Sarah Bodman
@sarahbodman
📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. 📚
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...
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...
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
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...
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/
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...
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… 🙂
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/
'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...
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
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/
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
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...
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!
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...
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!
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...
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 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/
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/
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!
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/
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/
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/
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...
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...
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 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
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/
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.