LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

The fair was great fun as usual - thank you to everyone who came and talked to me, great to see old friends and meet new ones.
Here's my stand....
and here is the whole stand with Peter Chasseaud's work too....


Dmitry Sayenko's work looked wonderful as usual, he was sharing with Valeria Brancaforte, I really enjoyed meeting her too.
Her website and blog have wonderful images with hand cut lettering...
http://valeriabrancaforte.blogspot.com
http://www.valeriabrancaforte.com


Altogether a good experience ...but exhausting.....
even the woodpecker got tired

my photo of Mark Cockram's 'buried and resurrected book in a birdcage' which I loved.

London Art Book fair - Whitechapel

NEXT WEEK

....I shall be at the Whitechapel London Art Book Fair- I can't upload the image and invite but you can e-mail me for one if you haven't already received one - don't forget to RSVP to the Whitechapel.
Otherwise I look forward to seeing people on the open days friday to sunday, times below.....



THE LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

THE DIRECTOR AND TRUSTEES OF
THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY INVITE YOU TO A SPECIAL
PREVIEW OF THE LONDON ART BOOK FAIR

PREVIEW
THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2011, 6–9PM

FAIR
FRIDAY 23 UNTIL SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2011
11AM–6PM ADMISSION FREE

RSVP BY 19 SEPTEMBER 2011
E: BOOKFAIRPREVIEW@WHITECHAPELGALLERY.ORG
T: +44 (0)20 7539 3316



The London Art Book Fair
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
T +44 (0)20 7522 7888
F +44 (0)20 7377 1685
thelondonartbookfair.com

Linklater Pavilion Print Show

Lewes Printmakers - my printmaking group - had a really good weekend last week in our opening weekend in Lewes ArtWave, in the lovely new Linklater Pavilion.
We must have had around 500 visitors, saturday was non-stop busy, so I gave up counting and there was not much of a lull even on the rainy sunday. I was up there early on sunday morning to watch the results of the moth hunt and capture from the night before with my young nephew - fascinating, some really delicate beauties.
We have a lot of good wildlife images in the show and our next book is going to be about the river and its ecology, the Railway Land and the Pavilion.
But we also have a good variety of other images which we have been selling off the walls.

Next weekend is the last weekend to get along - we'll be opening at 10 as there are other events happening on the site as well so should be a good weekend and the forecast is for the sun to shine.

You can see some images by clicking onto our Lewes Printmakers website
http://paddockprints.wordpress.com

I just found the article by The Argus newspaper about the festival and found some 'comments' by myself from a telephone conversation with a reporter who rang me up ( I do wish they wouldn't use quote marks - but it more or less gives a rough impression of what I tried to say...)which echo the comment of the organiser Angie Osborne "...who suggests it is this interaction between differing artists that sees the festival grow in popularity each year.

“We attract some people who are completely professional and who earn a good living from their work. By taking part they support other artists,” she says.

“They’ll be in an open house with people who have maybe only just started, so it comes full-circle. It’s a really good mix and it’s not ego based. It’s about getting good, diverse, across-the-board creativity.”

Some venues also offer visitors the chanceto peek behind the curtain and see the processes involved in the creation of artworks and exhibited pieces.

The Lewes Printmakers, formerly the Paddock Printmakers, based in the Linklater Pavilion, is one such space.

“Our group is geared toward people who make prints about Lewes. We sell those prints and also demonstrate how they are done, using wood, lino and other recycled materials such as cardboard, packaging and junk,” explains Carolyn Trant, one of a number of artists involved in the collective.

“The group are all-comers – some are incredibly professional, while some have only been doing it for a short time. This isn’t posh art for posh people, it’s very good art for everybody. We’re making it accessible to allow people to see and understand how it is done.”

We don't just make prints about Lewes but that is a good basis for our communal projects which give an inspiration support for those who are at more of a loss as to where to begin and inspire others to try things they may not attempt otherwise and surprise themselves.

We have had a nice tweet from the organisation below which we are grateful for - I've just checked out their site and they sound really interesting...
http://www.doubleelephant.org.uk

NEW SHOW AT TOM PAINE PRINTING PRESS

Last night was the opening of Lewes ArtWave and we had a private view for our wonderful new show of Jonny Hannah's work and some letterpress work by John from Flowers and Fleurons
www.flowersandfleurons.com

Here is a quick round up of photos





This is the hardcore at the end of the show - some of the Lewes Printmakers group.
Previously we were spilling out onto the pavement as the sun finally shone.




There is a real cornucopia of brilliant stuff, propped, hanging from washing lines and framed on the walls and a great range of prices from posters at £2-5 and original drawings at £20 up to painted wooden panels and handpaintedframed work maximum £450 - come and be amazed.







Jonny and Peter Chasseaud, proprietor, discuss some last minute details.



Tom Paine would approve.







Don't forget Lewes Printmakers show next weekend at the Linklater Pavilion - we are the very first entry in the ArtWave brochure - poster for that to follow shortly ....
and photos next weekend....

SUMMER NEWS

The above are images from the ABA Olympia book fair back in june? seems a while ago......

I keep putting this off because I don’t know where to start…..so I will try and be really factual.
The Untenanted Room is well on its way in the world – below is a list of events it is going to be, or has been, featured at:

The Untenanted Room by James Simpson and Carolyn Trant will be featured in some form or other at the following events.

15th May 2011 The Mayfield Fringe Festival - Poetry Life's Song, Agenda Poetry Reading featuring Stephen O'Brien, Tim Murdoch and James Simpson. The Middle House Pub, High Street, Mayfield.

9th June 2011 The Needlewriters Lewes, The Needlemakers, West Street Lewes.

23rd - 25th September 2011 The London Art Bookfair, Whitechapel.

12th October 2011 Our Common Ground - Poetry Reading Celebrating the Countryside and Farming. The Cheltenham Literary Festival.

22nd October 2011 Poetry and Print Around the Block. Pushing Print 2011, Margate.

30th October 2011 Poetry and Nature: an evening of poetry inspired by the Sussex
landscape and beyond. The Linklater Pavilion, Lewes.

4th - 5th November 2011 Oxford Fine Press Bookfair, Oxford.

James Simpson’s new websites are
www.actaeonpress.wordpress.com
www.jamessimpsonactaeon.wordpress.com

They will lead you to the Agenda Poetry one as well…
There will be more events to be added soon and it will be great for James to be reading at the Cheltenham Festival – I had a lovely time when I was there a few years ago…

Peter and I went to the Brighton Illustrators Group summer party last week and they are going to put some stuff up on their website as well; they invited us along as we had given them a talk about our artists books last winter, they are a really lovely group
http://brightonillustrators.co.uk


Giving a talk in Margate should be fun – I have been wanting an excuse to go over and see the new gallery and the shell grotto and poke about the town.
It is billed as
Who Killed Cock Robin
Carolyn Trant
15th October, 2 - 3pm
Presentation from Carolyn Trant showing handcut texts and discussing collaborations with poets.
In the morning Phil Abel will be giving a talk too
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Phil Abel
11am on Sat October 15th
A talk by Phil Abel from Hand and Eye Letterpress on their print process

http://pushingprint.co.uk

The next big event will be exhibiting at the
Whitechapel, London Art Book Fair 23rd – 25th september
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Check out their site and click on the link – more information should start going up soon.

Sadly that means I will be missing the launch of Nancy Campbell ‘s book
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At the Poetry Society Café in Betterton Street
(though I don’t think the promised arctic delicacies would be very vegetarian from what she told me about her residency in Greenland) Nancy’s blog is
http://nancycampbelle.blogspot.com
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Before then my printmaking group will be exhibiting in Lewes Artwave Visual Arts Festival
www.artwavefestival.org
The first two weekends in September 11am -5pm at the Linklater Pavilion.
Now renamed as Lewes Printmakers, things are going really well at the Linklater where we have been made exceptionally welcome. We are all really happy there , sharing a room with the bees behind their glass partition , and listening to the river sploshing over the stones at low tide in the summer evenings. It is a lovely place to be with inspiration for our next Lewes book all round us – we’ll aim to have one out for next year – this Artwave we will start selling a 2012 calendar from Around the Block – the Gideon Mantell book we did last year.

I will also be exhibiting a couple of my books in Falmer village hall , by kind invitation of Sue Barnes – the ArtWave exhibition there is always well worth a look, jolly good work and it is such a lovely spot.

Then in November, weekend of 5/6th
I shall have a stand at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair at Oxford Brookes University
www.fpba.com/fairs/oxford

I have been finishing a book for a Book Art project in Lausanne for an exhibition in November called Mode de Vie Journal
Website: Art&Fiction Editions d’Artistes – Le Blog - if your French is good – mine isn’t, which is rather feature of the book I’ve prepared using all 115 titles of the first Mode de Vie as my text and a lot of photographic images I took in the street in Paris back in the spring.
Watch this space for dates and place of the exhibition in Geneva.


And I have also been finishing designs for the outside walls of the new County Archive building, The Keep, between Lewes and Brighton – due for completion in 2013; five large panels of etched concrete, a really exciting new technology, on a scale well outside my comfort zone and a somewhat unknown quantity and all the more exciting for that. I keep thinking about Peggy (Angus ) and her ‘Anguside’ glass panels for Gatwick Airport and think how excited she would have been about this development.

I feel I shouldn’t post many images of the last two events until they have taken place...maybe a long wait for the etched concrete one though my bit may be up next year well before the building is open.

Not many images at all here, apart from those from the ABA Fair at Olympia at the beginning, but I really do intend to set up a proper website soon with easily accessed images from all my books; it really is on my to-do list…….

Along with several more books to finish…...

apologies for a few gremlins that keep creeping into this that I can't seem to erase - I hope it sort of makes sense.....

London Antiquarian Book Fair

I'll be exhibiting Downstairs again - if you haven't had an e invitation from me e-mail me for one or print off the one above if you can and fill in your details.