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Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· 8h

Between one Line and Another, our new Bower Ashton Library exhibition curated by MA Print student Bella Venable. A display of prints and artists’ books moving between text and image. Works from the CFPR archive, open to all Mon-Fri 9-5 until 30/09/26 (closed 21-22 Aug). www.uwe.ac.uk/study/librar...

A display of prints and artists’ books against the gallery wooden peg boards. These books have very bright covers, pink, red, greens. With images about landscape, bodies, love and drawing as a feminist act.

A display of prints and artists’ books against the gallery wooden peg boards. These books have very bright covers, pink, orange, greens. The works have text and images about the sky, poetry made from library book encounters, textworks and writing prompts.

A display of prints and artists’ books against the gallery wooden peg boards. These books have text and images inspired by about how we think about the world, poetry, Dante, textworks and thinking about man made spaces.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· 7d

Call for abstracts - artists, writers, librarians, curators: submit an abstract to present at BOOKISH: a symposium on book and publishing histories in Waitaha Canterbury, New Zealand, Thursday 12th November 2026. Deadline 14th September, full info at: digitalvoyages.canterbury.ac.nz/omeka-s/s/bo...

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· 12d

It's the last day of our WBN 2026 exhibition. Which means – the call for World Book Night 2027 – Our Rivers and Seas is open! please read and respond to a text or book about rivers, seas, lakes or marine life. Deadline 2 March 2027. Download the full brief at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#wbn27

The cover of Rachel Carson’s book The Sea Around Us (1952 edition) with illustrations of sea creatures and sailing ships on a marine, light teal colour background.

Interior pages of Rachel Carson’s book The Sea Around Us (1952 edition). The page on the right shows a chart with an underwater sea mount in the Gulf of Alaska 'it rises 9600 feet from the ocean floor and is 857 fathoms below the surface'.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· 16d

Free talk Sun 16th Aug 11:30-12:30 - Action PaperPolice: Jürgen O. Olbrich's PaperPolice project searches for public paper waste and reassembles the finds into art. You are invited to take a package and meet the artist. Hesse Kassel Heritage, Neue Galerie. www.heritage-kassel.de/museumsgespr...

A sheet from a paper package of Action PaperPolice, which is paper waste collected by the artist Jürgen O. Olbrich and reassembled into packs of public art. This image shows a perforated sheet of paper which is an inventory of stamp sales - just text - no images. and has PaperPolice rubber stamped on it in black ink, like an official stamp.

Show & action by Jürgen O. Olbrich at the “Haus der Kunst”, Munich, 2022, photo: Hubert Kretschmer. The brown paper packages stacked on the gallery floor are packs of Action PaperPolice by the artist, wrapped for the public to take away and discover the contents. A bit like a lucky dip. Since the 1990s, Jürgen O. Olbrich has been searching public paper containers, collecting what others have thrown away, and reassembling the finds.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· 20d

It's the last week of our World Book Night exhibition next week, ending Friday 31st July. Catch it while you can. After that all the artworks will be getting swapped and posted out from 6th August in our hand stamped and drawn mountain envelopes. More info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/

The poster for our World Book Night exhibition at Bower Ashton Library - text reads 'The Mountains Are Calling' with a painted image of a grey hued mountain in the background.

Brown envelopes which have been stamped with a black mountain design and drawn on with white ink and a green mountain stamp - we send these to artists who have contributed to our exhibition 'The Mountains Are Calling'.

Brown envelopes which have been stamped with a black mountain design and drawn on with white ink and a round rubber stamp in green ink that reads WORLD BOOK NIGHT UNITED ARTISTS AT UWE SINCE 2010 - we will be sending these to artists who have contributed to our exhibition 'The Mountains Are Calling'.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· 27d

It’s our MA Fine Art Printmaking Degree Show 2026 Opening tomorrow - Thursday 16 July, 17:00 - 20:00, all welcome, then daily from Fri 17 to Weds 22 July 12-5pm each day. Venue: UWE Bristol Fine Art Studios, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX. www.spikeisland.org.uk/plan-your-vi...

A print by artist Bella Venable, etching in blue ink on a cotton and lace doily. The doily has a multi-layered fringe of white cotton and the print is in the middle, showing a bird-human like figure sitting down. It's one piece from a series called A Field of Beauty. "Using fabrics and printmaking methods, I create work based around art as a ritual for grief. Using surrealism and interactions between human and non-human, my work sits in a liminal space born from my loss. I believe that through talking about grief publicly, my work can create a safe space for those who also experience this. Growing up, my creativity was nurtured by my grandmother, Carolyn Kenny, but It wasn’t until her death years later that I learned that these childhood moments came from a deep knowledge of art and healing, gained from years of learning and practice. Drawing on her Indigenous heritage (Choctaw and Haida) and talents as a musician, she developed a
music therapy practice she called “The Field of Play”. Now, using my own artistic practice, I use the tools she created to help with my grief, finding a voice through art when words are not enough."

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jul 9

It’s our MA Fine Art Printmaking Degree Show 2026 next week. Opening Thurs 16 July, 5-8pm, all welcome; then daily from Fri 17 to Weds 22 July 12-5 each day. UWE Fine Art Studios at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX. www.spikeisland.org.uk/plan-your-vi... There will be books… 🙂

Poster for the MA Degree Show showcase - a celebration of works by students on MA Fine Art
MA Fine Art: Curating
MA Fine Art: Photography
MA Fine Art: Printmaking
MA Design Communication: Illustration
MA Design Communication: Graphic Design

Opening Thursday 16 July, 17:00 - 20:00, all welcome, then on show daily from Friday 17 to Wednesday 22 July 12:00-17:00 each day.

A bookwork by Aga Kubish called The Shelter. It unfolds in a concertina style, printed relief print black ink on white paper, it has a series of red threads sewn through it - as if they are showing you a path or suggesting a way to find shelter in the woodlands.

This is a small riso printed book, the cover is dark green and the text is interwoven in a pattern but it reads 'you are drowning in evil, there are angels everywhere', it is one of a series with this name by Sadie Pedersen Sharp who will be doing photocopier performances at the show.

A relief print (monotype) by Laetitia Lucht - the black ink is rolled onto a surface then the paper placed on it and drawn into gently to create the print. It also has fingerprints by the artist. The text reads 'would you still love me if I was me'.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jul 7

A wonderful box of handprinted keepsakes for World Book Night 2026 contributors has arrived. This year’s is a pack of screenprinted postcards of layered film stills from ‘Non Mountain’, a collaboration between Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/

A box containing 240 little glassine envelopes which each have two hand screenprinted postcards in with various imagery from layered film stills from ‘Non Mountain’, a collaboration between Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall.

Detail of one of the little glassine envelopes - it contains two hand screenprinted postcards in with various imagery from layered film stills from ‘Non Mountain’, a collaboration between Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall. The QR code on the back leads to a Bandcamp page with a sound piece to listen to.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jul 3

'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue', until Tues 1st Sept 2026: An exhibition of works observing flora, woodlands, wildlife, skies, marshes, and islands – artist books, printed poetry and ephemera. At Bower Ashton Library, Mon-Fri 9-5. Find out more at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/lookingfor20...

A selection of books in a display cabinet by various artists and writers around the UK and internationally, all connected through nature.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 30

The latest Book Arts Newsletter No 173, July – August 2026 is ready for download. 57 pages of artists' books news at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ Cover artist for this issue: Detail from The remaking of things by artists @gracialouise.bsky.social who also run: gracialouise.com/tinybutwild

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 24

Come along to Bristol Artist's Book Event (BABE) our biennial showcase of artists' books activity with 100+ artists and small presses exhibiting their works to the public for sale. Fri 26 and Sat 27 June 2026, 11am – 5pm each day each day, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

This is a handmade book by Carolyn Trant of Parvenu Press, called Emblems for Enemies, it has linocut black images printed ove rpictures from newspapers of wars and disasters caused by humanity.

A handmade book by Larissa Cox called Cathedral, it is a tunnel book - which shows parts of a scene cut away over a stack of pages making a kind of tunnel, the cathedral is a forest of trees, nature's cathedral.

A handmade book by Philippa Wood & Tamar MacLellan, called step by step, it is made from old pattern cutting papers for dressmaking, each page is printed by one of the artists and then passed back to the other so it gradually gets made between them. Imagery is ornamental patterns in pale and dark blue, white, red.

A handmade book by Heather Prescott, called Cycling, it unfolds in the same way a concertina would, printed in green letterpress type the text reads: cycling is a process of emotional repair.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 22

A little taster of the works coming from Japan to Bristol Artist's Book Event this week. BABE is at UWE Fine Art studios at Spike Island this Fri 26th and Sat 27th June 2026, 11am – 5pm each day each day, free event, all welcome. 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026

A bookwork by Hidekazu Konishi - a red book and one pebble encased inside a special 'specimen box', with the title 100 pebbles.

A picture of a bookwork by Hidekazu Konishi - 9 books in rows of 3, each one is red and has a different pebble on top of it, from the series 100 pebbles.

a stack of books with the title: One Hundred Views of Japanese traffic Mirrors by Hidekazu Konishi. These are part of the 100 Landscapes of Convex Mirrors Series. The book has photos or traffic mirrrors, the cover is inspired by the aesthetics of traditional Ukiyo-e prints with a figure standing in the landscape with green hills and blue waves in the background. Referencing Hokusai's famous artwork, 100 views of Mount Fuji.

An embroidered work by Hisako Inui, 'Narratives and Time' holds images of drawings embroidered onto items of clothing with personal memories. The scraps of fabric are patterned with blue flowers; ochre; gold with red and white thread.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 19

2027 Artist Residency call from TYPA in Tartu, Estonia "We are particularly excited to receive applications for projects in experimental print, book arts, community collaborations and more." Develop a project using TYPA’s amazing facilities. Deadline 31.07.2026. All info at: typa.ee/en/typa-resi...

A picture of a big green, and old working press at the TYPA centre in Tartu Estonia. The centre is a working centre for paper, printing and books.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 18

I bought two - I'm still so enchanted by the adoption of Patrica Highsmith's cat. So I have one for me, one for a friend… The cover is far to lovely to spill ice cream on I just wish the cat came with it too!

The cover of James Bailey's book Like A. Cat Loves a Bird - a biography of Muriel Spark - pictured with a black cat on the shoulder.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 17

Our BABE poster printed by Ben Goodman, it’s out and about in town but we have saved some for exhibitors to collect when they arrive next week (while they last). A beautiful relief printed blend celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme/ev...

Our wonderful BABE poster printed by genius Ben Goodman, a sloped mountain shape with a beautiful relief printed blend in blue ink on pale grey paper celebrating our guests from Japan with a snow topped Mount Fuji. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event.

A detail from our BABE poster. Text reads BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event. 26 & 27 June 11am - 5pm with the website address: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 15

Bristol Artist’s Book Event is nearly here - Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June 2026 at UWE Bristol Fine Art Studios at Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX. 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/ Come and meet 100+ book artists!

This is a tiny fabric book made with a cotton reel as its base, an unfolding piece of textile strip with a pattern of teacups with the text Tea Leaf Readings. Made by Sally Light - Bodkin Beak.

An image of four books published by Intergraphia books, each one has a different colour cover dark orange, light orange, lime green, dark green. The books contain experimental text works by writers, poets, artists.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 11

Some of the small selection of artists’ books I have put together for an exhibition at druckwerk Basel, 16-18 June, during the week of Art Basel. Part of the CFPR's cabinet of Curiosities in: Alive! Contemporary Printmaking, a showcase of artefacts beyond the multiple. cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/alive-contem...

Artist's book: Looking at Prints by Richard Roberts (Roberts Print, 2020). It has a gold cover with black outlines of framed works of art. Inside, rather than showing the artworks themselves, it has pictures of people looking at printed artworks in exhibitions.

Artist's book: Exceptional Subjects, by Norman McBeath photographer and printmaker & Melissa McCarthy writer (Easel Press, 2024). A photographic study of items selected from a private collection built up over a number of years. While the objects are all connected to the process of looking - with many linked to the early stages of photography - they are no longer tied by their name or defined by context.

Artist's book: I know my ABC by Paul Cooke (Dubious Books, 2023). Hand drawn images in the style of a children's ABC book, this image is for the letter N, and shows a drawing of the singer Nick Cave (dressed in a pale blue suit) holding a newt that is sitting on a white napkin on his outstretched hands. It is a play on letters and also a tribute to singers and artists that the maker admires.

The exhibition poster for Alive! Contemporary Printmaking. The text details the venue and the participant organisations: Centre for Print Research, The Racket Club, Edition POW.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 4

One of the nicest parts of organising BABE is planning who goes where, might like to be next to each other, what new connections people might make with their neighbours… The sketch here (not to scale or showing everyone) is a way to match them together for 2 days: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

A chaotic room layout plan for Bristol Artist's Book Event. It is a sketch covered in colourful stickies to plan where people go on their tables at our book event. A bit like (in fact very much like) who you sit next to each other at a wedding and hope they will get on.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Jun 4

A one-day class with visiting artist Jeff Rathermel before BABE. Discover the meditative art of suminagashi (floating ink) in this hands-on workshop. Learn how to create beautiful marbled patterns on water and transfer them onto paper using simple, accessible techniques. cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/courses/cpd/

A picture of different marbled paper patterns for a Suminagashi class on 25 June.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· May 30

Our BABE edition artist Cheng Dong with Catherine Ade at The Lemonade Press making chine collé pieces. The print will be a typewriter image on Kitakata paper with a Somerset Satin White backing. thelemonadepress.co.uk The edition will be on our Impact Press table: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

Christine Cheng Dong putting ink onto a lithography stone, the image shows her with the stone, there are some materials in the background, cleaning sponges and test sheets with the ink pattern on in red.

Christine Cheng Dong in the studio in front of her is a big litho roller with red ink, ready to test her pieces which will be printed on a very fine paper.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· May 28

Our full exhibitor list is now on the website for Bristol Artist’s Book Event - Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June 2026 at UWE Bristol Fine Art Studios, Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Rd, Bristol BS1 6UX. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/ 11am - 5pm each day. Free - All welcome - hope to see you there!

Two small concertina books by Andrew Morrison which have different coloured numbers letterpress printed on the pages. So they count from 1 to 10.

Artists books by Lucie Hozer called Concrete Ghosts, they are line drawings in black and white showing inside spaces as winding forms, circles, holes to look or climb through, enclosures.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· May 15

Bristol Artist’s Book Event is Friday 26th and Saturday 27th June 2026, 11am - 5pm each day. Free event - All welcome An international event showcasing artists’ books to the public. Special guests from Japan bringing bookworks and the Kujibiki Drawing project. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2026/

A collage of colourful book pieces (stripes, triangles in different colours) with a woman's face from an old photograph looking towards the East, a hand opening a book universe and two owls looking out because owls are well read as everybody knows. The text reads: Inside Stories, Bristol Artist's Book Event.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· May 5

In the run up to Bristol Artist's Book Event over Fri 26 - Sat 27 June we have a one-day class Suminagashi Paper Marbling on Thursday 25 June 2026 here in Bristol with visiting US artist Jeff Rathermel. More info and booking link at: cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/courses/cpd/

An image promoting a course in Suminagashi Paper Marbling - it shows a fan with its tips dipped in blue ink and some papers in blue green and brown which have been patterned in a marbled effect in water.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· May 1

A few more of the 200 contributions to 'The Mountains Are Calling' our World Book Night 2026 exhibition (on show until 31 July) here at Bower Ashton Library. You can download the collective reading list and watch a video of a selection of the artworks via links at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/

A collage piece by Noriko Suzuki Bosco, it pictures packaging with a tropical view of a mountain (Mt Fuji) in blue and pink with some collaged white paper animals in the foreground, a monkey, a tiger and some white swans flying in the background.

Kathleen Furey Mám Éan’ (the 'Pass of the Birds’). Tetra Pak print. In Tim Robinson’s book, Listening to the Wind, (which is the first volume in his Connemara Trilogy), the chapter Curse and Blessing talks about a day climbing to the sacred site of Mám Éan. Mám Éan, ‘the pass of the birds’ – is one of the two main passes through the Maumturk mountain range, the old boundary between Connemara proper and Joyce Country in County Galway. According to legend, St Patrick was travelling through the Maam Valley, on his return from Croagh Patrick in County Mayo, when he climbed up to the top of the pass, and blessed the land to the west – Connemara. That night, he slept in a little hole in the hillside known as Patrick’s Bed (Leaba Phádraic), but ventured no further into Connemara. In time, Maumean became an important place of pilgrimage where locals gathered for an annual ‘pattern’– a day when people prayed (and celebrated) at a holy site – in honour of St Patrick. The pilgrimage had almost died out by the mid 1900’s due to faction fighting but was revived in the 1980s.

Monoprint by Marian Kilpatrick. Dark black inks have been washed over a sand-coloured paper so it has a feel of water and air as well as the solidity of the rock. The piece was inspired by the book The Bone Cave: A Highland Journey Through Myth and Memory by Dougie Strang, Birlinn Press, 2023.

Handmade artist’s book by Eva Hejdstrom. It is a series of cutouts one behind the other so it creates a range of paper mountains in browns, greys and white. There is a road through the middle and a tiny figure with a rucksack standing on the last but one top. The text on the sky of the last page is a quote by Sylvia Plath from The Bell Jar: “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy'”.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Apr 24

The Artist’s Book Yearbook 2026-2027 is back from the printers, order your copy! Essays, Artists pages, Places, Collections, Organisations, Studios etc. 400+ new Artists’ Books Listings.288pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, b&w, 497 illustrations. More info + order links here: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/artists-book...

Cover design for the artist's book yearbook by Tom Sowden, a tribute in celebration of forty years of the artists ‹usus› - it is text based and overlays words about practice to form a pattern.

Some detail images of artists books printed by ‹usus› they are shape, pattern and block based, inspired often by musical compostions so they have multiple layers of imagery.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Apr 22

Publishing crowdfunder: 'Crafting Arcadia: On Collaborating with Ian Hamilton Finlay' will shed new light on Finlay as a poet and artist, a personality, collaborator, friend, and sometimes an adversary. Edited by @gregchthomas.bsky.social info & fundraiser link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crafting-a...

Image shows a work by Ian Hamilton Finlay text carved into stones laid in the landscape.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Apr 12

The Mountains Are Calling… An exhibition for World Book Night is now on show at Bower Ashton Library until Friday 31st July 2026. Open Mon-Fri 9-5, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/ ⛰️📚 Inspired by Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. ⛰️📚

An exhibition poster with a painting of a mountain designed by Shaun Oaten, the text reads: The Mountains Are Calling…
An exhibition for World Book Night 2026
Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol
Thursday 2nd April – Friday 31st July 2026

An artist's book by Kate Bernstein for World Book Night - A hard cover book which has no spine, the printed paper inside is triangular and unfolds to make the shape of a mountain.

A piece for World Book Night by Ray Mackenzie: inspired by the original anonymous introduction to Select Views that later became the justly famous guide to the lakes by Wordsworth. Updated for the 21st century it has a drawing of a drone hovering over the lakes in the shape of a cloud.

An artist's book for World Book Night by Tom Sowden. The style of the book is that of the artist Ed Ruscha. It says thirtysix views of steeples. Loosely inspired by the book Seven Steeples by Sara Baume, which is based in Ireland.

Tom adapted a copy of his artist’s book Thirtysix Views of #MtFuji and replaced the images of Mount Fuji with pencil drawings of Ireland’s tallest mountain, Carrauntoohil. Another mountain he hasn’t climbed.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Apr 9

An event this weekend at Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG, UK, organised by the Hay Letterpress Guild. Their inaugural Printers' Fair is a Celebration of Print Making & Associated Arts, Saturday, 11th April 2026, 10-4, free, all welcome. www.hayletterpressguild.org

A poster announcing the inaugural printer's fair this weekend at Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG, UK, organised by the Hay Letterpress Guild.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Apr 8

Our second exhibition that has opened this month is Gen Harrison's '100 Days Project Scotland: Fold | Found Concertinas'. 100 artists' books made over 100 days. On show now at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK until Tues 30th June, Mon-Fri 9-5, more info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/100days2026/

A set of folded concertina papers in bright blue and pink with the title 100 Days Project Scotland, fold, found concertina. From a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

Two folded concertina books, folded from found papers, one in the shape of a little house, one with a diamond pattern in black and white. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

Details of some folded concertina books, made from found papers in different shapes and colours, one has a little pair of dolls legs sticking out with ruby slippers on. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

A handmade box with a little concertina book inside, this is made from brightly coloured marbled papers with a red border - the 100 tiny books made for the project live inside it. From 100 Days Project Scotland, a project that involves commitment to a creative task every day, for 100 days.

Sarah Bodman@sarahbodman· Apr 2

One of 3 new exhibitions that have been installed here this week: Kathy Bruce and Alastair R Noble, books and objects, Thurs 2nd April* – Sun 28th June 2026. More info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/brucenoble/ *The college will be closed for the holidays from Fri 3rd April – Tues 7th April inclusive.