Bonfire of Vanities - work in progress

Just back from dismantling this display of my cartoneras  and cartonera Dante's, with these quick sheets of first proofs for a new cartonera Bonfire of Vanities.... images based around Savonarola, Manegna's Virtus Combusta, more recent times with Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and Paul Klee's Angel of History - Angelus Novus

Hopefully this new cartonera will be ready in time to show and sell at the Linklater Pavilion on November 12th at the Railway and Trust's Green Christmas Fair 

-Sadly I forgot to take installation shots at Fitzroy House - juggling too many things at once as usual

 

ARTWAVE 2022 - my Open Studio weekends in Con Club Lewes BN7 1XS coming up in September

 

I shall be showing recent and older work of all kinds at 

Con Club, 139  High Street Lewes BN7 1XS,

(this is not the Conservative Club)

 weekends 11am - 5pm ....3-4 th, 10-11th, 17-18th September     venue 99 -  see brochure online

www.artwavefestival.org

...this jolly/macabre image from one of my older tarot packs seemed suitable for the brochure/poster but there are lots of new packs now based around the Wasteland theme - plus recent new Dante work, cartoneras, woodcut books of all kinds including more circus booklets, a new printing of The Untenanted Room - last numbers of the edition in progress ( a huge book)  and Oh My Sweet Little Wandering Soul...... ( a tiny one)....   bar and garden should be open from midday.....

some newer stuff below and previous books on older posts.....

Next Stop: Turn The Page Artists Book Fair Norwich Friday 27th Saturday 28th May

www.turnthepageabf.co.uk

Click the Link for details of this - one of my favourite book fairs - in the Atrium of the central library in central Norwich...lovely light airy space and always very high quality work in a beautiful city.

See post below for pictures and I will add more of any new work here before I set off..... 

New mini Circus Concertina book...... 12 images in this one plus title page, damp off the press....

Pics for AWG London Craft Week and Turn the Page Norwich fairs.....

Sets all packeted up in little folders and card packs backed with lovely handmade Himalayan papers....

Also

New little books ... now finished - Animula Vagula Blandula - Oh My Sweet Little Wandering Soul -  22 images to meditate upon, all backed and in little folders tied with red silk ribbon..... like Life after Life, a roller-coaster ride

 

London Craft Week at the ArtWorkers Guild

 Up next - I will be exhibiting at the ArtWorkers Guild 13-15 May and very much looking forward to it - do email me if you would like an invite to the PV on the friday evening - I hope you can read the details from these photos of the brochure...and look forward to seeing my London friends...

11-5 Saturday and Sunday 14 and 15 May - my email button should now be working - or leigh@artworkersguild.org

www.artworkersguild.org/theartofmaking2022   for details of talks, demonstrations and exhibition. Guided tours of the lovely building - a Grade 11 listed 18thc townhouse ( 12-1.30 at the weekend - book in advance)

 

 I will be showing all 5 now completed sets of 'tarot' cards as well as Dante 700 work, Pastoral,  and much else.....the sharp-sighted will see below now 2 sets of Blind Tiger circus cards....

BABE at Bristol

 Lovely to be in a big airy and working room - that is, a textile studio, and with lovely co-exhibitors and audience, a very enjoyable experience.....

New Fools For April Fools Day

 I have been updating my Fool Gets Sick tarot card pack.... have been trying to post up all day but the broadband has only just come back on..... top image includes some of the older ones, bottom image the new ones so far...

 I came back from Oxford exhausted and we had to sort out a new computer so all behind as usual but I hope to post up an Oxford fair stand image soon and post up about the next fair - BABE at UWE in Bristol ( please note not at Arnolfini this year).... it looks an exciting international group of stands this year and spacious new venue....          check out updates at 

Book Arts (uwe.ac.uk)

I will also update all my tarot packs as I do them - I have new ideas for the images and how to present them.....including a grand quadruple pack of all the Wasteland sets of Earth Air Fire and Water........see previous posts for rationale of this covid lockdown project......

I hope to have some sets to show and sell at BABE....

as well as Dante work , Ship of Fools etc 

BABE – Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Bower Ashton, UK

Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April 2022

11am – 5pm each day #BABEatBower