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Book Works
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Established in 1984, Book Works is a contemporary arts organisation dedicated to making and publishing books.

https://bookworks.org.uk
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look he's been busy wrestling with the big philosophical issues ok
August 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A new show of works by Stuart Brisley (made between the 1960s and now) opens on 11 September at the Lungley Gallery lungleygallery.com/stuart-brisl...
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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We'll be joined by Diana Georgiou for a reading from her book Other Reflexes. Last year we commissioned five writers to each respond to the book with a sensory text work - read them here then pick up a copy of the novel on Saturday!

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June 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We're pulling up at the Peckham Pelican this saturday for The Uncorrected Independent Publishers' Fair, with some of our favourite indie presses - 11–6, with readings from 2pm, special offers etc etc – come along! #TUIPF25
June 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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London, tonight is the last chance to hear the incredible
Kathryn Scanlan on this UK tour. She's in conversation with the equally brilliant Holly Pester at @Foyles Charing Cross this evening at 7pm.

Tickets here: foyles.co.uk/events/kathr...
June 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Another Kathryn Scanlan London event just announced - she'll be in conversation with Holly Pester at @foylesforbooks.bsky.social Charing X on 12 June

If you missed out on the LRB event,, come and join us here. Tickets:
www.foyles.co.uk/events/kathr...
May 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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We are excited to announce our new open call series, Satirical Strains, guest-edited by Holly Pester.

We're looking to work with two emerging writers to develop original short books or equivalent. Full details and how to apply here:
bookworks.org.uk/news/new-ope...
April 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Please take a few minutes to fill in our reader survey, and we'll give you a 30% discount code as a thank you!

We only have 87 followers here but engagement is already better & more thoughtful than X so we'd love to hear from you cherished 87!

tinyurl.com/bookworksurvey
February 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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There are a couple of spaces left on the Book Works Studio's Boxmaking for Beginners evening course starting on Monday 3 March. You will learn how to make a clamshell box and a two-part box.

The classes are 6.30–9pm on Mondays, and run for six weeks.

bookworks.org.uk/studio/bookb...
February 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Amy Ching-Yan Lam in conversation with Aurelia Guo for the Spring issue of @tankmagazine.bsky.social, discussing how housing makes and unmakes us, via their books Property Journal (Book Works) and World of Interiors (Divided) 💗

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February 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The Book Works half price sale must (or will, at least) end tomorrow, Friday 31st January 2025!

Payday + January + half-price artist books = 😃

bookworks.org.uk/sale/
January 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Our Winter Sale continues – loads of incredible artists' books are currently half-price on our site, with books by artists like Susan Hiller, Prem Sahib, Jeremy Deller, Katrina Palmer, Bouchra Khalili and many many more, with prices from just 50p!

Browse/shop here: bookworks.org.uk/sale/
January 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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We're proud to share Katrina Palmer's powerful speech at the opening of her National Gallery residency show in December.

The Touch Report runs until 2 March 2024 at the National Gallery and the book is out now:

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A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a grey photo of an empty space on the gallery wall where a painting once hung. The first part reads: "This year of my residency coincided with racist riots across the country and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. And I’ve spent the year looking at the violences in the gallery’s collection. There’s much else here besides that, and I’ve been struck by the sensational qualities of many, really spellbinding works, but I’m also asking how it’s possible that there are quite so many paintings that depict weapons, torture and domination, yet what’s projected somehow is an air of superiority and refinement." (1/4) A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a grey photo of an empty space on the gallery wall where a painting once hung. Text reads: "In global politics, when there’s so much passivity in the face of the genocidal demographic takeover in Gaza, it seems important to reflect on how the brutal infliction of suffering can be framed in terms of precision, intelligence and skill. I’m conscious of allegory used as a weapon of gendered and class-based oppression and the insidious power of mythology that makes it possible to dream up and instigate violence but to locate it with the exotic – as if it’s something that happens over there." (2/4) A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a greyscsle photo of a close up on some patterned fabric with tears and punctures in it. Text reads: "What can appear to be surface imagery has persistent ideological impact, and with so many of these artworks already embedded in my consciousness I’ve been walking through the galleries on my own, drawn into and caught up with the power and drama of the collection. In one of these paintings a finger is pressed into a hole, in the side of a man’s body. He’s doubting and testing what’s real. There’s a hole in the bookcase as you enter the reading room and I was remembering this idea of the wound as a site of enquiry." (3/4) A graphic of Katrina Palmer's speech at the opening of The Touch Report, the culmination of her year long artist residency at the National Gallery. There are four graphics in total which together contain the speech. Pink text on a black backing over a greyscale photo of a close up on an artwork, processed so that the artwork cannot be made out. Text reads: "In these ways the residency has made me think differently. I see the collection as a useful resource because the artworks don’t hide aggressive fantasies, they depict them, vividly, they hold up a mirror in that sense – to who we really are, to who is celebrated and who is not, and to the lack of humanity that people are capable of. In other words, if ever there was a time for institutions to reflect on how violence is inherent to the western civilising project, it is now." (4/4)
January 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM