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.
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Here is a list of exhibitors from 2012 - any links are from the catalogue for that year and could be out of date.
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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 |