The Book is Alive! is a collaboration between the Centre for Media and Cultural Research (CMCR) at LSBU and bookRoom. The publication is published by RGAP, edited by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Richard Sawdon-Smith, designed by studio mothership and Ken Borg with an introductory essay by E.Waeckerlé and an exclusive illustrated interview with Joan Fontcuberta. It [read more]
a project by current artist in residence Richard Nash The intention for this project could be categorised in a number of ways: a writing project, an experiment in typographic word play, and an exploration of ‘bookness’ with potential for foregrounding the materiality of words. Through the relationship between narrative and the form of book, the [read more]
WORKING PRESS: books by and about working class artists’ 1986 – 1996’ was an unfunded self-publication imprint that was started in 1985 by Doctor Stefan Szczelkun (an artist and retired academic from Westminster University) and Graham Harwood, Graphic Designer: ‘Artists were invited to make a book and to get it printed to include a Working Press ISBN [read more]
Lea Valley Drift by Oliver Froome-Lewis and Chloe Street A book and two maps that realise investigative walks in the Lea Valley carried out by the authors during 2012 and 2013. The paired narratives of the book follow the tactile experiences and imaginings of their driftings, and the formal influences on their musings and speculations. [read more]
‘Borrowed from my bank’ [2008-2010] by David Blackmore A series of drawings made using pens obtained free from banks. Each of the drawings in this work utilises all the ink in a single ballpoint pen – some taken in-branch and others acquired by writing to banks requesting a complementary pen. The body of work was [read more]