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How did you become involved in artist’s books? I trained as sculptor at Chelsea but became more and more interested in artists’ books as a means of enacting book/sculptural sequential ideas. I also liked the modesty and portability of artists’ books, the way you can …
How did you become involved in artist’s books?
I stumbled into making books in 1990, while working with a laborious process, involving liquid dye and silk. I deconstructed the process into a 12 image sequence, which reveals how the colour, repeatedly and randomly overlaid, retains an extraordinary purity and luminosity of hue and tint, which is unique to this process.
I joined a bookbinding course hoping to make it into a book, but instead became hooked on making books. It took 5 years of exploring possibilities and solving problems before I could show it at the first bookfair I took part in – the 1995 Artists bookfair at the South bank Centre.
Making books became integral to my work from that time.
What is the focus of your practice?
I make unique book objects, and multiples in small numbers – often combining hand with digital process. Some record my response to place and time, through colour and drawing, while others explore the physicality of surface, whether of paper, or with more experimental materials and print technologies such as heat fused polyester and plastic lamination. I also like the dynamics between the actual tactile surface, and the illusion of texture – a game, of what is real, and what is illusory.
What are you working on at the moment?
The focus has become increasingly sculptural. My latest collection uses tissue paper layered with polyester film, and sometimes Transclear tracing paper and Perspex to make pieces in which I explore pattern and page repetition. The speed of cutting on the laser-cutter, is contrasted with slow stitch techniques to form the book.
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Alastair R. Noble How did you become involved in artist’s books?I have made artist’s books throughout my artistic career. I trained, as a printmaker therefore the production of artist’s books was a natural transition. In light of this, I have employed a number of printing …
How did you become involved in artist’s books? I have been making books for over 15 years, an interest that grew from a retreat I was on in Portland, America. What is the focus of your practice? Beachcombing has always been a passion of mine, …
How did you become involved in artist’s books?
Gordian Projects is co-edited by Emma Bolland (artist and writer), Tom Rodgers (artist), and Judit Bodor (curator). We set up the press in 2013 to publish a collaborative text/image book by eight artists and writers who we were mentoring for the Place and Memory project. After the experience of producing that book, it seemed logical to carry on producing more books under the Gordian Projects imprint. We produce our own work, and collaborations with and by others. Production ranges from the entirely hand made to the commercially printed.
What is the focus of your practice?
We produce work that operates at the intersections of artist book, art writing, and literatures. Recent examples would be the collaborative performance score Sh! ffLight! by Emma Bolland and Helen Clarke that uses typography as musical notation in transcribing a zaum poem / art writing piece that was written for and performed at Writing Photographs at Tate Modern last year, and a text image book ‘More Than Stories’ made with the artist-filmmaker Anya Lewin that uses stills and scripts from her film trilogy staged this year at the John Hansard Gallery.
What are you working on at the moment?
We currently have three new projects in development: an experiemental essay on ‘interior edgelands’ with the writer/architect Matthew Turner, a book of collage with the artist Jean McEwan, and an intergeneration photography collaboration between Tom and Paul Rodgers.
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Here is the first interview with one of our participating artists at the Sheffield Artist’s Book Fair which will take place on 5th October. ARTIST NAME: Estella Scholes How did you become involved in artist’s books?I started making book art about ten years ago after …
As summer starts to draw to a close we, at Sheffield Artist’s Book Fair HQ, are beginning to get very excited about the Fair on 5th October. We will have 70+ artists exhibiting on the day. Over the next several weeks we will introduce you …
Hopefully within the next week or two you should start seeing these out and about in Sheffield and Leeds and maybe else where! If you would like some to distribute and can collect from sheffield city centre then do get in touch and let us know, all help will be gratefully recieved.
We thought it was about time to introduce the team who established this project just incase you were wondering! Our little group was started by four of us: John Clark – Writer and formally founder and Director of Bank Street Arts Sarah Grace Dye – …
