Outputs (273)

Exercises for all (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman: For UWE Bristol’s Postgraduate Symposium Proof! 2024, I made a short video presentation inviting students, staff and interested parties to join me in making small artworks for an exhibition EXERCISES FOR ALL at Bower Ashton Library, UWE... Read More about Exercises for all.

Let’s Talk | Vamos Conversar (2024)
Physical Artefact

For UWE Bristol’s Postgraduate Symposium Proof! 2024, I made a short video presentation inviting students, staff and interested parties to join me in making small artworks for an exhibition EXERCISES FOR ALL at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol this... Read More about Let’s Talk | Vamos Conversar.

Ulises: Assembly (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

“Ulises: Assembly,” a residency and exhibition engaging the labor of bookworkers, asking: “what do you do?” as a means of delving into the printed matters of art publishing today. The result is a sprawling, multi-tiered physical manifestation of labo... Read More about Ulises: Assembly.

B for Book (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

B for Book, Frankenstein Press, Bristol. An exhibition of 100+ bookworks selected from the archive at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol. Created by national and international artists including: Ioulia Akhmadeeva (Mexico), Craig Atkinson (UK)... Read More about B for Book.

Luiz Sacilotto's 100th birthday exhibition (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Luiz Sacilotto's 100th birthday exhibition, curated by Marica Rosenberger, Collective 308, Ponte Grande, Guarulhos, Brazil.

MAIL ART EXHIBITION HONOURS THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF ANDREENSE ARTIST LUIZ SACILOTTO

Organised and curated by Marcia Rosenb... Read More about Luiz Sacilotto's 100th birthday exhibition.

The Torchbearers (2024)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman talks to Natalie Renganeschi at Women’s Studio Workshop about the upcoming anniversary and travelling exhibition.

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA is a response to crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Artists were invited to speak up on issues related to human rights, war, violence, social and racial injustice. The mission of this important and t... Read More about FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA.

Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Composition I and II, 2024, two collage works made in response to Luiz Sacilotto's Composition painting 1949 for the exhibition: Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto, organised by Marica Rosenberger.

Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto, organised by Marica Rosenberger,... Read More about Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto.

World Book Night 2024 - In Praise of Birds (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

For World Book Night 2024 – In Praise of Birds, WBN United Artists invited participation through reading and responding to a text or book about birds and sending us a postcard about it. Curated by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr

200+ artists responded... Read More about World Book Night 2024 - In Praise of Birds.

Filature de Soie - slk spinning - we dress as forest architecture (2024)
Physical Artefact

Edition of 100 for 'Filature de Soie - silk spinning - we dress as forest architecture', for ReSite, Maual of Scores, Manifestos & Radical Actions, No.18, Vol 2, Field Study International, April 2024

Lost and Found: Artists’ books, absence and existence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Some of the ways that absence has been expressed through artists’ books - the loss of biodiversity, memory, relationships and culture. Examples include works by Roelof Bakker, Caren Florance, Ben Jenner, Gracia & Louise, Essence Press, Sophie Loss, E... Read More about Lost and Found: Artists’ books, absence and existence.

All shades of blue (2024)
Journal Article

Artists’ books by Roelof Bakker and Caren Florance speak of loss through colour and texture, visual allusion and sensory touch, writes Sarah Bodman

Composition I and II (2024)
Physical Artefact

Composition I and II, 2024, two collage works made in response to Luiz Sacilotto's Composition painting 1949 for the exhibition: Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto, organised by Marica Rosenberger.

Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto, organised by Marica Rosenberger... Read More about Composition I and II.

Freedom Project (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA is a response to crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Artists were invited to speak up on issues related to human rights, war, violence, social and racial injustice. The mission of this important and t... Read More about Freedom Project.

Archive Station (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Artists: Marina Abramovic, Alice Anderson, Dominique Angel, Guillaume Apollinaire, Art and Language, Art Critics Orchestra, Enrico Baj, Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Beuys, Daphné Bitchatch, Sylvie Blocher, Christian Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Jean... Read More about Archive Station.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025 (2024)
Book

Essays: David Paton considers the 50+ years of collecting the 14,000+ items now housed in the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts (JGCBA) at the Wits Art Museum, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. In Ossessione, Tanya Peixoto... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2024-2025.

Field study emanation by Sarah Bodman for Wangari Maathai, Chico Mendes, Zeinab Mokalled, Shōzō Tanaka, for Field Report 2023 (2024)
Physical Artefact

Field Study emanation, edition of 100 by Sarah Bodman for:

Field Report 2023
Journal of Field Study International
Published April 2024

David Dellafiora (curator) - The Field Report is the annual of Field Study International, produced since 1... Read More about Field study emanation by Sarah Bodman for Wangari Maathai, Chico Mendes, Zeinab Mokalled, Shōzō Tanaka, for Field Report 2023.

Imagined worlds (2024)
Book Chapter

turn the page has, over a period of ten years (2012-2022), introduced the public to the wonders of the wider book arts genre, and artists and collectors to each other, through its showcasing events, symposia and related exhibitions. To celebrate thos... Read More about Imagined worlds.

Women in Print I and Women in Print 2 (2023)
Journal Article

Review of Women in Print I and Women in Print 2. Each book consists of essays written by individual researchers, designers, historians, librarians, curators and artists offering a range of voices exploring women's roles in printing history. These two... Read More about Women in Print I and Women in Print 2.

Family ties (2023)
Journal Article

Family Ties - Artist Terrie Reddish explains to Sarah Bodman how book artists in New Zealand are building creative connections and book arts’ networks

FREEDOM Project (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

In tandem with 30 Years Anniversary of the Polish Book Art Museum in Łódź, the FREEDOM Project is a response to the series of crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Students, educators and professional artists were invited to s... Read More about FREEDOM Project.

Signs of the times (2023)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman on reading the ongoing, environmentally-focused works encompassing Termómetos Project from Mexican artist Ireri Topete.

The lives of artists' books in UK libraries and collections (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A short talk by Sarah Bodman about UK libraries and collections practices with artists' books for the seminar panel at: Kunstnerboken: unik og mangfoldig (Nordic Artists' Books). The seminar at Kristiansand folkebibliotek focuses on artist's books an... Read More about The lives of artists' books in UK libraries and collections.

World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing (2023)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman reflects on 13 years of Bookarts at UWE Bristol's World Book Night (WBN) project; a text and image / artists' books-based event which has evolved from an initial collaboration with the artist and poet Nancy Campbell into an annual, inter... Read More about World Book Night United Artists - Stories of and strategies for experimental, collaborative publishing.

Night and Day (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

The set theme for the ABC artists’ books club exhibition this year is Night and Day, inspired by the poetic works of Thomas A Clark. Clark is co-founder of Moschatel Press with Laurie Clark, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Night and... Read More about Night and Day.

To the library… where artists and books want to be (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman looks at some of the ways artist interact with the library as a creative catalyst for researching, making and exhibiting artists' books as well as making works in response to libraries. From installations by Guy Bigland, Leslie Mutchler... Read More about To the library… where artists and books want to be.

Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer (2023)
Book Chapter

A response to the artwork: for RE:Making - A Documentation of Work by Angela Lorenz

With essays from over 70 scholars, collectors, librarians, curators, and journalists on book artist Angela Lorenz's work from 1989 to 2022. Includes a reflection f... Read More about Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer.

The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artists' talk for PROOF! Symposium
Sarah Bodman and Roelof Bakker are undertaking a mail art collaboration to produce a body of work for exhibition / artist's book. Along the way we will document and reflect upon our practice to produce written text... Read More about The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.

Birds all sing / every flower exhales (2023)
Physical Artefact

A unique artist's book produced for the ABC exhibition Night and Day at Bower Ashton Library, July - August 2023. Risograph print and collage.

Depths of fields - Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall's print and sound collaborations (2023)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman interviews Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall. Through overlayering and overlapping they bring print and sound together in their collaborative works. Cherniwchan's practice is rooted in digital photography and production, whilst T... Read More about Depths of fields - Chrystal Cherniwchan & Craig Tattersall's print and sound collaborations.

The small machine talks, episode 102: Sarah Bodman (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

AngelHousePress presents the Small Machine Talks an ongoing conversation about art & literature &…

The Small Machine Talks, Episode 102 with Sarah Bodman

Sarah was interviewed by host Amanda Earl - a Canadian poet, prose writer, visual poet, ed... Read More about The small machine talks, episode 102: Sarah Bodman.

The blue notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Volume 17 No 2, Spring – Summer 2023 (2023)
Journal Article

Editor: Sarah Bodman

In this issue:

Amador Perez -art… books… art books… artists’ books… As a child I had access to the world of art through printed reproductions on postcards and books. As a teenager I collected facsimile publications sold at... Read More about The blue notebook: Journal for artists’ books, Volume 17 No 2, Spring – Summer 2023.

Field Study emanation - the Fox sisters - for Field Report 2022 (2023)
Physical Artefact

Field Study emanation, small performance in tribute to the Fox Sisters, 7.30pm, 7th October 2022 by Sarah Bodman for:

Field Report 2022
Journal of Field Study International
Published April 2023

David Dellafiora (curator) - The Field Report i... Read More about Field Study emanation - the Fox sisters - for Field Report 2022.

Space, line, colour (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Space, Line, Colour: a curated display of artists' books from Bower Ashton Library's special collections, on show in the side cabinets until the end of June 2023.

Selected by artist and publisher Julie Johnstone to exhibit alongside her solo exhi... Read More about Space, line, colour.

We remember – World book night 2023 (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Inspired by the work of Joe Brainard 1942-1994 I Remember (which in turn inspired Georges Perec 1936-1892 to write Je me souviens/) the theme for United Artists World Book Night 2023 was ‘We Remember’.

One hundred and fourteen artists have respond... Read More about We remember – World book night 2023.

Shadow and light: Honoring Iraqi academics, photographs of witness, memory and solidarity (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

An exhibition curated by Beau Beausoleil, Artists’ Alley Champaign, IL & Hundley Central Core Gallery, Spurlock Museum, Urbana, IL, USA.

'Compiled by Beau Beausoleil, a poet and activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, the project memorializes Iraq... Read More about Shadow and light: Honoring Iraqi academics, photographs of witness, memory and solidarity.

KART 125 (2023)
Physical Artefact

One contributing artist for KART 125, an edition of 40 collaged artworks for the project.

David Dellafiora (curator) This 125th issue of KART commemorates the 30th anniversary of the death of the sculptor Dame Elizabeth Frink (14th November 1930-... Read More about KART 125.

The secret lives of books (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A free public talk for the Paper Ink Print Festival, Saturday 18th March 2023:

If you are new to artists' books Sarah will show some examples from the CFPR Archive of what they might be: from literature inspired book objects and wordplay to works... Read More about The secret lives of books.

In search of symmetry (2023)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman speaks with artist Tricia Treacy as she prepares for an exhibition of her new work Scaffolding at the Center for Book Arts, New York. Tricia Treacy is based in rural New Hampshire, USA where she makes prints and artists' books, often in... Read More about In search of symmetry.

How to be in the future? (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

MOCA London presents How to be in the Future? - Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio exhibition and publication launch.

This new Salon for a Speculative Future (SFASF) publication How to be in the Future? accompanies a b... Read More about How to be in the future?.

The mountains are calling… (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Curation of an exhibition:

This exhibition accompanies a Bookarts at UWE / LAND2 symposium in Bristol discussing environmental themes including water quality, land degradation, pollution and damage to the landscape, interventions and ideas. It sha... Read More about The mountains are calling….

What we do in the shadows: Bringing book arts into world book night (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman explores the visual history of Bookarts at UWE Bristol's World Book Night (WBN) project which has evolved over the last 13 years from a collaboration with the artist and poet Nancy Campbell into an international, participatory celebratio... Read More about What we do in the shadows: Bringing book arts into world book night.

Slow violence and river abuse: The hidden effect of land use on water quality (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Researchers from HAS, Dr Gillian Clayton and Professor Darren Reynolds (HAS) and Researchers from ACE Niamh Fahy and Associate Professor Sarah Bodman have been collaborating on a project in Somerset, UK, from which Niamh is using data and samples col... Read More about Slow violence and river abuse: The hidden effect of land use on water quality.

El mundo es un pañuelo / The world is a handkerchief (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

A travelling exhibition, on show at the The Coral Gables Museum, USA. The World is a Handkerchief is a travelling exhibition rooted in the Spanish saying ‘el mundo es un pañuelo’ which translates into English as ‘this is such a small world’. The proj... Read More about El mundo es un pañuelo / The world is a handkerchief.

Worlds within words (2022)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman talks to Graeme Hobbs of fallowpages about his hand-printed chapbooks inspired by classic literature and place.

Postcards for Perec (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

University of Puget Sound , Collins Memorial Library:
The display (in the Reading Room) showcases the project Postcards for Perec. Georges Perec was a French novelist and filmmaker. Linda Parr coordinated an international project in which artists cr... Read More about Postcards for Perec.

KART 122 (2022)
Physical Artefact

One contributing artist for KART 122.
November this year marks the 50th anniversary of Richard Adams' book Watership Down and Kart celebrates this on the cover. KART magazine is an assembling publication promoting artistic and cultural diversity. K... Read More about KART 122.

Excellence in book art exhibition (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Showcasing the wonder of book arts, from unique hand-made books to book sculptures selected book artists from the region and beyond.

SELECTED ARTISTS

Sarah Bodman, Louisa Boyd, Melanie Bush, Larissa Cox, Lizanne van Essen, Sarah Grace-Dye, Paul... Read More about Excellence in book art exhibition.

Beyond the pale (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Beyond the Pale consists of responses invited by the Bodleian Bibliographical Press in parallel to a historical display taking place in the Weston Library – Foreshadowed – curated by Andrew Spira, exploring precursors to Kasimir Malevich’s Black Squa... Read More about Beyond the pale.

Connecting the dots (2022)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman links collaborative book projects by Mary V Marsh with her own printed poem created long distance during the pandemic.

Artists’ books (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

ARTISTS’ BOOKS, curated by Hannele Nyman, Galleria Duetto, Helsinki, Finland. Invited exhibitor.
Elisa Alaluusua (UK/FI), Maija Albrecht, Kristoffer Albrecht, Sarah Bodman (UK), Pirjetta Brander, Nancy Campbell (UK), Codex Polaris: Rita Marhaug (NO)... Read More about Artists’ books.

22nd anniversary exhibition of the RikArt collection (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

On the second floor of the library, it is possible to see the unique collection of artist books of the Rikhardinkatu Library – all of its more than 470 works are on display at the 22nd anniversary exhibition of the RikArt collection. An artist book i... Read More about 22nd anniversary exhibition of the RikArt collection.

Imaged words & worded image (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

A mail art exhibition curated by David Dellafiora for Field Study International, featuring 170 artists from 25 countries.

Saturday 2nd July, until 12 August 2022.

Imaged Words & Worded Images takes it title from a book edited by Richard Kostela... Read More about Imaged words & worded image.

Two sides to every story - letterpress printed bookworks by Andrew Morrison (2022)
Journal Article

An interview with the book and letterpress artist Andrew Morrison whose studio is based in the South West of England, about his artists' books in progress that explore physical structures, phonetics and visual language.

Write Here - for Field Report (2022)
Physical Artefact

Field Report is edited and published by David Dellafiora for Field Study, Australia. It is a report of all field workers' activity over 2021 published the following year, June 2022. Artists contribute 100 pages of their 'report' which is a documentat... Read More about Write Here - for Field Report.

Ghosts in the machine (2022)
Physical Artefact

Our Ghosts in the Machine WBN publication is an A4 loose-leaf artist’s book which can be taken apart and made into a portable exhibition. Produced in an edition of 100, housed in a string tied envelope with a screenprinted title. The block of pages h... Read More about Ghosts in the machine.

Ghosts in the Machine - World Book Night 2022 (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

The theme of our WBN United Artists participatory call for 2022 was Ghosts in the Machine.

Inspired by haunting tales written by authors including M. R. James, Shirley Jackson, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Pierre de Ronsard, Fritz Lieber, Toni Morrison... Read More about Ghosts in the Machine - World Book Night 2022.

Read With Me (2022)
Physical Artefact

Read With Me. Extending from the experimental book project ‘Read to Me’, this book is the result of: a performative drawing event, readings by a psychometric reader, collages made during lockdown and words assembled from the dissected readings. It wa... Read More about Read With Me.

Ripley's Buttons (2022)
Physical Artefact

A collaboration with poet Jeremy Dixon of Hazard Press. A limited edition of 50 sets of 6 text and image badges in tribute to 'The Talented Mr Ripley' by Patricia Highsmith.

Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand (2022)
Journal Article

Norwegian artist Randi Annie Strand’s current printmaking project takes inspiration from light refraction. The artists’ books and films created for her Prism series are separate yet intertwined, and each is unique. As she explains: a book is three-di... Read More about Looking into the Light - artists' books by Randi Annie Strand.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022-2023 (2022)
Book

Articles and essays:
BOOKS BOXED – Imi Maufe asks – What happens when a book is boxed? and discusses the use and potential of box structures in artist’s book design; In the first of two pieces, David Solo reports on the – Book Art Review (BAR) Conve... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022-2023.

Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books (2021)
Journal Article

I spoke with Jennie Hinchcliff, Exhibitions and Events Manager at the San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) as they celebrate their 25th anniversary. SFCB was established by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch in 1996, to serve west coast and internati... Read More about Twenty-five and counting: San Francisco Center for the book celebrates its past and future in artists’ books.

From literaturewurst to looped (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman explores how we might interact with books through non-linear reading; appropriated texts from books repurposed as 3D artefacts; collaborative and participatory projects that explore books, reading and memory.

Can you handle it? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah will explore some aspects of our engagement with materiality through books we feel we must handle, may not want to touch, or books which make us complicit in their narrative through turning or interacting with the pages. Showing examples of art... Read More about Can you handle it?.

Postcards for Perec (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

The Postcards for Perec exhibition is curated and organised by MAMDP alum Linda Parr in association with CFPR. Current venue: Winchester School of Art Library until 11th November 2021. The Postcards for Perec exhibition tour continues until the end... Read More about Postcards for Perec.

Dinner and a Rose (2021)
Physical Artefact

Dinner and a Rose
Sarah Bodman & Nancy Campbell

Artist Sarah Bodman and poet Nancy Campbell have created a new edition of Dinner and a Rose, an artist’s book in homage to the novel The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Originally produce... Read More about Dinner and a Rose.

Future past and tense (2021)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman talks to Ioannis Anastasiou and Majka Dokudowicz online from their studio in Wrocław, Poland. Both are PhD researchers at the E. Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, actively exhibiting their prints and artists' books nationally... Read More about Future past and tense.

His dark materials (2021)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wipe (2020)
Physical Artefact

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

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

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

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

‘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

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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

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

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.

Posted/Unposted (2019)
Journal Article

Exploring a project curated by Dr Angie Butler and Imi Maufe celebrating letterpress printing practice in the UK and Ireland

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.

Zero Waste, an exhibition of artists’ books (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Zero Waste, an exhibition of artists’ books curated by Sarah Bodman and Eve Kask; UWE, Bristol, Bower Ashton Library, 20/09/19 & Estonian Academy of Arts Library, Tallinn, 01/11/19 - 20/03/20

Zero Waste alludes to responsible lifestyles, ending w... Read More about Zero Waste, an exhibition of artists’ books.

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 o... Read More about Idaho Booker’s Dozen.

Lago Cremisi Permanente (2019)
Physical Artefact

A text and image response to the short story ‘Watching God’ in the collection Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville. This a new book, based on the collaborative artist’s book trilogy (Red Blue Shades, Perm Green Light & Cad Yellow Deep) Edi... Read More about Lago Cremisi Permanente.

Sarah Bodman – I Made This For You (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman – I Made This For You
15th AMACI – Giornata del Contemporaneo
Curated by Antonio Freiles, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea L. Barbera, Messina, Italy, 12/10/2019 – 14/11/2019

The 15th Day of Giornata del Contemporaneo – Itali... Read More about Sarah Bodman – I Made This For You.

Artist's Book Yearbook 2020-2021 (2019)
Book

Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, September 2019

Essays: With her regular front page, Tanya Peixoto (UK) celebrates some highlights of bookartbookshop over the last two ye... Read More about Artist's Book Yearbook 2020-2021.

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.

‘What if?’ books (2019)
Book Chapter

The Correlations project presents some examples of artists’ books as a method of enquiry, a means for us to ask questions about their relationship with independent publishing through content and context, and consider both the history and continued pr... Read More about ‘What if?’ books.

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.

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

On Friday 7th September 2018, Sarah Bodman (UK) and Jayne Marshall (Spain) performed a reading of Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros in Spanish and English at 9pm in the Plaza de Cañadío, Santander as an emanation for David Dellafiora’s Fie... Read More about Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros.

Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research (2018)
Thesis

ABSTRACT
Towards a community of artists’ books: extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research

The field of activity in artists’ books – artworks in the form of a book - has evolved over the... Read More about Towards a community of artists’ books: Extending international knowledge and debate in the field of artists’ books through practice-research.

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con Libros (2018)
Exhibition / Performance

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.

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.

Read to me: A psychometric collaboration with objects (2018)
Journal Article

‘Read to me’ is an experiment made by the artist in the UK, in collaboration with a psychometric reader in The Netherlands, to transmit the emotional content of selected narratives through a series of physical objects. The project will be produced as... Read More about Read to me: A psychometric collaboration with objects.

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.

Making friends with books (2017)
Journal Article

A report on the first Cardiff Artists' Books (CAB) event at The Printhaus in Cardiff and their future plans for 2018.

Bristol fashion (2017)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman reports on a book project close to home that brings together the entire bookmaking community.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018-2019 (2017)
Book

Essays: With her regular page for bookartbookshop, Tanya Peixoto celebrates Kelly Wellman; Endangered Species of Book by John Bently, ponders the disappearance of paper-based books from our daily routines; Liminal Moments At The Edges: Reading Montag... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018-2019.

Foreword (2017)
Book Chapter

Catalogue Essay by Sarah Bodman for The Polar Tombola, A Book of Banished Words by Nancy Campbell.

Building communities (2017)
Journal Article

Article on ambitious community ventures at leading centres for the book arts in the USA and UK.

Dear Reader… some contemporary books by artists (2017)
Journal Article

Artists’ books have evolved over the last sixty years into a significant, international contemporary arts practice. In the 1960s, the artist’s book grew in popularity as a means of bypassing dealers in high end galleries, taking artists’ works out to... Read More about Dear Reader… some contemporary books by artists.

Milestones (2017)
Journal Article

article on Booknesses international colloquium, celebrating 21 years of artists’ books in South Africa.

Communities of practice: Building an internationally connected practice in and for the book arts (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

At the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, ‘book arts’ investigates contemporary artists’ book practice nationally and internationally. The findings from these research are disseminated freely and a... Read More about Communities of practice: Building an internationally connected practice in and for the book arts.

Tell it to the Bees (2016)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman talks to Sarah Nicholls about letterpress and linocut, her popular pamphlet series and a recent artist’s residency in Chicago

Liberatura, literatura i książka artystyczna: kontekst, treść i istotne znaczenie materiału (Liberature, literature and the artist’s book: Context, content and material meaning) (2016)
Journal Article

A reflection on the relationship between Liberature and artists’ books. The majority of artists creating books have been drawn into their creative pathway through a passion for physical books themselves. Whether literature or Liberature, the publicat... Read More about Liberatura, literatura i książka artystyczna: kontekst, treść i istotne znaczenie materiału (Liberature, literature and the artist’s book: Context, content and material meaning).

Turning the pages (2016)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman talks to Jules Allen, founder of ‘turn the page’, and discovers the secrets of the success of this unique artist’s book festival in the heart of Norwich.

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.

ABBE (2016)
Journal Article

A report on the Artists’ Books Brisbane Event.

A study in pink, red, black and white (2016)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman examines some artists’ books by Guy Bigland, Amir Brito Cadôr, Egidija Čiricaitė and Sophie Loss, which respond to paintings.

Livres d'artistes et micro-éditions, perspectives sur l'avenir du livre à l'ère de la publication de masse (2016)
Book Chapter

The proceedings of the international conference "An atlas of desktop publishing : what roads to what issues ?" Aimed to start thinking in the fields of art and graphic design of a territory, border to border , in France as in the rest of the world. B... Read More about Livres d'artistes et micro-éditions, perspectives sur l'avenir du livre à l'ère de la publication de masse.

ABBE: Artist's Books Brisbane Event (2016)
Journal Article

A review of the ABBE: Artist's Books Brisbane Event at the Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research, Brisbane, Australia

The Prof. Jonathan Osmond lecture (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman was invited to give the Prof. Jonathan Osmond Lecture at the Livres d'Artistes: The Artists' Book in Theory and Practice Conference.

Artists’ books 2015: 10 of the best, from personal ad romance to beautiful bacteria (2015)
Journal Article

There have been some fantastic artists' books published this year and Sarah Bodman at UWE Bristol's Centre for Fine Print Research has read most of them. In this article she picks ten of her favourites.

The heart of the matter (2015)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman spoke with Marian Crawford at the Artists' Book Event Brisbane about her recent artists' books made as part of The News Network Project.

Artist's Book Yearbook 2016-17 (2015)
Book

The Artist’s Book Yearbook is a biennial reference publication focusing on international activity in the field of book arts.

It serves as a resource for artists, academics, students, collectors, librarians, dealers, publishers and researchers, in... Read More about Artist's Book Yearbook 2016-17.

King of stamps: Sarah Bodman interviews artist Stephen Fowler on the eve of his new publication (2015)
Journal Article

An interview with the artist Stephen Fowler on the processes of rubber stamps and how he researched the subject for his new book Rubber Stamping: Get Creative with Stamps, Rollers and Other Printmaking Techniques published by Laurence King.

BABE – The Fifth Bristol Artists Book Event (2015)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated event including 113 artists, publishers, dealers and presses from the Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sicily, Spain, South Korea and the UK, attracted 7150 visitors and held at the Arnolfini, Bristol, 11-12 April 2015.

Views across the pages (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter is a short overview of some examples of contemporary books by British artists inspired by experiences, travel and memories of France.

Island Life - Otto of ottoGraphic’s artist’s book Flat Holm (2015)
Journal Article

An unusual island landscape that captivated Otto is represented in a new artists' book with poems by Chris Sully, writes Sarah Bodman

The threads that bind us: WSW and Libby Scarlett’s A 19-2 view (2015)
Journal Article

Women's Studio Workshop residencies offer artists the facilities and funding to create a bookwork, writes Sarah Bodman.

Artists' books at the Centre for Fine Print Research (2015)
Journal Article

An article on artists' books at the Centre for Fine Print Research.

PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books (2014)
Exhibition / Performance

PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, offers a rare insight and overview of the development, range and ambition of the Artists Book over half a century. Featuring books, postal art and other 'alternative... Read More about PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books.

An interview with contributors to Index (2014)
Other

Artists were originally invited to submit their images or text online, with the simple brief that the work must have been used to communicate, or be communicative in its own right. The resulting publication is a mix largely of photographs, but also w... Read More about An interview with contributors to Index.

Shuffle and cut: Editing and re-presenting material in artists’ books (2014)
Book Chapter

The book is an experimental exchange of out-of-context, repurposed text and image.

RUKSSIAN artists' books (2014)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Sarah Bodman, Mikhail Pogarsky, Vasily Vlasov, Viktor Lukin. Artists' books speak the international language of art. These books can be understood in almost any corner of the world. Artists, who work in the genre of the artist's book profe... Read More about RUKSSIAN artists' books.

Talking prints (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Based at the University of the West of England, Bristol, the book arts forms a small part of the Centre for Fine Print Research, where the research focus is on the production and investigation of the physical artefact, primarily predicated in print.... Read More about Talking prints.

A stitch in time: Artists’ books by Candace Hicks (2014)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman catches up with book artist Candace Hicks as she returns to printmaking after extensive work on hand-sewn books.

Story time: Kate Bufton’s book sculptures (2014)
Journal Article

Kate Bufton is known for her scultpures, but now she is exploring the representation of these works in two dimensions during a residency at Hot Bed Press, writes Sarah Bodman.

Readers and dreamers: Artists’ books by Mário Azevedo (2014)
Journal Article

Mário Azevedo's robust printmaking and love of visual typography produces works that create new conversations, writes Sarah Bodman.

Paradise lost: The compassionate and haptic nature of Tim Mosely’s Kanage pholu wanda (2014)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman reports on the compassionate and haptic nature of Tim Mosely's book Kanage pholu wanda - a book redolent of the artist's relationship to forest.

Leitores & Sonhadores’ Os Livros de artista de Mário Azavedo (2014)
Journal Article

Article by Sarah Bodman

Artists as 21st century explorers of the book (2014)
Book Chapter

We now live in an age where, according to the writer and artist Radoslaw Nowakowski, e-paper has now overtaken p-paper, but what does that mean for book artists? And what kinds of books are they making?

Access to available technology allows artis... Read More about Artists as 21st century explorers of the book.

Everything we do begins with a conversation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman was invited to give this presentation as part of the panel The Artist’s Book as a Tool for Research at the seminar Perspectivas do Livro de Artista - O livro de artista na universidade (Perspectives of the artist's book - The Artist's Bo... Read More about Everything we do begins with a conversation.

Chair of discussion panel: The role of the sketchbook in contemporary fine art practice (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Role of the Sketchbook in Contemporary Fine Art Practice Seminar.

Appropriation and creation: Artists’ books and extant narrative (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Book Art Biennial 2013 explored in depth the common threads between book art and film. Historically as well as in contemporary practice, artists blur and perforate the boundaries between these two disciplines, both of which are time-based and gro... Read More about Appropriation and creation: Artists’ books and extant narrative.

Al-Mutanabbi Street starts here (2013)
Exhibition / Performance

Co-curated by Sarah Bodman and Beau Beausoleil Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembled artists’ responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred in March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. The Center for Book Art... Read More about Al-Mutanabbi Street starts here.

BABE – The fourth Bristol Artists Book Event (2013)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden with the Arnolfini Bristol this event showcased 105 artists, publishers, dealers and presses from the UK, The Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, South Korea and Italy with 7530 visitors.

Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’ (2013)
Book Chapter

As Ulises Carrión stated in The New Art of Making Books in 1975: a book is a sequence of spaces. Over the last 36 years, the book as a physical space has undergone some dramatic changes in concept, format and reception. A book is still a sequence of... Read More about Os “livros” são eléctricos: ‘Are 'Books' Electric? Some possibilities for the artist's book in the 21st Century’.

Artists’ books: Document, communicate, disseminate (2013)
Book Chapter

Commissioned essay for Café Royal’s Words Project 2013

Re-reading the page (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden are based at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, where they explore many aspects of artists’ publishing: from the conception and history of the artist’s book to creative processes and output, current developm... Read More about Re-reading the page.

Some thoughts on the artist’s book in the 21st century (2013)
Book Chapter

The most ambitious and diverse survey of the book arts published to date, Book Art Object 2 serves as a record of the third biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium, "The Fate of the Art," held in Berkeley, California in 2011. The event showcased conte... Read More about Some thoughts on the artist’s book in the 21st century.

Building with books (2013)
Book Chapter

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic loss of a cultural and intellectual hub in Baghdad that occurred in March 5, 2007, by a bomb explosion. This important and timely exhibition, organized by Beau Beausoleil and... Read More about Building with books.

The beauty of the book (2013)
Book Chapter

Commissioned essay for the King St. Stephen Museum Fifth International Artists’ Book Exhibition, Hungary, May 2013

Pack up your troubles: Recent artists’ books on a topographical theme (2013)
Journal Article

Time to escape? Sarah Bodman turns travel agent with a whistle-stop tour of recent artist' books on a topographic theme.

New pages: Celebrating the book as a democratic multiple in a variety of 21st century forms (2013)
Book Chapter

This book is the edited survey of current thinking and innovative practice in contemporary publishing, which was presented at BOOKLIVE! International symposium in London in June 2012.

This two day event brought together some of the key theorists,... Read More about New pages: Celebrating the book as a democratic multiple in a variety of 21st century forms.

Lost and found: The library of lost books (2013)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman explores The Library of Lost Books, an initiative to salvage and transform discarded library volumes.

Eyes on the prize (2013)
Journal Article

The Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize is an excellent platform for book artists to gain recognition and connect with collectors, writes Sarah Bodman.

Black books: The use of color in artists' books (2013)
Journal Article

When I began thinking of examples of colour in recent artists' books for this article, many works sprang to mind. The first work I thought of was Alison Turnbull's Spring Snow-A Translation (Book Works, 2002), a beautiful reworking of Yukio Mishima's... Read More about Black books: The use of color in artists' books.

A manifesto for the book: Book - artist's book - artist's publication - book art? (2013)
Book Chapter

This paper was based on the results of a two-year research project led by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, March 2008-February 2010. This project investigated the context and future of the artist's book... Read More about A manifesto for the book: Book - artist's book - artist's publication - book art?.

Life, the universe and everything: The artist's book as a means of theoretical, political and social consideration of the natural world (2013)
Book Chapter

Peer reviewed conference paper given at the IMPACT 7 Multi-disciplinary Print Conference, Monash University, Australia, September 2011.

Nature and the landscape surround us and we depend upon them. Many artists explore our relationship with the na... Read More about Life, the universe and everything: The artist's book as a means of theoretical, political and social consideration of the natural world.

9th International Book Art Festival: Correspondence (2012)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman was the invited curator of British artists. The exhibition toured 2012-2014: Plocka Galeria, Plock, Galeria Miejska, Tarnow, Ksiaznica Pomorska, Szczecin, Biblioteka Miejska, Lublin, Galeria Dwor Karwacjanow, Gorlice, Szklany Dom, Cen... Read More about 9th International Book Art Festival: Correspondence.

Contemporary artists and the art of the book (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman has been invited to give the lecture Contemporary Artists and the Art of the Book as part of the 2012 University of Bristol Art Lectures. This series of lecutres looks at the art of the book, from the physical beauty that books can conv... Read More about Contemporary artists and the art of the book.

From physical to digital: What do artists do with books? (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman was invited to give the lecture 'From Physical to Digital - What Do Artists Do with Books?' at the University of Minnesota. Artists’ books have been around for centuries, but as digital technology has advanced so quickly recently, so hav... Read More about From physical to digital: What do artists do with books?.

Sense of place in artist books (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A Site & Incitement Symposium panel discussion on Sense of Place in Artist Books, with Sarah Bodman, a Research Fellow for Artists Books, and Masters Program Leader for Multidisciplinary Printmaking, at Centre for Fine Print Research, University of t... Read More about Sense of place in artist books.

Publicar e ser danado: Como ser um editor institucional underground (2012)
Journal Article

2011 was a year of celebration for our reference publications at the Centre for Fine Print Research, which was the 10th anniversary of the Artist's Book Yearbook and the 5th anniversary of The Blue Notebook. Paul Silveira invited Sarah Bodman to writ... Read More about Publicar e ser danado: Como ser um editor institucional underground.

Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books (2012)
Book Chapter

Invited chapter in 'Photography and The Artist’s Book'.

There is a renewed interest in the relationship of photography and the artist's book, both as a work of art and as an alternative means of exhibition and dissemination. There is also a notab... Read More about Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books.

Codex Event 8 (2012)
Exhibition / Performance

An Australian and British collaborative research project into pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books between Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden.

Codex Event 8 tackled the ‘urban jungle’, its physical mass... Read More about Codex Event 8.

New Pages: Celebrating the book as a democratic multiple in a variety of 21st century forms (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A showcase of how artists are exploring and utilising the tools available to create books for e-readers through epub, hypertext and publish-on-demand (POD), and how small publishers are embracing the potential of small scale publishing of affordable,... Read More about New Pages: Celebrating the book as a democratic multiple in a variety of 21st century forms.

‘How Do I Love Thee?’ and ‘Fehling's Solution’ (2012)
Book Chapter

Two artists’ books by Bodman: ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ and ‘Fehling's Solution’ have been selected by Sandra Salamony with co-curators Peter and Donna Thomas (USA) to be included in ‘1000 Artists’ Books: Exploring The Book As Art'.

The book is a time... Read More about ‘How Do I Love Thee?’ and ‘Fehling's Solution’.

1000 artists’ books: Exploring the book as art (2012)
Book Chapter

Invited chapter on Sarah Bodman's artist book practice. The book is a timeless art form, one that is as alive today as ever before, and artists continue to explore and explode the boundaries of what a book is and can be. In this beautiful collection... Read More about 1000 artists’ books: Exploring the book as art.

Un Manifesto para o Livro (A Manifesto for the Book) (2012)
Journal Article

A Manifesto for the Book was first published as a free online download as part of the findings from a two-year AHRC funded research project on the future of the artist’s book in the digital age(http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/canon.htm).

The manife... Read More about Un Manifesto para o Livro (A Manifesto for the Book).

The small press movement in the age of mass publication (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited October 2011 to write a conference paper for "An atlas of desktop publishing: what roads to what issues", international conference organised by the Édith Laboratory, ÉSADHaR, École Supérieure d’Art et de Design, Le Havre/Rouen, Normandy, Fran... Read More about The small press movement in the age of mass publication.

Against the grain: Knust print collective (2012)
Journal Article

Artists' books in Australia (2012)
Journal Article

6,000-word,invited, illustrated article for ‘The Journal of Artists’ Books’ (JAB) published by Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, USA (http://journalofartistsbooks.org), JAB 31, March 23, 2012.

The article provides a... Read More about Artists' books in Australia.

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.

No place like home (2012)
Journal Article

Philippa Wood and Angie Butler, in the USA, produce books that celebrate life's quiet and comforting domestic pleasures, writes Sarah Bodman.

Playing with space (2012)
Journal Article

American artist Heidi Neilson's books explore the mysteries of the universe via miniature props and ingenious invention, writes Sarah Bodman.

Publish and be damned: How to be an underground institutional publisher (2012)
Journal Article

The Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at the University of the West of England, Bristol UK publishes reference materials on contemporary printmaking and related areas for an international audience. Three of its established publications focus on a... Read More about Publish and be damned: How to be an underground institutional publisher.

Sound and vision: Chromatic fields, an artist’s book collaboration by Duncan Bullen and Jamie Croft (2012)
Journal Article

Steve McPherson: Saltwater soup (2012)
Book Chapter

Invited catalogue essay for the exhibition Packet Soup, curated by Claudia Lamas Cornejo, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 05/05/12 - 02/06/12, pp 31-32

The phoenix of Baghdad: An inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street (2012)
Journal Article

Book artists are uniting to draw attention, not to their own skill, but to the loss of the lives of fellow book workers when Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad was bombed in 2007. We should celebrate the fact that images still spark powerful emotions and... Read More about The phoenix of Baghdad: An inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street.

Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012 (2012)
Journal Article

A co-authored article by all the artists for Imprint journal, Australia, September 2012.

Sarah Bodman and Paul Laidler from the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR) at UWE, Bristol, UK joined Tim Mosely in Brisbane at Queensland College of Art (Q... Read More about Codex Event 8: An Australian and British Collaboration of pulp-printing, installation and artists’ books with Sarah Bodman, Paul Laidler, Tim Mosely, Monica Oppen and Tom Sowden 2011-2012.

Artists’ Books in Australia (2012)
Journal Article

Invited article for the Journal of Artists’ Books, JAB 31, USA, Spring 2012, pp 16-23

Six new writers for JAB make their debut in this issue including Thomas Kromann, Anthony Leslie, Sarah Bodman, Alastair Johnston, Sarah Bassnett, and Albert Coer... Read More about Artists’ Books in Australia.

The cutting edge of artist’s books (2011)
Digital Artefact

Sarah Bodman was interviewed by Michael Shirrefs, Feature Producer of ABC Radio Australia’s ‘Artworks’ programme, at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.
Most of us would have the notion that artists' books - that is 'books made by artists' -... Read More about The cutting edge of artist’s books.

Life, the universe and everything: Artists’ books which question our relationship with nature and the way we live (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Sarah Bodman for the Impact 7 Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

An exhibition of 28 artists’ books – placed on a shelf - which ask the viewers some questions about how we perceive, treat... Read More about Life, the universe and everything: Artists’ books which question our relationship with nature and the way we live.

Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artists making books often use photography as a means of recording a narrative of places or their travels, but what if they are documenting something that isn’t actually there at all? A few examples of the artists who inspired me to do the talk are:... Read More about Imaginary shadows: Fictional documentary photography in artists’ books.

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books (2011)
Other

Vol 6 No 1 October 2011
A themed issue on Books and Travel.
Essays:
Katie Herzog’s cycling librarians hold their ‘unconference’ on wheels;
Steven Daiber’s series of collaborative adventures with artists in Cuba on the making of Privacidad: Pri... Read More about The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books.

Artists' Book Yearbook 2012-2013 (2011)
Other

This edition includes: John Bently on books and community; Earle D. Swope’s extraordinary account of how he came to be a book artist; an update on the work of the collaborative artists’ group AMBruno; a study by Eileen O’Keefe of Sarah Jacobs’ thorou... Read More about Artists' Book Yearbook 2012-2013.

Just add water: The artists’ books collection at the Centre for Fine Print Research (2011)
Journal Article

Invited article for Central Booking Magazine, New York, September 2011, Vol II, issue 3, pp 6-7

From Fluxus to iPad: A very short history of artists' books (2011)
Journal Article

A journal article on the contemporary artist's book which has emerged gradually from the French livre de luxe tradition of the mid-19th century,where texts by authors – including the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–98) – were published in exqu... Read More about From Fluxus to iPad: A very short history of artists' books.

The World as Text (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman was the invited curator for THE WORLD AS TEXT, a summer reading room at The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, USA. A hybrid space designed to amplify connections between the action of reading and the activity of p... Read More about The World as Text.

Artists and librarians: making art in and out of books. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A conference paper given at The Artist in the Library, a symposium, University of East London, Docklands Campus, London, June 2011

Any street, anywhere (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited public lecture at the John Rylands Library, Unviersity of Manchester, on the Al-Mutanabbi Coalition and the impact of the worldwide response to the attack.

BABE – The third Bristol Artists Book Event (2011)
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden with the Arnolfini Bristol. Artists book event which showcased 100 artists, publishers and presses from the UK, France, Belgium, Russia, USA, Canada, South Korea and Spain with 5724 visitors.

Sarah Bodman (2011)
Book Chapter

Eight artists’ books by Bodman included by invitation by the curator Eileen Wallace, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. In the book Major Works by Leading Artists in a juried collection of showcased artists’ books as “pioneers in the fi... Read More about Sarah Bodman.

Correspondence, 9th International Artists’ Books Festival, Poland (2011)
Journal Article

Fully booked: An advance stock check of a cornucopia of artist’s book fairs from Manchester to Moscow (2011)
Journal Article

Future fantasteek! (2011)
Journal Article

Jackie Batey is celebrating the tenth issue of her artist's zine with a touring show in Europe and the USA writes Sarah Bodman.

Station to station (2011)
Journal Article

Follow-Ed is a touring exhibition of diverse yet related artists' books produced in tribute to American artist Ed Ruscha.

This one’s from the heart (2011)
Other

Introductory catalogue preface written by Sarah Bodman for the exhibition 'The Silent Scream: political and social comment in books by artists' at Monash University Library, Melbourne, Australia, 28/09/11- 25/11/11, published by Ant Press, Australia,... Read More about This one’s from the heart.

The al-Mutanabbi street coalition: Making a stand through print (2011)
Journal Article

Journal article published in the autumn 2011 issue of IMPRINT Magazine, the Print Council of Australia. Sarah Bodman is the UK and European curator of the exhibitions of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadsides Project, 2008- 2009 and 2010-2014. She is als... Read More about The al-Mutanabbi street coalition: Making a stand through print.

The hand printed page (2011)
Book Chapter

Invited catalogue essay, BITE – A new show of artists making prints, Mall Galleries, London, 24/08/11 – 03/09/11, pp 18-19

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.

Collaboration in Artists' books (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation given at “With a little help from our friends”: Collaboration and art libraries at Westminster Reference Library, December 2010

Libraries are increasingly looking beyond their doors to engage with outside partners in projects and eve... Read More about Collaboration in Artists' books.

Artists' books and the book arts (2010)
Journal Article

In this article Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow for Artists' Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), investigates what actually constitutes an artist's book in the 21st Century, published in Insight 2, Ace Foundation Newsletter, Dece... Read More about Artists' books and the book arts.

An inventory of Al-Mutanabbi street (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman invited Curator (Europe, The Middle East, and Asia) for An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street September 2010-September 2011. In 2008, Bodman was contacted by Beau Beausoleil of Overland Books in San Francisco, referred by Steve Woodall (Di... Read More about An inventory of Al-Mutanabbi street.

Artists' books, nature, landscape (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A themed talk of Collections and Observations of nature, Textscapes, Journeys through landscape, Working in the landscape, The politics of landscape, Altered books and nature, and A darker (then lighter) side of nature.

Artists' books creative production and marketing (2010)
Other

A guide for the book artist - in their role of producer, publisher and distributor of their own artwork, to discuss some of the practical issues arising from this. There is a more direct link between the artist and the buyer in the field of artists’... Read More about Artists' books creative production and marketing.

Book Arts Newsletter (2010)
Other

The Book Arts Newsletter is a 4-6 weekly newsletter edited by Sarah Bodman, published by the Centre for Fine Print Research. Issue 1 was published May - August 2002.

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books (2010)
Other

The Blue Notebook launched with Vol.1 No.1 in October 2006 as a peer reviewed journal, published twice a year. The journal is published in two formats: an electronic colour version to be accessed at any time online, and a paper, black and white versi... Read More about The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists' books.

The art of the book: journals then and now (2010)
Exhibition / Performance

An international traveling exhibition of artist book journals, diaries and letters. “The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now” is a collaborative project between the Department of Art and Art History at UMSL, the CFPR at the University of the West... Read More about The art of the book: journals then and now.

A Manifesto for the Book (2010)
Book

What will be the canon for the artist’s book in the 21st Century? In an arena that now includes both digital and traditionally produced artists’ books, what will constitute the concepts of artists’ publishing in the future?

This project was funded... Read More about A Manifesto for the Book.

Cahiers intempestifs #25 "Made in Britain" (2010)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman invited curator for two issues of Cahiers Intempestifs contemporary art review, for UK and EIRE feature editions, published Summer and Autumn 2010. Cahiers Intempestifs #25 "Made in Britain" features: John Dilnot, Stuart Mugridge, Paula... Read More about Cahiers intempestifs #25 "Made in Britain".

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.

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.

Artist's Book Yearbook: 2010-2011 (2009)
Book

Essays: An interview with Dmitry Sayenko on his hand-printed books and the state of book arts in Russia; An interview with L. Vandergrift Davala, discussing how interactive digital technologies can be used in the production of book works; Banu Cennet... Read More about Artist's Book Yearbook: 2010-2011.

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.

Les activités du Centre for Fine Print Research de Bristol in So Multiples revue française sur les éditions d'artistes contemporains (2009)
Journal Article

Bodman was invited by Océane Delleaux, Editor of the French language review So Multiples to contribute an essay on the activities she manages for artists’ books at the CFPR, as one of four essays for a special feature on artists’ books (September 200... Read More about Les activités du Centre for Fine Print Research de Bristol in So Multiples revue française sur les éditions d'artistes contemporains.

Artists’ books around the world in the 21st century (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the editor for CFPR book arts research publications on the historical and contemporary concepts of international artists’ books, exhibitions and events, such as the bi-annual Artist’s Book Yearbook, the Book Arts Newsletter (circ. 2027) and the Bl... Read More about Artists’ books around the world in the 21st century.

The cover of a book is the beginning of a journey (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

The exhibition curated by Bodman and Sowden presented a range of publications by artists including: Angela Bulloch, Sophie Calle, Don Celender, Douglas Huebler, Alison Knowles, Jonathan Monk, Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner. These books could all be pe... Read More about The cover of a book is the beginning of a journey.

BABE – Bristol Artist’s Book Event 2009 (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Co-hosted event organised by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden at CFPR and Peter Begen and Suzie Claiden at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. A two-day event showcasing 83 national and international artists, presses, colleges and publishers, exhibiting hundreds... Read More about BABE – Bristol Artist’s Book Event 2009.

Lady vengeance (2009)
Exhibition / Performance

Exhibition (solo)of artists’ books by Sarah Bodman
Retrospective of works 1994-2009
Venues:
23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, USA, 6 - 28 March 2009
Collins Memorial Library, Tacoma, Washington USA, 4th May - 1st June 2009

Public Presentation and Demonstrations, BuchDruckKunst (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A talk, and series of public demonstrations over 3 days by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden at the invitation of Jurgen Bönig, Director of the Museum der Arbeit, and Wibke and Stefan Bartowiak of Bartkowiak’s Forum Book Art - organisers of BuchDruckKunst.... Read More about Public Presentation and Demonstrations, BuchDruckKunst.

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.

The future of publishing (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden were invited by Tate Shaw, organiser of the event, to present research into the future of the contemporary artist’s book in the digital age from their AHRC funded project. In an arena including digital and traditional arti... Read More about The future of publishing.

The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books (2008)
Book Chapter

The introduction of this book outlines the historical relationship between art, design, and the book. There are illustrated transcripts of the four symposium speakers: Robert Bringhurst, Felipe Ehrenberg, Sarah Bodman, and Stefan Soltek, all devoted... Read More about The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books.

Artists’ books abroad (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presenting an overview of artist's book publishing in Europe and further afield: contemporary artists’ books, Internet publishing projects, altered books, performance books, and use of digital and traditional production methods.

The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist’s book (or, why do artists make books?) (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Invited paper at Books That Fly Conference, University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts and Architecture.

As today’s discussions are related to the concept of the ‘artist’s book’ in the show Blood on Paper -
The Art of the Book and Tom Lubbock’s revi... Read More about The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist’s book (or, why do artists make books?).

The artist’s book market, and the relationship between the artist and purchaser within this field (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah Bodman invited speaker for Symposium: Beyond the Book, Friday 18 April 2008, 10.30-17.00, Lecture Theatre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. A one-day symposium that accompanied the Blood on Paper exhibition. Topics included private presses... Read More about The artist’s book market, and the relationship between the artist and purchaser within this field.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2008 – 2009 (2007)
Book

In the 2008-2009 issue of the Artist’s Book Yearbook, we have new writers’ contributions from the UK, Mexico, France and the USA, and artists’ pages by contributors from the UK, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Chile and the USA.

Essays by: Colin Sackett,... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2008 – 2009.

Page on page – an overview of contemporary British and Irish artists’ books (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

There are many artists working with the book format in the UK and Ireland. Page on Page discusses some of the concepts and formats of contemporary, British and Irish artist’s book production, and some sources for further information on artists' books... Read More about Page on page – an overview of contemporary British and Irish artists’ books.

Focus on Artists' Books 3 (2006)
Other

Artist's Book Yearbook 2006-2007 (2005)
Book

The 2006-2007 ABYB includes essays by:
Betty Jo Irvine and Sylvia Turchyn: Women's Studio Workshop, USA; Clifton Meador: The Nameless Dead; Mike Nicholson: Story Life; Guy Begbie on the 1st International Korean Artist’s Book Fair; Mette Ambeck: Pap... Read More about Artist's Book Yearbook 2006-2007.

A critical survey of creative production in relation to the market potential of artists’ books (2005)
Other

Published results of a one-year AHRC supported survey project (30/05/04 – 30/05/05) to compare the different methods used by artists for creating and distributing their work; in order to offer advice to artists on how to market their work and build b... Read More about A critical survey of creative production in relation to the market potential of artists’ books.

A perpetual portfolio (2005)
Exhibition / Performance

The Catalogue for the Perpetual Portfolio Exhibition was released at the Museo Nacional Del Grabado, Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 2005. The publication includes all twenty-three prints produce during the CFPR digital residency programme of which e... Read More about A perpetual portfolio.

Creating artists' books (2005)
Book

Artist’s Book Yearbook: 2003-2005 (2003)
Book

The issue includes:
Reformations by Susan Johanknecht; Size Matters by Dr Stephen Bury (The British Library); Ron King and the Circle Press Retrospective at Yale Center for British Art, USA Elisabeth Fairman; Artist’s and their books in Germany (Ulr... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook: 2003-2005.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2001-2002 (2001)
Book

The Artists' Book Yearbook (ABYB) serves as a resource for artists, lecturers, students, collectors and researchers. The bi-annual publication includes essays and information on many aspects of the book arts, artists' listings, information on book ar... Read More about Artist’s Book Yearbook 2001-2002.

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.

Bookishness: An in-depth interrogation of the mystery of Loch Ness by the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau Rebooted 2017
Physical Artefact

“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.

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.

Do not enter
Physical Artefact

Unique pulp/screenprinted book on the theme the urban jungle, moving between smooth and striated space as defined by Deleuze and Guattari's explorations in their publication A Thousand Plateaus.

Found text from the city environs and the installati... Read More about Do not enter.

What do you want to make today
Book Chapter

Commissioned essay for the collaborative AHRC-funded project Transforming Artists’ Books, between Tate, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the British Library, July 2012.

http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/transf... Read More about What do you want to make today.

X exercises for Kurt Johannessen
Physical Artefact

Sarah Bodman made her first artist’s book tribute to Kurt Johannessen after Tanya Peixoto introduced her to his books at bookartbookshop.

She produced ‘An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen’ in 2010, in tribute to his book ‘Exercises’. The titles of th... Read More about X exercises for Kurt Johannessen.

The secrets of metahemeralism
Physical Artefact

An artist’s book, letterpress print and video launch on World Book Night 23rd April 2012, for our project in tribute to The Secret History by Donna Tartt. The annual collaboration organised by Nancy Campbell and Sarah Bodman to produce an artist’s bo... Read More about The secrets of metahemeralism.

Toast: A night on Weevil Lake
Physical Artefact

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.

Sons of the Sea Russia
Exhibition / Performance

Curated by Mikhail Pogarsky and Sarah Bodman. We depend upon time, we depend upon the seasons, we depend on the sea. Seasons change our mood, influence our art, that is why art also depends upon the sea. This project was an art-investigation of seas... Read More about Sons of the Sea Russia.

An exercise for Kurt Johannessen
Physical Artefact

Kurt Johannessen made his 'Exercises' book in 1994. He says:
“Here is a handbook of exercises that hardly anyone has tried. The format is small, which makes it easy to take the book everywhere and practise anywhere when needed. The book has been pri... Read More about An exercise for Kurt Johannessen.

Closure
Physical Artefact

An artist’s book about the end of a love affair between a flower arranger and a plane spotter. Made for ‘weloveyourbooks’ Closure exhibition, May 2009. Also shown in the exhibition DIY(Visits Chicago): Photographers and Books, September 18—December 7... Read More about Closure.

Ø - Cherry Blossom Island Tree
Physical Artefact

A collaborative artist’s book by Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden was exhibited at Doverodde Book Arts Festival, Doverodde, Denmark, Saturday 9th May 2009, with the production of the book en-route documented as a collaborative video work available to view... Read More about Ø - Cherry Blossom Island Tree.

How do I love thee?
Physical Artefact

Digital print and laser cut images and text, folding book in black hardback cover, edition of 20, October 2009.

A collaborative book; inspired by the Romantic poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43. An example of how far people in love will... Read More about How do I love thee?.

Arcadia Id Est: artists' books, nature and the landscape
Exhibition / Performance

Curation of a touring exhibition of 120 artists' books on the themes of nature and the landscape. Arcadia id est toured to 10 venues; Australia, Cyprus, The Netherlands, UK, Eire and USA, March 2005 to November 2007. Tour was launched with a talk by... Read More about Arcadia Id Est: artists' books, nature and the landscape.

Al-Mutanabbi Street broadsides project
Exhibition / Performance

Sarah Bodman was the UK coordinator for project with 130 letterpress printers, 2008- 2009 and the European Broadsides exhibition tour coordinator 2010-2014. In 2007, Beau Beausoleil's 'Call to Action for Letterpress Printers - Al-Mutanabbi Street B... Read More about Al-Mutanabbi Street broadsides project.

Postcards for Perec, complied and edited by Linda Parr
Exhibition / Performance

Inclusion of artworks in the exhibition publication: Postcards for Perec, Complied and edited by Linda Parr, Impact Press, Bristol, February 2022.

The publication brings together all 243 postcards produced by artists for the project. With a forew... Read More about Postcards for Perec, complied and edited by Linda Parr.

Artists' books as a physical site of practice
Presentation / Conference Contribution

If a post-literate society might also encompass new ways of thinking about reading, we could think of contemporary artists' books as a site of practice beyond that of McLuhan's signposting of the invention of moveable type as fundamentally responsibl... Read More about Artists' books as a physical site of practice.

Books of all stripes: Artists’ publishing in the 21st century
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sarah gave an invited lecture to an audience of 100 artists, academics, curators on 'Books of all stripes: Artists’ publishing in the 21st Century' on the 26 September 2011.

In this lecture, artists' books specialist Sarah Bodman presents contempo... Read More about Books of all stripes: Artists’ publishing in the 21st century.