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In One Volume
In One Volume has been acquired by Trinity College Library, Cambridge and Bournemouth University Library and is with Reed Contemporary Books and in private and public collections in the UK and North America.
The year 2021 was the 700th year since Dante's death, artists John McDowell and Sophie Loss and Dr Rhiannon Daniels and Dr Tristan Kay, academics with the Department of Italian in the University of Bristol, created Libri Nuovi to celebrate Dante and his works. Eight book artists were commissioned to create new books for the exhibition in October 2021. In One Volume is a book in three parts; the inner book reflects Dante as poet, the black folio Dante as pilgrim and the binding, closed with a leather tie printed with text, encapsulates the whole. Further images and details of the work can be seen in the books section of this website.
In One Volume has been acquired by Trinity College Library, Cambridge and Bournemouth University Library and is with Reed Contemporary Books and in private and public collections in the UK and North America.
The year 2021 was the 700th year since Dante's death, artists John McDowell and Sophie Loss and Dr Rhiannon Daniels and Dr Tristan Kay, academics with the Department of Italian in the University of Bristol, created Libri Nuovi to celebrate Dante and his works. Eight book artists were commissioned to create new books for the exhibition in October 2021. In One Volume is a book in three parts; the inner book reflects Dante as poet, the black folio Dante as pilgrim and the binding, closed with a leather tie printed with text, encapsulates the whole. Further images and details of the work can be seen in the books section of this website.
In One Volume, 2021. The launch of Libri Nuovi in Bristol University, October 2021.
CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group Conference 2022.
Invited to speak at this conference at St Hilda’s College, Oxford September 2022 with Dr Sian Prosser, Librarian and archivist at the Royal Astronomical Society on our collaboration Measuring the Heavens.
Invited to speak at this conference at St Hilda’s College, Oxford September 2022 with Dr Sian Prosser, Librarian and archivist at the Royal Astronomical Society on our collaboration Measuring the Heavens.
Catching the Light, Impact 12.
Printmaking exhibition curated by Professor Susanne Klein as part of the international print conference Impact 12, held in Bristol with the Centre for Fine print Research.
Printmaking exhibition curated by Professor Susanne Klein as part of the international print conference Impact 12, held in Bristol with the Centre for Fine print Research.
World Book Night 2021, The Herbarium.
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Oscar Wilde. Contributing artists were invited to create a flower image in response to a poem, book or other text referencing flowers. The inspiration for my flower is a 1930's detective novel, The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham in which one character hands another a bouquet with a 'message' created by the symbolism of the different flowers. My image has been accepted by Tate Britain as representative of the event.
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” Oscar Wilde. Contributing artists were invited to create a flower image in response to a poem, book or other text referencing flowers. The inspiration for my flower is a 1930's detective novel, The Beckoning Lady by Margery Allingham in which one character hands another a bouquet with a 'message' created by the symbolism of the different flowers. My image has been accepted by Tate Britain as representative of the event.
World Book Night, 2021. The Herbarium, unique digital print on Somerset paper.
Postcards for Perec.
Artist Linda Parr has organised this international response to Georges Perec's ‘Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour’. Dedicated to his fellow writer Italo Calvino, the postcards' messages were originally published in black and white list form with no images. Participants have created the 'missing' physical colour postcards in response to the 243 specific messages, I have contributed three cards. The work has so far been exhibited in Winchester, Bath, Cardiff, Paris and Istanbul and the tour will continue in 2023 to Essex, Washington State and Sydney. There is an accompanying publication.
Artist Linda Parr has organised this international response to Georges Perec's ‘Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Colour’. Dedicated to his fellow writer Italo Calvino, the postcards' messages were originally published in black and white list form with no images. Participants have created the 'missing' physical colour postcards in response to the 243 specific messages, I have contributed three cards. The work has so far been exhibited in Winchester, Bath, Cardiff, Paris and Istanbul and the tour will continue in 2023 to Essex, Washington State and Sydney. There is an accompanying publication.
Postcards for Perec One of my three contributions to this project.