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2012 - the 7th Manchester Artists' Book Fair

There have always been exhibitors who have wanted the fair to last two days, and in 2012 it was the right time to make that happen.  In order to allow those who wanted to travel here on the Friday to do so, the fair was arranged to start in the afternoon and for the morning we organised Collaboration and the Democracy of Book Arts, where five renowned book artists (Sarah Bodman, Nancy Campbell, Michelle Rowley, Susan Kruse and Angie Butler) talked about their work and collaborative practices in book arts, with an initial talk by the artist Anthony Ratcliffe, whose exhibition of prints 'Shoreline and Watershed' was on show in Special Collections, where the event was held.

Below: how the gallery grew from a nearly empty room on the Friday morning, through setting up all the stands, to the fair itself on Friday and Saturday.
A tour of MMU Special Collection's artists' book collection was organised, and Michelle Rowley's BA Fine Arts students from Wirral Met generously ran a drop-in workshop, Book making for Everyone. 

2012 exhibitors

Here is a list of exhibitors from 2012 - any links are from the catalogue for that year and could be out of date.
AP Books
artistsbooksonline
Craig Atkinson/Cafe Royal Books
Cally Barker
David Barton
Andrew Berwick Illustration
Big Jump Press
David Birchall
Kate Black
The Book Tree Press - Lucy Roscoe
Kate Bufton Book Transformations
Nancy Campbell
Collaborative Collections
Ditto Press
Amy Dodd
Drawing Bird
Fi Dunphy
Oliver Flude
Pat Hodson
Jan Hopkins
Hot Bed Bookstars
Impact Press
Paul Johnson
Ana Jolly
Rebecca Jones
Gemma Lacey
Jenna Lee Alldread
LEN: The Letterpress Etiquette Network - Angie Butler/Hazel Grainger
The Library of Lost Books
The Manchester School of Art Bindery
Marches Book Arts Group (MBAG)
MMU Special Collections Museum
Pascal Nichols
PAPER
Benedict Phillips
Heather Prescott
Ratchford Ltd
Robert Ridley-Shackleton
Joanna Robinson
Sue Shaw
Surrealist Editions
Synthia
Carlos Thomas
Thomas Tomasska
Stephanie Turnbull
Two Wood Press
Charlotte Vallance Illustration & Design
Vicki Wheeler
Elizabeth Willow
Wirral Metropolitan College - BA Fine Arts

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