Prance Press
How did you become involved in artist’s books? 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 …
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Case Room Press
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 …
Helen Scalway
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 have a real one-to-one relationship with them and the way you can have a one-off book, or make a few, or many, and they can be inexpensive, accessible. So, my practice changed.
What is the focus of your practice?
For some time, I have been working on the metaphor of the house as standing for the self, so my recent artist’s books have been exploring this. In 2018 I curated a show called ‘If We Were Houses’, inviting several professional artists to portray themselves as houses. I asked each artist: If you were a house, what kind of house would you be? This is because the question seems to me to be a revealing one, opening into a potentially innovative mode of self-portraiture: the house as a fertile metaphor for the self.
What are you working on at the moment?
I am currently working on a presentation on the ‘If We Were Houses’ project at The Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, Sussex. I am also thinking hard about a set of artist’s books, each one enacting different characters as ‘houses’.
Gordian Projects
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 …
Book Fair open for submissions
One of our first events will be hosting an inaugural Artist’s Book Fair in Sheffield, to be held in conjunction with Off the Shelf Festival on October 5th 2019. The Fair will be supported by a programme of other events on the day and will conclude with an Open Forum/Discussion event to discuss the setting up of an Artist’s Book Centre in Sheffield.
We are inviting applications from artist’s book makers, small presses, universities and any other individuals or groups interested in participating. The event will be held across two superb new spaces in Sheffield city centre, Kurious Arts and Kommune. Both are located at Castle House, in the historic heart of the city, a few minutes walk from bus and train stations, adjacent to the Supertram stop at Castle Square and with plenty of parking close by.
In addition to hosting the Fair, one of our aims for these events is to create the context for networking, gauging interest, brainstorming, and gathering information about the possibility of setting up of an Artist’s Book Centre in Sheffield building upon both the Book Collection and the Artist’s Book Prize itself. The event is supported by Lottery Funding from Arts Council England.
To submit an application to participate at the Book Fair, please use the Application Form on the CuratorSpace website, where you can also get in touch with any questions.