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Those who follow our artist’s book-related antics will know that each year a group of us collaborates on a tribute event for World Book Night. This year’s World Book Night fell on Tuesday 23 April 2013, just two days after our Bristol Artist’s Book Event (BABE) at Arnolfini so we all planned on keeping it simple.…

Last call for entries! Artist’s Book Yearbook 2014 - 2015

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2014 - 2015

The next issue of the Artist’s Book Yearbook (ABYB) will be published September 2013 by Impact Press.



For the forthcoming issue we invite artists, presses, publishers, collectors, libraries, educational organisations, centres, fair organisers, studios, galleries, etc. to send us their information for inclusion.

Artists may also list up to 3 books with (b&w)…

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2014 - 2015

The next issue of the Artist’s Book Yearbook (ABYB) will be published September 2013 by Impact Press.



For the forthcoming issue we invite artists, presses, publishers, collectors, libraries, educational organisations, centres, fair organisers, studios, galleries, etc. to send us their information for inclusion. Artists may also list up to 3 books with (b&w) images. All listings are free of…

An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street - 15 artists needed!

On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic centre of Baghdad bookselling, and heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery…

Will Mower is looking for people to talk about a single object that has some personal significance to them for a publication all about objects and the relationships people form with 'things'. Any object of any kind or size is great, you just need to be able to talk (or email him) about why it holds personal importance to you and a bit about where it came from etc. along with a photo of the object shot in any way you like.…

Press & Release

Exhibition of Artists’ Books



Phoenix Brighton, UK



27 April – 9 June 2013



Press & Release presents artists’ books within an imaginative, immersive and interactive gallery setting, focusing on hand-made and limited edition books and their digital counterparts. Taking place during the Brighton Festival in 2013, Press & Release will attract a diverse and appreciative audience and will be accompanied by special events and…

AkkuH, Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, The Netherlands

Opening Saturday 3 November at 17.00 

Closes 15 December at 19.30 

Artists:

Frans Baake, Udona Boerema, Monique Bosman, Wijnand Buursink,

Theun Hetterscheid, Nour-Eddine Jarram, Tine Kemperman,

Tessa Lieffering, Hieke Luik, Sebiha Demir, Annet Vroom.

AkkuH, Aktuele Kunst Hengelo

www.akkuh.nl

The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition is seeking an additional 12 artists' book makers for its project, An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street. We are seeking the very best people that we can find who will provide us with artists' book responses to the 2007 car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. We have an extensive exhibition schedule that will start in 2013, one that includes the U.S., the UK., Europe, Australia, and Cairo, Egypt. This call will run from July 1st - July 30th, 2012. We…

The Library of Lost Books - Call for Artists/Printmakers

The Library of Lost Books is an ongoing project to rescue old, discarded and damaged books, donated by the Library of Birmingham (UK) , and to re-work them, breathing new life into them through the interactions and interventions of

contemporary artists and printmakers. As many of the books date from the mid to late 1800s it is an opportunity for artists to work with books, manuscripts, papers, typefaces and…

An Inventory Of Al-Mutanabbi Street - A Call To Book Artists - From Beau Beausoleil

Help us reach 200 artists by 1st September 2011!

On March 5th 2007, a car bomb was exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the…

The 2011 Agassi Book Arts Prize has been awarded by The Centre for Fine Print Research to the MA Multi-disciplinary Printmaking student Angie Butler for all her wonderful book works, especially as artist-in-residence at Miss Carol a small traditional hair stylists in Bristol.

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TOAST: A Night on Weevil Lake

An event held on World Book Night, Saturday 5th March 2011, in tribute to Douglas Coupland's novel The Gum Thief, an evening of nothing being cooked, Chinese food having to be ordered in and eaten off of paper plates from Staples. Collaborators were asked to send photos of toast, produce music, write 200 words from the perspective of a piece of toast, to make things on the night etc.

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BABE - Bristol Artists Book Event 2011 

Arnolfini and the Centre for Fine Print Research present BABE 2011 at Arnolfini

Sat 30 Apr, 11am - 6pm and Sun 1 May, 11am - 5pm. Free.

Bristol Artists Book Event (BABE) is back and bigger than ever for 2011. Spread over three floors, more than 80 artist bookmakers, dealers and small presses from Bristol and around the world will come together at Arnolfini to show and sell their work. BABE…

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2012 - 2013

Publication date: Autumn 2011

Yes, it is that time again already!

Artists, publishers, bookshops, galleries, libraries, organisations, institutions, centres, studios, presses, etc. can list their relevant artworks, books or services in the next issue of the Artist’s…

Bookbinding for beginners - Led by Tom Sowden

5-week evening class commencing Tuesday 3rd May 2011

An introduction to bookbinding covering 5 different techniques from a simple pamphlet stitch and Japanese stab-bound books, through to long stitch, the French sewn flatback, and perfect binding. The course fee covers all basic materials, tea and…