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B**K an exhibition of book-inspired artworks at the London Print Studio gallery
425 Harrow Road, London, W10 4RE, United Kingdom
Exhibition 11th July - 27th September 2008
Private view 10th July, 6.30 - 8.30 pm
Included in this exhibition is: Future Fantasteek - The Sick-o issue, No.4 Feb 2008
Guest speaker - Books that Fly
The University of Brighton, in partnership with the Edward Johnston Foundation, is running a set of three inter-related activities devoted to Book Arts: a Conference (5th July), a Summer School (7th-18th July) and a Competition (5th July launch). Collectively titled Books that Fly, all three activities will be held within the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the Grand Parade campus of the University of Brighton in July 2008. Link to website...
I will be there, doing a presentation about Damp Flat Books on Friday 11th July
Guest speaker - AHRC Artists’ Books Seminar How are artists using and investigating new media for publishing?
1 - 8th May 2008
School of Creative Arts, Department of Art and Design,
University of the West of England Bristol, UK
I will be giving a presentation on the 8th May called: Using the internet for showing and marketing artists' books
To see the slides that accompany the talk click here...
Shelter Artist's Book Exhibition, at Lasell College, 1844 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA 02466, U.S.A.
New book - Head Room & Anxious Homes have both been accepted for exhibition due to open in late April - May 2008
This book will be available to view on my website soon.
NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...
Reboot has just been completed and accepted for the exhibition Re: 2008
See the book and flick through it on my website: www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/reboot/index.htm
Re:2008 will open at:
The Gallery, The University of Northampton, Avenue Campus, St. George's Avenue, Northampton, NN2 6JD, UK.
Exhibition dates: Monday 12th – Thursday 29th May 2008. Private view: Friday 9th May 4.30–7pm
(open weekdays 10-4, closed Bank Holiday Monday)
Then the exhibition will travel to:
The Gallery, The University of Northampton, Avenue Campus,St. George's Avenue, Northampton, NN2 6JD, UK.
Selected work from the exhibition will then be exhibited at:
Artworks MK, Milton Keynes, UK from 14th July–14th August;
Herefordshire College of Art – Summer 2008;
University of Portsmouth from 3rd-14th November 2008.
Visit the website at: www,weloveyourbooks.com
Visual Diaries - The Space Gallery, University of Portsmouth 3rd-14th November 2008
Invited artist as part of a rotating sketchbook project.
Click the image for more information...
NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...
Future Fantasteek!, Issue Four is now ready, produced in an edition of fifty
Softback Zine printed in greyscale on orange and yellow paper, staple bound.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Day-glo orange cover with yellow dots.
Issue Four: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.
The Damp Flat Research team are wondering why eveyone's so sick lately. They are also quickly investing, on-the-side, in the pharmaceutical industry. What with Norovirus and advice on how to take a 'sickie' there seems to be no healthy folk left. This issue also includes how to spot whether you have ended-up working for the Departement of Stupidity and the right way to wash your hands.
I would write more, but I'm feeling off-colour and need to lay down...
Future Fantasteek! Four, is the Sick-O Issue.
Zineopolis Exhibition - 22nd February - 14th March 2008
The University Library, University of Portsmouth
New zine collection a the University called Zineopolis will be showcasing its collection - Including all the Future Fantasteeks!
www.zineopolis.co.uk
There's a solo exhibition of Damp Flat Books in the University Library - Portsmouth, UK.
From 11th January 2008 until the 1st February 2008
This is part of a series of four rolling displays to promote artist's books and zines within the University.
The UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, University of Portsmouth, Cambridge Road, Portsmouth,
PO1 2ST
Click here to see some images of the display...
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I've just set up a new Zine Collection at the UNiversity of Portsmouth, through the Illustration Course. The collection is called ZINEOPOLIS, and it links to student projects making zines and comics. Have a look at our new website, it will build-up over time, but this is the first peek...
www.zineopolis.co.uk
Page turning technology has come to Damp Flat - to ruffle the pages of Future Fantasteek! click here...
The whole Damp Flat Collection can now be viewed at The British Library. The library has recently purchased a copy of each title for their Modern British Collections section.
The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB
There is also a link to this website from the British Library's Fine Presses, Artists' Books, and Book Arts website
http://www.bl.uk/collections/britirish/modbrifin.html#individual
The San Francisco Public Library has recently purchased Running a Secret Society No.20 for their Special Collection.
NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...NEW ZINE...
Future Fantasteek!, Issue Three is now ready, produced in an edition of fifty
- on yellow paper with bronze cover (with dyecut shape), embossed with the Damp's logo.
Once again, the Damp Flat Research team share their fantastic inventions, ideas and advice. The evil central colour pull-out has a mirror where you can see your evil twin or simply worry more with the new Damp Worry Doll. There are inventions to help you spot a bad idea; pretend to talk like a grown-up or slow yourself down to avoid having to do anything. That and so much more - but are you really being watched? Future Fantasteek! Three, is the Carbon Footprint Issue.
Take me to see it...NOW!!
Future Fantasteek! will soon available from:
PURE GROOVE Music Store
679 Holloway Road
London N19 5SE
The Blue Notebook - peer reviewed journal about artists' books.
Edited by Sarah Bodman - August 2007 issue.
Invited to produce an Artist’s Page - Evil-Pet Shop
In each issue 5 artists are asked to provide an artist's page. The content of the page is entirely open and can be text, image or both. The only stipulation is that it needs to be A4 portrait, RGB colour, saved as a jpeg or pdf at 300dpi. The Blue Notebook is produced as a full colour pdf and also a black and white printed magazine.
Sitting Room Exhibition has continued on to Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art.
The show opens on 6th July, with a private view on 11th July, and runs until 2nd August 2007.
Anxious Homes from Damp Flat Books is part of the group show, see 2006 news below for more details about this exhibition.
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/sitting07.htm
ARLIS/UK & Ireland Annual Conference - ‘Useful & Beautiful? Supporting the Arts & Crafts in the 21st Century’
Park Campus, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Wednesday 4th July – Friday 6th July 2007
Damp Flat Books are featured in, Page on Page – an overview of Contemporary British and Irish Artists’ Books,
a talk given by Sarah Bodman. .
The V&A website had just been updated and now you can read interviews with me and 5 other bookartists.
You can view the majority of my books in the V&A collection, see their website for information about accessing
their fantastic collection:
www.vam.ac.uk
To read the interview click here
NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...NEW BOOK...
Mortal Coil is based on the poem, Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren. The text of the poem is split into 7 sections, hand drawn typographically to emphasise key words. The typography sits above photo collages exploring the melancholy of the landscape as it metamorphoses from undeveloped ruralscapes into urban jungles. Themes of urban decay and aspirational descriptions of the landscape are tinged with the failings of the human spirit. The book is designed to have folding pages that when opened-up reveal darker elements from the previous page.
The title Mortal Coil derives from an archaic English expression meaning the ‘troubles of the world’
Edition of 10, each numbered and signed, 105mm x 275mm 10 pages, 8 of which fold-out.
The webpage for this book is here...
This book was created for the exhibition:
Visions and Voices: Art Inspired by Kentucky Poetry, Prose and Songwriting
7th July - 6th October 2007
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
Louisville. KY 40202
USA
www.kentuckyarts.org
Arcadia id Est is on touring in 2007:
Feb 1st - Feb 22nd 2007: John M Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
9th March - 13th May 2007 at Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, USA
1 June - 31 July 2007 at Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, USA
20 August - 2 October 2007 at Noosa Regional Gallery, Australia
Menthol Daze is being shown as part of Arcadia Id Est - A travelling exhibition organised by the Centre for Fine Print Research, The University of the West of England.
Poetry Books: Reading Books - 25 January 2007 - 24 March 2007
Exhibition will be at the Broekhuis Bookshop, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Notebook 57 from Damp Flat Books is in the exhibition (bt.left).
...For more about the show visit the link below:
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bruik07.htm
Sitting Room Exhibition has continued on to the Permanent Bookshop, Brighton , 4th December 2006 – 26th January 2007
Anxious Homes from Damp Flat Books is part of the group show, see 2006 news below for more details.
The Private View will be on 31st January and the show will run until 18th February 2007
Future Fantasteek!, Issue Two has just been finished, it'll be ready for sale in February 2007, produced in an edition of fifty
- on flourescent pink paper with pearl cover (with 2 glitter shapes), embossed with the Damp's logo.
This Zine is proof that there's still plenty wrong with modern living. Mixing-up hand-drawn typographic slogans, spurious advice and bizarre advertisements. The ‘Damp Flat Research Facilities’ (hastily re-hired) have surpassed themselves in bringing you broken machinery; whether 'yes' or 'no' is the right response; the reassurance that 'everybody's got something wrong with them'; and an enemy in a box. Future Fantasteek! Two, is the COMFORT & SECURITY issue.
Take me to see it...NOW!!
...Meanwhile, Future Fantasteek!, Issue One, has just joined 2 new collections, The Mansfield Library - Zine Collection, at the University of Montana-Missoula, Montana, USA, the Papercut Zine Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and The zine collection at the University of Austin, Texas, USA.
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Montage Over Britain : David Ferry plus Artists’ Books from the CFPR Collection
Saturday 9 December 2006 - Sunday 14 January 2007
Permanent Gallery and Bookshop, Brighton
We're Sorry_ from Damp Flat Books will be in the exhibition.
Accompanying the show will be a unique collection of 45 contemporary books by artists, available for visitors to view. This collection has been especially selected for The Permanent Bookshop by Sarah Bodman, and includes the work of Jake Tilson, Yoko Ono, Sophie Calle and David Shrigley.
....For more about the exhibition:
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/montag06.htm
....For links to The Permanent Bookshop:
http://www.permanentgallery.com/
Sitting Room has continued on to the Alsager Arts Centre, 4th December 2006 – 26th January 2007
MMU Cheshire, Alsager Campus, Hassall Road, Alsager, ST7 2HL
Box Office: 0161 247 5302
A.A.C@mmu.ac.uk
www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk
The setting is a carefully re-created Sitting Room complete with comfortable armchairs, standard lamp, wallpaper, coffee table and gramophone, inviting visitors to peruse the unique display of artist’s books. Within this familiar domestic scene, emphasis is placed upon the engagement between the book and the reader. Visitors are encouraged to choose an artist’s book from the bookcase, make themselves at home in the sitting room and enjoy this rare opportunity to handle and interact with the limited edition artists-made book works. Curators Tom Sowden and Lucy May Schofield, part of the Righton Press Group, based at Manchester Metropolitan University, conceived the idea for the show through a frustration of exhibiting their own books within the confines of glass cabinets.
Anxious Homes from Damp Flat Books is on show.
Damp Flat Books will be appearing at the New Orleans Bookfair - Babylon Lexicon - Hurrah!
Selected books and my catalogue will be on display in this showcase of artists' books and book-related art.
The New Orleans Bookfair opens Oct 28th, 2006, from 10am - 6pm,
Barrister's Gallery
1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.,
New Orleans, LA, U.S.A
The exhibition runs through to the end of November 2006.
Link to the bookfair here...
Notebook 57 and Future Fantasteek! were at the show and now reside in the Hot Iron Press's permanent Artist's Book Collection.
KART Magazine of Multiplicity - Australia
This is an ongoing project - A specially produced mini-excerpt from Future Fantasteek! (edition 40) will be participating in KART during Dec. 2006. The KART (Field Study) is curated by David Dellafiora at Karingal Community Living. PO BOX 1838 Greelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
Email: fluxusstudy@hotmail.com
Issues of KART comprise of 15 various limited edition artworks in a portfolio-box. Some issues will be sold to institutions, libraries and archives. Karingal is a non-for-profit organisation and provides activities and services for people with a disability or who are experiencing disadvantage.
This edition ofKART will be sent to: The State Library of Victoria, Australia, Sackners Visual Poetry Archived, U.S.A
University of Buffalo, U.S.A and Sticky - Artist's Bookshop/Zineshop in Melbourne, Australia.
In August Damp in Ditchwater was added to the stable.
A charming history - told through postcards - of the philanthropic, family-run Damp Industries’ partnership with the sleepy town of Ditchwater-by-Sea. Damp Industries’ self-appointed mission, is to strive until culture, learning and suitable products reside in the South. In this sequence of ten postcards the intriguing relationship between Damp and Ditchwater-by-Sea is slowly revealed.
In July I finished my first Zine, Future Fantasteek! produced in an edition of fifty
- on flourescent lime paper with pvc cover. It's now joining zine and artist book collections all over the place.
This Zine is full of eveything that’s wrong with modern living, modern people and going to work. It’s a mixture of hand-drawn typographic slogans and advice with curious advertisements thrown in for good measure. Buy an Evil-Pet or a machine for generating Stupid Ideas. The ‘Damp Flat Research Facilities’ have wasted no time in bringing you the most uptodate advice and plausible excuses that can be profered for any event. ‘Things you need and things you don’t’ - if you can’t tell ‘em apart YOU NEED THIS ZINE.
Early in 2006, I produced my second Damp Flat Books catalogue. It can be downloaded from this site here...
My 3 new books are being viewed by the V&A Library currently.
One of these, My Favourtie Souvenir was exhibited in Canada at the Leonardo Gallery from Dec 2005 - Feb 2006.
Bookart Bookshop in London are now supplying my books. 17 Pitfield st, London N1 6HB
Opening hours: 1-7pm Wednesday to Friday, 1-6pm Saturday. Email: info@bookartbookshop.com
We're Sorry_ was 'book of the month' during february this year.
Book-O-Meter my edition of 100 bookmarks, now moves to the USA, Bookmarks i, ii, & iii Exhibition
Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University, USA from 6th March – 23rd April, 2006
"This exhibition features fine-art prints in the form of bookmarks and artists’ books. “Bookmarks” is a multi-part project from The Centre for Fine Print Research at The University of the West of England, to encourage people to appreciate artwork in the book format and to visit artist’s book venues and libraries. The projects involve artists who work in the format of the artist’s book, each of whom generously produces an edition of 100 bookmarks for free distribution to the public. The display sets have already been installed in over 32 venues, with more than 90 contributing artists producing over 9,000 bookmarks since May 2004."
Menthol Daze is moving again as part of, Arcadia id est - artists’ books, nature and the landscape: Touring Exhibition 2005-2007. This time off to the Netherlands. 1st April – 15th June 2006, Library AKI, Hallenweg 5, 7500 BK
Enschede, The Netherlands. Then July 2006 - August 2006 Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki
Anxious Homes is visiting the Manchester Craft and Design Centre in an exhibition called, Sitting Room.
From 20th May - 15th July 2006. This is a touring show.
"This will be a handling show of artists' books held in environments that have been created to allow the books to be freely read. The exhibition areas of each venue will become a sitting room, complete with soft armchairs, standard lamp, coffee table and wallpaper. Re-creating a non-descript domestic scene. On the wall will be bookcases or bookshelves all stocked with artists' books that the viewers are free to access and peruse within the comfortable surroundings that have been supplied."
I've started work on my first go at a zine called Future Fantasteek! It's created from images and text drawn on my many train journeys (I'm a commuter). It's a look at the culture of quick-fixes and easy solutions twinned with the idea of giving-yourself-a-break if you're not as perfect as the commercials think you should be.
This will an outrageous shade of green and completed hopefully by July.
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2005 has been a good year for Damp Flat Books. The 2004 catalogue did really well keeping me very busy this year. The main change is that I’ve completed my new website, showcasing all my current books & multiples. It also houses sketchbook work, artist statements, exhibitions and links to new projects I’m starting.
www.dampflat.com
Menthol Daze is being exhibited as part of Arcadia Id Est - A travelling exhibition organised by the Centre for Fine Print Research, The University of the West of England. The show runs from March 2005 to December 2006 and is travelling around the world from Australia to the UK - it’s in Australia about now.
I also exhibited 3 bookworks in the 2nd Seoul International Bookarts Fair in Korea
3rd-8th June 2005, where Running a Secret Society No.20 won a Medal.
As part of my research for the University of Portsmouth I received funding to create a new artist’s book alongside a student project exchange. The project consisted of a short trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in association with the Universiti Teknologi MARA and The Alif Creative Academy where I acted as external examiner, but also worked on a new book called My Favourtie Souvenir.
This unusual hardback 3-folding-book written in Malay and English will be exhibited in Canada in Dec 2005 - Jan 2006 and Malaysia during winter 2006.
I have also created two more new books this year:
We’re Sorry - a celebration of broken machinery and clapped-out computers all suripticiously captured on camera phone and bought together in a small double-bound blue book, sealed with hazard tape.
Evil Eyes - a strange set of photographic faces seen in everyday objects, such as staplers and vending machines. Horizontally-opening cloth bound hardback book.
During the updating of the website I decide to open my own online museum.
The Damp Museum can now be visited at www.dampflat.com and the curator contacted,
but I’m not sure what he’s up to ...
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