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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 8d

🧵Series 4 cover reveals! Delighted to be working with Anna Reckin, Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, @clareobrien.bsky.social, Hana Ormara...

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 7d

"Investigating life’s details — simple yet complicated."

Farnham-based Danish designer, book artist, teacher and curator Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck (Ambeck Design) will be among the book artists taking part in #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall, London, Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 7d

Established in 2008, AMBruno is a coalition of artists with a common interest in the book. This year’s project - with the theme of ‘finale’ - launches at #smallpublishersfair25 on 24/25 October. Featured artists include Claudia de la Torre, Rafael Klein and Cally Trench.

smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 7d

Based in Cirencester, Andrew Morrison is a poet, book artist and printer working with woodcut, letterpress and potato prints. Books, prints and ephemera are typeset, printed and handbound; themes include memory, sequences, tokens and the zebra. You can find his work at #smallpublishersfair25

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 7d

London-based multimedia and book artist Anne Rook is a regular Fair participant. Publications feature drawings, photographs, short poetical prose and found images such as fruit labels. You can find her, and her new work, at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 / Sat 25 October

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 4d

Founded by owner Tanya Peixoto in 2002, and based in Shoreditch, Bookartbookshop specialises in books by artists, and stocks small press publications of 20th century avant-garde works from Dadaism to ’Pataphysics. Browse and buy their books at #smallpublishersfair25 on 24/25 October

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 3d

From the Netherlands, artist and poet Elisabeth Tonnard creates new literature from existing texts and images; her works range from a book that is invisible to one that is a swimming pool. 'The End of the World', a new artist’s book about Robert Walser, will be available at #smallpublishersfair25

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 1d

Edited by Luke Thompson and Sarah Cave, Cornwall-based @guillemotpress.bsky.social is a multi-award-winning publisher of poetry and non-fiction, with an emphasis on pamphlets and short forms, sustainability, and materials. We welcome them back to #smallpublishersfair25 at Conway Hall on 24/25 Oct

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 19h

Living and working in Wiltshire, Guy Bigland publishes artists’ books, editions & ephemera exploring systems, language & rules. He also runs booksaboutart.co.uk, an online bookshop specialising in sales of art & design publications. You can find Guy and his books at #smallpublishersfair25 24/25 Oct

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 2d

A Fair regular, @essencepress.bsky.social is the imprint of Edinburgh-based artist, curator & publisher Julie Johnstone, whose minimal quiet books, cards and poem objects explore perception and contemplative experience. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25 24/25 Oct
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 10d

Raymond Queneau. A Hundred Thousand Billion Poems, 1961

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23d

We'll be at @smallpublishers.bsky.social at London's Conway Hall on Fri 24/ Sat 25 October with tablemates @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social and many excellent presses and artists including @uniformbooks.bsky.social @essencepress.bsky.social @hazardpressuk.bsky.social and more. Hope to see you there.

Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 23d

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Promotional card for the 2025 Small Publishers Fair, with a full list of the 66 participating artists and publishers. Full details at https://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2025/

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 23d

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall
next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon.

Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · Aug 11

Delighted to have work in the Edinburgh Art Festival Ring of Truth exhibition at Blackie House Library & Museum. Inspired by a group of enigmatic Coptic ‘Music of the Spheres’ Manuscripts. An exciting blend of music film sculpture artists books, and more. More info blackiehouse.org/exhibitions/...

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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · Aug 7

With work by @essencepress.bsky.social, Luke Fowler, et al. ❤️https://blackiehouse.org/exhibitions/ring-of-truth/

Ring of Truth - Blackie House Library and Museum

Our Edinburgh Art Festival exhibition8 August – 24 August, open Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays 11-4pmContinuing by appointment after the festival, and at all other times In 2024 Blackie House Library and...

blackiehouse.org

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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · Jun 19

Surface Veil I by Robert Ryman, 1970 #artbots #guggenheim
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137493

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Panza Collection, 1991

© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · Jun 20

Lee Ufan, From Line, 1974 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137262

Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds

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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · Jun 20

There are two new poem-postcards for sale over at Oo-press.com, just in time for the summer solstice. £5 for Nicky Melville's *how is now* and Em Filtness's *sparkles of time*

Oo-press.com/postcard-poems

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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social · May 28

A new poem card for @essencepress.bsky.social, *restlessnest*.

Buy for £3 at link below or DM me xx

www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · May 17

A call for essay, articles or written contributions to the next issue of the Artist’s Book Yearbook. See the current issue list for an idea of the types of essays: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/artists-book...
Deadline 1st September, please get in touch if interested. Payment = 2 copies of the publication.

A picture of the publication Artist's Book Yearbook 2024-2025 with detail of an essay by Robert Good examining titles, form and colour as the first virtual Summer Librarian at Street Road’s gallery and Little Free Library in Cochranville, USA.

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Agnes Martin @agnes-martin.bsky.social · May 15

Drops https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/drops-1961

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Charlotte Jung @jungcharlotte.bsky.social · May 11

Glad to share new work in the latest less-series from
@essencepress.bsky.social. Grateful to Julie for her thoughtful curation and exquisite formatting of the series. Happy, too, to be in the wonderful company of @gregchthomas.bsky.social, Harry Josephine Giles, and Julie Johnstone.

Image of four postcards containing minimalist poems.

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · May 11

More info: Single issues of Less [series 3] are £3 each.
Issues 1-4 special group price of £10.
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · May 11

Issue 4 of Less [series 3]
blossom by Julie Johnstone
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social · May 11

Issue 3 of Less [series 3]
lessmor by Harry Josephine Giles
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

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