Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th February 2023
Open 10:00 - 1800 on Saturday and 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday
Free Entry
Next
weekend, Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery will hold this year's Artists'
Bookmarket for another two days of workshops, talks and the opportunity
to see and buy work from exhibiting artists.
The fair will be open from 10 til 6pm Saturday and 10 til 5pm on Sunday, with free entry on both days.
I'll be exhibiting with much of the work pictured below, alongside
many other artists and small publishers. A full list of the talks and
workshops happening over the weekend can be found at https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/artists-bookmarket/
Hopefully see some of you there next weekend!
Friday, 10 February 2023
The Fruitmarket Gallery Presents: Artists' Bookmarket 2023
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Tam O'Shanter: limited edition artists book
Scroll down for photos and more information!
I'm really pleased with the way that this book has come out and I'm especially happy that Jim Smith allowed me to use his English translation of Tam O' Shanter - it was my favourite translation of the poem.
If you or anyone else would be interested in purchasing one, then copies will be available in my online shop from 5pm on Sunday 17th July 2022 at https://joannarobsonillustration.bigcartel.com/
Do feel free to get in touch with me through the contact form on the shop website if you've any questions or comments about the work!
Monday, 11 July 2022
Update: A Knavish Lad at the National Building Museum
This month the Playhouse went live at the National Building Museum (see previous post from June 2022). Scroll down for images of the installation and their newly installed stage for performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream throughout July and August 2022!
All photography by Elman Studio. Courtesy National Building Museum.
All photography by Elman Studio. Courtesy National Building Museum. |
I'm delighted with the way the artwork looks within the installation and cannot quite believe that those etched illustrations I created are now several feet high! It's lovely to see some of the pictures coming through on social media too and I hope visitors to the NBM enjoy looking at the artwork.
I must give thanks here to the Imaging Services at the National Library of Scotland for their digitisation of the etched illustrations in A Knavish Lad. They took my etchings - which were a mere 15cm high - and created files of them with a resolution high enough that they could be reproduced at the size you see here in these photos.
There is little chance I'd ever have been able to get such a high resolution of those etchings with my own scanner and / or camera, so a big thanks is owed to them for their help here.
The Playhouse is on until Sunday 28th August 2022 at the National Building Museum, Washington D.C. Further information is available at https://www.nbm.org/national-building-museum-and-folder-shakespeare-library-bring-the-wonders-of-shakespeare-to-the-great-hall/
Monday, 6 June 2022
A Knavish Lad at the National Building Museum, Washington DC
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The Great Hall at the National Building Museum |
I am delighted to share here that the artwork from my artists book
A Knavish Lad (2016) will be featured at the National Building
Museum (NBM) in Washington D.C. as part of a collaboration they’re doing
this summer with the Folger Shakespeare Library.
The artwork from the
book will form part of an immersive installation
for visitors to walk through within the Great Hall at the NBM (pictured above) and will coincide with the staging of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream at The Playhouse at the NBM in July and August.
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A Knavish Lad (detail) |
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A Knavish Lad (detail) |
Folger Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will be in performance Tuesdays through Sundays from Tuesday, July 12 through Sunday, August 28, 2022. Tickets to Midsummer are available now at www.folger.edu/theatre or by calling the Folger Box Office, 202-544-7077.
Full information available at https://www.nbm.org/national-building-museum-and-folder-shakespeare-library-bring-the-wonders-of-shakespeare-to-the-great-hall/
Really looking forward to seeing this project come into being next month and to sharing any photos of it both here and on social media.
Watch this space!
Monday, 9 May 2022
Artists' Bookmarket 2022 at the Fruitmarket Gallery
The Fruitmarket Gallery Presents:
Artists' Bookmarket 2022
Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th May 2022
Open 10:00 - 1800 on Saturday and 10:00 - 17:00 Sunday
I will be exhibiting with much of the work pictured below, alongside many other participants - for the full list of this year's stallholders visit https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/artists-bookmarket-2022/ A full list of the talks and workshops happening over the weekend can be found below.
Hopefully see some of you there next weekend!
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
SATURDAY 14.05.22
11am–12.15pm.
Workshop: Edinburgh Zine Library, Zine Fever: Exploring the History of Zines
Studio. 12 places. Ages 16+. Book via Eventbrite
Focusing on exploring themes in the stories we tell.
11am–1.30pm.
Workshop: Marion Archibald: Introduction to Book-Making
Information Room. 10 places. Ages 14+. £20+BF. Book via Eventbrite
Introduction to basic techniques of book making: folded and cut books, sewn pamphlets and creating a hard cover for a folded book. By the end of the workshop you will have a selection of simple books to take away and templates for future use.
1.30–2.15pm.
Talk: Adam Geary: A Photobook Journey
Studio. Free.
Geary has been publishing photobooks featuring his own work and that of other photographers for over 10 years. With over 35 photobooks under his belt, Geary will take you through his approach to publishing with inspirations for how you might make your own books.
2–3pm.
Workshop: Ciarrai Samson: Letterlocking Workshop
Information Room. 12 places. Adults and 8+. £12+BF. Book via Eventbrite
A brief overview of letterlocking, the historical practice of folding or cutting to secure a letter without an envelope, introduces six different letterlocking techniques, each using a single sheet of paper, with no glue or scissors.
2.45–3.30pm
Talk: C.A. Hiley & Cé Simonis: How We Make Our Work
Studio. Free.
Storytellers and self-publishers, the artists share how they use their riso-machine and printmaking knowledge to create unusual visual narratives that are accessible to a broad public.
3.30–4.30pm.
Workshop: Lucy Roscoe: A Garden in a Book
Information Room. 10 places. Adults. £16+BF. Book via Eventbrite
Create your very own garden using the book form of a compound concertina. Building on a classic pamphlet stitch you will learn some practical bookmaking skills that can easily be done at home, then explore how the complex concertina form can be manipulated to create beautiful results. Along the way we will discuss colour, texture, papers and why we make books.
4–4.45pm
Talk: David Faithfull: (W)ORD Ebbe + Flow Project
Studio. Free.
Faithfull discusses his collaborative project with Norwegian-based artist Imi Maufe. In a travelling exhibition 9 artists have an individual drawer in a specially designed chest, which opens to reveal sculptures, drawings, prints, video and artefacts to fill the space in any sized gallery, ferry, barn or other unusual exhibition space. An artist’s book accompanies the project.
SUNDAY 15.05.22
11am – 12.15pm
Workshop: Edinburgh Zine Library.
Choose Your Own Adventure: (Re)telling Scottish Myths and Legends
Studio. Ages 12+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult).
Book via Eventbrite
Brian from Stout Stoat Press will guide you through making a Choose Your Own Adventure zine – drawing inspiration from classic myths and legends.
10.30am–12pm
Workshop: Elaine Robson: Three Spines
Information Room. 12 places. Adults and 12+. £5+BF. Book via Eventbrite
If a book can be considered a form that collects and conveys information, how does the binder sequence that information and what happens when the reader can change the page order? Three different folded paper structures that need no glue or stitching to hold loose pages, postcards or prints.
12.15–2.15pm
Workshop: Kerry Douglas: Coptic Binding
Information Room. 10 places. Ages 14+. £20+BF. Book via Eventbrite
Learn the intricate technique of ‘Coptic’ binding, also known as the ‘link stitch’ and come away with your own beautifully handbound A6 book that lays open flat and is easy to write or sketch in. Using traditional tools, participants will focus on grain direction of paper, attaching covers and the main focus will be on learning the coptic stitch.
2.15–3pm
Talk: RUHUMAN – Keith Armstrong’s Typewriter Art
Studio. Free.
Barrie Tullett introduces the meticulous typewriter art of artist and disability rights activist Keith Armstrong, celebrated in a new publication from The Caseroom Press.
3.30–4.15pm
Talk: David Henningham: Foulness – a novel in three editions
Studio. Free.
The Henningham Family Press’s innovative split editions divide their print run between paperback and hand-finished editions, so that the same books which find homes in museum collections are also accessible through high street book shops. Publisher David Henningham shares how he applied his experience of presenting the same material across different editions to the publication of his novel Foulness which describes the uncanny island of Foulness in Essex.
3.45–4.45pm.
Workshop: Rachel Ashenden & Molly Gilroy (The Debutante): Surrealist Collage
Information Room. 10 places. All ages. £5+BF. Book via Eventbrite
Unleash your inner child by creating new worlds with fragments of materials. You’ll be given a brief history of surrealist collage, receive collage prompt, and be guided through making your own collage creation.
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Tam O' Shanter: new artists book
I am finally able to share images from a recently completed
book art project that was started long before the pandemic, a wordless
paper-cut leporello book of Robert
Burns' epic poem Tam O' Shanter -
The poem follows the misadventures of farmer Tam on his way home from another night in the pub and a
chance encounter with a coven of witches and warlocks along the way...
I felt that the supernatural subject matter of the poem lent itself very well to being re-told in this format, especially the chase scene, and the artwork focuses almost exclusively on the journey home from the tavern...
This version of Tam O' Shanter is in an open edition, however each copy will have its own unique number. It's my intention to create a limited edition version next year.
Tam O' Shanter will be available to purchase from my online shop from
5pm on Sunday 21st November 2021
You can visit the online shop at
https://joannarobsonillustration.bigcartel.com/