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To the library… where artists and books want to be (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. (2023, July). To the library… where artists and books want to be. Presented at GENERATIVE SPACES The Creative Powers of the Art Library, ARLIS UK & Ireland Annual Conference, Norwich

Sarah Bodman looks at some of the ways artist interact with the library as a creative catalyst for researching, making and exhibiting artists' books as well as making works in response to libraries. From installations by Guy Bigland, Leslie Mutchler... Read More about To the library… where artists and books want to be.

The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S., & Bakker, R. (2023, June). The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it. Presented at PROOF! 23 Symposium, UWE Bristol

Artists' talk for PROOF! Symposium Sarah Bodman and Roelof Bakker are undertaking a mail art collaboration to produce a body of work for exhibition / artist's book. Along the way we will document and reflect upon our practice to produce written text... Read More about The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.

The secret lives of books (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. (2023, March). The secret lives of books

A free public talk for the Paper Ink Print Festival, Saturday 18th March 2023: If you are new to artists' books Sarah will show some examples from the CFPR Archive of what they might be: from literature inspired book objects and wordplay to works... Read More about The secret lives of books.

What we do in the shadows: Bringing book arts into world book night (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. (2023, February). What we do in the shadows: Bringing book arts into world book night. Presented at Printmaking to Book: Artist's Book in academic theory and practice/artists' talks/miscellanea, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland

Sarah Bodman explores the visual history of Bookarts at UWE Bristol's World Book Night (WBN) project which has evolved over the last 13 years from a collaboration with the artist and poet Nancy Campbell into an international, participatory celebratio... Read More about What we do in the shadows: Bringing book arts into world book night.

From literaturewurst to looped (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. (2021, November). From literaturewurst to looped. Presented at Spineless Wonders - Small Press Artists Books; The Global Book; Materials, Materiality and Process conference, UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London

Sarah Bodman explores how we might interact with books through non-linear reading; appropriated texts from books repurposed as 3D artefacts; collaborative and participatory projects that explore books, reading and memory.

Can you handle it? (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. (2021, October). Can you handle it?. Paper presented at Materiality, Space and Embodiment | Illuminating the Non-Representable, Istanbul, Turkey

Sarah will explore some aspects of our engagement with materiality through books we feel we must handle, may not want to touch, or books which make us complicit in their narrative through turning or interacting with the pages. Showing examples of art... Read More about Can you handle it?.

Australian artists’ books (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S., & Mosely, T. (2018, October). Australian artists’ books. Presented at Artists’ Books in Australia and Brazil – looking to the past to read into the future, The Station, Bristol, UK

Australian artists’ books - a conversation with Dr Tim Mosely & Sarah Bodman for Artists’ Books in Australia and Brazil – looking to the past to read into the future. A day of discussions considering aspects of artists’ books in Australia and Braz... Read More about Australian artists’ books.

Communities of practice: Building an internationally connected practice in and for the book arts (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L. (2017, March). Communities of practice: Building an internationally connected practice in and for the book arts. Presented at Booknesses, Department of Visual Art Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa

At the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, ‘book arts’ investigates contemporary artists’ book practice nationally and internationally. The findings from these research are disseminated freely and a... Read More about Communities of practice: Building an internationally connected practice in and for the book arts.

The Prof. Jonathan Osmond lecture (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L. (2015, December). The Prof. Jonathan Osmond lecture. Presented at Livres d'Artistes: The Artists' Book in Theory and Practice Conference, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Sarah Bodman was invited to give the Prof. Jonathan Osmond Lecture at the Livres d'Artistes: The Artists' Book in Theory and Practice Conference.