How did you become involved in artist’s books? In the spring of 2000, at the exhibition titled One of a Kind Artists’ Books in Cairo, I saw books unlike any I had ever seen before. They were different in their concepts, structures, techniques, and materials; …
How did you become involved in artist’s books? I first started making books to mark the process and progress of residencies. (See: the ‘Locational’ series.) The act of turning the page to reveal a different aspect appeared to be an ideal way to present the …
BBB Books are a three person
collective, comprising of Holly Birtles, Tim Burrough & Rita Byon, who are
connected by an interest in surface, process and the photographic image
represented in book form. Through collaborative projects and individual works
they explore human memory, bodily engagement, landscape and the natural
environment. They use a combination of digital capture, risograph, letterpress
and hand printed B&W prints in their finished works. Comprising of
graduates from Slade School of Fine Art and Camberwell College of Art, BBB
Books members live and work in London, UK and Seoul, Korea.
What is the focus of your practice?
BBB Books Collective brings
together photography, text and printmaking in small run artists
books.
What are you working on at the moment?
Independent photographic
projects, including: found belongings, music collaborations and video,
performance, prop production, walking/archiving and subsequent publications of
revised concepts.
How did you become involved in artist’s books? I consider publishing as my artistic practice, with publications crossing over into photoworks, installation and photobook works. What is the focus of your practice? The relationship between mind, consciousness and the materialisation of the photographic object. What …
How did you become involved in artist books? I was introduced to artist books by a printmaking technician while I was at Plymouth University studying fine art. My final body of work included a book ‘Inventory’ which I entered into the Sheffield International Book Prize …
Everything is now live on eventbrite for you to read through and see what you fancy taking part in! There are some great things going on so do take a look. Just to wet your appetite here is our leaflet detailing what is available if you would like a copy emailed please just ask.
This week we installed an exhibition in Sheffield Central Library to get people interested in Artists books and the Fair on 5th October (just in case you had forgotten!) The selection was made from the Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize collection which is over 800 …
How did you become involved in artist’s books? Some 20 years ago I met Bristol artist Annabel Other who had started a portable, fully functional public library. I made a small ‘Pocket Dictionary of Greediness’ for her library and was fascinated by the concept of …
Making books began as a way of finding a home for words that spilt out of me. As I learned the scope of materials, the books I made became as much about the production as the words that were wrapped inside.
What is the focus of your practice?
Self-publishing high-quality books, that are attractive, and financially viable, and writing fiction and narrative non-fiction.
What are you working on at the moment?
A photobook that collages modern-brutalist photos, and a novella about toxic masculinity.
Philippa Wood How did you become involved in artist’s books? My initial interest came from when I organised a book-binding workshop for a group of graphic design students; at around the same time myself and a colleague inherited a treadle press from a local high …