Saturday 20 April 2024
Next exhibiting Event - INK PAPER PRINT fair Lewes Town Hall Saturday 25th May
Wednesday 6 December 2023
OXFORD FINE PRESS FAIR 23 SATURDAY /SUNDAY 9/10 DECEMBER
last copies available here at Oxford…
AND OTHER FAIRY TALES
THE FALCON BRIDE
MHARBNA
THE RHYME OF THE REDDLEMAN’S DAUGHTER
plus tunnel book version
SOME LIGHT REMAINS
INFERNO celebrating 700 anniversary
small version plus larger cartonera street version
THE UNTENANTED ROOM v large version
plus new
THE TOWERS FALL
also available
cartoneras – Ship of Fools, Fool gets Sick,
Map of Lost Cuckoos, Bonfire of Vanities
small books – The Magic Rabbit, Family Album,
Jeus d’Enfants, Brighton Belle….collagraph books
Pastoral...celebrating 200 years of Blake’s wood-
engravings with 17 of my own woodcuts
SHIP OF FOOLS – woodcut concertina book
hand-cut and printed woodcut ‘Tarot’ packs or sets of prints ,
on ecological themes – earth air fire and water
THE LITTLE CIRCUS IN THE FOREST
triple layer hand-cut shaped concertina book
with 22 woodcut scenes
in slipcase also containing digitally produced text of the
poems
by James Simpson which inspired the project
hand-bound by Rachel Ward-Sale
Friday 29 September 2023
Wonder at Fitzroy
My Wonder Box exhibited at Fitzroy House - an old Gilbert Scott private lending library - is an extension of my Window of Wonder in the High Street - see previous post....
It is called The Untenanted Room - from The Little Bookshop at the end of the World...and it invites the viewer to consider further the whole idea of cabinets of Curiosities in 2023. We are now in a crisis - being reminded that we are just part of the natural world, not onlookers viewing, and collecting, displaying curiosities to be marvelled at, consumables to be collected.
We are part of a marvellous universe that is all around us if we know how and where to look, but which is in dire need of protecting and being encouraged to flourish,
My box celebrates the beauty of decay - a natural part of the life-cycle - whilst reflecting on the emptying of the living world, the dessicating effect of numbering and categorising of all parts of it - including us, people, tribes of all kinds... with old photographs of dead specimens papering the outside of the box.
The texts are from a long poem sequence The Untenanted Room by James Simpson, with whom I have worked for the last 20 years on many Artists Book projects.
The exhibition is open weekends from 12 - 4 from 30th September until Saturday 28th October
Wednesday 30 August 2023
Wonder Windows
.... here are some fabulous photos of my window and setting up alongside Emma Carlow in the next bay...taken by Catherine Benson for the press release and the project
@catherinebensonphoto thanks Catherine!
Friday 18 August 2023
LEWES ARTWAVE - OPEN STUDIO - WINDOWS OF WONDER TRAIL and WONDER BOX, FITZROY HOUSE
This year I am opening my studio again for Lewes Art Wave , with usual studio clear out and new bargains surfacing, plus lots of cartoneras and prints
Thursday 20 April 2023
TOWNER ILLUSTRATION AND PRINT FAIR 22nd and 23rd APRIL
I shall be showing at this great fair all weekend 10.30- 4.30 -hope to see you there....
40 stands of different kinds of printed material....always a good one...... I shall be showing Cartoneras, Tarot card packs and books, woodcut prints and much else.......
Next up in May - I shall be at the ARTWORKERS GUILD Queens Square London WC 1 N 3AT
more details nearer the time......
Sunday 12 February 2023
New Year New Projects and Fairs; Pallant House - updated 3rd April
This post was updated on 3rd April!
Pages in progress from new updated Map of Lost Cuckoos cartoneras, some of which are exhibited in the new exhibition at Pallant House in the Print Room this weekend and on until the end of April - see link....
https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/birds-and-beasts-the-wild-escape/
Poet James Simpson and I are also giving a talk - Map of Lost Cuckoos - there on April 13th about our collaborations and my cartoneras - see further link .....
https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/talk-map-of-lost-cuckoos/
I WILL be exhibiting books and prints at the Ink Paper and Print Fair at Towner 22/23 April
and definitely showing new work and giving a talk about my cartonera work at The ArtWorkers Guild in London Craft Week weekend 12/14 May The Art of Making .... and giving a talk about cartoneras at 1pm on the Saturday
Meanwhile currently finishing some very big books I have been working on for 5 years...time they were all done...nearly there......
There is an article about my Tarot cards in the December /January edition of the London Magazine and one coming out about my cartoneras in the Spring edition of ROSA Magazine coming out next month.