Tom Sowden's Outputs (10)

Surplus to requirement (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

Tom Sowden invited to curate a selection of Bristol-based book artists’ works for a collaborative project with the Righton Press group at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Each artist produced a page to print, and a ‘sketch’ page on the theme o... Read More about Surplus to requirement.

Paper models: laser symposiun (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A one-day symposium on Wednesday 15 September 2010 for seventy-five delegates presented the results of the AHRC funded research project, Paper Models: Investigating laser cutting technology to develop new artists’ books and paper-based creative pract... Read More about Paper models: laser symposiun.

Drawing with fire: an exhibition of laser cutting by book and paper artists (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Tom Sowden as part of the practice-led AHRC funded research project ”Paper Models: investigating laser cutting technology to develop new artists’ books and paper-based creative practice for arts, crafts and design” and to coincide with a o... Read More about Drawing with fire: an exhibition of laser cutting by book and paper artists.

Arnolfini bookshop showcase exhibition (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

Tom Sowden curated exhibitions of work at the Arnolfini created by SME's and sole traders who have worked with the CFPR through the bureau service and residencies on prototypes, bespoke designs and artefacts. The work on show was just a small selec... Read More about Arnolfini bookshop showcase exhibition.

The art of laser cutting paper (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Tom’s talk discussed how artists are using the laser-cutter as a creative tool, with examples of artists works on paper and artists’ books.

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books (2010)
Other

The Blue Notebook launched with Vol.1 No.1 in October 2006 as a peer reviewed journal, published twice a year. The journal is published in two formats: an electronic colour version to be accessed at any time online, and a paper, black and white versi... Read More about The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books.

The art of the book: journals then and now (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

An international traveling exhibition of artist book journals, diaries and letters. “The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now” is a collaborative project between the Department of Art and Art History at UMSL, the CFPR at the University of the West... Read More about The art of the book: journals then and now.

A Manifesto for the Book (2010)
Book

What will be the canon for the artist’s book in the 21st Century? In an arena that now includes both digital and traditionally produced artists’ books, what will constitute the concepts of artists’ publishing in the future?

This project was funded... Read More about A Manifesto for the Book.

Scott’s Flight: Migrating East (2010)
Physical Artefact

Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden were invited to make a collaborative book 'Scott’s Flight: Migrating East' a unique reconfigured book, cut with figures of Ospreys for the 4th round of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina International Biennale for the Artist’s Bo... Read More about Scott’s Flight: Migrating East.

Ruscha rip-off, rip-out (2010)
Journal Article

A Portfolio by Tom Sowdon as part of the special section on photo-bookworks in Vol. 37, No. 6 of Afterimage, the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, published by Visual Studies Workshop, NY.

The photo essay details a selection of the bo... Read More about Ruscha rip-off, rip-out.