Exhibition Category: Accordion

Pockets for Women

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Marilyn Tippett Pockets for Women 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Pockets for Women Buy this book Book price £40 Post and packing £3 Insurance £2 Total inclusive price £45 Marilyn Tippett Artist Please note that clicking the PayPal button below will take you directly to a shopping cart on the PayPal site. You do not need a PayPal login and you can pay by any usually accepted method. Previous Book Next Book

The Alchemy of the Bog

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Joan Higgins The Alchemy of the Bog 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 This is a hand made book with original mono prints and text. The size is A5, when folded and it is a concertina structure. It is illustrated with prints depicting the layers of earth, which form the bog. The text describes the way in which trees are drawn down into the dark acid soil and the fossils and treasures which are enveloped in the damp earth over many centuries – skeletons, tools, even preserved butter. The cover of the book is a dark brown handmade paper, which has a rough texture, like crumbled earth and the...

Fragments

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Batool Showghi Fragments 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Fragments Exploring themes of cultural heritage, memory, identity and loss in very personal ways. Creating and constructing a family album based on my impressions from home and my town Ahvaz in Iran. Handmade artist’s book. Manipulated photographs, collage and other imagery with textile and stitching. Size: 15.5 x 21 x 1 cm. When opened 243 cm x 15.5 cm New Edition 1/10 Buy this book Book price £450 Post and packing £20 Insurance £10 Total inclusive price £480 Please note that clicking the PayPal button below will take you...

Walls and Surfaces

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Batool Showghi Walls and Surfaces 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Walls and Surfaces A handmade book made recreating walls & surfaces of my town Ahvaz after the war. My multidisciplinary approach to the artists’ book and other mixed media work involve photography, illustration, painting and textiles. All of which are employed to explore themes of cultural heritage, memory, identity and loss in very personal ways. Handmade artist’s book. Manipulated photographs, collage, printing and painting and other imagery with textiles and stitching. Size: 16 x 15.5 cm, when opened 203 cm x 16 x...

No Thing So Ordinary

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Frances Day No Thing So Ordinary 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 No Thing So Ordinary This book is inspired by a quotation from the physicist Lee Smolin and features digitally created images of ordinary things, such as water and magnetic fields, and highlights quotations from other scientists over the centuries who have found wonder, joy and inspiration from the study of such things. Printed on Bockingford watercolour paper, this book is bound with a piano hinge that disassembles to reveal a hidden internal structure and message. The hinge is a glass test tube, which is to be filled by the...

Dia de los Muertos

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Antoinette Moorby Dia de los Muertos 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Feliz dia de los Muertos My initial idea for this book was to create a shrine, but after several maquettes it developed into this cabinet. It tells the story of the Mexican festival of Day of the Dead, which takes place on the 1st and 2nd of November. Researching the subject took me back 3000 years to its origins in Pre-Colombian Mesoamerica and rituals of honouring the dead. Each of the four pages tells part of the story of Day of the Dead from its origins to present day celebrations. Page one is filled with cut paper Monarch...