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Sarah Bodman

@sarahbodman.bsky.social

📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚

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Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 4d ago

The American Bookbinders Museum Open now until December 26th, The Hand Bookbinders of California's 54th Annual Members' Exhibition. bookbindersmuseum.org Image via www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

BotCarrión @botcarrion.bsky.social · 16h ago

In the new art, poetry is not a case of words, here begins the new art of making books.

Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · yesterday

Librarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com

From the front and back cover of the booklet:

Public Librarians Discuss Zine Collections

We asked librarians at four public libraries to talk about their library’s zine collection. What advice can they share with zine makers that want to get their work into a public library, or librarians that want to start a collection at their library? Was it hard to convince others that zines are a resource that the library should collect? What collecting models did they follow? How did they build the collection?

Interviewees:

Tim Devin / Somerville Public Library
(Somerville, MA)
Angi Brzycki & Ziba Pérez /
Los Angeles Public Library
(Los Angeles, CA)
Alicia Tate / Multnomah County Library
(Portland, OR)
Alina Josan / The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 6d ago

Emily Larned's artist books and zines about feminist history, craft, care and more, produced by her imprint Adler & Frankia, are all beautiful and we just restocked a bunch of them. Check out her work here: halfletterpress.com/search.php?s...

A Witch Recipe for Grievers by Selma Miriam, published by Adler & Frank

Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · last wk.

'On the road'. Just 18 copies left of the 1st edition of 200. www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-s...

Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own. Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop.” Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass #indigenouswisdom #zine

The following quote, from indigenous teacher Robin Wall Kimmerer, is collaged, zine style in a typewriter style font onto a background of printed green, yellow and orange leaves

“Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own.
Listening, standing witness, creates an openness to the world in which the boundaries between us can dissolve in a raindrop.”

The quote is taken from her book Braiding Sweetgrass

Library Juice Connections @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social · 3w ago

New Recording Available! Des Alaniz, @violetbfox.bsky.social & @salem-zine-witch.bsky.social talk about #zines, #librarianship and the overlap of the two. (Also: plenty of tee-shirt slogan ideas and creative chicanery) libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/zines...

Recording Now Available: Zinesters as Librarians, Librarians as Zinesters

Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · last wk.

Book Fair Calendar is a list of UK anarchist, book art, indie, small press, zine and other fairs. In September alone, ten will take place in Eastbourne and Reading (both this Saturday 12), and in London. smallpublishersfair.co.uk/book-fair-ca...

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · last wk.

An exhibition celebrating Coracle press - directed by Erica Van Horn & Simon Cutts, opens at South Tipperary Arts Centre 12/09/26 on show until 24/10/26. Explore Coracle's influence on artist-led-publishing, the development of the artist book, & the book as art object. www.southtippartscentre.ie

A green cloth bound book with text that reads: 'coracle, celebrating the work of Erica Van Horn and Simon Cutts, 12 Sept - 24 Oct.'

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · last wk.

Upcoming launches - the first one at the Hunterian in Glasgow on 17 September - for this wonderful book 'A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan's Selected Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry' by @essencepress.bsky.social and @gregchthomas.bsky.social published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Julie Johnstone@essencepress.bsky.social · last wk.

Other events are listed here on the @edmorgantrust.bsky.social website edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · last wk.

Our MA Print & PhD alum Dr Lisa Sheppy has a one-person exhibition - and residency - developed from her doctoral research here, at the Museum of Royal Worcester 'Lisa Sheppy: Ornament Unbound: Tissue Transferware Reframed' 10 Sept 2026 – 21 Feb 2027. www.museumofroyalworcester.org/whats-on/orn...

Ornament Unbound: Tissue Transferware Reframed | Museum of Royal Worcester

Re-discover the art and design of Worcester Porcelain through the lens of contemporary print and ceramic artist Lisa Sheppy. Working from the perspective of an 18th Century engraver, Lisa brings the h...

museumofroyalworcester.org

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · last wk.

"For two years of lockdowns, my partner and I walked Sheffield's Rivelin Valley at dawn. Moss. Herons. Froglets. Treecreepers. Those walks became three poetry pamphlets and a way of paying attention again." Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg Published today longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three pamphlets by Matthew Clegg - Eyes Front, Crystals & Dust, The Living - arranged on a garden table.

Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 2w ago

Recently landed, two recent Q&As with RMIT School of Art students on Marginalia: A couple of questions(for Genevieve Margeaux) www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/qu... and “Practice any art… to make your soul grow” (for Sam Pattinson) www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/qu...

A couple of questions — Marginalia

In seeing the world through or at least trying to see the world through another species’ eyes, new visuals emerge and a new sense of what the world can be as well. In working with animals, through our...

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 2w ago

What can you find inside John Berger’s archive? In this short video, writer Tom Overton and curator Helen Melody explore the archive, from manuscripts and correspondence to some unexpected treasures See the display in our Entrance Hall and discover more in our blog www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 2w ago

An exhibition here of artists' books by Jackie Chettur: Adaptations of classic novels using rules and constraints to reveal a single theme: 'Ethan Frome', 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'Good Morning, Midnight', 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' & 'Tess of the d’Urbervilles'. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/jackiechettur/

Detail from an artist's book by Jackie Chettur, part of an exhibition. A classic copy of the novel Ethan Frome has been subtly altered by gold foiling a short piece of text from the novel onto the cover. This one is a red clothbound book with additional text that says: 'Ethan heard a tap on'. There is also a diagram of the layout of the upstairs of the house showing a simple plan of two bedrooms and stairs.

Detail from an artist's book by Jackie Chettur, part of an exhibition. A classic copy of the novel Ethan Frome has been subtly altered by silver foiling a short piece of text from the novel onto the cover. This one is a heavy green clothbound book plus a hardbound green slipcase, with additional text that says: 'you must have seen Ethan Frome'.

A display of artists' books by Jackie Chettur in the library cases. With versions of and text pieces responding to Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight, Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/k...

Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

A well spent hour with Richard Tuttle. shows.acast.com/a-brush-with...

A brush with... Richard Tuttle | A brush with...

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Book Arts Newsletter No 174, September – October 2026 is available for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 58 pages of exhibitions, courses, lectures, opportunities, fairs and events, new artists' books, reports & reviews, and stop press! Cover artist: @paullaidler.bsky.social

Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 3w ago

Leer, Germany. November 20, 2025 From my new zine, ‘Fragments’.

Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · 3w ago

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

campaignforthearts.org

Greg Thomas (he/him)@gregchthomas.bsky.social · last mo.

Launch events! edwinmorgantrust.com/2026/08/10/a...

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books Volume 21 No 1 Autumn – Winter 2026 is out now. Intro: Tim Mosely. Essays: Jorge Mariño Brito, Lyn Ashby, Annique Goldenberg, Julie Barratt & Monica Oppen, Clyde McGill, Marian Crawford. Download your free copy at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/

Jorge Mariño Brito on ‘Stratopulp: Sequential Layering and Bidirectional Imagery in Contemporary Artists’ Books and Papermaking’. Image: Artist using a needle-tip bottle for fine linear elements on a very large paper pulp screen for pritning. Photo: Jorge Mariño Brito.

‘The Weight of Absence’ (2017–2024). Participants: Monica Oppen, Anne Twigg, Julie Barratt, shows a box with dividers holding mail art sent between participants. Photo: Gerrit Fokkema.

WELL 2023, Marian Crawford, 15 x 21 x 0.4cm, edition of 8, relief prints and letterpress. The diagnosis, treatment and progress of an illness are juxtaposed with less scientific methods of predicting the future, in text interspersed with the static of a single repeated image. Oh Well, what can I say …. Photo: Tim Gresham.

Documents of Peace, by Clyde McGill. One of the artist's large-scale book pieces, abstract painted elements are held together in a collage of painting, drawing, writing on paper, board, canvas and wood. Photo: Clyde McGill.

Book Covers @bookcoverlove.bsky.social · 3w ago

@bookcoverlove.bsky.social @natlibscot.bsky.social Designer Bookbinders UK The "Festival Bindings" exhibition continues at the National Library of Scotland until Saturday. designerbookbinders.org.uk/designer-boo...

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 3w ago

A few pieces from our new exhibition inspired by and using processes created by @tothemadpoets.bsky.social to 'read' books differently. More info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howweread/ You can also listen to Marian Kilpatrick reading from her ‘Carrot Shield’ at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdWV...

Marian Crawford 'reads' the Oxford English Dictionary by taking a rubbing of its covers in white chalk on black paper. Photo by Marian Kilpatrick.

Marian Kilpatrick invented a 'carrot shield' to block out images of meat from recipe books of her childhood. Images of paper cut out carrots can be placed over any other materials. Photo by Marian Kilpatrick.

Sarah Bodman used the shape of a pair of china figurines holding hands to 'read' a short story from 'Three Moments of an Explosion' by China Miéville. A piece of card with a cut out silhouette of their arms was used as the reading template. Photo: Marian Kilpatrick.

David Dellafiora used a shower head to select text by Plato to make a poem. The image shows the original book marked where the water fell to make the reading. Photo by Marian Kilpatrick.

British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 4w ago

Not all fairy tale heroines need rescuing ✨ From Madame d’Aulnoy, to the women whose stories shaped the Brothers Grimm’s collections, women writers and storytellers have had a huge influence on the genre Read all about the incredible women behind your favourites www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Not just damsels in distress: women writers and fairy tales

We celebrate five female writers who have had a lasting impact on the fairy tale genre.

bl.uk

NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is not a drill... Mobile Library driver wanted in Somerset: www.jobsgopublic.com/job/mobile-l... #lisJobs #Library #Job

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Some more pics from our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue', on show until Tues 1st Sept. Open Mon-Fri 9-5 (new date of closure for building works 28-29 Aug). An exhibition observing flora, woodlands, wildlife, skies, marshes, islands… www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/lookingfor20...

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue': this one is called Flower Talk by Catherine Cronin. Inside a whit paper box is a par flower on a background of red textural paper, with red text printed on each petal for example 'Beauty Is'.

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue': At the front is Vegetable Guidance by Corinne Welch with top tips on vegetables, Les Pins by Bernard Lassus shows photos of bark of the pines in the Forte de la Courbre, on the French Atlantic coast. In the background an abstract landscape book by Stephen LeWinter with etched earth lines of yellow and brown and above the blues and greens of land and sky.

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue': this zine by Lisa Davies shows a drawing of a friendly witch going on a hiking trip where she will camp in the mountains.

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue': Left is Wild Wood by Helen Douglas, a photographic work of a walk through the woods on the Scottish borders, on the right, the Ley of the Land by Sara Lee is a concertina book showing photographic images from a walk across fields in the British countryside. In the middle, a tiny book looking up at clouds in a blue sky by Ton Martens.

Stephanie Kimbro Dolin @firstbitepress.bsky.social · last mo.

Announcing a handmade, limited edition book, Babylon Songs. Handprinted poetry prints, bookmarks, & broadsides range from $5 to $350. Please consider supporting the Press & this book. For launch notification: https://ow.ly/wjha50ZzBIr #LimitedEdition #Handmade #books #letterpress #kickstarter

Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · last mo.

Some pics of the 2nd display of our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue', on show until Tues 1st Sept. Open Mon-Fri 9-5 (closed for building works 21-22 Aug). An exhibition observing flora, woodlands, wildlife, skies, marshes, islands… www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/lookingfor20...

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue': images show traffic mirrors in front of cherry blossoms, a picture puzzle book and an object poem by Greg Thomas GREENISLAND LANDISGREEN a green cast rectangular planter.

Artists' books in summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue', showing a piece called North Uist September 2nd to 15th, by Laurie Clark (2000) a series of booklets with a daily flower drawing, each inside a folded cover which all sit in a slipcase.

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue', The Isle of Skye by Daniel Lehan has collages of old china pieces, in the background a walking based work by Stuart Mugridge and a World Book Night keepsake from 2021 - a folded yellow pamphlet with a wood engraving of flowers in black on a pale green background.

Artists' books in our summer exhibition 'Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue', TARMAC is a small poetry booklet by Jeremy Dixon with a hand collaged cover of a peak district postcard, beside it is a folded etching abstract landscape in greens and earth yellows and browns.

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us next month for the rescheduled launch of 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 30 September Upstairs at Shakespeare's, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...

Flyer promoting the launch of 'The Gleaning' by Fay Musselwhite in Sheffield on Wednesday 30 September