Dr Sarah Bodman's Outputs (213)

Northern lights (2010)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman surveys the diversity of artists' books being made in Scandinavia today and the organizations that help promote them, as she looks ahead to a major book arts' festival in Denmark this spring.

Of God and small things (2010)
Journal Article

Karen Hanmer's artist's books and designer bindings spring from a love of tactility allied with a curiosity that spans the inscrutable and the cosmological, says Sarah Bodman.

When is a book not a book? (2010)
Journal Article

A bridge to Baghdad (2010)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman describes how one US-based bookseller has proved an inspiration to Iraqi artists and to the global artists' book community

A multi-coloured life (2010)
Journal Article

Klaus von Mirbach is inspired by sources as diverse as his children's toothbrushes to the great Flemish painter van Eyck, writes Sarah Bodman.

Artists’ books: Visual Studies Workshop Press 1971 – 2008 (2009)
Book Chapter

On her retirement from VSW Press, founder Joan Lyons assembled this selected bibliography of titles printed at VSW with commentary from the artists she worked with including Sarah Bodman.

Codex event 6 (2009)
Journal Article

Confounded structure (2009)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman on Excavating Babel, an astonishing installation by Tina Hill, which explores the biblical story and ideas about the loss of language.

Primal force (2009)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman looks at the powerfull, tactile use made of book arts by the Russian artist Dmitry Sayenko.

Made to measure online (2009)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman looks at how artists can use the internet to create and distribute their books and converse with other artists worldwide.

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.

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.

Serena Joy
Digital Artefact

2016 World Book Night collaborative book and video. Our set book this year was chosen by the artist John Bently, who also wrote and performed a tribute ‘sermon’ on the night. Forty artists read 'The Handmaid’s Tale' by Margaret Atwood, and then desig... Read More about Serena Joy.

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.

Bodman’s Dark Humours
Physical Artefact

A selection of Bodman's 70 artists’ books included in the exhibition Press & Release, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton, UK, 27/04/13 – 09/06/13

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.