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Dr Angie Butler's Outputs (58)

Printed Matters (2020)
Journal Article

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

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.

Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK (2019)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Very Like A Whale (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

For the 200th anniversary of Herman Melville’s birth (1819), the Bodleian’s Bibliographical Press invited letterpress printers and artists to claim one of the eighty prefatory “Extracts” from Moby-Dick (1851) and create an artwork in response.

Ext... Read More about Very Like A Whale.

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.

Australian artists’ books (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Type Tells Tales (2017)
Book

Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks – that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when... Read More about Type Tells Tales.

Poster presentation: Investigating letterpress as a contemporary process within book arts practice (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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 Contribution

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

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

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.