Artist's Book: Mean Bone (The)

This small hard backed concertina book measures 8cm x 9cm closed.

Length 112cm when fully extended.
Folding concertina with 16 pages printed in black and white with spot orange.
Digitally printed in one section on heavyweight matt stock. 
All numbered, signed and embossed with Damp Flat Books’ logo.

Cover is hardback bound with 2-tone orange book cloth.

Outer casing is  a black card slipcase with dye-cut arrow.
First edition of 20 produced in Brighton in 2017.

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Micro Artist’s Book containing a selection of illustrated idioms from several languages (Welsh, French, German, English, Latvian and Spanish). The idioms are all unkind expressions that reveal our inherent impatience with other human beings. The title ‘Mean Bone’ comes from the English expression “She hasn’t got a mean bone in her body” (to mean a kindly person), this book however, contains only ‘mean bones’ - all the snide comments that undermine. The Illustrations are a combination of scraper-board and lino cuts, artistic methods chosen to reflect the scratching and cutting of our languages - words can be painful.

The sequence of pages:

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NEW BOOK - Marshland

Here is a preview of my latest artist's book, Marshland

18cm x 23 cm artist's book with 70 pages
Reproduced from a visual diary (sketchbook) drawn daily during October.
The original sketchbook is a vintage German 'home comments' book.
The illustrations were created using red and blue; Posca pens; Lamy fountain pens; coloured pencils; pastels; index cards and rubber stamps.

The visual diary was a direct response to emotions experienced throughout the month, visualised.
I am considering print options at the moment trying to figure out what feel I want from this book.

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018-2019

Great to get my copy of the new Artist’s Book Yearbook 2018-2019 published by Impact Press at The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, September 2017

To order your copy go here:
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/publications/artists-book-yearbook.html

Damp Flat Books in this edition: 

The Mean Bone / Future Fantasteek! No.8 / Future Fantasteek! Does Inktober

Future Fantasteek! issues 14 and 15 now on ibooks

I've just made Future Fantasteek! Nos. 14 and 15 available to view on ibooks via an ipad.
You can download both issues for free from itunes.

On itunes (if you search 'Jackie Batey' ) you'll also find an interview I did with Grey Art Lab Gallery in Minneapolis earlier in the year for their 'Secrets' exhibition.

Issue No.14
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/future-fantasteek!-no.14/id681350675?mt=11

Issue No.15
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/future-fantasteek!-no.15/id681188775?mt=11

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.14 OUT NOW

Softback Zine printed in colour on cream paper. 

A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Day-glo cover in either pink, orange or green with day-glo star sticker.
Brighton, Feb 2013, edition size of 40.

Issue No.14 Unexpected Item in Bagging Area
So, why the long face? Have you been eating something suspicious... Damp Flat Products obviously deny everything and unlike Tesco - we're NOT SORRY. BUT, cheer-up! The economy is still circling-the-drain and Americans still like shooting each other (SHOCK), and everyone else wants to blow each other up - from and Xbox. Fancy some Soylent Green?
Still free to libraries and zine collections, email me: bateyjackie@gmail.com
Also available to buy online: http://www.freewebstore.org/storepage1952940.aspx

You can now read Future Fantasteek! No.14 at the following locations:

Artists’ Book Collection, Tate Britain, Millbank, London, UK

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL, USA

Texas A&M University (TAMU), Bryan, TX, USA

UK non-literary publications, 1914-present, The British Library, London, UK

Colorado College Special Collections, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

INIVA - (Institute of International Visual Arts), Rivington Place, London, UK

Library, London College of Communication, London, UK

Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Florida Atlantic University Library, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Bedeteca de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Reed College Library, Portland, OR, USA

Booklyn (zine collection), Brooklyn, NY, USA

Browne Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH , USA

The Library Hereford College of Arts, Hereford, UK

Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, USA

Paper Cut Zine Library, Cambridge MA, USA

Eton College Library, Windsor, UK

Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, USA

Book Arts & Special Collections, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, USA

National Art Library, Word & Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Biblioteca Municipal Josep Badia i Moret, Barcelona, SPAIN

Duke University, Durham NC, USA

Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, UK

Project 2013, Cafe Royal Zines, University of Central Lancashire, UK

The Culture Archive, Brighton, UK

And it's also available to purchase in the Bookarts Bookshop, London, UK

or buy online from me directly here...http://www.freewebstore.org/Damp-Flat

Book Show E exhibition showing 'We're Sorry_'

Book Show E
John Hansard Gallery Central
9 Civic Centre Road

Southampton SO14 7FJ, UK

Opening night: Friday 1st February 2013 at 6pm
Opening times: Saturday 2nd February - Saturday 2nd March 2013

Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm

http://photobookshow.co.uk

http://www.hansardgallery.org.uk

We're Sorry_  is now back in stock in a new edition and on show as part of Photo book show E.

This is the third edition of this title (ten books only in each edition). The book now has a white cover and card belly band, with 'mobile phone' bookmark.
For more information on this title select the top tab of this blog called We're Sorry.
To order a copy contact me first for availability.

READ artist's book finished

135mm x 190mm, containing 12 pages and printed endpapers.
Saddle-stitched, with red book-cloth bound hard cover with lasercut lime acrylic title: READ.

Bound into the book is a small red acrylic lasercut magnifying glass that slots into a small wage slip envelope bound into the back inside cover.
Title page has a library-style insert, dated, embossed, numbered and signed.

The book also contains a bookmark to be used as a aide memoire.

Brighton, First edition of ten produced in 2012.

This book was created for the exhibition Beyond Dickens. This exhibition of international artists' books was held in Portsmouth in November 2012 as part of the Dickens bicentenary celebrations held in the town (Dicken's birthplace).

READ was inspired by Our Mutual Friend and takes the first 20 pages of this novel but hides within them a Dickens' quote about the act of reading. The quote describes reading as being like a code, whereby the initiated can open the world of books. The quote is hidden word by word on each page in pale turquoise that can only be seen clearly when viewed through the red lense on of the magnifying glass (see images below). The endpapers are images of monochrome violent waters since Our Mutual Friend begins and ends with drownings. READ is available in an edition of 10, contact me for details.

Copies are now located in:

• Artists' Book Collection - Eton College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK
• Artists' Book Collection - The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, UK
• Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol, School of Creative Arts, Bristol, UK
• Special Collections - London College of Communication, London, UK
• Special Collections - Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. USA

  

Beyond Dickens Exhibition

An exhibition of Artist's Books inspired by the works of Charles Dickens.
Private View: Thursday 11th October, 5-7pm

1st Floor Gallery, Southsea Library, 19-21 Palmeston Road, Portsmouth, UK
Mon 8th Oct - Fri 2nd Nov
Opening hours are, Mon-Sun11am - 4pm

The exhibition showcases bookworks by national and international bookartists.
I will be exhibiting my new book, READ which was inspired by Our Mutual Friend
...more images of the exhibition and book to follow.

 

New Book - READ underway

I'm working on a new artist's book. Working title is, READ (pronounced "Red", as in the past tense of read) It's an artist's book after Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. I'm making it specifically for the exhibition, Beyond Dickens in Portsmouth (Dickens's birthplace) in Southsea Library Oct 2012.

"In celebration of the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth and as part of Portsmouth’s Cultural Olympiad celebrations we are organizing an exhibition of Artists’ Books inspired by Dickens. Throughout the year there have been a number of international and national events to mark this occasion, and this exhibition highlights the impact of Dickens as an inspiration for new creative works by contemporary artists. We are inviting artists to design and make books inspired by either a text from Charles Dickens or one of his contemporaries."

Ros Simms (Exhibition curator)

I am playing with the idea of hidden words that can be reveled when you know the secret, to mirror the act of reading, which I have always felt is like a code - you learn the technique, then all books become potential worlds full of fascination.

I've had a batch of red acrylic magnifying glasses laser cut which the reader will need to use to seek out the hidden message.