PAGES Leeds International Contemporary Artists Book Fair

What goes down must come up, Lino print and pencil on card, 25cm x 60cm x 20cm. edition of 4, 2014

PAPER will be showing some of my recent and past bookworks at PAGES Leeds International Contemporary Artists Book Fair this Saturday 7th (11-6pm) and Sunday 8th March (11pm-4pm) at The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds.

For more information on the fair and exhibiting artists/galleries:

http://www.leedsartbookfair.com/portfolio/paper/

For information on visiting the fair:

http://www.leedsartbookfair.com/previous-years/2012-2/artist-book-fair-info/

Sluice Art Fair, New York

'the settlers', 2014, Screen-print on Fabriano, 8cm x 10cm

I will be showing a new screen print on Fabriano 'the settlers', 2014 at Sluice Art Fair, New York. Sadly, I won't be able to be there in person, but here are the details below:

Sluice Art Fair with PAPER

@ Schema Projects

92 St Nicholas Avenue

Brooklyn

New York, 11237

23rd-26th October 2014 11-6pm

More information here 

Snow in Summer at Peek-a-boo, Perth, Australia

I have a small screen-print (6 x7.5cm!) 'The Settlers', which will be in the exhibition 'Snow in Summer' at Peek-a-boo, Gotham Studios in Perth, Australia in August 2014.  The work is based on photographs the structures the colonial settlers built on arrival.  The show is being curated by PAPER being shipped off shortly down south.

Industry at Barnaby Festival

I am currently working towards a larger sculpture, for a a group exhibition 'Industry', with PAPER, as part of The Barnaby Festival in June.  Details below, further information to follow.

Industry (with PAPER), as part of The Barnaby Festival
Grovesnor Centre
Market Place, SK11 6AX
June 14th-29th 2014, 11am-4pm (closed Mon & Tues)
Information and Directions

Bookworks at Paper

I have produced two new bookworks, 'What goes down, must come up' and 'Sea-point' which are now available from Paper.  Both works were produced by oil based lino printing, and based on sea front architecture in South Africa.  For more information on these bookworks, visit this link.

'What goes down, must come up', 2014. Lino print and pencil on card. 25cm x 60cm x 20cm. Edition of 4.

'Sea-point', 2014.  Lino cut and pencil on card. 25cm x 18cm. Edition of 4

'Sea-point', 2014.  Lino cut and pencil on card. 25cm x 18cm. Edition of 4.

Manchester Artists Book Fair, 18th + 19th October 2013, Manchester School of Art

'Dantzic is falling down', Etching and chine colle on Fabriano

PAPER will be showing some of my artists books this coming weekend at The Manchester Artists Book Fair .

This year's fair will be held on Friday 18th (2pm-6pm) and Saturday 19th (11am-5pm) October 2013 and once again it will be in the Manchester School of Art's Holden Gallery.  There will be 40+ tables manned by suppliers, art publishers, illustrators and book artists, and filled with a tremendous range of all things book arts - risographed, screenprinted, relief printed, etched soft- and hard-backed books; zines and pamphlets; tiny letterpressed delights; posters printed using woodcuts; irresistible decorative papers and practical bone folders, needles, thread; beautifully folded and manipulated book sculptures, and much much more.  Every year there are old and new faces behind the stands, and while many visitors return time after time, there are always newcomers delighted to discover the exciting, fascinating and above all varied world of book arts. 

Admission for visitors to the fair is free.  

The fair is held at Manchester Metropolitan University's Holden Gallery, which is on their All Saints campus:

Holden Gallery
Cavendish Street
off Oxford Road
Manchester
M15 6BR

These are MMU's own very helpful travel instructions.

They are equally useful on local parking within walking distance. 

The Manchester Contemporary | PAPER | 26-29th September, Spinningfields, Manchester

PAPER will be showing some of my book works at The Manchester Contemporary, Spinningfields open from 26- 29th September 2013.  To find out more about the galleries and project spaces showing at the event, please click here.

To register for free tickets for the event, please visit The Manchester Contemporary site.

Cardboard Realities

Just a quick post of one of my favourite Photographer's Thomas Demand talking about his carefully constructed realities. I wish I had so many assistants to be able to build an installation so quickly as his set of the White House Office!