All Outputs (58)

Broken Words/Broken Language Portfolio (2024)
Physical Artefact

Portfolio of prints and books made during a week-long knowledge exchange event (07-13 Oct 2024) with printers and museum volunteers/Linotype and Ludlow casters at Vingaards Officin Book Printing Museum, Viborg, Denmark. Edition of 20.

Angie Butler... Read More about Broken Words/Broken Language Portfolio.

Connecting and developing printing heritage: The Nordic letterpress network (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We wish to showcase how a hands-on craft has relevance and capacity within the Nordic regions, and in doing so: to discover what role a heritage process and facilities can play in our contemporary culture and connect its existing communities of pract... Read More about Connecting and developing printing heritage: The Nordic letterpress network.

Capturing and cultivating print & book craft practices in the UK (2024)
Journal Article

The type of intensive training previously needed for crafts in the printing trade is now redundant, but as craft practices are added biannually to Heritage Craft’s UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, there is a pressing need to preserve skills whilst a... Read More about Capturing and cultivating print & book craft practices in the UK.

Mending and making anew with creative, elegant frugality (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Mending and making anew with creative, elegant frugality.
Angie Butler and Davina Kirkpatrick at The Launderette (artist-led project space), Stokes Croft, Bristol.

“The act of sewing is an act of emotional repair” - Louise Bourgeois

Anxieties... Read More about Mending and making anew with creative, elegant frugality.

B FOR BOOK (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

An exhibition of artists' books from 28 June - 19 July at Frankenstein Press, North Street, Bristol to co-incide with BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event 2024.

Nordic Letterpress Network NLN (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

NLN exhibition Bower Ashton to co-incide with Bristol Artist's Book Event 2024. Individual and collaborative works by founder members of the Nordic Letterpress Network (NLN): Reel Cases in B + C blocks, Bower Ashton Campus alongside BABE (Bristol Art... Read More about Nordic Letterpress Network NLN.

MABB Seminar The Artist's Book as Commodity (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentations and seminar discussion from venues bookartbookshop: London, Boekie Woekie: Amsterdam, Bladr: Copenhagen and Per Engström: Malmö Kunsthall on spaces for exhibiting and selling artists' books and why we still need real spaces in addition... Read More about MABB Seminar The Artist's Book as Commodity.

An ongoing collaborative project with a poet and a printer/publisher (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To share the development of a collaborative relationship – promote an inclusive method of making work that usually has a particular hierarchy of roles, tasks and outcomes.

A short descriptive history of the Printed Poetry Project, a collaboration... Read More about An ongoing collaborative project with a poet and a printer/publisher.

In Praise of Birds: World Book Night 2024 (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

World Book Night 2024 - In Praise of Birds.
Exhibited artefact: The Yellowhammer's Song [Letterpress print] inspired by An A-Z of Birdsong, limited edition, John Bevis.
Exhibited at Bristol. 19 April 2024 - 19 July 2024

Winchester Artists' Book Fair: ABPress (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

ABPress exhibiting work from GG Studio Artist Residency.

Winchester School of Art is pleased to invite you to Into the Fold, the University of Southampton's inaugural Artist Book and Zine Fair, a free event showcasing artwork by local students an... Read More about Winchester Artists' Book Fair: ABPress.

Stroud Wayzgoose 2024 (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Over 30 stalls of posters, books, cards, type and equipment attended by local and national letterpress printers.

The Stroud Wayzgoose is now a regular feature in the printers’ calendar. For many years Gloucestershire has been a major centre in the... Read More about Stroud Wayzgoose 2024.

Don't give them fire! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

The title ‘Don’t give them fire’ refers to the myth of Prometheus. Prometheus's most famous act was his theft of fire from the gods. According to the myth, Prometheus took fire from the workshop of Hephaestus (the god of fire and craftsmanship) and g... Read More about Don't give them fire!.

The Hyphen is a Dagger (2023)
Physical Artefact

The Hyphen Is a Dagger collaborative publication: Angie Butler, SJFowler, Pat Randle published by Nomad Letterpress.

A distinctive, eccentric, playful work of literature, The Hyphen is a Dagger is a product of a unique collaborative project betwee... Read More about The Hyphen is a Dagger.

A tangible space: Letterpress printing within artists’ books and small publishing practice (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter constructs a lineage of the letterpress process within artists’ books and small publishing and locates its historical and contemporary communities of practice. First, it provides an outline of how the decline of the letterpress printing... Read More about A tangible space: Letterpress printing within artists’ books and small publishing practice.

How to Be in the Future (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

How to be in the Future?
Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio
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8-11 March 2023

MOCA London presents How to be in the Future? - Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio exhibition and publicatio... Read More about How to Be in the Future.

What has been the impact of letterpress printing and its resurgence as a contemporary mode of practice within book arts? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

IMPACT ARTISTS' BOOKS REUNION
Rewind/Reprint: The Impact of Artists' Books on Contemporary Fine Print. The panel will examine the current position of printmaking in relationship to the book format –media, production and impact.
Ellen Burroughs
Ang... Read More about What has been the impact of letterpress printing and its resurgence as a contemporary mode of practice within book arts?.

Skogen Vadens (2022)
Physical Artefact

Skogen Vadens: edition of 20. Hand printed portfolio containing one digital and one letterpress print. Produced at GG Studio Residency May/June 2022

Fallen (2022)
Physical Artefact

Fallen/Fallen edition of 8: series of printed cards with specimens of flora attached and presentated in a conservation box. Also contains a card with QR code label to a video of a forest walk.
Produced at GG Studio Residency May/June 2022

Trees Whisper Birdsong (2022)
Physical Artefact

A pair of poem cards: one in Swedish and one in English, printed letterpress. Produced at GG Studio Residency May/June 2022

Repair and recover through making (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

GG Print Studio International Letterpress project and Seminar Weekend, Uttersberg, Sweden: international
project with artists from Sweden, Norway, Finland and UK: Public in-person presentations, pop-up exhibition and knowledge exchange event, May 20... Read More about Repair and recover through making.