. About the artist: Michael Dean was…
…London, is known for creating context specific art projects, which highlight the continued relevance of particular historic moments to the present. She works with collaborators to realise her projects, which…
…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…
…the springboard to artistic acclaim. Taking their cue from Bernstein’s original cast – Gilles, Geneviève, Bertrand and Carole – these would-be avatars muse on the contemporary relevance of Bernstein’s themes,…
…contradictions are numerous, and radical political activists and thinkers smatter the history of Hull leaving legacies that are often hard to understand and acknowledge. Cammock has brought together some of the voices…
…the sound of your voice when reading these words’ provoke a physical and affective relationship with the texts and images presented. The Artist Book includes multi-voiced biographies by anonymous contributors,…
Drawing on the documentary tradition, in combination with contemporary concerns of participation and egalitarianism, Vox Populi, Tokyo continues this ever-expanding mappo mundi. Vox Populi, Tokyo is published to coincide with…
Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters continues Cornelia Parker’s preoccupation with destruction. Following on from Cold Dark Matter, where − with the help of the British Army − Parker exploded…
…Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Vox Populi London at the Photographer’s Gallery, London (2012); Fiona Tan – Rise and Fall, a touring solo exhibition at Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland;…
…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…
…in the political and creative potency of archives within contemporary culture. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK, Germany, USA, India since 2001. Winner of the…
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…
…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,…
…optimism in people, The Happy Hypocrite 9 imagines what it would mean to see the ‘plus’ reclaimed. The first issue to solicit sound-based contributions, opening the journal to music, and…
…Wilson. Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist’s mother, illustrates these…
Perfumed Head began its life as a chapter of Digital Leatherette, a novel that was published on the internet; in that context the chapter formed the solution to a murder…
…of Currently & Emotion, an anthology of contemporary poetry translations, also published in 2016, when it was named a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year by critic Jeremy Noel-Tod…
…her photographs have been included in various exhibitions including ‘On Our Backs: An Archive’ (The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2017) and ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’ (Nottingham Contemporary, De La…
…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….
…World Mister documents the processes and ideas behind Ayo Akingbade’s work. Written contributions by Steven Cairns, Maryam Kazeem, and Gboyega Odubanjo, expand upon and contextualise Akingbade’s practice. So, too, does…
…a backdrop for Kerbel’s ‘play of subversion’. By surveying surveillance Kerbel shows how different systems are interrelated, forming a web of control. Kerbel’s aim is not simply to subvert but…
…at Dundee Contemporary Arts in November 1999. This body of work comprised five projects that developed from the artist’s period of research with geneticists, medical sociologists and biochemists at Glasgow…
…at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, together with this publication, Vox Populi, Sydney – the second book by Fiona Tan in a series that present us with a ‘snapshot’…
Lost Volume: A Catalogue of Disasters continues Cornelia Parker’s preoccupation with destruction. Following on from Cold Dark Matter, where − with the help of the British Army − Parker exploded…
…have been included in various exhibitions including ‘On Our Backs: An Archive’ (The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2017) and ‘Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance’ (Nottingham Contemporary, De La Warr Pavilion…
…edition has been produced on occasion of The Reading Room, for the particular contexts of the Taylor Institution and of the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library. Please note that these…
…the equivalent of your silence … One must always consider the contrary point of view. All thought has an antithesis, and this should always amend any statement. Finally, accept the…
…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….
…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….
…a sequence that builds up a complete narrative, through gesture and repetition, with the printed text revealing something more of the content in its staccato presentation: the content is derived,…
Put About: A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing presents a timely discussion about independent publishing and publishing by artists, focusing on books where the makers keep control of every aspect…
…Wilson. Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist’s mother, illustrates these…
…rather they are teasers with no context, telling more about what could happen than what really has happened. Weinmayr has arranged these legends in alphabetical sequence which isolated from the…
…appear to exist in a highly dysfunctional world, that parodies, and replicates both the conditions of art, and its place in contemporary society. This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract,…
…contributions, this issue takes a hoarding, brutally accelerative approach and considers reading, too, as an unsustainable activity. Guest editor Sophia Al-Maria’s archive acts a sort of proto-Tumblr composed of school…
…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…
…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…
Joseph Kosuth made two installations in Oxford as part of The Reading Room Project, for the particular contexts of the Taylor Institution and of the Divinity School of the Bodleian…
…Moving from confusion and isolation to corporeal anger, the artist’s residency and the everyday frustrations of making work in a new context are cast as a modern allegory of alienation….
…With contributions ranging from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to T.S. Eliot and Michel de Montaigne, and seemingly useless when divorced from the complete series of Great Books, this primer…
…There is a range of new contributions, from Gregg Bordowitz, Paul Chan, Gabriel Coxhead, Lydia Davis, Yasmine El Rashidi, Chloé Cooper Jones, James Jennings, Allison Katz, Robin Coste Lewis, the…
…circuits of practice that have materialised in the form of books, writing, magazines, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice, contributors include: A Estante, An Endless Supply, AND, Banner…
…academic journal in order to create new conjunctions and productive disjunctions between theory and practice out of which new voices and new modes of art writing emerge. Contributors include: Jennifer…
…techniques of collage & bricolage, found text and image, interspersed with appropriated and parodic writing. Contributors: ArtstrA/Barbara Reise Archives; Steve Beard; Susanne Clausen; Marie Darrieussecq; Brian Dillon; Andrew Dodds; Thomas…
…a poster project to mark 40 years of commissions and book making, made in response to the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute…
…drawing, sculpture, photography and painting – Shrigley’s output defies categorisation and, indeed, resists analysis. Err illustrates the moral and artistic conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full…
…is to be trimmed by a guillotine. The book’s title suggests it is both additional and complementary to an unspecified thing, the shape and content of which can only be…
…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…
…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…
…photographs taken by actors and volunteers, professionals and amateurs, capture action on both sides of the camera. The images are accompanied by footnotes, e-mail exchanges and written and visual contributions…
…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:…
…serialised ephemera, including The Seedless Grape and The Shiner. Some texts have been adapted for film, including Heavy Vibrations and Topshop Returns. She has contributed to the Nervemeter, International Times,…
…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;…
…from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and questions what we perceive to be news and the construction of truth, fiction…
…as a ‘communicative’ device is intended to be continued by this publication. Modelled on a French government document, this book aims to reveal both the structure of the bridge and…
…Gaza overshadowing all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3…
…addressing how the ongoing processes of selection, nomination and historicisation can determine status, value and meaning. The sixty-six contributors were proposed by a group of curators, gallerists, artists and writers….
…all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. Any proceeds…
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…artists’ books. Sol Le Witt, Lawrence Weiner and Ed Ruscha are represented side by side to form a cogent series, which presents a contemporary investigation into materiality and the problems…
…rape, assault and criminal damage. The work was conceived using new media as a corrective to the sterility of computer technology. The patients and staff each contributed a part of…
…Puny Existence considers ideas of mapping and navigation and the daily ebb and flow of the urban environment. It is a significant contribution to Inventory’s ongoing determination of a ‘fierce…
…the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied,…
…contours, its material, its volume, in the different light of its manifestations”. The book presents a series of definitions of The Stumbling Block; written as prose, not poetry, these twenty…
…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 January…
…book, both in form and in content, presents itself as an enigma. The unique loose-leaf construction along with the juxtaposition of texts and image combine to entice the reader into…
…partial and subjective accounts of various creative practices, an experimental platform for ideas and an attempt to see in what ways the communist imagination can be materialised as art. Contributors…
…of glass lantern slides. The order of the content reflects the chronological sequence of events in the performance, using the nine items now listed in the Section J/78 of the…
…in visual art, but is rooted in the condition of contemporary life encountering along the way the literary tradition, music and philosophy. These provide the backbone to much of her…
…Tan is now using family photograph albums of Londoners. By loaning their albums, the contributors have given the artist unique access to domestic imagery that ranges from the celebratory to…
…used to print them. The first section presents images of hands taken from photographs of people notable enough to be featured in newspapers; severed from their bodies and their contexts,…
…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….
…1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site symbolic of provocation and conflict against far-right groups in Southall, west London, where Prem Sahib grew up. A rich body of…
…− that negotiates our and its own worries about what a book ought to contain, in what order and for how long. In this book Durham looks at Englishness −…
…news stories are sometimes poetic, sometimes overtly political, and sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and…
…whims of the Head Gallery, which remains an anonymous and inviolate force, the overseer of events and a selfless accumulator of prestige and wealth. Familiar contemporary artists are reanimated for…
…‘Category of Introduction’, ‘Problems caused by Introduction’, and ‘Efforts of Control or Eradication’, drawing on both scientific fact and often bizarre cultural anecdote. Originally published in 2006, second edition, 2007….
…contours, its material, its volume, in the different light of its manifestations”. The book presents a series of definitions of The Stumbling Block; written as prose, not poetry, these twenty…
…social media and swiping in dating apps, and the clash of hyper-capitalist forces of productivity and technology with the intimacy of a queer male gaze. ‘By presenting the imagined contents…
…unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works. Citing the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Brisley emphasises the critical importance of error to the creation of…
…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…
…humanitarian crisis in Gaza overshadowing all our activity. We have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a…
…fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories. Co-published by Book Works with The Arts Catalyst….
…are shown simultaneously in Timonen’s project to be something genuinely ‘ours’ yet alienating. They act as both tools for the negotiation of the complexities of subject/object relations in contemporary capitalism…
…have been selected and reconfigured by invited contemporary artists and musicians, re-staging and manipulating Weiner’s lyrics within the musical genres of two-step, west coast laptop electronica, noisecore, math rock and…
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…
An artists’ multiple in the form of a large hourglass, presented in a two-part cloth covered box with specific padded linings to protect the contents. Two tabs at the either…
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…
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…
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…
…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….
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…
Simple hand stitched pamphlet style booklets with digitally printed contents. The booklets each have a letterpress title label with loose dust jacket….
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…
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….
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…
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….
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….
Various silk covered binders designed to hold printed Room Guides for Kew Palace, Hampton Court and other historic houses. The contents can be easily replaced when necessary….
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….
…and paper with a specially made stainless steel edging surrounding the outer walls. The stainless steel is engraved with the title of the project. Foil blocked folders hold the contents….
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…
A coloured vellum covered two-part box containing a limited edition copy of the book by Julian Barnes with accompanying etchings by the artist….
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….
Menu holders for a variety of clients covered in a variety of different materials, and showing different approaches of housing the contents….
A perfect bound softcover magazine style book. The cover and contents are digitally printed….
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….
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…
A selection of artists’ books containing various printmaking and collage techniques. The featured arttists include Ellis Nadler, Colin Hall, Adam Pendleton, and Beatriz Milhazes…
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 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…
Two artists’ books with custom made case to fit both copies. Designed by OK-RM, the printed interior of the case supplies a commentary to its contents….
A solander box covered in the fashion designer’s own design of fabric, and containing printed casebound books and gatefold panels of the work….
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…
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 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…
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Article about The Contemporary Picturesque by Nils Norman. Written by Gregory Williams, taken from ArtForum, undated, pp.158….
Contract drafted by Book Works for Liam Gillick regarding the publication Erasmus is Late (referred to by its working title Erasmus Kommt)….
Contract between Book Works, Jimmie Durham and the ICA, for the production of the publication My Book, The East London Coelacanth, Sometimes Called, Troubled Waters; The Story of British Sea-Power….
Leaflet produced to accompany the Again, A Time Machine touring exhibition. The material from Book Works Archive: Contribution to Make the Living Look Dead by Bridget Penney (2011) Contribution to…
…… Jonathan Monk (2011). We try to celebrate / Further fits … Slavs and Tatars (2011). Extract from a contribution by Sean Lynch to A Rather Large Weapon – The…
List of contents generated by Susan Hiller for After the Freud Museum. Four different versions with handwritten additions by Jane Rolo of Book Works….
Draft text of title and contents list for After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller with handwritten corrections by Jane Rolo of Book Works….
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…
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…
…as Hull has provided the visual and social context to explore and research the relationships of community, trade, survival and exclusion, or to provide a backdrop for paintings, whose messages…
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…
Printed copy (trimmed to actual size) of draft layout, with cut and pasted content, of After the Freud Museum by Susan Hiller, with handwritten text by Jane Rolo of Book…
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….
Text containing information for a New Texts commission at Book Works to be placed in Art Monthly, with handwritten annotations by Jane Rolo….
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…
…other works come from the Guerilla Girls. Books were contributed by Sophie Calle, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Adrian Piper, Els ter Horst, Unica T, Verdi Yahooda, Silvia Ziranek and others….
Typed and drawn content from Liam Gillick to Rob Hadrill and Jane Rolo at Book Works regarding the launch event for the publication Erasmus is Late….
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…content. So the text or the reason for the protest in an immediate way. So, when we design a book cover, we design it to exist in the context of…
…can accept that quite reductive contrast between one idea of what an artist book was in the 60s—70s American/European conceptual art context, and what it might be now, in a…
…the kind of shape of a journal or shape of the magazine in the way that it self-contains a kind of culture or a world-making between and for people, and…
…I mean, obviously, you might not know the context of this image— (14:44) TS – I was gonna say, do you want to say a little bit about the context…
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…
…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…
…becoming a supporter or patron and visit our Website here or contact [email protected] for more information. BOOK WORKS STUDIO is now reopen and can be contacted on: 020 7247 2536 or via [email protected]. BOOK…
…This issue, this final issue, invites you all to contribute. My editorial methodology is Without Reduction because I’m greedy. I want to publish as many of the open submissions I…
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…
…Jane has led publishing and commissioning at Book Works, building a singular approach to working with artists. Her incomparable contribution to art and publishing has been to foreground a unique…
A symposium on independent publishing and publishing by artists, exploring why producers feel compelled to deliver such materials, and the economic models and audiences that ensure their cultural presence. Contributors…
…top of the first page: postal address, email address, contact telephone number/skype contact. A completed Equal Opportunities form (download PDF here). Selection Katrina Palmer and Book Works will draw up…
…the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes (MTA), Palestine, anti-colonialism, and workers’ and immigrant labour rights. Contributors explore the legacy of the group – placing this history in the context of the…
…in this way before, we invite you to consider the potential of doing so. Does your work meet absurdity with absurdity? Contradict contradictions? Are you working in referential formal structures…
…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…
…writers to be commissioned through a process of open submission. This legacy continues in 2019 with ‘Contact’, a new series of books commissioned by Hannah Black, and a new issue…
…and published by Book Works. This audio event will expand upon themes in the printed journal – commissioning new audio work from contributors to this issue, and the eleven previous ones. Contributors…
…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…
…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…
…Utilising language as a controlling device they shape content into familiar forms – sculpture, installation, an essay or an anecdote, video and voice, the self-consuming novel or pulp noir fiction….
…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…
…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…
…remedies this oversight, and restates Saborami as a central example of artistic engagement in material and revolutionary resistance. Engaging obliquely with the legacies of surrealism, contemporaneous experiments in concrete poetry and the…
…experience of working with and nurturing artists at all stages of their careers. Gavin has been a wonderful colleague, a kindred spirit, and I am certain Book Works will continue…
Coinciding with Phyllis Christopher’s exhibition Contacts at BALTIC, and the publication of her book Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest, 1988-2003; Ariel Goldberg, Languid Hands and Sam Dolbear contribute…
…contact with the Directors of Book Works. If you are interested or would like to know more please contact Gavin Everall at [email protected]. If you would like to apply, please…
Thank you so much to everyone who contributed and tuned in to our marathon radio broadcast to celebrate the life and death of The Happy Hypocrite on Saturday! Even we…
…must always consider the contrary point of view. All thought has an antithesis, and this should always amend any statement. Finally, accept the futility of resolution. Any thought you may…
…commission with Sarah Tripp, the latest Happy Hypocrite, issue 11, Silver Bandage, guest edited by Erica Scourti, and the ‘Contact’ series guest edited by Hannah Black with Hamishi Farah, Momtaza…
…over the years were invited to make a new work on A4 paper as a contribution, intervention or fictionalisation for our archive. Each work plays with notions of time, and…
…the young people, documenting both the event and the work of making it happen. Ruth Ewan, a Scottish artist based in London, is known for creating context specific art projects,…
…responses to the violence of the military junta. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s original publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition published contains a…
…the story of Nan Kemp. Playing with well-worn horror tropes as events on the shoot spiral out of control, and the sense of unease grows, Licorice is an original and…
…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…
…qualities of the image; there is an image before an image. It has inert content, it is a thing in front of a thought. In the studio the matter goes…
…How does an accidental moment become an eternal imprint in the minds of so many people? How do you capture those moments where time is wrecked, elongated, paused, contorted, wielded…
…‘the witch’s grave’ since way back when. As events spiral out of control, the horror tropes invoked by the project contextualise an immediate, inescapable sense of unease. About Interstices In…
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,…
…of The Happy Hypocrite — Silver Bandage, issue 11 – which contains an archive of film poster reproductions representing Katerina Gogou’s roles in Greek cinema. Copies of the journal will…
…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…
…is Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from Around the UK. First published in 2005 and now in its third edition, Folk Archive is a book about the creative life of…
…volatile the rewilding of territories, extinction crises or first contact fantasies; burn off viscous words, explore the membranous, and the conjuncture of primeval and pornographic imagery; juice your imagination with…
…interdisciplinary projects. With an emphasis on producing unique and beautiful books, we are committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature. Paul Becker has exhibited widely,…
FIXED TERM CONTRACT JULY 2018 – END OF DECEMBER 2019 (18 MONTHS) Deadline for applications: 6 June 2018 to start July 2018 1 day per week subject to contract and…
…disturbingly violent stories, featuring nameless characters that expose the repressed tension between the animate and inanimate, the sick malaise of contemporary life, and the cracking points of human subjectivity. Palmer’s…
…find that it’s a rare piece of contemporary architecture that I like – it’s spacious and elegant, and unapologetically futuristic. I look up at Jean Nouvel’s Tower 25, with its…
…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…
We are very happy to have been asked to contribute to Queercircle’s Gathering with Palestine programme this summer, alongside over 15 other organisations and collectives. From Queercircle: “Taking an intersectional…
…is applied to food. ‘Good’ is imprecise in ways which enhance its effectiveness in a culinary context; it suits every appetite. When paired with the compelling mystery of an edible…
…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…
A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional 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…
…ideas around queer attachment, proximity, and personal and collective transformation. It also excavates the history of a real fire which in 1981 destroyed the Hambrough Tavern – a contested site…
…celebrated design agencies – as Designer and later Senior Designer. He founded his own design practice in 2020, where he continues working and collaborating with artists and art institutions. In…
…contemporary poetry translations; a sequel, Intimacy, is forthcoming. She is the translator, from the Dutch, of Lieke Marsman’s The Following Scan Will Last Five Minutes (Pavilion, 2019). Most recently, she has translated Marsman’s…
…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…
…Akingbade comprising of two new film commissions. Shot on location in Nigeria, The Fist and Faluyi are Akingbade’s most ambitious productions to date, building upon her continued interest in history,…
…practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works. Citing the Brazilian writer…
…Guitar! (2020), She also contributed to The Happy Hypocrite 5 – What Am I? (2010), edited by Maria Fusco. Her writing can also be found in F.R. DAVID (Berlin), 2HB(Glasgow),…
Friday 15 September Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH Screening 12–7pm Talk/book launch 7–8.30pm Book free tickets Coinciding with the release of artist Deborah-Joyce Holman’s book Queen…
…photographs, Clunie Reid’s photo-collages appropriate and violently represent the banality of everyday images. Drawing on the sexual content and rhetoric of advertising, and often reproduced on a mirrored surface with…
…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…
A nine week courses in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and…
…and editions are created with Book Works Studio and enable us to continue supporting and nurturing new projects by emerging artists, writers and practitioners. The sale includes works by an…
…all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of A3 posters. All proceeds…
…contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The course will be for…
Book Works would like to thank Arts Council England for its continued support of us as a National Portfolio Client….
…combining Antarctic myths and fictions, histories of colonial endevour, lifecycles of icebergs and the real effects of global warming, with images of contested and uncharted territories. Co-published by Book Works…
…which read ‘Long May they Reign’ would change into ‘25 years of Hunger and War’ as the Royal Coach containing King George and Queen Mary passed under it. It did…
…of representation, with a particular focus on the libidinal afterlife of coloniality and itʼs permeation through contemporary art. In 2020, Book Works published Farah’s graphic novel, Airport Love Theme. Drawings…
Our Book of the Month, with 30% off throughout September 2024, is The Council of Spent by Inventory. Capitalism continues to disempower us, with its corrosive mantra that it provides…
…and the written and spoken word, SPACE hosts the first UK retrospective of Stewart Home’s work. Exhibition continues: 6 April to 20 May 2012 Monday to Friday 10am–5pm Saturday to…
…Japanese style binding and slipcase making. On Monday evenings, starting on 21st September. See PDF for details. Course contact details: Email: [email protected] Book Works, 19 Holywell Row, London EC2A 4JB Telephone:…
…psychologically. From the multiple perspectives of class, financial hardship, gender identity, sexuality, embodiment, and mental health, and in the various contexts of strained family and other personal relationships, and the…
Book Works is delighted to announce that Jan Burgess has been appointed Co-Director of the Studio. Jan Burgess joined Book Works in 2003 and has made an invaluable contribution to…
…Gallery in November 2022 and has since toured to Spike Island, Bristol and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. It opens at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead on 17 November 2023,…
…artist she presented recent work at Turner Contemporary, Baltic and Workplace. Tess was Artistic Director of Tender Buttons theatre company between 2010-2018 and Programmer for The Northern Charter between 2015-2018….
A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and…
…and distribution. From strikes to sit-ins and protests to collective provocations, we are looking for proposals that engage in, transform or are otherwise informed by political issues and contemporary actions…
…wall paintings, sculpture and archive TV and film footage to re-address the mediation of art and ideas and their relation to a nomadic audience. As contributors to and co-editors of…
…in leatherwork, but also other aspects of bookbinding and boxmaking. The rate of pay will be between £27-£32K p.a. Start date is negotiable. Applicants should contact Rob Hadrill at [email protected] for any…
…demonstrates a desire to continually reforge the passage between theory and practice, overcome canalised cultural pursuits and breach the false separations between art and politics and the private and social….
…sometimes strangely surreal. Dislocated from their original context and presented as an artist’s impression, the work reveals a changing society, and questions what we perceive to be news and the…
Sunday 3 December, 4 – 6:30pm Institute of Contemporary Arts The Mall, London Free, booking required. Poetry, readings, screenings and listening sessions with a closing performance by Elaine Mitchener Inspired…
…with all of the contributors – Phyllis will be joined by Susie Bright, Laura Guy, Shar Rednour and Michelle Tea. The event will be hosted by Centre for Sex and…
…conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full of bleak humour, that confound the brain and unsettle the soul. We’ll be doing a promotion on a different book…
…but space is limited and booking essential. To book contact: Gavin Everall, 020 7247 2203, or [email protected] Through a screening and discussion of current work Marina Vishmidt presents her research…
…archive of material formed by contemporary interventions and additions to our archive by a selection of Book Works’ artists, including a live performance by Brian Catling. The Spike Island exhibition…
…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…
Please note that this role has noe been filled. Sales Assistant, Book Works (1 day per week) Salary: £30,000 (pro-rata £6,000 per annum) Permanent contract (probation period 8 weeks) Location:…
…to public view. In Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval, Grennan adopts ‘Marie Duval’ as a pseudonym, reviving her reckless style to explore, like Duval, the contemporary world of modern…
…in any way intimidating; rather, it sets the stage for the contemplation of a striking section of the wall on the right-hand side of the hall. Here, protected by cheap…
…art. Contributors include: 16Beaver, Michael Blum, AA Bronson, Maria Eichorn, Factotum, Dmitry Gutov, Wu Ming, Aleksandra Mir, Sarah Pierce/The Metropolitan Complex, CK Rajan, Raqs Media Collective, Dont Rhine, Martha Rosler,…
…per attachment is 2 MB. The Happy Hypocrite will return work if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is included. We will only contact you if we want to publish your submission….
…discuss the process of regeneration, and the exploration of the contemporary past, through reflections on The Master Plan – a book which emerged from a public art programme in recession-hit…
…of books, writing, magazines, language, spoken word, performative research and archival practice, contributors include: A Estante, An Endless Supply, AND, Banner Repeater, Claire Makhlouf Carter, Eastside Projects, Maria Fusco, Dora…
…London. Throughout a wide range of formats, from artists’ books and exhibition catalogues to posters, marketing material, exhibitions, websites, film titles and music, the studio prioritises artists’ and writers’ content…
…6pm. The event is hosted by BALTIC, where Phyllis Christopher’s first solo retrospective, Contacts, is now open. Visit the BALTIC website for more details and to book a free ticket….
…carves out new territories and disrupts established forms. No consensus of practice is aimed for, rather these six events present a range of singular and contesting voices, including: Eileen Daly,…
…work in the Ministry of Transport, resolving the coal crisis in the winter of 1947–48 for which she was awarded an OBE. Her autobiography is unfinished, consisting of contemporary notes…
…bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also…
…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,…
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…Myers to create the detailed drawings of the contours of each of the 19 lakes so that the Studio could cut the contours from the pages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQUArSVOq4o The other important…
…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…
…behind work was based around a building that they had created for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. We created a nine sided box that mirrored the shape of…
…The box contains a variety of books and printed material relating to the Architects’ design for the building. Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art Selected Clients ARTISTS and PHOTOGRAPHERS AGENCIES AND…
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…design, printing and binding depending on the nature of the project. A huge range of binding methods are available in the Studio from very traditional approaches to more contemporary forms….
…Gaza overshadowing all our activity, we have invited artists to contribute work that speaks to ideas of solidarity with the oppressed, and liberation for the occupied, for a series of…