I visited Cambridge Central Library on 30th December with my camera, to take pictures of my books in situ. Tomorrow (Sunday 9th Jan) is your last chance to see the Between The Books exhibition there; on Monday it moves to Great Shelford library.

Pylons lives in the physics & chemistry section on the second floor, shelved in with the ordinary books ( Read more... )

Now Showing is an artist's book made for the Between The Books exhibition in Cambridge Central Library.

Now Showing is a case-bound tunnel book. Tunnel books are 3-dimensional constructions like dioramas or decoupage; layers of parts build up into an image with depth. This book is quite a shallow example, they can be much deeper than they are ( Read more... )

Pylons is an artist's book made for the Between The Books exhibition in Cambridge Central Library.

Pylons is a transparent ring-bound book. When planning what to make for the exhibition, I started thinking about how to make a rugged book which would stand up well to handling. Laminating the pages was an obvious first move, and it was only a small ( Read more... )

Arithmetic Progressions is a artist's book made for the Between The Books exhibition in Cambridge Central Library.

Arithmetic Progressions is a flag book with three rows of flags and a hard cover. Flag books were invented by Hedi Kyle - follow this link for a picture of the ur-flag book. They have a concertina for a spine, stuck to a cover at ( Read more... )

For the past couple of months I've been going to a book arts course at Cambridge Central Library. Next week is the last week of the course, and following on from it there will be an exhibition trail round the library, of books made by the people on the course and our tutor, Candida Bradley. If you're around town for Christmas shopping then take a ( Read more... )