Bookart Competition December 2011

If you have not visited this shop in London yet, then you should very soon.
I've just noticed they are doing this comp.



Bookart Competition December 2011
Calling.......

All artists, writers, anglers, gardeners, cooks, scientists, enthusiasts of all persuasions

To Celebrate
The Tenth Anniversary
of

bookartbookshop
20.02.2002 - 21.02.2012

We invite the creation of books on the theme

X =
or
What is to be done?

10 pages
10 copies
£1000 in prizes

HOT BED PRESS

Hot bed press have announced there sixth book fair due to take place this October 22nd, Manchester School of Art. The table costs £60 any takers??
Chole and other third years, this could be a good step to keep you in the loop!

Lucie

Cassie McCarthy

http://akshullycomix.tumblr.com/ <-- blog

http://www.akshullycomix.blogspot.com/ <-- website

This interesting work is from a girl I've been following on tumblr lately. LOVE the colours! I thought you might like some of this maybe Chiu- it's like you vs craig atkinson!

Hey Guys, just perusing the internet and spotted this glimmer of joy!

For those who don't know there is a Diesel store near the victoria entrance at newstreet to pick up a "passport" from.

Babe was awesome!

So, for those of you who didn't come, you should know that you missed out. BABE was awesome! As you can see in Tris's post below, the table looked lovely. I didn't get too long to wander around but I did manage to speak to some of the people I'd already mention. Whilst I didn't do a proper interview, I did have a few conversations that answered some of my questions. Here are some points that I've written down...

-Usually book fairs won't support you financially, even if you do them every weekend. It's not a regular source of income so you might make loads one fair and none the other. Not reliable.

-People like free stuff but make sure you don't give stuff out all over the place, like to just regular people looking around etc, as they won't appreciate it and you won't have got your work anywhere else- it'll just be thrown away. (Someone who did lots of owls said this...)

-Don't expect to get into an illustration based job right away after university. Absolutely take it if you get offered one but don't be worried if you have to have a part time normal shop job or something at first. (This is a very condensed version of the conversation I had with Alex Pritchard, who makes lovely books.)

-You definitely need to have an overall definite style and look to your stall, so that people want to buy into this identity. (Again, owl people).

This last point made me wonder whether we should arrange our stall all mixed up like we do (to show the variety) or maybe have it a bit more compartmentalised- ie one section of the table is screen print, another is digital, the badges are over here, the books are over there... etc. We should talk about this before we do the next fair. What do you all think?

AND a lady named Tanya from Book Arts Bookshop (Old Street, London) has asked us if we want to do an exhibition in her window space, which we all need to discuss together but would be rather lovely!

And finally, as this is quite a wordy post, here are some pictures of the day that I did with the lovely Tris (Saturday 30th April):

Chloe x

BABE 2011

Hey Guys, A really successful two days at the book fair! So thanks to everyone who showed, our stall look fab!

tris

BABE is this weekend!

Hi everyone,


As you know (as I haven't stopped pestering you!) BABE is this Saturday and Sunday. You should DEFINITELY come! There's gonna be loads of really good exhibitors there and usually they're very friendly, so now is your chance to ask questions. Come prepared but let them just talk, they know a lot that you could learn from. If you can't come then please feel free to forward your questions on to me and I'll ask them when I'm there, just comment on this post with your questions and whether it's for someone specific or just general. 
Here is a HUGE list of the exhibitors so you can check them out before we go: 

ABC @ BIAD, abombpress, Alex

Pritchard, Altazimuth Press /

Tom Paine Printing Press, AMB

(ambruno), Ambeck, Andrew Law,

Antic-Ham, Artist Book Collective,

artistsbooksonline.com, Artists’

Books Club UWE, Atlantic Press,

Bob Howe Letterpress Type &

Equipment, Book Transformations,

bookartbookshop, Bookbinders

Collective, Booked, Books About

Nothing, Books to Change Your Life,

Borbonesa, Bow of Burning Gold,

Cally Barker, Charlotte Vallance

/ Jat Bains, Colin Sackett, Covet

and Whistle, Decadence Comics,

DISPERSAL, EAK Press, East London

Printmakers, Editorial Krausse,

Elizabeth Shackleton Collinge,

Emily Speed, Ensixteen Editions,

Francis Elliot - Foundry, Gemma

Lacey, Glyn Walton/ Rag-&-Bone

Shop Books, Here Gallery, ignition

/ Ciara Healy, Illustrated Digest

/ Plymouth College of Art, Imi

Maufe - World Atlas, Impact Press

UWE, Jane Cradock-Watson, John

Woodman, Jonathan Doney at The

Spitfire Press, Kali De Vega, Karen

Joyce, Karoline Rerrie, Kite Dagger

Anchor, Leopard Studio Editions,

Liver & Lights, Lucy May Schofield /

Bibliotherapy Artist’s Book Library,

MADE, MailWorks@Bruxelles,

Mandy Brannan, Mark Pawson,

mermaid turbulence, Mikhail

Pogarsky, Mizue Yoshimura, Nick

Moore, one.zero6 press, Ottobooks,

Owl & Lion - Isabelle Ting, Oxford

and Cherwell Valley College,

Paper Garden Press, Parvenu

Press, peach-tree, pear-tree press,

Pylon Press / Plymouth College

of Art, reassemble, Redfoxpress,

Responsa Press, Road Books, Roger

Polley, Sally Stanley, Salt + Shaw,

Serendipity Press / Little Black

Press, Sidney Nolan Trust, SILT,

Simon Goode, Snake Perch Press,

Stephen Fowler, SuperPress, Teacup

Press - Mavina Baker, The Courtyard

Press, Trigger Editions, University

of Plymouth - Illustration, Vox

Humana Press, whnic Press.

I'm particularly keen to talk to people like Charlotte Valance to see how difficult things are when you get out of uni (since I'm nearly there, eek!) and also people from East London Printmakers to see how easy/difficult it is to print out of uni in places other than Birmingham. Also small presses and galleries like Here Gallery to see what kind of things they publish and showcase.

This will be a great opportunity for us to find loads of things out, so please come and if you can't then comment on here with questions you'd like me to ask.

Chloe x

Ray Morimura

Fantastic Woodblocking

http://do-wild-thing.blogspot.com/2011/03/ray-morimura.html

Like his palette...

plus.. a nice artsy blog anywho

The Exquisite theory of Evolution through Dumb Luck

Hmmmm, Should I print this? I have stared at it so long that i am not sure.

Tris

Poster Club

Hi guys,

There's this really interesting club in Glasgow named poster club, and word on the grape vine is that they'll be exhibiting at Eastside Projects sometime soon so I'll try and find out when that is.

http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_A-chat-with-Poster-Club/blog/2379759/126249.html

It's a great idea, maybe we should do something like this in print club after easter? Let me know if you're interested and I can get stuff set up!

Chloe x

BABE April 30th and May 1st

Hi everyone!

Katie and me are both going to BABE to sell ABC@BIAD work, but we can't do it on our own! We need your help, give us your printy stuff!! Obviously it needs to be good quality and well packaged and presented. If you'd like us to sell your bits and bobs then please bring your work into school. You can leave it in the plan chest draw marked "BABE" or in the one marked "Chloe Cook" if there's room, or just give it to someone who is involved. Chiu will be looking at all the work before we go so if your work is a bit below the standard of everything else we're taking then I'm afraid it may not go with us. Come and see someone in the print room if you need help or advice, we're all friendly like kittens! =^.^=

Also, Katie and I don't wanna be alone so if you'd like to man the stall with us it'd be a great experience for you and would stop us going insane! I'm going on the Saturday and Katie is going on the Sunday, so let one of us know if you'd like to join and we can all book trains and stuff together. Or email me at: start_today@rocketmail.com

If you're in Print Club then I'll have already told you this, but YOU SHOULD COME and see how printmaking fits into a contemporary market. We're going to be interviewing people whos work is interesting and things like that too, so it'd be a good way to learn.

Sorry about such a long post!

Chloe x

Link to BABE info: http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/953

Animals and Watercolours

Been working on using watercolours. I think I'm getting better.

Print Club

Guys if you don't already know, there is a Print Club running on Wednesday afternoons from 1.30-4 in the print room. Come and join in!!

More info here: http://studentacademicpartners.co.uk/projects/20102011/birmingham-institute-of-art-and-design/screen-print-and-artists-book-at-biad/

And here: http://abc-screenprint.blogspot.com/

Leeds Artist Book Fair

ABC@BIAD went up to Leeds to sell our wares at what was a really good Artist Book Fair. We all really enjoyed the weekend and got to meet some very talented and friendly people. We also got some great positive feedback on our work which was really important to us all. A book fair is a really good way to test your work on your market audience- you can see if the people you think will like your work actually do like it, and you can also find out what needs improving and what is already good. There was so much lovely work there that I probably bought nearly as much as I sold, but who needs a student loan!!

The book fair was two rooms within Parkinson Court at the University of Leeds, which is a beautiful building. It was really roomy but still really packed. Leeds clearly is a good place for a handmade and artist book scene.

Tris and our table

Despite our best efforts at getting people to give us their work or bring it to the fair themselves our table ended up quite roomy. So next time PLEASE bring your work guys, we need more to sell!!

Chloe x

Tissle tassel

Todays 2nd illustration students have been tessilating! The above pictured are

from Top left

Jake Truman

Lucy Kenny

Joe Taylor

Hannah Moore

A really great day!

..and it helped that the print room was flooded with sunlight.