Exhibition Category: One-off Artists' Books

Books that exist as a single work of art

Autumn

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Marilyn Tippett Autumn 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Autumn Buy this book Book price £55 Post and packing £4 Insurance £2 Total inclusive price £61 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

Hope

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Marilyn Tippett Hope 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Hope Buy this book Book price £25 Post and packing £3 Total inclusive price £28 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

Traces

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Pat Hodson Traces 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Traces I am interested in how interference colour changes when it is overprinted with inkjet colour. I could not directly apply the colour to the paper then print over this as it is an acrylic based medium, and is water resistent when dry, so the liquid ink might pool and smear on the surface, so in advance of forming the paper collage for the pages, I prepared several sheets of layered abaca papers and painted the colour on to this, then used shapes cut from the different colours to incorporate into the collage. Each double page in the 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...

Glisten

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Pat Hodson Glisten 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Glisten 2 : A book and Box. 40 pages, translucent pages, collaged, pierced and punched; Covers of waxed collage, and exposed spine with featured thread work Size 17.3 x 13cm Brown wrapping paper as a base for the waxed or ‘encaustic’ collage on the surface of the box and book. For this technique, thin paper is laid down using hot wax and an iron. Shapes are built up, burnished and polished. They might be overlaid, etched or carved. The paper for the pages is made by pasting together two layers of very thin abaca tissue – a strong...

Magic House

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Paul Johnson Magic House 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Magic House The book is made from Waterford watercolour paper coloured with applied industrial textile dyes and with pen and ink line work. It is loosely based on ‘Beauty and the Beast’, an accordion book in a box pubished by Walker Books in 1983 and on 19th Century ‘novelty’ toy theatres. As the pages are joined by dovetail hinges they can all be detached and the order re-arranged. It is inspired by the manor houses illustrated in medieval books of hours and Kay Nielsen’s 1920s fairy tale children’s...

Tree House

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Paul Johnson Tree House 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Tree House A ninety-degree unique pop-up. As it is designed to be seen in the round, like sculpture, my aim was to make it pleasing from whatever angle it is viewed, including from above. The book is made from Waterford watercolour paper coloured with applied industrial textile dyes and additional pen and ink line work. As each part is a separate unit held together with paper dovetail joints, the whole form can be taken to pieces and rearranged. The sections move about more freely than if they were glued together and so by gently moving...

The Persistence of Life

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Frances Day The Persistence of Life The Persistence of Life I started to make a book based on the great mass extinctions in the history of the Earth. I decided on the format of a “border book” so that the tale of the extinctions is described on small pages in the centre, but the structure then opens up into a big picture, which shows the wheel of Evolution and our tiny place in the taxonomy of life. The images are manipulated from photographs taken at the volcanic geysers and sink holes in Yellowstone National Park although the colours there are so vivid I didn’t need to...

Fibonacci

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Frances Day Fibonacci 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Fibonacci After seeing a gif that described the motion of elements in the Fibonacci sequence as they describe a circle, I knew I had to make a book that did the same thing. This is a series of books from 1 cm square to 21 cm square, joined together in a manner that allows them to be moved to mimic the gif. Each book has a fold-out that contains an image that has been generated from two or more natural objects that display a Fibonacci sequence as a major characteristic: the largest is an overlay of hurricanes, and the smallest is a butterfly’s...

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...

Winged

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Antoinette Moorby Winged 22 Mar, 2022 10 May, 2022 Winged This was the first book I produced for The Bookband Art collaboration. I completed an online workshop with the London Drawing Centre on Matisse, looking at the way he used cut paper shapes to create art works. Following further research into his work I discovered his cut out and simplified bird shapes. I decided to take this idea and used different sizes and shapes of triangle to create my own birds. I wanted to incorporate movement into this book and so landed on the idea of pop-up and a flock of birds taking flight. The book...