All Outputs (49)

Gwalia Gazette (2019)
Physical Artefact

A collaboration with 47 national and international artists for World Book Night 2019. Coordinated by Linda Parr. In collections: Tate Britain, London, UK; UWE Bristol Special Collections, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK; Biblioteca Universitária UF... Read More about Gwalia Gazette.

Read To Me (2018)
Physical Artefact

‘Read to me’ is an experiment made by the artist in collaboration with a psychometric reader, to transmit the emotional content of selected narratives through a series of physical objects. Ten objects were selected to read chapters of novels, or shor... Read More about Read To Me.

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros (2018)
Physical Artefact

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros invited 36 artists and writers from the following countries to participate in this collaborative artist's book: Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Swi... Read More about Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros.

Red Blue Shades II (2018)
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist's book inspired by the short story ‘Watching God’ in the collection Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville. A text and image response to the elements of nature, movement, reading, writing, the passing of time and the s... Read More about Red Blue Shades II.

Cad Yellow Deep (2018)
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist’s book trilogy (Red Blue Shades, Perm Green Light & Cad Yellow Deep) inspired by the short story ‘Watching God’ in the collection Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville. A text and image response to the elements of nat... Read More about Cad Yellow Deep.

Perm Green Light (2018)
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist’s book trilogy (Red Blue Shades, Perm Green Light & Cad Yellow Deep) inspired by the short story ‘Watching God’ in the collection Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville. A text and image response to the elements of nat... Read More about Perm Green Light.

Red Blue Shades (2018)
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist’s book trilogy (Red Blue Shades, Perm Green Light & Cad Yellow Deep) inspired by the short story ‘Watching God’ in the collection Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville. A text and image response to the elements of nat... Read More about Red Blue Shades.

GIFT: I Made This For You (2016)
Physical Artefact

A book inspired by the Angel of Bremen (serial poisoner Gesche Gottfried), produced to resemble the type of pamphlet publication / recipe book given away with newly purchased gas cookers in the 1940s-50s. It contains 14 ‘recipes’ for 15 people. Each... Read More about GIFT: I Made This For You.

Flowers in hotel rooms Vol. III and Vol. IV (2012)
Physical Artefact

Flowers In Hotel Rooms Vol III and Vol IV plus a loan of 76 books from Bodman's collection included in the exhibtion 'Sense of Place in Artist Books', part of the Mapping Spectral Traces series of exhibitions and events at the University of Minnesota... Read More about Flowers in hotel rooms Vol. III and Vol. IV.

Dinner and a Rose (2011)
Physical Artefact

Sarah Bodman and Nancy Campbell have collaborated on a new artist’s book for the University of Dundee’s AHRC funded project Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition (http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/index.html), which has commissioned new work a... Read More about Dinner and a Rose.

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.

La Voisin (1999)
Physical Artefact

The imaginary diary of Catherine Monvoisin; provider of potions, solutions and services to the court of Louis XIV. Monvoisin was a celebrated advisor to her clientele before being accused of murder by her rival La Bosse, who testified against her and... Read More about La Voisin.

Dead search
Physical Artefact

Artists book created by invitation for the exhibition Lessons in History Vol. II – Democracy at grahame galleries + editions, Brisbane, Australia, October – November 2012. 100 copies given away during the exhibition http://www.grahamegalleries.com/ca... Read More about Dead search.

Post Office
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist’s book made for World Book Night 2015. The tribute this year was to Charles Bukowski, we asked readers to sum up how they felt about his novel 'Post Office' in three words for us to produce an artist's book on the night. Contri... Read More about Post Office.

Shine on
Physical Artefact

On 23/04/15, we, the WBN United Artists made our annual World Book Night tribute. This year we chose Stephen King's magnificent horror novel The Shining. We matched the models to text excerpts from the New English Library paperback edition of The Shi... Read More about Shine on.

Their eyes were watching God
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist's book produced for World Book Night 2018. Book, exhibition and video curated by Sarah Bodman.

Contributors to the exhibition and book are: Alex Goodman, Andrea Robinson, Angela Thames, Angie & Si Butler, Anonymous, Arra St... Read More about Their eyes were watching God.

Bookishness: An in-depth interrogation of the mystery of Loch Ness by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau Rebooted 2017
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“Although there have been quite a few books written on the subject, really we know very little.” NESSIE, Seven Years in Search of the Monster, Frank Searle Monster-Hunter Extraordinary, Coronet Books, 1976. For 2017, our tribute is to all the weird a... Read More about Bookishness: An in-depth interrogation of the mystery of Loch Ness by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau Rebooted 2017.

Flowers In Hotel Rooms Volume V
Physical Artefact

Lots of travel can sound glamorous but in reality is mostly time spent in airports, stations and hotel rooms. These books have helped occupy my time by imagining what the characters in the books I read would be doing if they were here. For Volume V,... Read More about Flowers In Hotel Rooms Volume V.

Why say it again?
Physical Artefact

Artists' book screenprinted with a clear water-based varnish, the stencils made from dipping glasses and cups into ink to make a mark, just as you would if you put a glass or cup onto a table. The marks, like poison are barely discernible. The handwr... Read More about Why say it again?.

Some Small, Good Things
Physical Artefact

A collaborative zine made for World Book Night, which resulted in a free download DIY publication www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/13smallgt.htm

This year the work was a tribute to Raymond Carver's collection of stories Cathedral (1983), some of which were... Read More about Some Small, Good Things.