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Don't give them fire! (2024)
Exhibition / Performance
Klein, S. Don't give them fire!. [Print]. 4 March 2024 - 15 March 2024. (Unpublished)

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!.

BABE – The Lost Weekend Arnolfini, Bristol – online (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S., Butler, A., Sowden, T., & Owen, P. BABE – The Lost Weekend Arnolfini, Bristol – online. [artists' books, videos]. Exhibited at Bristol, UK. 17 April 2021 - 18 April 2021. (Unpublished)

Sat 17th April – Sun 18th April 2021 Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Arnolfini presented works by over 160 book artists and small publishers from around the world, online over the weekend. We had submissions of books and videos from artists and pub... Read More about BABE – The Lost Weekend Arnolfini, Bristol – online.

Communicating touch: Physical places via digital spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Butler, A. (2020, December). Communicating touch: Physical places via digital spaces. Paper presented at Touch: Reflections on Making, online

To organise and host an online research event for ten creative practitioners that was planned previously as a physical one, required a specific way of thinking about structure and content. The curation (of the event) would be crucial to the participa... Read More about Communicating touch: Physical places via digital spaces.

CFPR Showcase (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Boons, S., Field, L., Jorgensen, T., Dessain, C., Butler, A., Hoskins, S., …Trujillo Vazquez, A. CFPR Showcase. [Various]. 9 December 2020. (Unpublished)

Our shift towards the digital has provided us a new challenge: how can we offer an alternative experience that surpasses a physical visit to an exhibition? This showcase is a first response to this question. It includes a range of images, a video, an... Read More about CFPR Showcase.

Printed Matters (2020)
Journal Article
Butler, A. (2020). Printed Matters. Printmaking Today, Summer 2020(113), 24-25

Dr Angie Butler on her research into contemporary letterpress printed artists' books and small publishing in the UK

ARNOLFINI: MiniBABE: Bookwalks in Lockdown (2020)
Digital Artefact
Butler, A. (2020). ARNOLFINI: MiniBABE: Bookwalks in Lockdown. [Blog post]

In response to the government’s guidelines about exercise during the Covid-19 lockdown, we invited three local artists and writers to share with us where they’re walking.

Read With Me – an exhibition of an experiment (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S. Read With Me – an exhibition of an experiment. [n/a]. Exhibited at Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol, UK. 2 December 2019 - 15 January 2020. (Unpublished)

2nd December 2019 – 15th January 2020 Exhibition in the study area, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol, UK Sarah Bodman: This exhibition continues the Read To Me project – an experiment made in collaboration with a psychometric reader, as an attemp... Read More about Read With Me – an exhibition of an experiment.

Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Butler, A. (2019). Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK. Arts, 8(4), 151. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8040151

The decline of commercial letterpress printing and technological advances in industry were major influential factors with respect to the establishment of independent small presses in the United Kingdom (UK). Although unlike work from commercial, pri... Read More about Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK.

Read With Me (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S. Read With Me. [n/a]. Performed at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK. 14 November 2019 - 14 November 2019. (Unpublished)

An automatic drawing experiment took place on Thursday 14th November 2019 at Arnolfini bookshop. Participants were invited to attend or to conduct the experiment remotely. The drawings were exhibited at Bower Ashton Library December 2019 and will fo... Read More about Read With Me.

The Idaho Booker's Dozen (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Butler, A. The Idaho Booker's Dozen. [exhibition of artists’ books]. Exhibited at Bristol, UK. 1 November 2019 - 30 April 2020. (Unpublished)

The Idaho Booker’s Dozen is a biennial, travelling juried exhibition of artists’ books featuring works from Idaho and around the USA, and those of international artists from The Netherlands and the UK. Idaho Booker’s Dozen, touring exhibition of 1... Read More about The Idaho Booker's Dozen.

Gwalia Gazette (2019)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S., Parr, L., Butler, A., & Campbell, N. Gwalia Gazette. Bristol, UK

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.

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.

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros (2018)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S. Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros. [n/a]. Exhibited at Santander, Spain. 14 August 2018 - 15 September 2018. (Unpublished)

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

Poster presentation: Investigating letterpress as a contemporary process within book arts practice (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Butler, A. (2013, August). Poster presentation: Investigating letterpress as a contemporary process within book arts practice. Poster presented at IMPACT 8 Conference, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee

I am interested in examining how we learn to design and create artists’ books through letterpress; to gain an understanding of how contemporary book artists using letterpress have influenced what is produced in the field, and how this relates back in... Read More about Poster presentation: Investigating letterpress as a contemporary process within book arts practice.

Txt me 2 typeset (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Butler, A. (2013, March). Txt me 2 typeset. Paper presented at New Art of Making Books, Winchester School of Art

Angie Butler is a PhD. student based at The Centre for Fine Print Research at UWE. Her practice led research project investigates how we learn to design and create artists’ books through letterpress, to gain an understanding of how contemporary book... Read More about Txt me 2 typeset.

Shine on
Physical Artefact
Ambeck, M. D., Atkinson, C., Bodman, S. L., Butler, A., Butler, S., Campbell, N., …Wyatt, C. (2015). Shine on

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.

Post Office
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. L., Butler, A., Butler, S., Campbell, N., Duignan, L., Grainger, H., …Smith, S. (2014). Post Office

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.

Toast: A night on Weevil Lake
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. L., Butler, A., Allsebrook, H., Baeumler, C., Butler, S., Campbell, N., …Stevens, E. F. (2011). Toast: A night on Weevil Lake

A collaborative artist's book and movie produced on World Book Night, Saturday 5th March 2011, in tribute to Douglas Coupland's novel The Gum Thief, an evening of nothing being cooked, Chinese food having to be ordered in and eaten off of paper plat... Read More about Toast: A night on Weevil Lake.