Arcadia id Est - Exhibition is now touring during 2007:

Arcadia id Est is on touring in 2007:
Feb 1st - Feb 22nd 2007: 
John M Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA 

9th March - 13th May 2007
Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, USA

1 June - 31 July 2007
Rhode Island School of Art and Design, Providence, USA

20 August - 2 October 2007
Noosa Regional Gallery, Australia

Menthol Daze is being shown as part of Arcadia Id Est - A travelling exhibition organised by the Centre for Fine Print Research, The University of the West of England.

The booklet is 107mm X 150mm. The inside page once opened is 297mm x 420mm (A3)

The cover is printed on white card, the inside page is black and white on 130g cartridge paper. There is space for 14 collectors' cards. Each edition has 9 cards pasted in. The collectors' cards are printed in colour on glossy paper. Menthol Daze is produced in editions of 7, it is now on its third edition. 

Menthol Daze is a fold-out page containing spaces for collected cigarette cards. The booklet is produced under my own invented brand Elysian's Cigarettes. 

The images are manipulated collages from Salem cigarette advertisements and images from the Sierra Club publications from the 'fifties. The cards are numbered and when pasted into the booklet, text accompanies each picture. The images are intended to represent the clichéd images of delightful countryside, so often used in selling products - by attempting to make them appear natural. The text that accompanies each image however details reasons to be uncertain of the countryside. Threats in the natural environment range from nuclear testing contamination, dangerous infections carried in rivers and annual lawn mower injuries, to the link between temperature change and heart attacks. The intention of Menthol Daze was to juxtapose threat and relaxation found in the Great Outdoors in order to satirize the inflated claims made for nature in advertisements - cereals, shampoo, cars, sweets and snacks, insurance and mobile phones.

This booklet was originally created as part of my PhD submission, for the University of Brighton.

Sitting Room - Exhibition

Sitting Room Exhibition has continued on to the Permanent Bookshop, Brighton.
Anxious Homes from Damp Flat Books is part of the group show.
The Private View will be on 31st January and the show will run until 18th February 2007

Poetry Books: Reading Books - Exhibition

Poetry Books: Reading Books - 25 January 2007 - 24 March 2007
Exhibition will be at the Broekhuis Bookshop, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Notebook 57 from Damp Flat Books is in the exhibition.

...For more about the show visit the link below:
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bruik07.htm

Montage Over Britain - Exhibition

Montage Over Britain : David Ferry plus Artists’ Books from the CFPR Collection
Saturday 9 December 2006 - Sunday 14 January 2007
Permanent Gallery and Bookshop, Brighton.

We're Sorry_ from Damp Flat Books will be in the exhibition.
Accompanying the show will be a unique collection of 45 contemporary books by artists, available for visitors to view. This collection has been especially selected for The Permanent Bookshop by Sarah Bodman, and includes the work of Jake Tilson, Yoko Ono, Sophie Calle and David Shrigley.


For more about the exhibition:
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/montag06.htm


For links to The Permanent Bookshop:
http://www.permanentgallery.com/

Sitting Room - Exhibition

Sitting Room has continued on to the Alsager Arts Centre, 4th December 2006 – 26th January 2007. MMU Cheshire, Alsager Campus, Hassall Road, Alsager, ST7 2HL
www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk

The setting is a carefully re-created Sitting Room complete with comfortable armchairs, standard lamp, wallpaper, coffee table and gramophone, inviting visitors to peruse the unique display of artist’s books. Within this familiar domestic scene, emphasis is placed upon the engagement between the book and the reader. Visitors are encouraged to choose an artist’s book from the bookcase, make themselves at home in the sitting room and enjoy this rare opportunity to handle and interact with the limited edition artists-made book works. Curators Tom Sowden and Lucy May Schofield, part of the Righton Press Group, based at Manchester Metropolitan University, conceived the idea for the show through a frustration of exhibiting their own books within the confines of glass cabinets. 

Anxious Homes from Damp Flat Books is on show. 

KART Magazine of Multiplicity - Guest Artist

KART Magazine of Multiplicity - Australia
This is an ongoing project - A specially produced mini-excerpt from Future Fantasteek! (edition 40) will be participating in KART during Dec. 2006. The KART (Field Study) is curated by David Dellafiora at Karingal Community Living. PO BOX 1838 Greelong, VIC 3220, Australia.
Email: fluxusstudy@hotmail.com
Issues of KART comprise of 15 various limited edition artworks in a portfolio-box. Some issues will be sold to institutions, libraries and archives. Karingal is a non-for-profit organisation and provides activities and services for people with a disability or who are experiencing disadvantage.

This edition of KART will be sent to: 

The State Library of Victoria, Australia, Sackners Visual Poetry Archived, U.S.A
University of Buffalo, U.S.A and Sticky - Artist's Bookshop/Zineshop in Melbourne, Australia.

Future Fantasteek No.1 can be viewed here...

New Orleans Bookfair - Exhibition

Damp Flat Books will be appearing at the New Orleans Bookfair - Babylon Lexicon - Hurrah!
Selected books and my catalogue will be on display in this showcase of artists' books and book-related art.
The New Orleans Bookfair opens Oct 28th, 2006, from 10am - 6pm, Barrister's Gallery, 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA, U.S.A


The exhibition runs through to the end of November 2006.
Link to the bookfair here...

Notebook 57 and Future Fantasteek! were at the show and now reside in the Hot Iron Press's permanent Artist's Book Collection.

Bookart Bookshop - Stocking Damp Flat Books

Bookart Bookshop in London are now supplying my books. 17 Pitfield st, London N1 6HB
Opening hours: 1-7pm Wednesday to Friday, 1-6pm Saturday. Email: info@bookartbookshop.com
We're Sorry_ was 'book of the month' during february this year.


http://www.bookartbookshop.com/

Future Fantasteek! Issue No.1

ISSUE ONE : JULY 2006

...Things You Need Issue

Softback Zine printed in greyscale on flourescent lime paper, staple bound.

A5 size containing 16 printed pages, with a flexible clear-multilens pvc cover.

Issue one: Brighton 2006, edition size of fifty.

This Zine is full of eveything that’s wrong with modern living, modern people and going to work. It’s a mixture of hand-drawn typographic slogans and advice with curious advertisements thrown in for good measure. Buy an Evil-Pet or a machine for generating Stupid Ideas. The Damp Flat Research Facilities have wasted no time in bringing you the most up to date advice along with plausible excuses that can be profered for any event.

Things you need and things you don’t - if you can’t tell ‘em apart... YOU NEED THIS ZINE

Future Fantasteek Issue 1 can be viewed here:

http://www.dampflat.com/DAMPFLAT/books/zines/future1/index.htm

Or you can flick through it on issuu.com

http://issuu.com/futurefantasteek/docs/ff1

Sitting Room - Exhibition

Anxious Homes is visiting the Manchester Craft and Design Centre in an exhibition called, Sitting Room. From 20th May - 15th July 2006. This is a touring show.

"This will be a handling show of artists' books held in environments that have been created to allow the books to be freely read. The exhibition areas of each venue will become a sitting room, complete with soft armchairs, standard lamp, coffee table and wallpaper. Re-creating a non-descript domestic scene. On the wall will be bookcases or bookshelves all stocked with artists' books that the viewers are free to access and peruse within the comfortable surroundings that have been supplied."

Arcadia id Est - Exhibition is now touring during 2006

Menthol Daze is moving again as part of, Arcadia Id Est - artists’ books, nature and the landscape: Touring Exhibition 2005-2007. 


Netherlands. 1st April – 15th June 2006
Library AKI, Hallenweg 5, 7500 BK
Enschede, The Netherlands. 


Then July 2006 - August 2006 
Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki

Bookmarks III - Exhibition

Book-O-Meter my edition of 100 bookmarks, now moves to the USABookmarks i, ii and iii Exhibition
Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University, USA from 6th March – 23rd April, 2006

"This exhibition features fine-art prints in the form of bookmarks and artists’ books. “Bookmarks” is a multi-part project from The Centre for Fine Print Research at The University of the West of England, to encourage people to appreciate artwork in the book format and to visit artist’s book venues and libraries. The projects involve artists who work in the format of the artist’s book, each of whom generously produces an edition of 100 bookmarks for free distribution to the public. The display sets have already been installed in over 32 venues, with more than 90 contributing artists producing over 9,000 bookmarks since May 2004."

Summary of 2005

2005 has been a good year for Damp Flat Books. The 2004 catalogue did really well keeping me very busy this year. The main change is that I’ve completed my new website, showcasing all my current books & multiples. It also houses sketchbook work, artist statements, exhibitions and links to new projects I’m starting.

www.dampflat.com

Menthol Daze is being exhibited as part of Arcadia Id Est - A travelling exhibition organised by the Centre for Fine Print Research, The University of the West of England. The show runs from March 2005 to December 2006 and is travelling around the world from Australia to the UK - it’s in Australia about now.

I also exhibited 3 bookworks in the 2nd Seoul International Bookarts Fair in Korea 3rd-8th June 2005, where Running a Secret Society No.20 won a Medal.

As part of my research for the University of Portsmouth I received funding to create a new artist’s book alongside a student project exchange. The project consisted of a short trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in association with the Universiti Teknologi MARA and The Alif Creative Academy where I acted as external examiner, but also worked on a new book called My Favourtie Souvenir. This unusual hardback 3-folding-book written in Malay and English will be exhibited in Canada in Dec 2005 - Jan 2006 and Malaysia during winter 2006.

I have also created two more new books this year:

We’re Sorry - a celebration of broken machinery and clapped-out computers all suripticiously captured on camera phone and bought together in a small double-bound blue book, sealed with hazard tape.

 

Evil Eyes - a strange set of photographic faces seen in everyday objects, such as staplers and vending machines. Horizontally-opening cloth bound hardback book.

During the updating of the website I decide to open my own online museum. 

The Damp Museum can now be visited at www.dampflat.com and the curator contacted,
but I’m not sure what he’s up to ...