All Outputs (275)

Playing with space (2012)
Journal Article

American artist Heidi Neilson's books explore the mysteries of the universe via miniature props and ingenious invention, writes Sarah Bodman.

Publish and be damned: How to be an underground institutional publisher (2012)
Journal Article

The Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England, Bristol UK publishes reference materials on contemporary printmaking and related areas for an international audience. Three of its established publications focus on a... Read More about Publish and be damned: How to be an underground institutional publisher.

Sound and vision: Chromatic fields, an artist’s book collaboration by Duncan Bullen and Jamie Croft (2012)
Journal Article

Steve McPherson: Saltwater soup (2012)
Book Chapter

Invited catalogue essay for the exhibition Packet Soup, curated by Claudia Lamas Cornejo, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 05/05/12 - 02/06/12, pp 31-32

The phoenix of Baghdad: An inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2012)
Journal Article

Book artists are uniting to draw attention, not to their own skill, but to the loss of the lives of fellow book workers when Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad was bombed in 2007. We should celebrate the fact that images still spark powerful emotions and... Read More about The phoenix of Baghdad: An inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street.

Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012 (2012)
Journal Article

A co-authored article by all the artists for Imprint journal, Australia, September 2012.

Sarah Bodman and Paul Laidler from the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at UWE, Bristol, UK joined Tim Mosely in Brisbane at Queensland College of Art (Q... Read More about Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012.

Artists’ Books in Australia (2012)
Journal Article

Invited article for the Journal of Artists’ Books, JAB 31, USA, Spring 2012, pp 16-23

Six new writers for JAB make their debut in this issue including Thomas Kromann, Anthony Leslie, Sarah Bodman, Alastair Johnston, Sarah Bassnett, and Albert Coer... Read More about Artists’ Books in Australia.

The cutting edge of artist’s books (2011)
Digital Artefact

Sarah Bodman was interviewed by Michael Shirrefs, Feature Producer of ABC Radio Australia’s ‘Artworks’ programme, at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.
Most of us would have the notion that artists' books - that is 'books made by artists' -... Read More about The cutting edge of artist’s books.

Life, the universe and everything: Artists’ books which question our relationship with nature and the way we live (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Sarah Bodman for the Impact 7 Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

An exhibition of 28 artists’ books – placed on a shelf - which ask the viewers some questions about how we perceive, treat... Read More about Life, the universe and everything: Artists’ books which question our relationship with nature and the way we live.

Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artists making books often use photography as a means of recording a narrative of places or their travels, but what if they are documenting something that isn’t actually there at all? A few examples of the artists who inspired me to do the talk are:... Read More about Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books.

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books (2011)
Other

Vol 6 No 1 October 2011
A themed issue on Books and Travel.
Essays:
Katie Herzog’s cycling librarians hold their ‘unconference’ on wheels;
Steven Daiber’s series of collaborative adventures with artists in Cuba on the making of Privacidad: Pri... Read More about The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books.

Artists' Book Yearbook 2012-2013 (2011)
Other

This edition includes: John Bently on books and community; Earle D. Swope’s extraordinary account of how he came to be a book artist; an update on the work of the collaborative artists’ group AMBruno; a study by Eileen O’Keefe of Sarah Jacobs’ thorou... Read More about Artists' Book Yearbook 2012-2013.

Just add water: The artists’ books collection at the Centre for Fine Print Research (2011)
Journal Article

Invited article for Central Booking Magazine, New York, September 2011, Vol II, issue 3, pp 6-7

From Fluxus to iPad: A very short history of artists' books (2011)
Journal Article

A journal article on the contemporary artist's book which has emerged gradually from the French livre de luxe tradition of the mid-19th century,where texts by authors – including the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) – were published in exqu... Read More about From Fluxus to iPad: A very short history of artists' books.

The World as Text (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman was the invited curator for THE WORLD AS TEXT, a summer reading room at The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, USA. A hybrid space designed to amplify connections between the action of reading and the activity of p... Read More about The World as Text.

Artists and librarians: making art in and out of books. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A conference paper given at The Artist in the Library, a symposium, University of East London, Docklands Campus, London, June 2011

Any street, anywhere (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited public lecture at the John Rylands Library, Unviersity of Manchester, on the Al-Mutanabbi Coalition and the impact of the worldwide response to the attack.

BABE – The third Bristol Artists Book Event (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden with the Arnolfini Bristol. Artists book event which showcased 100 artists, publishers and presses from the UK, France, Belgium, Russia, USA, Canada, South Korea and Spain with 5724 visitors.

Sarah Bodman (2011)
Book Chapter

Eight artists’ books by Bodman included by invitation by the curator Eileen Wallace, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. In the book Major Works by Leading Artists in a juried collection of showcased artists’ books as “pioneers in the fi... Read More about Sarah Bodman.

Correspondence, 9th International Artists’ Books Festival, Poland (2011)
Journal Article