All Outputs (266)

His dark materials (2021)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2021). His dark materials. Printmaking Today, 30(118), 22-23

Ian Andrews talks to Sarah Bodman about his collaboration with a particle physics group resulting in artists’ books exploring dark matter

Field Report - Journal of Field Study International: Why Publish? (2021)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. Field Report - Journal of Field Study International: Why Publish?. [printed book]. Australia

Field Report is edited and published by David Dellafiora for Field Study, Australia. It is a report of all field workers' activity over 2020 published the following year, June 2021. Artists contribute 100 pages of their 'report' which is a documentat... Read More about Field Report - Journal of Field Study International: Why Publish?.

Spending time within books (2021)
Book Chapter
Bodman, S. L. (2021). Spending time within books. In C. Benjamin Schulz, V. Hildebrand-Schat, & K. Bazarnik (Eds.), Refresh the Book: On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing (221-245). Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004443556

In my work as a researcher in the field of artists’ books, I encounter new books on a daily basis. Artists send information on their publications to go into the Book Arts Newsletter or the biennial Artist’s Book Yearbook, or write about their work fo... Read More about Spending time within books.

The Herbarium – World Book Night 2021 (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S., Campbell, N., & Parr, L. The Herbarium – World Book Night 2021. [artists' books, paper, letterpress, textiles, etc.]. Exhibited at Bristol, UK. 23 April 2021 - 23 May 2021. (Unpublished)

Co-curated with Linda Parr for World Book Night 2021. WBN United artists invited participants to search for flowers in a book or poem. The text could have a flowery title, be about flowers or the mention of flowers, perhaps even prompting a new artis... Read More about The Herbarium – World Book Night 2021.

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 (Unpublished)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.

It's a new day (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S., & Owen, P. It's a new day. [artists' books]. Exhibited at Bristol, UK. 2 March 2021 - 18 April 2021. (Unpublished)

Curation of exhibition - This online display in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol showcases a selection of artists’ books on mental health, wellbeing and recovery, and thinking about how we live within our environment. It links to themes of inter... Read More about It's a new day.

Field workers unite (2020)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2020). Field workers unite. Printmaking Today, 29(116), 22-23

Sarah Bodman talks with David Dellafiora of Field Study International about his inclusive book projects.

Nature Trails, botanical bookworks by Radha Pandey (2020)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2020). Nature Trails, botanical bookworks by Radha Pandey. Printmaking Today, 29(115), 22-23

Sarah Bodman interviews book artist Radha Pandey about her botanical bookworks and establishing Halden Bookworks, a new book arts centre in Halden, Norway.

Right here, right now - Observations, speculations & hallucinations (2020)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. Right here, right now - Observations, speculations & hallucinations. [publish on demand]. Winchester, UK

This publication represents the output from an open call made to artists and designers in middle of a Covid-19 pandemic, April to May 2020. The result is a kind of visual atlas, photos and drawings, multiple perspectives of the same moment. Contri... Read More about Right here, right now - Observations, speculations & hallucinations.

An open book (2020)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2020). An open book. Printmaking Today, 29(115), 22-23

An Open Book: The generous narrative spaces in tactile artists’ books by Katerina Kyselica that demand to be handled

Wipe (2020)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. Wipe. [rubber stamps]. UK

Wipe is a small assembling publication in which toilet paper is the medium. The use of a nonarchival, indeed anti-archival medium, is intentional, with the ephemerality and fragility of the medium in sharp contrast with the artistic concern for archi... Read More about Wipe.

Love and music in the format of the artist's book (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S. Love and music in the format of the artist's book. [artists' books]. Exhibited at Kirov, Russia. 1 August 2020 - 1 October 2020. (Unpublished)

Love and Music in the format of the Artist's Book, an exhibition organised and curated by Valeri Burov, at the M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin museum, Kirov, Russia, 01/08/20 – 01/10/20

Measuring the heavens (2020)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2020). Measuring the heavens. Printmaking Today, 29(114), 22-23

Article exploring Kate Bernstein’s artist’s book tribute to astronomers, libraries and printers.

Field Report - Journal of Field Study International: 'Read With Me' (2020)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S. Field Report - Journal of Field Study International: 'Read With Me'. [Printed publication in an edition of 100 copies]. Australia

Field Report is edited and published by David Dellafiora for Field Study, Australia. It is a report of all field workers' activity over 2019 published the following year, June 2020. Artists contribute 100 pages of their 'report' which is a documenta... Read More about Field Report - Journal of Field Study International: 'Read With Me'.

Susan Hiller (2020)
Physical Artefact
Bodman, S., Oechsler, M., & Kivland, S. Susan Hiller. [printed publication]. UK/France

‘Susan Hiller’ artist's page contribution to Salon for a Speculative Future, edited by Monika Oechsler with Sharon Kivland, published by Ma Bibliothèque, ISBN 978-1-910055-72-4, June 2020

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Bodman, S., Parr, L., Campbell, N., & Bíro, C. Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?. [online exhibition of physical postcards]. Exhibited at Bristol. 23 April 2020 - 30 June 2020. (Unpublished)

A collaboration with 98 national and international artists responding to texts by Elizabeth Bishop, Nancy Campbell, W. G. Sebald & Olga Tokarczuk. Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK online exhibition and mail art exchange. Coordinated in collabora... Read More about Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?.

Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Bodman, S. (in press). Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques.

The field of artists' books has grown exponentially over the last 30 years. The range of subject matter and context held within it includes that of many practitioners and curators who use the artist's book as a means of exploring our relationship wit... Read More about Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques.

Books of the future (2019)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (in press). Books of the future. z.B. [zum Beispiel] [zum Buch] / [for example] [about books], autumn 2019,

Artists’ books have built and aligned their status according to the value of the printed book, so will arrive at their fate in parallel. If digital reading is going to be the majority method of the future, then how will physical books survive? And w... Read More about Books of the future.

Digging up the past (2019)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. (2019). Digging up the past. Printmaking Today, 28(110),

A new series of collaborative artists' books by Tamar MacLellan & Philippa Wood explores the contents of our gardens

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.