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BOOK ARTS NEWSLETTER No. 53 November 2009
Artists’ Books Exhibitions at the School of 
Creative Arts, Department of Art and Design
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
The Photocopy vs. the Bound - Abigail Thomas
Special Collections Room, Bower Ashton Library
3rd - 30th November 2009
The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of 
authenticity - Walter Benjamin, 1936
 
When Benjamin wrote this he was talking about the way 
in which new technologies at the turn of the century were 
enabling people to reproduce works of art on mass scale. 
What I find interesting about this statement is him saying 
that a work of arts’ authenticity can only come from the 
original. What happens when that ‘original’ is then taken 
away? What is the ‘original’?
 
The Photocopy vs. the Bound
Photocopies can cause something to happen. Photocopy 
works can take on the accessible book form as well as 
the discardable advertising leaflet. Books tend to feel 
precious, but at what point can an artists’ book made from 
photocopies change from the throw-away booklet to the 
item that becomes so precious? 
A photocopy has an ephemeral quality which can somehow 
make it prized, more so than a mass produced bound book. 
Quickly, cheaply made in comparison with the bound book 
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 these photocopy books bring ideas and images straight from 
the artist to the viewer, but also create in themselves an art 
object. These photocopy books are one offs, or at least small 
editions or multiples, this makes them an intimate space for 
the artist to communicate to the viewer without the need for 
a 3D galley; a home to home service from artist studio to a 
viewers coffee table or cosy library corner. 
 
When the photocopies are made, the studio experiments, 
the drawings that appear in sketchbooks and the 
documentation of previous works of art are arranged onto 
the bed of the photocopier in a new composition, this is 
then copied creating another ‘original’. 
 
My artists’ books practice feeds off all other areas of my 
creative life. My practice centres on the everyday, ranging 
from sculptures and artists’ books to interventions and 
installations. I catalogue the documentation of my own 
work, sometimes obsessively, sometimes intermittently, 
recording the pieces in any media possible or suitable; 
this in turn is used as part of future pieces of work. This 
referencing within my own practice is something that brings 
different aspects of my thinking together and lets them feed 
off each other. 
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Recently my practice has been influenced by my day job in 
a library. Stamping, shelving, archiving, microfilm reading 
& photocopying are but a few processes that occur in the 
library from day to day. These processes are seeping into 
my practice, most noticeably in my book works. Collecting 
processes and skills as if they were items and putting them 
on display like treasure. 
 
To find out more about my work please visit my website: 
www.abigailthomas.co.uk
Micro-Pages is another book arts project which 
I have organised and curated. It will be showing 
at UWE Bower Ashton Library, Bristol from 
3rd - 30th November 2009
Micro-Pages is a conversation about the issues surrounding 
the display of artists’ books. A series of selected artists’ 
have been turned into a reel of microfilm for a touring 
exhibition. The work will be accessed through microfilm 
readers in participating libraries and archive centres. 
The books selected relate to the history of artists’ books, 
archives and libraries, or challenge the preconceptions of 
the future of document preservation.
All the books are shown one after the other on one 35mm 
reel of microfilm. Artists include: Lucy Harrison, Dorothy 
Smallman, Kim Pilgrim, Lynne Williams, Pilar Cortes, 
Borbonesa & Emitron, Esther Yarnold, Sarah Bodman, 
Annabel Ralphs, Kate Gallon, Csaba Pal, Laura Guy, Kit 
Merritt, Hanne Matthiesen, Ann Willmott, Abigail Thomas 
and Kerri Cushman.
Dates & Venues
3rd - 30th November 2009 UWE Bristol, Bower Ashton 
Library
Nov-2009 London South Bank University Library
1st November - 11th December 2009 Goldsmiths Library
1st - 7th December 2009 Paul Hamlyn Library, British 
Museum
4th - 31st January 2010 Bristol Central Library
1st - 5th February 2010 Glasgow School of Art Archives
Spring 2010 Hackney Archives
For more information see:
www.abigailthomas.co.uk 
http://micropages.ning.com
From Stroud to Bristol
3rd November - 6th December
Special Collections Room, UWE Bristol Bower 
Ashton Library
This exhibition has been assembled from works by staff 
and students at Stroud College. Over the last few years 
there has been a growing interest in the production and 
exhibiting of Artists Books at the college. One person in 
particular, Helen Smith, has been very influential in the 
promotion of ideas around the subject.
For most of the students this is a first opportunity to exhibit 
work. The work is not themed. The criterion is membership 
of the staff or student body at Stroud. In this way we have 
been able to show a diversity of ideas that have come from 
small beginnings.
We have on view altered books, books that tell a story or 
describe a journey, collaborative books and concept-based 
work. Co-ordinated by Valerie Elliott, Stroud College
UWE, Bristol, School of Creative Arts
Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT
Library desk: 0117 328 4750
37 pins by 37 librarians by David Chamberlain
Stratty Park by Gypsy 
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EXHIBITIONS
The Bookbinders Collective is pleased to announce 
its inaugural exhibition by kind permission of Robert 
Frew Ltd. It will be a selling exhibition of some of the most 
exciting contemporary bookbinders working today. 
Those exhibiting are: Kathy Abbott, Jo Bird, Mark 
Cockram, Benjamin Elbel, Eri Funazaki, Tatjana 
Gretschmann, Kate Holland, Kaori Maki.
Robert Frew Ltd is a renowned antiquarian booksellers 
based at 8 Thurloe Place, London SW7 2RX, just opposite 
the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their opening hours are: 
Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm. You 
can find them at www.robertfrew.com
The exhibition runs from Thursday 3rd December 
until Saturday 12th December. For further information 
or for an invitation to the private view please email Kate 
Holland at hollandswest@btinternet.com
See www.bookbinderscollective.co.uk for more about us.
Selections from the Athenaeum’s Erika and Fred 
Torri Artists’ Books Collection: Sol LeWitt
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, USA 
November 14th – December 31st
One of the earliest artists who worked on books, Sol LeWitt 
passed away in 2007. LeWitt was a conceptual artist who 
gained notice in the 1960s along with Ed Ruscha, Dan 
Flavin, and Carl Andre. He was a founder of Printed 
Matter bookstore in New York, the leading specialist center 
for artists’ books in the world.
North Reading Room
1008 Wall Street, La Jolla, CA, USA
www.ljathenaeum.org
Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am – 5.30 pm
Wednesdays until 8.30 pm. Admission is free
Toolbox 
Haslemere Museum 
4th - 16th of November
Andrew Morrison has been working as Artist-in-Residence 
in the town of Haslemere, Surrey for the past eighteenmonths as part of the ‘Creative Communities’ project. Nine 
boroughs have hosted visual and performance artists funded 
by Arts Partnership Surrey and the Arts Council.
The Haslemere project documents the rich tradition of 
craft workers and independent traders in the town through 
prints made in response to their collections of tools. Twenty 
prints record the breadth of the town’s occupations from 
fishmongery to fence making to rug restoring. Andrew has 
held regular workshops in the town to develop the project 
and ‘Toolbox’ includes contributions from local residents 
and schoolchildren.
‘Creative Communities’ reaches a conclusion in November 
and Andrew’s book ‘Toolbox’ will be on display in 
Haslemere Museum alongside some working drawings from 
the 4th to the 16th of November. 
All are welcome to the opening evening on 3rd November 
6 – 8pm when Andrew will introduce the book and briefly 
describe its development, there will also be a video of some 
of the Haslemere traders in practice.
For further details please contact Charlotte Gardiner, 
Waverley’s Arts Officer on 01483 523390. 
Haslemere Museum, 78 High St, Haslemere, GU27 2LA
haslemeremuseum.co.uk
The Story of Things
An exhibition of works curated by Carson & Miller
MMU Special Collections, Manchester
Until Friday 29th January 2010
In a museum ‘things’ sit beside one another in sometimes 
unlikely combinations. They tell something of their 
own story but also produce new narratives, just by being 
together. 
Working with MMU Special Collections, including the 
North West Film Archive, artists Carson & Miller have 
curated an exhibition that explores ideas of narrative, 
memory and collections. MMU academic Dr. Patricia 
Allmer explores the activities of Carson & Miller in an 
essay written to accompany the exhibition: On Being Touched. 
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A new artist’s book by Carson & Miller Scrapbook 
(the story of things) has been published by MMU 
Special Collections to coincide with the exhibition. 
In tandem to The Story of Things a Righton Press publication 
Stilled Lives is a new collaborative work bringing together 
artists, designers, poets and writers from across MMU. 
Edited by Carson & Miller this limited edition volume 
showcases a striking and thoughtful range of responses to 
the books held in MMU Special Collections, provoking 
further explorations of narrative, memory and collections. 
Carson & Miller’s collaborative art practice explores the 
impulse to tell and re-tell stories. The artists met whilst 
studying at MMU and have since developed a number 
of ways of working together, predominantly by utilising 
the artists’ book format but also exploring print and 
performance methodologies. To find out more see 
www.carsonandmiller.blogspot.com 
MMU Special Collections, Sir Kenneth Green Library
All Saints, Manchester M15 6BH
The exhibition is open: Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm
In term time: Thursday 10am - 7pm, Saturday 12am - 4pm
www.specialcollections.mmu.ac.uk
The Closure exhibition continues its tour, and a 
selection of books is now on show in the foyer and 
Gallery corridor at Avenue Campus, The University 
of Northampton, UK.
Open until Thursday 19th Nov, university opening hours.
The University of Northampton
Avenue Campus, St George’s Avenue
Northampton NN2 6JD
For further details see: www.weloveyourbooks.com
All Closure books in the touring show curated by 
weloveyourbooks can be viewed on flickr at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rejectamenta/
sets/72157621190021949/
Entries to the Designer Bookbinders’ Bookbinding 
Competition 2009 will be exhibited at the John 
Rylands University Library in Manchester from 
December 2009 - January 2010. The Private View will 
be on 5th December 2009. The Set Book for 2009 is:
Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier, published by 
The Folio Society.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
250 Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PP.
Tel: 0161 275 3751
Anne Laure Sacriste Doubles jeux 
Until 13th November
florence loewy - books by artists 
9-11 rue de thorigny fr-75003 paris
Tel: +33 (0)1 44 78 98 45 
www.florenceloewy.com 
info@florenceloewy.com
Tues - Sat 2pm - 7pm
NONE OF THE ABOVE
Assembling, Collaborating and Publishing in the 
Eternal Network
Star Tribune Foundation Gallery
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, USA
Until 8th November 2009
“Assembly” represents the ultimate in democratic art 
and was an outgrowth of the Fluxus movement of the 
1960s and 70s. Groups of artists - often those active in the 
correspondence art community - collaborated to produce 
compilations of work void of editorial oversight. This 
exhibition celebrates those independent voices through an 
historical overview of past publications and contemporary 
examples. Work on display will be from a variety of public 
Closure books by, from left: Kendall Wright, Melody Yates, Hanne 
Matthiesen Rhiannon Jones and Batool Showghi.
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and private collections. Co-curated by 2007 Winter Book 
co-editor Tom Cassidy and MCBA Artistic Director Jeff 
Rathermel. A series of Assemblings will be produced by 
MCBA allowing visitors to see the process in action.
The Box Sets by Picasso Gaglione
Until 8th November 2009
Open Book Lobby and Studio Showcases
William “Picasso” Gaglione has held a prominent position 
in the international network of correspondence artists since 
the mid 1960s and is acknowledged as one of the founders 
and foremost artists in the mail art movement. Whether as 
the proprietor of Chicago’s “Stampland,” or as one of his 
other guises, Gaglione has never stopped sharing his Dada 
visions with the world.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts is open to the public: 
Tuesdays: 10am to 9pm, Weds - Saturday: 10am to 5pm
Sunday: noon to 4pm, Mondays: closed.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Open Book Building, 
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
Tel: 612 215 2520
www.mnbookarts.org / mcba@mnbookarts.org
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter 
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Until 10th January 2010
Printed Matter is pleased to announce Learn to Read Art: 
A History of Printed Matter curated by AA Bronson, 
presenting a comprehensive overview of the organisation, 
and focusing on the philosophy established by its founders 
in 1976. Printed Matter was intended as an experiment in 
art as democratic form: from the modest books published 
in the late 70s to the most recently produced Artist and 
Activists pamphlet by The Center for Tactical Magic, the 
publications demonstrate an interest in a broad distribution, 
and an openness to critical content. 
The sequence of galleries follows the organisation from 
storefront to storefront over more than three decades, 
featuring installations by Lawrence Weiner, Josh Smith, 
Jenny Holzer and Scott Hug. The number of artists who 
have helped support Printed Matter is astonishing: editions 
by John Baldessari, Barbara Bloom, Larry Clark, Liam 
Gillich, Jenny Holzer, Terence Koh, Barbara Kruger, 
Christian Marclay, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Ed 
Ruscha, Felix Gonzales Torres, Christopher Wool and 
many more animate the rich history. An architecture of 
book-shaped platforms by Gareth Long contains the project 
and provides seating, display, and storage for the project. 
Printed Matter is the focus of an exhibition as part of 
MUSAC’s “Showcase Project.” The installation features 
a large selection of Printed Matter publications available 
to be read by visitors to the Museum, and highlights from 
thirty-three years of editions. MUSAC is distributing free 
of charge a new zine by Ari Marcopoulos titled Catchin’ 
Bodies, as well as a new pin by Lawrence Weiner titled 
Aprender A Leer Arte, both published especiallyfor this 
occasion. 
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24, 24008 León, Spain
Tel: +34 987 09 00 00
http://musac.es 
A Model of Order | Concrete Poetry
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Keiller 
Library, Dean Gallery 
Until 3rd January 2010
This Keiller Library display is part of a programme of 
events, organised in collaboration with the Scottish Poetry 
Library, which will take place in venues across Edinburgh 
from October 2009 to January 2010.
Concrete Poetry emerged as an international movement 
during the 1950s and 1960s in Germany and Brazil, with 
artists and writers in Scotland also playing an important 
role. The Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay described the 
concrete poem as ‘a model, of order, even if set in a space 
which is full of doubt’.
Other events will be running city-wide, October to 
December, at venues including the Scottish Poetry Library, 
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Central Library, 
Edinburgh College of Art, the Fruitmarket Gallery shop, 
and Old St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
A Model of Order: Concrete Poetry 
Monday 23rd November 2009, 12.45 - 1.15pm
Keiller Library - Dean Gallery (Modern Art Galleries)
No booking required: free, unticketed.
Ian Hamilton Finlay described the concrete poem as ‘a 
model, of order, even if set in a space which is full of 
doubt’. Kerry Watson, Librarian - Gallery of Modern Art, 
looks at how concrete poetry distinguishes itself from the 
broader tradition of visual poetry and the use of text in art.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Keiller Library, 
Dean Gallery, Belford Road, Edinburgh, EH4 3DS. For
further information see: www.nationalgalleries.org
 
New exhibitions running until November 14th 2009.
Johan Deumens Gallery
Haarlem, The Netherlands
We have great pleasure in inviting you to the first exhibition 
of the new season. In this show we are highlighting the 
editions and artists’ books of Elisabeth Tonnard. 
Elisabeth Tonnard (1973) is a poet and visual artist from 
The Netherlands, with an MFA from Visual Studies 
Workshop in Rochester, New York. Her work combines 
literature, visual collage and archival materials; and is 
a contribution to the field of artists’ books and visual 
poetics. Books such as Let us go then, you and I, Two of 
Us, Contemplation, Where Is God, and In this Dark Wood are 
included internationally in private and public collections. 
Tonnard is currently co-editing Image Process Literature, 
a book on new directions in visual literature. She lives and 
works in both The Netherlands and the US.
Her exhibition “The Man of the Crowd” is titled after 
a work from 2008: “On July 29th, 2008, in Rue des Canettes, 
Paris, an old man passed where I was sitting. He was in between 
alone and not alone; in between real and unreal. He stood still while 
the environment around him changed; he disappeared and reappeared.” 
(Elisabeth Tonnard)
The Man of the Crowd is an unbound artist’s book, presented 
in a box. It is a reflection on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story 
The Man of the Crowd and a Parisian street occurrence that 
Tonnard photographed during four minutes. The book 
consists of 76 single-sided pages that can be taken out and 
exhibited. The main part of the work is a series of 
56 photographs, tracking a 21st century flâneur, followed 
by appendices with imagetexts based on linguistic analyses 
of Poe’s story.
Interior Monologue (above) is an edition which pairs 124 
images of Parisian apartment interiors from a real-estate 
catalogue with texts found in the “literary phrases” section 
of a book of “useful phrases”. All 128 single-sided pages are 
exhibited as though they are a spread of one gigantic book.
Furthermore, an overview will be shown of Tonnard’s 
artists’ books and several of her photo works will be on 
display. For more detailed information on her work please 
see: www.elisabethtonnard.com
We have asked Gerrit Jan de Rook, a pre-eminent 
connoisseur of artists’ books, to compile and exhibit a 
personal choice of ten books. In “Ten under a tenner” 
he will show artists’ books that combine simplicity of 
production method, unlimited editions and everyday 
prices. Gerrit-Jan de Rook has written ten short texts to 
accompany his choice.
In the sub exhibition “Picaron Editions, Paris” we’re 
showing a selection from this wonderful list of unbound 
and limited edition artists’ books. In these Livres de 
Peintres, a literary text is the point of departure for visual 
art works, usually in special techniques such as woodcut or 
lithography.
Johan Deumens
Johan Deumens Gallery, Donkere Spaarne 32 zw
NL - 2011 JH Haarlem, The Netherlands
www.artistsbooks.com
Visual impression of the exhibition:
http://gallery.me.com/deumensjohan#100686
Gillian Robinson – …and we know nothing
Stephen Livingstone – Star Clusters
The Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic 
Studies, Durham University
Until 19th February (closed over the Christmas period)
An exhibition of book pieces by Gillian Robinson and 
mural-sized drawings by Stephen Livingstone.
Essex-based artist Gillian is an Emeritus Reader at Anglia 
Ruskin University. She is a painter, working mostly in mixed 
media, best known for her sculptural bookworks (above). 
They have an ancient physicality, seemingly from another 
time and place and they smell of paint, earth and varnish. 
Pages ask to be turned but some of the books are bound 
shut with their contents locked away. Others can be handled 
and explored but they hide an enigma between their 
double pages and in their closed boxes. When their surfaces 
do crackle open they reveal unexpected juxtapositions, 
glimpsed fragments, a sense of power, combined with 
great vulnerability. A strata of secrets, of which we know 
nothing...or do we? 
Stephen Livingstone is from the North East of England 
and his work refers to the impact human activity has upon 
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landscape and habitat. The Star Cluster drawings have been 
made for the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic 
Studies during a placement at MIMA. 
They are heavily worked in layers of graphite and suggest 
the crystalline surfaces of forming planets. The pieces take 
as their starting point the work of the 18th century Durham 
astronomer and machine-maker, Thomas Wright.
www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/imeis/
www.stephenlivingstone.com
Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Durham University, The Al-Qasimi Building
Elvet Hill Road, Durham DH1 3TU
Tel: 0191 334 5656
A key to help make your own world visible
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
At Gallery Two of Craft Victoria, Australia
Until 29th November 2009 
The title of our exhibition is an amalgam of sentiment and 
prose drawn from Hermann Hesse’s novel of 1927, Der 
Steppenwolf. Spoken in warm voice by Pablo to Harry: 
‘I can throw open to you no picture-gallery but your own soul. All I 
can give you is the opportunity, the impulse, the key. I help you to make 
your own world visible. That is all.’ From such we took impulse 
and set to creating a series of other worlds that lie hidden, 
other interior worlds viewed with twin ‘gleam of pain and 
beauty that comes from things past’. (Hermann Hess, Der 
Steppenwolf, p.186). A key to help make your own world visible 
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, Australia
A full set of five of our artists’ books, Objects gathered with care 
from recent reads I-V (2008) can be seen on display in a cabinet 
most fine and in very good company at Geelong Gallery 
until the end of November. 2009 Geelong Acquisitive 
Print Awards Geelong Gallery, Little Malop Street, 
Geelong (VIC) Until Sunday 29th November, 2009 
www.geelonggallery.org.au /www.gracialouise.com
In their own words, an exhibition
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
November 6th - December 5th, 2009 
Nine artists working in different media were invited to 
describe one of their works and submit both the work and 
the description for inclusion in an exhibition. Nine poets 
were then invited to produce a poem as a response to one 
of these works and nine jewellers to produce a work 
inspired by an artist’s text. Texts, poems and jewellery were 
exhibited without further explanation. In an extension of 
this original project, for the Galvanise festival, the original 
participants were asked to invite further artists, poets and 
jewellers to participate. This current exhibition displays 
the work of all 108 participants in the project. 
Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield S1 2DS
Tel: 0114 346 3034
Voltaire readings an exhibition of works by 
Julie Smith, inspired by Voltaire and the Reading 
Room, is now on show at the Taylor Institution 
Library, Oxford
A few words: Often to go into a space you have to ‘enter’ 
through a door, sometimes open, sometimes shut (closed). 
One moonlit night with little to no prospect of success.
Gracia Haby, postcard collage, 2009
The passage home was long
Gracia Haby, postcard collage, 2009
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What makes you want to go in? (enter). Is it knowledge 
of knowing what is there, an introduction, or a completely 
unknown? Can this entrance lead you to a sense of 
discoveries, and surprises – feeding curiosity? This is what 
I felt in my time sitting in the ‘Voltaire’ room. 
It is a space of contemplation and vast library of 
knowledge. How could I as an artist respond to such a 
special place – a visual representation in a place full of 
words? My reaction via small interventions not shouting 
but hopefully subtlety engaging for me how it felt to be 
involved in this collaboration, watching, listening, thinking, 
contemplating then acting….
Julie Smith, Visual Artist
Voltaire Room and Vestibule
Taylor Institution Library, St Giles’ Oxford.
Open Monday - Friday 9am - 6.30pm, Saturday 10am - 
3.30 pm, until 30th January 2010. 
(closed 24the Dec - 2nd Jan). Access via Main Reading 
Room or ask at Porters’ Lodge.
Sharon Kivland Exhibitions:
Sharon Kivland, Quels seraient les meilleurs moyens de perfectionner 
l’éducation des femmes? At Centre International de l’Art 
Contemporain,10 rue de la Belle Angèle, Pont-Aven, 
France, until 22nd November.
www.ciac-pa.com / www.fracbretagne.fr
Sharon Kivland, Reisen. At Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, 
Heinrich Heine Allee 19, D-40213 Düsseldorf, Germany, 
until Saturday 5th December:
www.bugdahnundkaimer.com
Written, Drawn and Stapled is an exhibition of some 
hundred American poetry books and periodicals 
covering the period 1965-1975 and taken from the 
collections of John Janssen and Les Coleman. 
This Post Beat second wave of poets to congregate in New 
York’s Lower East Side is often referred to as the ‘Mimio 
Revolution’, the printing method favoured by many of these 
cheaply produced publications where the poets themselves 
acted as publisher.
This close knit community of writers, to include John 
Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan, Larry Fagin, Ron 
Padgett, Joe Brainard, Anne Waldman, Aram Saroyon, 
Bernadette Mayer et al, involved themselves in numerous 
creative collaborations and games. They also engaged 
artist friends of the time to provide cover images. Among 
the books on display there are covers by Philip Guston, 
Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Ruscha, Alex 
Katz, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist and artist/illustrator 
Joe Brainard. There are also numerous examples of cover 
artwork by George Schneeman who built his career around 
his collaborations with poets. On occasion these would be 
jointly by artist and author. 
Curated as part of the Small Publishers Fair at the Conway 
Hall London. An illustrated catalogue Written, Drawn 
and Stapled is available to accompany the exhibition 
and can be purchased from Les Coleman’s stand at the 
Small Publishers Fair. There will also be a reading 
by Les Coleman of excerpts from Written, Drawn 
and Stapled, at 3pm on Saturday 14th November to 
coincide with exhibition.Small Publishers Fair, 11am - 7pm
Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November 2009
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Mes devises, Sharon Kivland, 2008. Photograph Sharon Kivland
Joe Brainard The Cigarette Book, Siamese Banana Press, 
New York, 1972. Card covers, mimeographed. 
Edition unknown. Cover by Joe Brainard.
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Merz Tales - Illustrations from the Fairy Stories of 
Kurt Schwitters
Lincoln The Collection
Until 8th November 2009
This exhibition features illustrations by Irvine Peacock 
produced to accompany the fairy stories of the 
revolutionary German artist Kurt Schwitters for the 
book ‘Lucky Hans and Other Merz Tales’, published 
by Princeton Press in 2009. Alongside these can be seen 
drawings, prints and assemblages by artists and makers from 
The Caseroom Press for their ‘Merz Box’ version of ‘Lucky 
Hans’. 
Irvine Peacock is a successful illustrator whose work is 
inspired by myths, folklore, and television. He is currently 
collaborating with The Caseroom Press on a number 
of projects. The Caseroom Press is an award winning 
independent publisher with an interest in art, languages and 
poetry. It aims to explore experimental formats and writings 
and to nurture dialogue between the written word and 
visual culture. 
The show also includes excerpts from the English 
translation of ‘The Scarecrow’ by Kurt Schwitters, 
Kate Steinitz and Theo van Doesburg.
 
The Collection, Danes Terrace, Lincoln. LN2 1LP
Tel: 01522 550990
Pearl of the Snowlands: Buddhist Printing at the 
Derge Parkhang
Curated by Patrick Dowdey and Clifton Meador
Until December 5th, 2009
Columbia College, Chicago
Founded in 1729, the Derge Parkhang is a world cultural
treasure, a repository of the cultural memory, literature 
and art of the Tibetan people. The Parkhang stores 
over 300,000 woodblocks that are used to publish sutra 
(holy scripture), commentaries, and histories of Tibetan 
Traditional Buddhism. 
This exhibition, officially sanctioned by the Derge 
Parkhang, consists of artefacts, photographs, and interviews 
collected in Derge: up to 60, 24 by 30 inch wood block 
printed thangka (meditational image), specimen copies of 
typical books (also printed from wood blocks), actual wood 
blocks used in the production of prayer flags, photographs 
documenting the processes used in creating these artifacts, 
and videotape of the workers producing books and 
prints. The exhibition intends to present this material 
in a setting reminiscent of the interior of the temple. A 
special programme in November brings a panel of experts 
together to present views of the temple’s place in history, 
and a workshop will offer a hands-on experience of the 
techniques employed in book and papermaking throughout 
the Himalayan region.
Panel discussion: Nov. 21st 3.30 pm
History, Printing and People: The Derge Parkhang and Tibetan 
Cultural Revival with panellists Patrick Dowdey, Wesleyan 
University; Clifton Meador, Columbia College; Yudru 
Tsomo, Lawrence University; James Canary, Indiana 
University
For more information on the lecture see: http://www.
colum.edu/book_and_paper/Lectures_Events/index.php
Workshop Nov. 21-22: The Himalayan Book, James 
Canary
A fully-illustrated catalogue of the exhibition is available at 
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/pearl-of-
the-snowlands/3830018
Please visit the Derge Parkhang website for more 
information -http://dergeparkhang.org/
The Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 S. Wabash, 2nd Floor
Columbia College, Chicago, USA
www.colum.edu/book_and_paper/Slash: Paper Under the Kinfe
50 Artists who cut, burn, tear and shred paper to 
create compelling sculpture, installation and video 
Until 4th April 2010
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Slash: Paper Under the Knife explores the phenomenon of 
cut paper in contemporary art - showcasing the work of 
artists who reach beyond the traditional role of paper as 
a neutral surface to consider its potential as a medium for 
provocative, expressive, and visually striking sculpture, 
installation, and video animation. Organised by the 
Museum of Arts and Design, Slash features 12 new site-
specific installations and other new and recent work by over 
50 contemporary artists from around the world, including 
Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Nina 
Katchadourian, Judy Pfaff, and Kara Walker, among others. 
Organised by the Museum’s Chief Curator, David Revere 
McFadden, Slash is the third exhibition in MAD’s Materials 
and Process series, which examines the renaissance 
of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in 
contemporary art and design. Previous installments in 
the series include Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting 
(2007) and Pricked: Extreme Embroidery (2008). Slash: 
Paper under the Knife is made possible by Kate’s Paperie. 
Generous additional support is provided by the Angelica 
Berrie Foundation. 
Slash presents a range of subjects that artists across the 
world are exploring through cut paper, such as landscape, 
the human body, architecture, politics, and language. 
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The processes and techniques used in these investigations 
include burning, tearing, perforating, and shredding paper 
as well as cutting with knives, scissors, and lasers. Some 
artists work slowly, cutting intricate designs with painstaking 
patience, while others slash and crumple with performative 
energy. 
Slash: Paper Under the Knife is accompanied by a fully 
illustrated publication, published and distributed by 5 
Continents Editions in Italy. Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019, USA 
http://madmuseum.org
The grand Plasto-Baader-Books
2nd-24th December 2009
KALEID editions, Redchurch Street, London
On the 1st of December 2009, KALEID will be
transformed into a cavernous assemblage of unique
artists’ books selected for their originality and
conceptual response to the book form. Curated by
Deeqa Ismail and Aylin Kunter, the group show will
involve an international network of artists working
closely with KALEID editions.
KALEID editions - artists who do books
Unit 2, 23-25 Redchurch Street, London. E2 7DJ
www.kaleideditions.com Wednesday to Saturday, 12-7pm
Late night Thursdays and informal Sundays
Lucy Roscoe is making an installation of books 
and paper cuts for a Christmas Window at Solway 
Books, Kidcudbright, in Dumfries & Galloway. 
She will also be creating a limited edition artist’s book about 
the town especially for the occasion. 
30th November to 11th December 2009.
www.thebooktreepress.co.uk
The Library of Secrets: Serena Korda
Until 29th November 2009
The New Art Gallery Walsall. 
Serena Korda, artist and head librarian, invites visitors to 
leave their thoughts and secrets amongst the pages of one 
or more of the 400 books in her collection. The Library 
of Secrets is a beautifully hand made, mobile library, 
which has travelled to various locations across the country 
gathering new knowledge and ideas in each place. 
10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday, 11am - 4pm Sunday. 
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall, 
WS2. For more information see: 
http://thelibraryofsecrets.blogspot.com 
http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
“WRITE NOW!” An exhibition of artists’ books and 
drawings that use innovative contemporary writing 
and typographical practices from Booklyn, Organik 
and Stohead (AKA Christoph Haessler) at the 
Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Until November 15th, 2009
With artwork by: Kurt Allerslev, Xu Bing, Eliana Perez, 
Sara Parkel, Raymond Pettibon, Veronika Schäpers, Laura 
Smith, Mark Wagner, Marshall Weber, Christopher Wilde, 
Yong-ming Zhai and many others.
“Booklyn’s and Organik’s staffs work tirelessly to put books 
in the hands of the people and to encourage the people’s 
hands to make more books. - Which Books? - Booklyn 
favors fresh, original writing and art and welcomes new 
media and innovative techniques and typography“. 
Organik (main ingredients, Kurt Allerslev, Laura Smith, 
Christopher Wilde and Marshall Weber) focuses on 
creating collaboratively produced unique painted books 
that integrate smell and touch with global ecological 
mythologies. Organik’s books also feature calligraphy that 
integrates Brooklyn wild style graffiti with fractal forms 
found in botanical and animal structures. Hamburg based 
graffiti artist and contemporary calligrapher Stohead (AKA 
Christoph Hässler) provides local flavour.” 
Herrnstraße 80, 63065 Offenbach am Main, Germany 
Tel: 069 8065-2164 / www.klingspor-museum.de
For more information contact curator Stefan Soltek at 
stefan.soltek@offenbach.de or Marshall Weber at 
Booklyn, mweber@booklyn.org
Artists’ Books in Children’s World
Until 31st January 2010
Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
From Hannah Höch to Andy Warhol, El Lissitzky’s About 
two Squares, Hannah Höch’s Bilderbuch (Picture Book), or 
colouring books by Richard and Keith Haring: Children’s 
books by artists lead us through the art world from the 
twenties of the last century to now. The variety of artistic 
means extends from drawing and painting through collage, 
photography to pop-up-books or leporellos.
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The exhibition also shows how artists refer to comics 
or other elements of children’s world and use them as 
inspiration, material or media for their work. Christian 
Boltanski’s books reflect his memories on his own 
childhood, or they deal with other aspects of childhood. 
The choice of artists’ publications broadens the view of 
fixed classifications of ‘children’s books’: Many artists’ books 
not conceived for children in the first place, turn out to be 
fascinating and inspiring for the young audience. 
Some examples of artist’ games, puzzles or objects are 
included in the exhibition – like Timm Ulrich’s Glückswürfel 
(lucky dice), showing six on each side. 
 
With works by Marion Bataille, Alighiero Boetti, Christian 
Boltanski, Paul Cox, Otto Dix, Hervé Graumann, Keith 
Haring, Hannah Höch, Jörg Immendorff, Horst Janssen, El 
Lissitzky, Enzo Mari, Friederike Mayröcker, Bruno Munari, 
Kvéta Pacovska, Richard Prince, Dieter Roth, David 
Shrigley, Timm Ulrichs, Andy Warhol and many others. 
 
A catalogue brochure with texts by Prof. Jens Thiele, 
Bettina Brach and a list of exhibited works will be 
published in December.
Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art 
Teerhof 20 28199
Bremen Germany 
www.weserburg.de
Klaus Scherübel - Mallarmé, Het Boek
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Belgium 
Until 6th December 2010
The Austrian artist Klaus Scherübel will exhibit two 
installations in S.M.A.K. in which he reflects on two 
remarkable literary works, namely Stéphane Mallarmé’s 
‘Le Livre’ and Jack Torrance’s ‘All Work and No Play’ 
which became known through Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The 
Shining’ (1980).
Mallarmé, Het Boek (Leeszaal) 1999-2009, is a comprehensive 
presentation of Klaus Scherübel’s long-term project 
dedicated to French poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s utopian 
endeavour from the 19th century. For more than thirty 
years, Mallarmé - best known for his seminal poem in prose 
“Un coup de dès jamais n’abolira le hazard”(1897) - was 
engaged with this highly ambitious project, that he called, 
simply, “Le Livre” (The Book).
The second installation by Klaus Scherübel – entitledJack Torrance’s All Work and no Play (Catalog of the Book) 2006-
2009 - may be regarded as the most recent chapter within 
a broader study and reconsideration of the perception of 
Jack Torrance’s creative output. We know Torrance mainly 
as the tormented character (played by Jack Nicholson) in 
Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’. In the film, Torrance is an author 
suffering from a writer’s block, a difficulty that will be at 
the origin of a highly unusual work, discovered by his wife 
Wendy as the film reaches his dramatic climax: her husband 
did not produce the expected literary text, but instead has 
compulsively produced text images by endlessly repeating, 
on his typewriter, the well-known maxim “All work and no 
play makes Jack a dull boy”. 
Parallel to the exhibition there will be a symposium, entitled 
“The Book Reconsidered”, on this and associated topics 
linked to what is happening in the contemporary world of 
art. More information will follow at www.smak.be
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.)
Citadelpark, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
www.smak.be
mfc-michèle didier has the pleasure to present 
KLAUS SCHERÜBEL Mallarmé, Het Boek
A compilation gathering this last Dutch version with three 
existing versions in German (Walther König, Cologne, 
2001), English (Printed Matter, Inc, NewYork, 2004) and 
French (Optica and Musée d’art moderne Grand Duc Jean, 
Montreal / Luxembourg, 2005). 16 x 24 cm. 
Limited to 500 copies. Produced and published by 
mfc-michèle didier, Brussels, 2009. Including a special 
edition limited to 24 copies. For more information please 
visit: http://www.micheledidier.com
5th International Artists’ Book Triennial Vilnius 
2009 Theme - Text. Touring exhibition at Art Centre 
Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
Until 13th December 
The exhibition will also tour in 2010 to Spring Gallery, 
Halmstad, Sweden; Seoul International Book Arts Fair, 
Korea, and to Venice.
330 artists from 56 different countries sent their books for 
the 5th International Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius 2009. 
The jury selected 131 artists for the exhibition. The theme 
of the 5th International Artist’s Book Triennial is Text. 
The 5th Triennial displays the most interesting artists’ books 
from all over the world. It is the most wonderful experience 
to see culture, traditions of different countries, art schools 
reflected in the books created by the artists. 
Kestutis Vasiliunas – curator
kestutis@vasiliunas.arts.lt / www.bookart.lt 
The Name in the Flower
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House, London 
Until 11th December
The Name in the Flower celebrates the 150th anniversary 
of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species with 
specially commissioned work by Georgia Russell and Sam 
Winston. Inspired also by Ruth Padel’s Darwin, A Life in 
Poems, the artists respond to the zoologist and the poet with 
dissections of their writings.
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Exploring language as an object, Sam Winston (below)
traces the evolution of meaning out of mark-making. 
His work questions our understanding of words and 
linguistic structures, suggesting alternative maps of 
meaning through which to wander. 
Georgia Russell slashes and dissects printed matter to make 
sculptural paper-works that hover between object and 
image. Approaching old books as representations of the 
many hands which have held them and the minds they have 
passed through, the artist creates ‘membranes of memories’ 
that suggest these personal histories. 
In a parallel to Darwin’s genealogy of the material origins 
of cognitive beings, both artists explore the physicality of 
language and expand its boundaries. 
For further information, please contact Nick Dubois:
nicolas.dubois@courtauld.ac.uk
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A Last Call to Action for Letterpress Printers!
Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides - Autumn 2009
We only need 8 more printers to make up the total 
to 130 - Please join us!
Deadline for the broadsides: 30th November 2009 
To protest & commemorate the bombing of al-Mutanabbi 
Street, the centre of bookselling in Baghdad, on March 5th 
2007, the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition* has been 
organising readings and other events since April 2007 as 
fundraisers for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
This is the final call to letterpress printers to ask you to 
contribute a personal response to the bombing on 
al-Mutanabbi Street. To date, we have been promised 112 
broadsides from letterpress printers around the world.
This is a call for just a few more printed works to help with 
fundraising, and we ask if you would make an edition of 15 
broadsides. 
For full details and to download the PDF file, please 
see the al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Round 4 at 
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mutan209.htm
Für eine deutsche Sprachversion sehen Sie bitte: 
www.bleikloetzle.de/html/al-mutanabbi.html
Please join us!
The Centre for Fine Print Research will pay to send over 
a consignment of prints if you can deliver or send yours 
to us by 15th November, to go in the boxes, email: 
Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk for details.
*For further information or to sign up, please contact: 
Coordinator of Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project IV, 
Beau Beausoleil at: overlandbooks@earthlink.net
Thank you
Congratulations to Dmitry Sayenko whose Absurd 
ABC Phobias was awarded the Birgit Skiold 
Memorial prize at the recent Art Book Fair at 
Whitechapel gallery this September. 
The book comprises 20 double pages of wood-cuts and 
linocuts, produced by Sayenko in an edition of 10. 
www.artist-sayenko.com 
Dmitry Sayenko will also be showing his books at the 
Oxford Fine Press Book Fair on 7th November at Oxford 
Brookes University, Main Hall, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 
11am – 6pm.
Announcing the Bookmark Collectors Virtual 
Convention! 20th & 21st of February 2010. 
The convention will start at 8:00 am PST and will last 24 
hours. You’ll find the schedule and the times translated to 
various time zones/cities at the website, specifically the page 
http://www.bmcvc.com/schedule/ 
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bookmarkconvention.com, bookmarkcollectorsconvention.
com, and bookmarkcollectorsvirtualconvention.com will get 
you to the same place. 
At the website, you’ll see a place to leave your email address 
for a subscription to the newsletter. Alan Irwin
Call for expressions of interest 
Doverodde Book Arts Festival 13-16 May 2010
A beautiful meeting place in North Jutland for book artists
In the old restored merchant’s warehouse in Doverodde 
by the Limfjord, our festival is a meeting place for both 
participants and visitors. Amid the beautiful countryside 
you can experience book arts both formally - exhibition and 
talks - and informally - stands, workshops and book café.
Themed exhibition of book arts 14 May-21 June 2010: 
place of interest. After 21 June selected works to be part of a 
travelling exhibition for the rest of 2010
Participants: practising artists and craftsfolk 
Works: artists’ books, book-objects, bound books, etc 
selected from submissions
Festival Stands 14-16 May: 24 tables - show, talk and sell - 
it’s possible to book 1 hr workshop facilities.
Talks and workshops 13-16 May: paper nature - walks and 
places - artists’ books
Book café: Coffee/tea, cake and talk in cosy informal setting
Music: Talented trio Morgentau from Kassel, Germany
Year round website for book arts in Doverodde
www.bookarts-doverodde.dk Please visit the website to 
access programme, catalogue, practical information etc - 
and check for updates
Scandinavian network: If you are interested in linking 
up with fellow Nordic book artists to help make a Nordic 
portal, please join www.nordicbookarts.ning.com or contact 
Mette-Sofie Ambeck on msambeck@hotmail.com or 
nordicbookarts@gmail.com.
Pleasevisit the website http://www.bookarts-doverodde.dk 
or email for an expression of interest form: 
mail@bookarts-doverodde.dk
Organisers contacts:
Karin Nikolaus, Leader, Limfjordscenter 
(natur@limfjordscenter.dk; +45 97959266)
Liz Hempel-Jørgensen, Project coordinator 
(booking@limfjordscenter.dk)
Doverodde Book Arts Center, Fjordstræde 1, Doverodde, 
DK 7760 Hurup Thy, Denmark
COURSES, LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
 
Crossed Structure Binding
Stockholm, April 10-16, 2010
A workshop based on Carmencho Arregui’s 
Crossed Structure Binding technique. Cristina 
Balbiano, close friend and working partner with 
Carmencho, has taken the technique further and developed 
an 8th variation which is included in the workshop. 
She collaborates with Cor Aerssens, best known for his 
elaborated box making techniques, and the two of them 
form an interesting duo.
This intensive course is divided into two parts. Part One 
deals with eight different variations of Crossed Structure 
Binding. Participants will make eight sample books with 
blank pages and covers of handmade paper. In between 
Parts One and Two, one day of no classes is planned, in 
order to give participants time to rest and think about the 
technique. During Part Two, participants will have hands-
on experience binding real books with leather or vellum 
covers.
The goal of the workshop is to learn the basic techniques 
involved in Crossed Structure Binding. As well, participants 
will learn to discern which structure is better suited for each 
book to be bound.
The workshop takes place in Stockholm, April 10-16, 2010. 
It will be given in English with support in Italian, French, 
German and Dutch. For more information contact 
Helene Jouper, email: helene@bokbindarkompetens.se 
Tel: +46 (0)73 73 555 44
www.bokbindarkompetens.se
Sophie Artemis Pitt from The Old Fire Station 
studios in Godalming is running a Book Art course 
at the Guildford Adult Education Centre on the 
Sydenham Road, Guildford, Surrey.
‘Look at unique and one-off examples of Book Art then 
create your own artist’s book using materials and ideas that 
are personal to you. Suitable for beginners’
 
Book Art-The Art of Making Books Saturday 28/11/09 
10am-4pm costs £27.50 (with 20%-50% discounts for 
concessions). The course runs at The Adult Learning 
Centre Guildford, Sydenham Road, Guildford Surrey GU1 
3RX. To book telephone 01483 518528 and quote course 
code HDX6529G.
Designer Bookbinders Lecture Series at The Art 
Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1. 
Nearest underground stations: Holborn and Russell Square. 
Saturday 9 January 2010, four lectures:
10.30am Gerald Fleuss The Legacy of Calligrapher Edward 
Johnston: Gerald Fleuss talks about the work of the Edward 
Johnston Foundation in maintaining the link with Johnston’s 
work and the significance of his legacy in the digital age.
12 noon Lester Capon Extreme Bookbinding Again: A second 
voyage to Ethiopia, this time to repair vellum fans and 
repeating my visit there in 2006 to preserve the sixth 
century Gospels at the monastery of Abuna Garima.
2pm George Kirkpatrick The Peter Waters I Knew: George 
Kirkpatrick reminisces on his mentor and inspirational 
influence, one of the great binders of the 20th century.
3.30pm Sue Doggett ‘Everything in the world exists to end up in a 
book’: An illustrated talk on the difficult problem of leaving 
things out. Research, content, design and execution – how 
and why I make the things I do.
Admission: all four lectures: DB members £18, non-
members £26 and students £9.
Evening lecture: Tuesday 2 February 2010, 6.30 pm 
Edward Bayntun-Coward The Trade in Bindings: Edward 
Bayntun-Coward will consider both trade binderies (past, 
present and future) and also the fluctuating fortune of 
bindings. Admission: DB members £5, non-members £7, 
students £2.50 per lecture. Further details from
 Julia Dummett and Rachel Ward-Sale 01273 486718 
www.designerbookbinders.org.uk 
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
courses at UWE Bristol
Artists’ books one-day Masterclass - 
Sculptural Reconfigured Narratives / Book Block / 
Building Block - Led by Guy Begbie
Friday 4th December 2009
Cut... fold....paste...sew. Transform library discards using 
binding and paper engineering techniques to create open 
and closed kinetic book constructions. 
1-day class limited to 10 participants. 9.30am - 4.30 pm
£125 per person £100 concessions (includes materials, 
lunch vouchers, teas and coffees).*
Home Made Rubber Stamp Workshop
With Stephen Fowler
Tuesday 2nd February 2010
10am – 4pm 
Over the course of the day’s workshop you will realise the 
creative potential of home rubber stamp printing. You will 
be taught how to make rubber stamps from erasers and 
home made ink pads using jay cloths and drawing ink.
You will learn how to make single colour rubber stamp 
prints and multi-colour prints. There will also be time to 
bind your stamp prints in a simple book. At the end of the 
day’s workshop all participants will go home with a souvenir 
publication containing the group’s prints. 
Materials provided: stamp pads, erasers, paper, card for 
bookbinding.
You will need to bring: Pencils, scalpels (ideally swan 
Morton size 10a),sketch books, scrap books (to use as 
inspiration for the stamp design). If you also want to see 
how to make home made ink pads, you will need to bring 
drawing ink, any colours (you can mix them and make a 
range of different coloured pads if you wish). 
Teas, coffees, cake will be provided but, please bring your 
own packed lunch (or buy sandwiches from the shop at 
UWE). Cost: £50 full price, £40 discount*
1-day class limited to 12 participants
* If you are currently self-employed or have 
recently been made redundant, you can get 50% off 
a range of UWE short courses up to the value of 
£400, as training opportunities for re-employment or career 
change. These services are offered until September 2010 to 
businesses, start-ups and self-employed individuals who can 
present evidence that the recession has impacted upon them 
(significantly reduced trading, job losses, facing closure, etc). 
Contact Mark Haley - ECIF office on 0117 32 86688 or 
email solutions@uwe.ac.uk for help with this. 
To book a place on any of our courses please 
following the link to the online store at: 
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/cpd.htm
Or book through the Research Enterprise and Outreach 
Office, UWE Bristol School of Creative Arts
Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol, BS3 2JT
Tel: 0117 3284810 / sca.cpd@uwe.ac.uk
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LONG STITCH BINDING 
Arezzo, 12th-13th December, 2009 with Cristina 
Balbiano d’Aramengo. Organised by Centro 
Internazionale Arti Calligrafiche
The Long-stitch is one of the oldest methods of sewing 
book sections to a cover. It can be an easy way to make 
interesting books and notebooks with flexible covers made 
of handmade paper, fabrics, vellum or leather. With 
Long-stitch sewing the sections are held evenly and the 
volume opens completely and with ease. No adhesive is 
needed. During this workshop we will analyse traditional 
and modern Long-stitch techniques and we will learn how 
to make different structures. Such structural variations 
will help to create a variety of ornamental patterns on the 
spine, as the sewing thread is always visible when sewn 
Long-stitch. The covering materials will include handmade 
paper and fabrics and we will learn how to line cloth with 
Japanese paper and paste. More information at:
http://www.professionelibro.it/schedacorso.
aspx?id=38&clid=155&ts=co&lg=en
(or follow links from www.professionelibro.it)
ASSOCIAZIONE PROFESSIONE LIBRO 
Fine Bindings, Book Conservation 
Via A. Del Bon, 1 - 20158 MILANO - I 
Tel/fax: (+39) 02 3760058 
www.professionelibro.it 
info@professionelibro.it
ArtistBook and Professional Courses for artists 
with Jenny Smith at WASPS Studios
Sat 7 – 8 Nov Creating Altered and Sculptural Books
Sat 14 Nov Writing Applications, Proposals, Artists Statements, CVs
Sat 21 - Sun 22 Nov Hardback book binding and slipcases 
(Suzie Wilson)
Sat 16 - Sun 17th Jan Pop–Ups & Paper Engineering
Numbers limited to 6. All materials and refreshments 
provided. 10am - 4.30pm 
Cost: £50 day courses, £100 weekend courses 
Jan - June 2010 The Artists Book Group (2) 
Following the success of the first Artists Book Group. Jenny 
will be starting another group running from January - June 
2010 and is currently looking for 6 practicing artists or 
writers who have made at least one artists book. Meeting 
once a month in Edinburgh, the main purpose of the 
group is to provide an opportunity for on-going discussion, 
reflection and critical evaluation of work produced 
independently between meetings. This will be interspersed 
with practical sessions, learning simple book structures. 
We will also look at how to price, market and promote your 
books. Please see www.theartistbookgroup.org.uk for further 
details.
Jenny Smith is a practicing artist who exhibits nationally 
and internationally and has won many awards for her work. 
Her own books are held in public and private collections, 
including the Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. 
For more details or to book a place email:
jennysm@blueyonder.co.uk or phone 0771 3901 730. 
www.jennysmith.org.uk 
ARTISTS’ BOOKS FAIRS & EVENTS
reassemble presents Off the Wall Part 6 - a walk-in 
book of improvised sound and overhead projections 
at CLWB HWAET in Tactile Bosch Studio, Old 
Victoria Buildings, Andrews Road, Llandaf North, 
Cardiff on Friday November 6th 2009 
The use of found objects has been an essential part in 
the construction of our work to date. Selected for their 
contribution to texture and pattern, they offer glimpses 
of personal histories and former uses and an aside to the 
viewer on the relationship between the abstract and the 
concrete. Chance and improvisation are key elements 
behind our working methods.
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Off the Wall is an on going project we have been 
developing over the past five years to engage our audience 
with the creative possibilities presented by the book form. 
From its inception as a combined interactive CD Rom 
and hand printed book, Off the Wall has developed into 
a portable installation of improvised sound and moving 
images using OHP, super 8mm film footage and 35mm 
slide film projected on to large hand printed pages.
Recent projects in Cardiff and Malmo have seen us expand 
these ideas in the form of a walk in book. Returning to 
Cardiff on November 6th, we are presented with a new 
venue and a new time scale for Off the Wall Part 6. Look 
forward to seeing you!
To find out more about reassemble have a look at www.
myspace.com/reassemblebooks
Manchester Artist’s Book Fair
Saturday November 7th 2009, 12 noon - 6pm 
Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art
Manchester Metropolitan University
Organised by the Righton Press at Manchester School 
of Art. A keynote speech from David Faithfull will 
take place at 10.30am (www.davidfaithfull.co.uk) in the 
Sir Kenneth Green Library (situated just across the square 
from the Holden Gallery).
www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/rightonpress/bookfair
Fine Press Book Fair, 7th November, 11am - 6 pm
Oxford Brookes University
Main Hall, Gipsy Lane, Oxford OX3 0BP 
www.pbfa.org
ALL THAT IS NOT US - Brett Campbell
Film screening 3pm, Sunday 8 November 2009. 
Refreshments served from 2pm.
Emily Brett and Nancy Campbell work collectively as Brett 
Campbell. Their latest work, ALL THAT IS NOT US, is a 
short film about a writer’s relationship with her novel, from 
love to embers. 
BC Gallery, 33 Horton Road, London E8 1DP. 
RSVP studio@brettcampbell.co.uk
www.brettcampbell.co.uk
Small Publishers Fair
Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November 2009
11am - 7pm each day
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
The international fair celebrating books by contemporary 
artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their 
publishers; together with a programme of readings and 
talks. Also, see page 8 for the related exhibition Written, 
Drawn and Stapled.
With more than 50 publishers taking part there will be 
thousands of books and other editions to browse and buy! 
Admission is free to the Fair and readings/events.
Organised by RGAP http://rgap.co.uk
Pagemakers artists’ books fair 
Sat 14th November & Sun 15th November
At Brewery Arts gallery and craft studio, Brewery Court, 
Cricklade St, Cirencester, as part of a longer exhibition of 
paper-based artworks. The weekend includes an Artists’ 
Book Market, book making workshops, demonstrations and 
artist talks. We invite you to discover the charm, immediacy 
and immersive fascination of artists’ books, to turn over 
a new leaf and think about books in ways you’ve never 
experienced. www.breweryarts.org.uk
Saturday and Sunday, 14th-15th November, the 
8th Annual Book Arts Fest. MCBA’s annual holiday sale: 
dozens of artists featuring hundreds of handmade gift 
ideas, artist demonstrations, family art activities and more.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Open Book Building, 
1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100
Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
www.mnbookarts.org
Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
Saturday 21 November 2009, 6 – 11pm
Whitechapel Gallery
77 – 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
Hosted by Maria Fusco with Book Works. Including new 
commissions by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, 
Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors, and Gail Pickering, 
together with The Known Unknowns, a cycle of readings 
organised by Francesco Pedraglio, running throughout the 
evening. Free, no booking required. 
www.whitechapelgallery.org
OPPORTUNITIES
Call for expressions of interest 
Doverodde Book Arts Festival 13-16 May 2010
A beautiful meeting place in North Jutland for book artists
In the old restored merchant’s warehouse in Doverodde 
by the Limfjord, our festival is a meeting place for both 
participants and visitors. Amid the beautiful countryside 
you can experience book arts both formally - exhibition and 
talks - and informally - stands, workshops and book café.
See page 13 of this newsletter for more details.
Abecedarian Gallery – calls for entries:
RE: (rebound, recycled, repurposed, reused)
Juried Show of altered bookworks
February 12 - March 20, 2010
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Deadline to enter December 1, 2009
For this exhibit there is a student category with 
reduced entry fees. Full details can be found at www.
abecedariangallery.com (see - ‘opportunities for artists’ link)
Artists Bookworks Cornucopia
Juried show of artists’ bookworks
April - May, 2010
Deadline to enter January 20, 2010
Full details can be found at www.abecedariangallery.com 
(see - ‘opportunities for artists’ link)
Abecedarian Gallery 
910 Santa Fe, Unit #101
Denver, CO 80204
www.abecedariangallery.com
AGYU Artists Book of the Moment competition
The Art Gallery of York University is now accepting 
submissions to the AGYU Artists Book of the Moment 
competition. Following the closing deadline, our panel of
adjudicators will assess all submissions. The singular book 
that rises to the top of the ABotM will receive a cash award 
of $1,500 (Canadian funds). No entry fee but, please note 
that any submissions will not be returned.
The Art Gallery of York University, Accolade East Building
4700 Keele St, Toronto ON M3J 1P3, Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/agyu
ABotM@theAGYUisOutThere.org
Download a printable version of the guidelines from: 
http://www.yorku.ca/agyu
SubmissionDeadline is 18 January 2010
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Call for Entries: Quantified Aesthetics
Minnesota Center for Book Arts seeks work to be 
included in an artist book exhibition titled “Quantified 
Aesthetics,” opening March 12, 2010, closing June 20, 
2010. The exhibition will feature work that incorporates or 
thematically features numbers, formulas, codes, counting 
systems and/or other numerical organizational schemes. 
All formats are welcome. There is no entry or participation 
fee. Selected artists will be responsible for shipping costs. 
While on view, all work will be fully insured and presented 
in secure cases (unless other installation instructions are 
specified).
To be considered, email the following to Jeff Rathermel, 
MCBA’s Artistic Director (jrathermel@mnbookarts.org):
1. A one-page Word or PDF document containing name 
of artist(s), mailing address, email address, telephone 
number, title of work, materials used, measurements of 
the work, any special installation instructions and any 
other descriptive information you feel necessary to fully 
appreciate the work.
2. Up to three digital images (72 dpi) per work. Multiple 
entries are allowed but should be sent as separate emails.
Place “Quantified” in the subject line of your email.
Email entries must be received by December 18, 
2009. 
Selected artists will be notified no later than January 15, 
2010. Selected artists’ works must arrive no later than 
February 26, 2010 and will be returned no later than July 9, 
2010. Questions? contact Jeff Rathermel at 
jrathermel@mnbooakrts.org
If you are currently self-employed or have recently 
been made redundant, you can get 50% off a range 
of short courses at UWE Bristol (up to a total of 
£400), as training opportunities for re-employment or 
career change. These services are offered until September 
2010 to businesses, start-ups and self-employed individuals 
who can present evidence that the recession has impacted 
upon them (significantly reduced trading, job losses, facing 
closure, etc). There is a simple form to fill in, so contact 
Mark Haley in the ECIF funding office on 0117 32 86688 
or email solutions@uwe.ac.uk for help with this.
INTERNET NEWS
From Tortie Rye: A bestiary of abcedary animal 
animations made in Bembo type, from Roberto de Vicq de 
Cumptich’s book Bembo’s Zoo, you can view the animations 
online at www.bemboszoo.com
From Clemens-Tobias Lange: A seminar and 
exhibition of artists’ books took place in Oslo this October. 
You can view images of the exhibition online at:
http://tegnerforbundet.no/Kunstnerboken.html
From Helen Allsebrook: The collection of Artists’ Books 
at Reed College, USA with online images, links, info and 
essays: http://cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/artbooks
New Wave exhibition online archive
The New Wave exhibition of artists’ books shown at 
Impact Multi-disciplinary printmaking Conference 
here in September, is now archived for online viewing. 
There are 130 books in the online gallery at 
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newwave09.htm
Artists’ Books: International Views
Panel 11 at Impact Multi-disciplinary Printmaking 
Conference, University of the West of England
A panel of papers with Rosa Tarruella (Spain), Julie Barratt 
(Australia), Maria Lucia Cattani (Brazil) and Tom Sowden 
(UK), offered a series of views on contemporary artists’ 
books practice from an international perspective at Impact 
Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference on Saturday 
19th September 2009. The papers can be downloaded as 
PDF text files from: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/panel09.htm
From Simon Goode: http://artistsebooks.org has been 
created by James Bridle: “We believe in Books. We believe 
in Art. We believe in the Future. We want to explore the 
possibilities of electronic books; carrying forward the 
tradition of artists’ books: works of art realised in the form 
of a book. If you would like to join us; send us your work. 
Send us your thoughts. Send us your ideas. We can help 
one another.” James Bridle also has a folio site at 
http://shorttermmemoryloss.com
Andrés Gatti, a Chilean book artist, has new works on his 
website at: http://www.andresgatti.blogspot.com and lots 
more images of his works at Flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/oranjells/
New Road Books website with complete list of road 
books, boreen books, highways, byways and other avenues, 
plus Under the radar, an image/text book in development 
online, with images by Peter Morgan, one-liners and stories 
by Judy Kravis. www.roadbooks.ie
Rompecabezas by Andrés Gatti
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From Jurgen Wegner:
Interested in rare books and special collections? 
There’s a new discussion list for rare book and special 
collections librarians called anz-rare-books:
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/info/publib/news/lists/hosted/
anz-rare-books
It doesn’t say that you have to be a rare book or special 
collections librarian to subscribe: “The anz-rare-books 
discussion list provides a networking tool for those involved 
or interested in Rare Book and Special Collections 
Librarianship. Collection and exhibition news, reviews 
and discussion on all aspects of rare book librarianship 
are welcome. It is a private list (“Because this mailing 
list is private, you must be approved by a mailing list 
administrator before you can become a member of 
this mailing list”) but the information on collection and 
exhibition news, issues, etc. might well be of interest to 
a wider audience.
A new website for the artists’ books collection at 
Leeds University has been launched, with information 
and images on books in the special collections:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/artists_books.htm
NEW ARTISTS’ PUBLICATIONS
LETTERS PATTERNS STRUCTURES by Andrew 
Topel is now available from Avantacular Press. The book 
contains 100 visual poems. Dimensions of the book are 
4.25” x 5.5”, the cover is spray-painted with a stencil, 
bound by white thread & the price is $20. 
If interested in purchasing a copy of LETTERS 
PATTERNS STRUCTURES, please email Andrew Topel at:
andrewtopel@hotmail.com
Battered by Jackie Batey, Damp Flat Editions
This book has a dual message; on one hand it’s a 
celebration of British chips but on the other it’s a lament 
to the declining cod stocks. The book is called Battered 
to reflect these two sides, both the cooking and the over-
fishing. The Atlantic cod is a fish in crisis, stocks have 
suffered heavily from overfishing on both sides of the 
Atlantic. All stocks are classified as being overfished or at 
risk of being harvested unsustainably. 
The sequence of pages through the book shows images of 
a packet of chips being eaten, next to an image of slowly 
disappearing cod. The reverse pages show photographs 
taken over a number of years in the U.K., Gibraltar
and Spain of chip chop advertising boards or ‘A’ boards. 
The book is covered in a yellow check PVC tablecloth 
bound in the style of a Japanese account book - the pages 
are folded at the leading edge. The book is presented in a 
white chip shop bag that’s been printed with a 2-colour lino 
of the title of the book. Each book holds within its pages a 
Mermaid Chip Fork and Miracle Fish.
Mermaid Chip Forks kindly provided by Ashwood Timber, 
Dartford, Kent, U.K.
95mm x 215mm with 22 printed, folded pages. Yellow fly-
leaf and endpaper with maker’s emboss. Japanese account 
book style binding in red silk thread with PVC tablecloth 
covers. Book packaged in white food bag printed with an 
original 2-colour lino print. Each book comes with its own 
Mermaid Chip Fork and Miracle Fish. 
Limited to only one edition of 20, each copy is numbered 
and signed. Made in Brighton in October 2009. 
£30 a copy, available from
www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/battered/about.htmOr via links at: http://www.dampflat.com
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8 Ways to Cook the Books
A limited edition book by Carl Rowe
When Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published The Futurist
Cookbook in 1932, it was set against a backdrop of
economic uncertainty and rising Fascism. With the
current avalanche of global crises, extremism and greed,
one might ask what we have learned from the past. 
Out of frustration and in response to this global situation, 
I have produced a limited edition screen-printed book
entitled “8 Ways to Cook the Books”, which is a satirical
and humorous comment on the financial mismanagement 
by the G8 countries.
Each of the G8 countries is represented by a recipe for
(literally) cooking a book. For example, the joint of meat
in the traditional British roast is substituted for a tome,
signifying a stodgy leaden bureaucracy whereas in
contrast perhaps, the classic Italian Osso Buco not only 
becomes Osso Booko but is also served with a soft porn 
Tagliatelle. The distortion of these nationally beloved
dishes illustrates the malevolent consequences of greed
and misanthropy. 
Each image is accompanied by a list of ingredients and
the method on the facing page. The book is stitched and 
hardback bound in Library Buckram. The style is
reminiscent of the 1970s, which is significant in that
it reverberates with the death throes of Modernity
and old colonial world order.
8 Ways to Cook the Books is 20 pages printed by the artist and 
professionally bound in an edition of 50 copies. Signed 
on back page. Net price: £50.00. For more information 
contact Carl Rowe by email rowe.carl@btinternet.com
www.carlrowe.co.uk
A House in the Country by Ciara Healy
This is a daydream for a life in an English Manor House. 
Drawing inspiration from the rural village where I live this 
illustrated book takes you on a stroll through woods and 
gardens where the lives of others are glimpsed through 
hedgerows, trees and rhododendron leaves. Animals, 
plants, buildings and people are painted and collaged 
using Ladybird Nature books in a colourful naive style. 
Hardback case bound book. Each Cover is unique and uses 
vintage wallpaper and book cloth with an illustrated image 
pasted over it. The inside pages are digitally printed on silk 
ivory paper. The book is 16 cm x 22 cm with 32 pages.
Case Binding over Stitched binding on Tapes. 
Groombridge, East Sussex, England, 2009, £15.90, 
available from: www.ciarahealy.com / www.ignition.ie
Christophe Daviet-Thery has the pleasure 
of announcing a new limited edition by 
Johannes Wohnseifer - Récentes reconstructions
Johannes Wohnseifer finds the needs for his work in history, 
both the history of Germany as well as his own, whether 
personal memories or those of his generation. He develops 
a strategy primarily grounded in the appropriation of 
historic and cultural symbols, which he infuses with an 
ironic and affective, almost melancholic mood. Nonetheless, 
while at first glance close to Pop this practice is ultimately 
revealed as purely conceptual.
This project pertains exclusively to the personal memory 
of the generation of the artist, in the covers of the 1980s 
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English pop group The Smiths. At the time, the group 
used existing well-known images of people from their own 
imagery, and now Wohnseifer repeats the same design, but 
replaces them with people from the universal imagery of 
British culture.
Edition of 15 signed and numbered copies + 8 A.P
Dimension: book 33,5 x 37 cm, accordion pages. This book 
has been screenprinted on Kölner Pappe by Axel Bohlen, 
Cologne. Binding by Buchbinderei & Prägerei Schaefer, 
Cologne. Edition Christophe Daviet-Thery, 2009, Paris. 
Price 1200 !.
Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et Editions d’Artistes 10, 
rue Duchefdelaville 75013 Paris tel : + 33(0)1 53 79 05 95 
fax : + 33(0)1 43 54 74 93 www.daviet-thery.com
LE SUJOBJET A 15 HEURES
Poem by EUGENE JOLAS (1893 – 1952)
4-colour etchings by CLAIRE ILLOUZ
A MAN FROM BABEL
A poet and a journalist, Eugene Jolas was born in the USA 
in 1894. His parents were immigrants from Forbach, a 
small town on the Franco-German border, where he spent 
his childhood. He then lived and worked on both sides 
of the Atlantic (Strasbourg, Pittsburgh, Paris, New York, 
Aachen, etc.). During the twenties, he became a member 
of the group “L’ARC” (The Arch) in Strasbourg, and in 
1927 founded in Paris the magazine TRANSITION, where, 
over 10 years, can be found most of the greatest names 
of literature, music, and painting of the time: Arp, Miro, 
Duchamp, Stein, Varèse, Kafka, Hemingway, Beckett, 
etc…, and especially James Joyce. He died in Paris in 1952, 
having retained throughout his life, as a most precious and 
yet painful gift, an acute awareness of belonging to three 
basic European cultures. 
Through his work as a journalist, Jolas was constantly 
confronted, and soon became obsessed with the problem of 
the power of words. The choices he made as an editor of 
TRANSITION, but more especially his own poetry, are vivid 
illustrations of his passionate quest for a new language. 
The autobiography of Eugene Jolas, “Man from Babel” 
is edited by Rainer Rumold and Andreas Kramer (Yale 
University Press, 1998). 
Embossed cover and text printed in letterpress by JEAN-
JACQUES SERGENT. Case by M.C. KREZIAK
Printed in France, in September 2009. Edition of 35, on 
Moulin du Chêne paper. Dimensions of case: 25.5 x 16.5 x 
2.5 cm. Price: 450 ! (Until January 31, 2010: 400 !).
Orders should be sent to: Claire Illouz, 2 impasse de la clef 
des champs- 95510 – CHERENCE – France
cillouz@wanadoo.fr
Other artists books by Claire Illouz on www.cillouz.com
Issue 4 of The Happy Hypocrite: A Rather Large 
Weapon will be available to buy in November. 
Contributors: Bernadette Buckley, Jeff Derksen, Candice 
Hopkins, Anthony Iles, Daniel Kane, Yve Lomax, 
Robert Longo, Sean Lynch, Laura Oldfield Ford, Luke 
Pendrell, Rachelle Sawatsky, Mark von Schlegell, Natasha 
Soobramanien and Nick Thurston. For submissions/
subscriptions visit: www.thehappyhypocrite.org
They are better left unspoken
Mercedes Baliarda 
Flowers, their arguably accessible beauty and extensive 
metaphorical use in art, are commonly perceived as 
decorative and unchallenging in a contemporary context. 
Their usual fragility and harmlessness are considered 
defining characteristics. My highly detailed drawings try to 
subtly shift these perceptions to create an unnerving feeling 
of poignance and a tragic beauty. 
These x-ray like drawings are made with automatic 
graphite pencil on tracing paper from pressed flowers that 
I have collected. My work is variable in size, ranging from 
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the tiny to the size of a wall and is sometimes arranged in 
handmade artist books.
Through the process of picking, pressing and drawing, I 
cause and document the death of these flowers and attempt 
to elevate these small tragedies as their images become 
tributes or memento mori in my work. A lyrical dimension 
is added by the titles. Deeper thoughts might spring from 
the connection between the words and the work.
Flowers unthreatening beauty can become a seductive and 
confusing force through which I explore inconsistencies of 
perception and thought, and seek to create a deeper poetry 
that penetrates superficial understanding.
2009. Inkjet prints on tracing paper, paper, card, 
book cloth, adhesive and thread 21.5 x 20.2 x 0.5 cm 
Edition of 10 books numbered and signed £65. 
To order contact Mercedes Baliarda: 
mercedesbaliarda@googlemail.com
mfc-michèle didier has the pleasure to present two 
new productions:
AA BRONSON life and