Shelter Artists' Books Exhibition

New book - Head Room & Anxious Homes have both been accepted for exhibition due to open in late April - May 2008. This book will be available to view on my website soon. It's featured on the exhibition publicity, see left (it's second from top, the pink skyscraper).

The exhibition is now touring America:

April 10 - 22, 2008
Wedeman Gallery, Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lasell College, Newton, MA

May 9 - June 19, 2008
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD

July 9 - August 15, 2008
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Oct 6 – 31, 2008
Montserrat College of Art’s 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA

April 8 - May 3, 2009
Wells College, Aurora, NY

January - February 2009
Holy Cross College Art Gallery, Worcester, MA

New Book - Headroom

The book is a visual response to the drive to fit more and more people into an ever diminishing space. The U.K is under pressure to find more housing and every patch of land, including gardens,are being built upon. New housing is tightly packed with little concern for the environment or the needs of the new residents. Whilst reading Roget's Thesaurus, I noticed the thematic listing of words was taking on a poetic significance, I used the word lists in the order they appeared in the Thesaurus to convey a sense of melancholy amongst the crowds. The book is printed on accounting paper to show financial pressures, the drawings are a mixture of my photographs of buildings and drawings of imaginary future towers, unintentionally imprisoning their tenants. The text is rubber stamped. 

290mm x 110mm. 14 pages with ending with edition number, signature and maker's emboss. 
To view this book visit my website at: http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/headroom/index.htm

Now touring the U.S. as part of the Shelter Artist's Book Exhibition.

• April 10 - 22, 2008 - Wedeman Gallery, Yamawaki Art and Cultural Center, Lasell College, Newton, MA, USA
• May 9 - June 19, 2008 - Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA
• July 9 - August 15, 2008 - Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
• Oct 6 – 31, 2008 - Montserrat College of Art’s 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, USA
• April 8 - May 3, 2009 - Wells College, Aurora, NY, USA
• January - February 2009 - Holy Cross College Art Gallery, Worcester, MA, USA

New Book - Reboot

Reboot - Limited Edition of 10, Brighton 2008

400mm x 170mm, a double spiral-bound pair of books each of 20 pages
The cover is clear acrylic closed with magnetic catches
Hand-cut rubberstamp icons are added to final printed pages
Several real capacitors and fuses are threaded into two of the pages

This is a book about computers. Do they really hate us? Why are computers so indignant when you want to open files, rewarding your impetuousness with spinning balls and hourglass icons. This is a book about technological brokenness. We rely more and more on technology and computers, ignoring the fact that there seems to be a mechanical revolt gradually gathering pace all around us - soon the only tasks left for us will be hand-drawing the Out of Order signs to hang on the machines. Over a period of time, I’ve been recording technology failures photographically as well as drawing the language of brokenness, cryptic messages such as, disc error and are you sure you want to shut-down?

I've combined my photographs and drawings into this pair of books, added to this hand-cut rubber stamps of familiar computer icons - hourglass, watch, cursor arrow and older legacy icons such as the floppy disk. Scanned legacy peripherals such as scsi leads and old network cables tangle across the pages, to remind us just how fast technology is moving.
The books work as a pair and should be opened and read simultaneously.


To View this book in more detail visit:
http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/reboot/index.htm

This book was created for the Re:2008 Exhibition held by the We Love Your Books Collective
The exhibition will start at:
Artworks MK, Milton Keynes, UK from 14th July–14th Aug. 2008
The Gallery, Herefordshire College of Art – Summer 2008
The Space Gallery, University of Portsmouth from 3rd-14th Nov. 2008
Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK. Dec. 2008

Reboot is also held in:

Modern British Collections, The British Library, London, UK
The Ministry of Books, University of portsmouth, UK

Zineopolis Exhibition

Zineopolis Exhibition - 22nd February - 14th March 2008
The University Library, University of Portsmouth, UK

New zine collection a the University called Zineopolis will be showcasing its collection - Including all the Future Fantasteeks! 
www.zineopolis.co.uk

 

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.4

ISSUE FOUR : FEBRUARY 2008
...Sick-O Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on orange and yellow paper, staple bound.
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Day-glo orange cover with yellow dots.
Issue Four: Brighton 2008, edition size of fifty.

The Damp Flat Research team are wondering why eveyone's so sick lately. They are also quickly investing, on-the-side, in the pharmaceutical industry. What with Norovirus and advice on how to take a 'sickie' there seems to be no healthy folk left. This issue also includes how to spot whether you have ended-up working for the Departement of Stupidity and the right way to wash your hands. I would write more, but I'm feeling off-colour and need to lay down... 


To view this zine in more detail go here...
http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future4/index.htm


Or to flick through this zine on Issuu go here:
http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff4

The British Library now has copies of Damp Flat Books

The whole Damp Flat Collection can now be viewed at The British Library. The library has recently purchased a copy of each title for their Modern British Collections section.

The British Library
96 Euston Rd
London NW1 2DB

There is also a link to this website from the British Library's Fine Presses, Artists' Books, and Book Arts website
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/artarchperf/art/finepressesartistsbooksandbookarts/finepresses.html

The Blue Notebook - Guest Artist

The Blue Notebook - peer reviewed journal about artists' books.
Edited by Sarah Bodman - August 2007 issue.

I was invited to produce an Artist’s Page - Evil-Pet Shop

In each issue 5 artists are asked to provide an artist's page. The content of the page is entirely open and can be text, image or both. The only stipulation is that it needs to be A4 portrait, RGB colour, saved as a jpeg or pdf at 300dpi. The Blue Notebook is produced as a full colour pdf and also a black and white printed magazine.

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.3

ISSUE THREE : JULY 2007
...Carbon Footprint Issue 

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on yellow paper, staple bound with central section in colour. 
A5 size containing 16 printed pages. Bronze cover with dye cut shape.
Issue three: Brighton 2007, edition size of fifty.

Once again, the Damp Flat Research team share their fantastic inventions, ideas and advice.
The evil central colour pull-out has a mirror where you can see your evil twin or simply worry more with the new Damp Worry Doll. 
There are inventions to help you spot a bad idea; pretend to talk like a grown-up or slow yourself down to avoid having to do anything.
That and so much more - are you really being watched? 

To view this zine in more detail visit:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future3/index.htm

Or to flick through online visit issuu at:

http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff3

Future Fantasteek! will soon available from:
PURE GROOVE Music Store, 679 Holloway Road, London N19 5SE, UK

Sitting Room - Exhibition

Sitting Room Exhibition has continued on to Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art.
The show opens on 6th July, with a private view on 11th July, and runs until 2nd August 2007.
Anxious Homes from Damp Flat Books is part of the group show, see 2006 news below for more details about this exhibition. 
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/sitting07.htm