The 4th Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize Exhibition

READ has been accepted as part of the The 4th Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize Exhibition, As in previous years, this year’s exhibition will feature artists' books and will be staged as part of the Off The Shelf Festival in Sheffield in October 2013.

Exhibition dates: 5th October - 30th November, 2013
SIABP, Bank Street Arts, 32-40 Bank Street, Sheffield, S1 2DS, U.K.

The catalogue of this exhibition has also just been published.

Work in progress

I'm currently working on a long vertical drawing that will be able to fold into an artist's book, working title: Drip Drip Drip.  The drawings will form an imagined cross-section through London from the Bank of England down into the earth past the Underground then past one of the hidden underground rivers and into the Underworld. Hidden within the illustrations are two quotes about economics by Dickens. 

For research I visited the Bank of England Museum, Bank station underground as well as researched the lost rivers of London and engineering cross-sections. Images of the Underworld have long been an interest since writing my degree dissertation on Apocalypse Manuscripts many years ago. I also read The Inferno (Hell and Purgatory) and Paradise Lost (which has given me some great ideas for future projects - thank you Mr.Milton).

Here are some photos of work in progress, I'm using technical pens, Japanese papers and a light box, which explains the yellow tinge in the pics here. I'm planning for the book to be in black and white with one spot colour, maybe magenta, maybe not.

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! No 15 OUT NOW

Softback zine laser printed in black & white on cream and blue (for a boy) paper.
A5 size with 20 printed pages, saddle-stitched.
Manilla cover in laserprint black with hand-pulled yellow sérigraphie screen print.
Brighton, July 2013, edition size of 40.

Issue No.15 Here Comes Another One
What's been happening in the BIG WIDE WORLD... Who cares!
Look at the BABY that'll take your mind off things, the Wefare State can cope with one more...

Still free to libraries and zine collections, email me: bateyjackie@gmail.com
Also available to buy online: http://www.freewebstore.org/storepage1952940.aspx

Read on Issuu NOW...


This issue will soon also be available from the ibook store ...

Here's issue no.15 'Here Comes Another One' being printed.

For a change I printed the cover using a 30yr old serigraphie  (French children's mini screen print toy).

It prints a bit erratically (or maybe that was me) using cut out paper stencils.

Here's how they came out, I printed yellow on brown wrapping paper, after laser printing the black first.