NEW IMPRESSIONS: ARTISTS' READINGS OF BOOKS
The 2011 ABA Chelsea Book Fair will feature an exhibition of art-works relating to antiquarian and rare books by seven artists recommended by ABA members. These artists work in a variety of media, and the pieces exhibited will include paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures and photography, which reflect the participants' responses to different aspects of books in their manifold forms -- for example, books as texts; books as physical, tactile objects; books as canvases for decoration and ornamentation.
The artists work in a broad range of styles and media, and include painters, sculptors, print-makers, metal-workers and -engravers, and glass-workers, who are variously alumni of the Slade School of Art, the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and other prestigious institutions, and have exhibited at major galleries including the British Museum, Tate Britain, the Saatchi Gallery, Frost and Reed (New York), and the Jerwood Space. Amongst the prizes that the artists have won, the most recent is Marcelle Hanselaar's Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust Purchase Award for her Pillow Book for Endless Nights (London: 2011), which bought a copy of the book on behalf of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum. See here for the catalogue of works exhibited.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Please click on the images above for more information about the artists.
