ARTISTS’ BOOKS EXHIBITIONS IN THE BOWER ASHTON LIBRARY CASES

WORKS

24 Oct

Artists’ Books Exhibitions in the Bower Ashton Library cases, UWE, Bristol, UK
Gracia & Louise Remote Residency
Sunday 1st November – Monday 30th November, 2020

Between us, the Archive at the Centre for Fine Print Research and Bower Ashton Library at UWE, Bristol have been collecting artists’ books and zines by Melbourne based artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison since 2008. Between them, Gracia & Louise have created 200+ beautiful artists’ books and zines since 2000 as part of their collaborative practice. “We are besotted with paper for its adaptable, foldable, cut-able, concealable, revealing nature. In our artists’ books, prints, zines, drawings, and collages too, we use an armoury of play, humour, and perhaps the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you in.”

Sadly, we are still unable to welcome the public back into the library at the moment, so we thought – why not invite some artists who are physically far away to have an exhibition that we can all see online. As Gracia & Louise have such a well thought out and informative website with images and texts on each of their books we invited them to have a remote residency / exhibition showcasing some of their books held here in Special Collections and the CFPR Archives that you can visit on their website.