BABE at the Arnolfini, Bristol

BABE 2013: Bristol Artists Book Event

Saturday 20 April 2013 to Sunday 21 April 2013, 11:00 to 17:00

Free →

BABE is back and bigger than ever for 2013. Spread over 3 floors more than 80 artist bookmakers, dealers and small presses from Bristol and around the world will come together at Arnolfini to show and sell their work.

With: Karoline Rerrie , Mandy Brannan, Elizabeth Willow, Ensixteen Editions, p’s & q’s Press, Alex Pritchard, whnicPRESS, Essence Press, Pet Galerie Press, Daily Twit, Moon & Stars Press Andi McGarry/Sun, LemonMelon, Katriona Chapman (Tomatito Press), Karen Joyce, Caseroom Press, Robert Ridley-Shackleton, Charlotte Hall/Eccentric Horace, Café Royal Books, Mark Pawson, Index Press, Jill Carter, Battenburg Press , The Sidney Nolan Trust book artists, Cally Barker, Otto, M COLLECTIVE, Edition MailWorks@Bruxelles, Coffee Club Collective, Ambeck Design, Artistsbooksonline.com , Maddy Pethick, Ros Blackmore/covet & whistle, Revolve:R, reassemble, Benedict Phillips , Charlotte Vallance Illustration & Design, Liver & Lights: Another Manifesto, Impact Press, Carolyn Trant - Parvenu Press, Ciara Healy, MBAG, Drawing & Image Making UCLan, Redfoxpress & Antic Ham, Sarah Bryant, Atlantic Press, KALEID editions, Bristol ABC - Artists' Books Club at UWE, Jane Cradock-Watson, UWE Bristol Graphic Design Department, LOAf, AMBruno: Books in dialogue., Umbrella, HGmakes BABE provides a relaxed and friendly space to meet and chat to artists about their work and buy works of art. Prices start from just a few pounds. Across the weekend there will be a number of performances, interventions and informal talks. Open until 6pm on Saturday and 5pm on Sunday.
For pre-bookable Workshops and Book Surgeries, please call Arnolfini Box Office on 0117 917 2300.

I will be exhibiting here as usual at the weekend ; I'm late posting due to a nasty two week virus...

...which also stopped me making another Boccaccio book for the fair, but I have put some pictures up anyway - the first one will be exhibited at the Rylands Library in Manchester in July as part of the exhibitions and conferences to celebrate the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio's birth this year.

  
Caccia di Diana - Diana's Hunt, was Boccaccio's first book written around 1333-4 when he was about 20 years old.
It is quite playful and related to stories by Ovid; I was attracted by the mysterious figure of the stag, who, unlike Actaeon, survives, and his 'lady', not named but probably 'Fiametta', little flame.
The plot is thus - the narrator sees the goddess Diana bathing and sends her nymphs out to the four quarters of the world to hunt roebuck, boar, lion and unicorn. Then a posse of Neapolitan noblewomen rush in to hunt, crashing through the woods chasing and killing all manner of beasts including a family of snakes. On the advice of a mysterious 'fair lady' they pile their trophies on a sacrificial fire dedicated to Venus, from which they spring transformed into beautiful young men, who running through a river emerge mantled in vermillion.
As a final twist the narrator, who we now learn was actually a stag all along, is similarly transformed and offered to the 'fairest lady'.

I shall have lots of other little books...hope to see you there........see more on www.arnolfini.org.uk

Two weeks later I will be at Turn the Page in Norwich - see details under NEWS on my website
www.carolyntrant.co.uk

Celebrating the Imagination - The Gist

The Latest News is that I will be speaking with James Simpson about our creative collaborations, as part of this 2 day event in Frome, Somerset,  - an unexpected addition to our series of talks about The Untenanted Room.
This sounds a lovely event with wonderful contributors and I am much looking forward to it.

find out more about it here
www.rooklanearts.org.uk

our talk - The Untenanted Room - shared imagination
will be at 11.15am
Saturday 16th March

I am also really looking forward to a talk by Jackie Morris on the previous thursday night 13th March - she is a wonderful illustrator.

Don't forget my website is now live on
www.carolyntrant.co.uk

More about the Somerset event when I return.

After CODEX

I feel a little at this angle after the long flight, but amazing to look down on the less inhabited places of the world, and particularly exciting to fly back through the Northern Lights - wow.
Thank you to Dmitry for this picture and the next couple - it was great to meet more of the Russian contingent.

The fair was dauntingly huge - 180 stands this year and far too little time for the exhibitors to get round and see everything, especially as our customers arrived on the bus with us too, but it was a really beautiful building and in a stunning position too - an old Ford factory on the edge of the Bay at Craneway, Richmond.
Amazing light and magic to see ships suddenly sailing majestically past the windows; and the sun shone in a blue sky every day of our trip - just a slight seafog rising up for a time on one day.

There was a huge number of visitors every day despite the off the track location, both locals and collectors and librarians from all over the States - they even managed to fly out from the blizzarded East Coast by a variety of circuitous means ( the fair is timed as a February treat for the East Coasters, who are also en route to the San Francisco Antiquarian Book Fair ).....
quite a challenge attracting attention among so many!

But even the dogs seemed to be ardent booklovers...

We also enjoyed meeting some of the USA contributors to the Al Mutannabbi street project, and the inspirational Beau Soleil who started it, at an inaugural exhibition of some of the books  from it at the new premises for the San Francisco Centre for the Book - many thanks for the hospitality and meal to Sas Coleby and all the staff there.
read about the project on the link here
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mutanmain12.htm
and you can see my books for the project on my website
www.carolyntrant.co.uk

The Website is Now Live!

The website is now live! 

www.carolyntrant.co.uk

Some spaces are still blank but will be added to as the week progresses or in due course.

Here are some fliers 

with images of recent books -PLEASE SEE PREVIOUS POST ABOUT CODEX Book Fair.

Next Stop CODEX California

If you have found this site through the CODEX exhibitor list, Welcome to my blog; a proper website is under construction and will be ready by the start of the Fair next week hopefully….meanwhile…

I am very much looking forward to a visit to the USA, first time West Coast;

many of my books have been sold all over the States ( last one I know of was Who Killed Cock Robin to the Library of Congress last autumn ) and to meeting collectors, curators and other book artists and making new contacts – please do come and talk to me and see what I do.

I am also looking forward to meeting up with others who have made books for the Al Mutannabi Street project and meeting Beau and seeing the exhibition at the San Francisco Centre for the Book.

A website will make it easier to see the books I am thinking of bringing…but you can’t beat seeing the real thing and smelling the ink, let alone the popping up…

Who Killed Cock Robin, plus a new pop-up version….

and my last copy of Lorca’s Sonnets of Dark Love –

(see images below in previous post ….)

And Other Fairy Tales – a woodcut book, plus a small carrousel version

and The Untenanted Room....and maybe more

My blog covers a variety of purposes but if you can bear to keep scrolling through the archive you will find a lot of images of previous work plus a large installation – the Falcon Bride.

The Tom Paine Printing Press shop is my husband’s shop – he will be exhibiting too as

Peter Chasseaud – Altazimuth Press.

If you have visited this site through the Works on Paper Fair site – I very much look forward to seeing you at my talk at the Science Museum as part of this fair on Friday 1^st Feb at 3pm – see below.

If you want a ticket to the Fair send me an e-mail  and I will forward an e-mail one

New Year New Events

TALK CANCELLED FOR TODAY 18th jan  DUE TO SNOW
To be rescheduled for later in the year.......


University of Sussex Archaeological Society
THE FUSION OF ART AND
ARCHAEOLOGY
Talk by
Carolyn Trant

Friday 18th January 2013, 7.00 pm
Fulton Lecture Theatre B
University of Sussex
All welcome
Members £1, non-members £2

Print Brought to Book - hand printing Artists Books
a talk by Carolyn Trant   parvenu press

Friday 1st february   3pm

WORKS ON PAPER FAIR    Science Museum, Exhibition Road , Kensington, London

 www.worksonpaperfair.com
and go to program

I am not exhibiting on a stand this year as I am 

off to Berkely California USA

to show my work  at
 CODEX
International Book Fair 
CRANEWAY PAVILION RICHMOND CALIFORNIA

AND 

THE CODEX SYMPOSIUM
DRAWING A BEAD ON A BOOK 

FEBRUARY 10-13     2013 

I'll be showing Who Killed Cock Robin, And Other Fairy Tales ,
Lorca's Sonnets of Dark Love and my 
NEW Pop-UP version of Who Killed Cock Robin!
very hard to photograph and it is LARGE!

scroll back through blog to see And Other Fairy Tales
specifically
26 march 2009  and 12 Dec 2008
and 2 Sep 2009 for pop-up AOFT
18 Sept 2010 and 18 sept 2012
for the original Cock Robin 
website might be up and running soon, keep checking! 

 

I haven't put up any Lorca I see so here are some Sonnets of Dark Love woodcut images too

Seasonal Events

I couldn't resist adding these pics of our Tom Paine Printing Press shop from late Night Shopping night, it looked beautiful from the yard of Westgate Chapel - it was tipping down with rain but it is always great to take to the streets. Harveys brewery are now opening up ( renovating) a new pub on the High Street just a few hundred yards along called the Rights of Man - it's looking good, opening very soon I think.

Don't forget my Open Studio starting tomorrow friday 7th December - see posting below.......