The Torchbearers (2024)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2024). The Torchbearers. Printmaking Today, 33(130), 22-23

Sarah Bodman talks to Natalie Renganeschi at Women’s Studio Workshop about the upcoming anniversary and travelling exhibition.

All shades of blue (2024)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2024). All shades of blue. Printmaking Today, 33(129), 22-23

Artists’ books by Roelof Bakker and Caren Florance speak of loss through colour and texture, visual allusion and sensory touch, writes Sarah Bodman

Women in Print I and Women in Print 2 (2023)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2023). Women in Print I and Women in Print 2. Journal of the Printing Historical Society, 3, 339-340

Review of Women in Print I and Women in Print 2. Each book consists of essays written by individual researchers, designers, historians, librarians, curators and artists offering a range of voices exploring women's roles in printing history. These two... Read More about Women in Print I and Women in Print 2.

Family ties (2023)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2023). Family ties. Printmaking Today, 32(128), 22-23

Family Ties - Artist Terrie Reddish explains to Sarah Bodman how book artists in New Zealand are building creative connections and book arts’ networks

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article
Trujillo-Vazquez, A., Abedini, F., Pranovich, A., Parraman, C., & Klein, S. (2023). Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants. Colorants, 2(4), 632-653. https://doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040033

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion (2023)
Journal Article
Jorgensen, T., & Lightfoot, S. (2023). Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion. FORMakademisk, 16(4), https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.5423

This paper details practice-based research exploring new creative possibilities involving the ceramic extrusion process. The paper begins by providing a short overview of the extrusion technique, its charac-teristics and some contextual coverage of t... Read More about Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion.

Signs of the times (2023)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2023). Signs of the times. Printmaking Today, 32(127), 22-23

Sarah Bodman on reading the ongoing, environmentally-focused works encompassing Termómetos Project from Mexican artist Ireri Topete.

World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing (2023)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2023). World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing. Axon: Creative Explorations, 13(1), 2-21. https://doi.org/10.54375/001/cbyvozki7k

Sarah Bodman reflects on 13 years of Bookarts at UWE Bristol's World Book Night (WBN) project; a text and image / artists' books-based event which has evolved from an initial collaboration with the artist and poet Nancy Campbell into an annual, inter... Read More about World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing.

Depths of fields - Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall's print and sound collaborations (2023)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2023). Depths of fields - Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall's print and sound collaborations. Printmaking Today, 32(126), 22-23

Sarah Bodman interviews Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall. Through overlayering and overlapping they bring print and sound together in their collaborative works. Cherniwchan's practice is rooted in digital photography and production, whilst T... Read More about Depths of fields - Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall's print and sound collaborations.

The blue notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Volume 17 No 2, Spring – Summer 2023 (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). The blue notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Volume 17 No 2, Spring – Summer 2023. The Blue Notebook, Volume 17(No 2, Spring – Summer 2023), 72

Editor: Sarah Bodman In this issue: Amador Perez -art… books… art books… artists’ books… As a child I had access to the world of art through printed reproductions on postcards and books. As a teenager I collected facsimile publications sold at... Read More about The blue notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Volume 17 No 2, Spring – Summer 2023.

In search of symmetry (2023)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2023). In search of symmetry. Printmaking Today, 32(125), 22-23

Sarah Bodman speaks with artist Tricia Treacy as she prepares for an exhibition of her new work Scaffolding at the Center for Book Arts, New York. Tricia Treacy is based in rural New Hampshire, USA where she makes prints and artists' books, often in... Read More about In search of symmetry.

Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident (2022)
Journal Article
Klein, S., Elter, P., & Trujillo Vazquez, A. (2022). Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(49), Article 491002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aca8db

It has almost become somewhat of an urban legend or internet myth that James Clerk Maxwell created the first colour image and had demonstrated this at the Royal Institution in London in May 1861. He did present something, but what? In ‘The scientific... Read More about Maxwell’s disappointment and Sutton’s accident.

Worlds within words (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Worlds within words. Printmaking Today, 31(124), 22-23

Sarah Bodman talks to Graeme Hobbs of fallowpages about his hand-printed chapbooks inspired by classic literature and place.

Bristol print innovators make a strong impression (2022)
Journal Article
Dacey, J. (2022). Bristol print innovators make a strong impression. Physics World,

Co-produced with science journalist Joe McEntee, this short film features interviews with the director of the CFPR, Carinna Parraman, Susanne Klein, Shaila Afroj and Tavs Jorgenson about the curent research into Woodbury-type printing, e-textiles and... Read More about Bristol print innovators make a strong impression.

Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains (2022)
Journal Article
Fahy, N. (2022). Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains. Parse, Article 6

The purpose of this text is to examine the cyclical methodologies of fieldwork, deep mapping and printmaking employed to investigate the changing land use of the Slieve Aughty Mountains, located in the west of Ireland. Landscapes subjected to extract... Read More about Violent impression - Slow violence in the Slieve Aughty mountains.

Connecting the dots (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Connecting the dots. Printmaking Today, 31(Autumn 2022), 22-23

Sarah Bodman links collaborative book projects by Mary V Marsh with her own printed poem created long distance during the pandemic.

Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison. Printmaking Today, 31(122), 22-23

An interview with the book and letterpress artist Andrew Morrison whose studio is based in the South West of England, about his artists' books in progress that explore physical structures, phonetics and visual language.

Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand (2022)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2022). Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand. Printmaking Today, 31(121), 22-23

Norwegian artist Randi Annie Strand’s current printmaking project takes inspiration from light refraction. The artists’ books and films created for her Prism series are separate yet intertwined, and each is unique. As she explains: a book is three-di... Read More about Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand.

Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color (2021)
Journal Article
Klein, S. (2021). Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color. The Californian Printmaker: The Journal Of The Californian Society Of Printmakers, 2021,

My practise is centered around color. As a scientist I can only emphasize that color is a miracle of the mind. Without the human soul, it does not exist. I am choosing the word soul and not brain, because colour is not only generated by the interacti... Read More about Now you see it, now you don’t: Illusive color.

Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books (2021)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2021). Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books. Printmaking Today, 30(120), 22-23

I spoke with Jennie Hinchcliff, Exhibitions and Events Manager at the San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. SFCB was established by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in 1996, to serve west coast and internati... Read More about Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books.