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| Angie Butler in Droit House. |
I was able to go to a series of very good talks about artists books held in Droit House and part of the Pushing print festival in Margate.
Angie Butler gave the first talk I went to and she spoke about a wide range of artists producing books often in collaboration with others and had a great selection of artists books for us to handle and illustrate her talk.
Angie talked about John Bentley and the Liver and Lights Scriptorium, website here.
I enjoyed hearing about his project Liver & Lights No 43. The People.
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| John Bentley's cards from The People. |
Where John made work, portraits of people who had shared his life in someway and people for whom he could recall an anecdote. Inspired by pre-war cigarette cards he produced a set of collectible cards.
Angie had a set of his cards that we could handle and I followed up by looking at his work on the Liver&Lights website.
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| Book by Andi Mc Garry. |
Another artist I followed up after Angie talked about his work was Andi McGarry and the Sun, Moon and Stars press. Andi hand paints his books and they retain a very free expressive and colourful sense . He and John Bentley made a video together talking about each other and their work. Video here
Angie also talked a bit about some of her own projects including Your Place/My Place, with Philippa Wood
A project where she exchanged pictures, info and text about her home with Philippa Wood.
This lead to a book being produced and blogs about the project.
From her blog site Angie writes that the project is "An online 'tour' of our own houses, and an accompanying artist's book that focuses on an intimate selection of the tour. We hope that by acknowledging the past, discussing the present and investing in the future we not only develop our own relationship, but aim to raise an awareness of how we are connected to the places where we live, and to understand the psychology that underpins our furnishings, decor and household adornments. Our conversations are shown in the comments boxes." Blog here
Well worth looking at.
Another of Angie's projects I really enjoyed hearing about was her "Another Old Lady".
This project lead to a book that celebrated Angie's love of typography and letterpress. I loved the inventiveness of her fish and chip inspired book.
Angie writes in her blog
" As we have all been working with given titles from Sarah Bodman's artists book, "An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen', I wanted to uphold the admiration for another's work, and I remembered a text from Andrew Wilson's book, Text Messages', a book of 100 text message poems, No.88 Old Lady Eating A Fish"
Angie's blog about this project is here
I came away reinspired to engage with some of my own artists books left unfinished and with some new ideas.
This lead to a book being produced and blogs about the project.
From her blog site Angie writes that the project is "An online 'tour' of our own houses, and an accompanying artist's book that focuses on an intimate selection of the tour. We hope that by acknowledging the past, discussing the present and investing in the future we not only develop our own relationship, but aim to raise an awareness of how we are connected to the places where we live, and to understand the psychology that underpins our furnishings, decor and household adornments. Our conversations are shown in the comments boxes." Blog here
Well worth looking at.
Another of Angie's projects I really enjoyed hearing about was her "Another Old Lady".
This project lead to a book that celebrated Angie's love of typography and letterpress. I loved the inventiveness of her fish and chip inspired book.
Angie writes in her blog
" As we have all been working with given titles from Sarah Bodman's artists book, "An Exercise for Kurt Johannessen', I wanted to uphold the admiration for another's work, and I remembered a text from Andrew Wilson's book, Text Messages', a book of 100 text message poems, No.88 Old Lady Eating A Fish"
Angie's blog about this project is here
I came away reinspired to engage with some of my own artists books left unfinished and with some new ideas.
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