24.4.11
Wayzgoose at Hot Bed Press
Next weekend Hot Bed Press will be hosting a Wayzgoose as part of the Sights from the Other City Arts Event. The doors will be open on Saturday 30th April and Sunday 1st May, from 11am until 5pm, free entry, with tables and walls filled with art and beautiful printed things for sale, by artists who print and work at Hot Bed Press, including Bracketpress, we'll be holding a table on both days, all day.
15.3.11
Craftworks talk: 'A WHISTLE STOP TOUR OF LETTERPRESS'.
The artist Amy Pennington is doing a talk and live letterpress printing at the Anthony Burgess foundation in Manchester on the evening of the 18th and 19th March, as part of the Craftworks programme, she'll be discussing becoming a printer's devil, documenting interviews and drawings from her research. The event is free, but you'll need to book places... for more details: http://www.librarytheatre.com/project/craft-works
9.3.11
Bracketpress at the Leeds Artists Book Fair
On Friday 11th & Saturday 12th March, Bracketpress have a table at the Leeds Artists Book Fair, we'll be around all day selling books, pamphlets, and printed matter of all sorts, if you want to stop by and say Hello.
For more details: http://leedsartbookfair.com
For more details: http://leedsartbookfair.com
4.3.11
The doors are now open
... to The Idler Academy
We had a fantastic launch last week, with people turning up to the shop in their hundreds. Sipping Absinthe cocktails, meeting the best dressed Chaps and Ladies in town - I reckon John Mitchinson had the best get-up. I've never been in a smaller room with the most eclectic mix of people (being merry with each other) in all my life! I left feeling slightly red-cheeked at being presented with a six pence by Emma Thompson, and nodding at 'celebrities' who I've never met...
I can't believe Tom and Victoria have pulled this shop around so quickly and it feels like a home, and the new addition Jess will make the place something else.
The bookshelves are stacked and packed full of carefully chosen curated books. The timetable is organised. And the Tuck shop is packed with nostalgic treats and stationary. There is an array of framed illustrations from past issues of the Idler, which will soon be made available as giclee, silkscreen and letterpress prints (more details will follow shortly), and there's plans for more events, courses, art shows, and good stuff soon.
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It's great to see the doors are finally open...
We had a fantastic launch last week, with people turning up to the shop in their hundreds. Sipping Absinthe cocktails, meeting the best dressed Chaps and Ladies in town - I reckon John Mitchinson had the best get-up. I've never been in a smaller room with the most eclectic mix of people (being merry with each other) in all my life! I left feeling slightly red-cheeked at being presented with a six pence by Emma Thompson, and nodding at 'celebrities' who I've never met...
I can't believe Tom and Victoria have pulled this shop around so quickly and it feels like a home, and the new addition Jess will make the place something else.
The bookshelves are stacked and packed full of carefully chosen curated books. The timetable is organised. And the Tuck shop is packed with nostalgic treats and stationary. There is an array of framed illustrations from past issues of the Idler, which will soon be made available as giclee, silkscreen and letterpress prints (more details will follow shortly), and there's plans for more events, courses, art shows, and good stuff soon.
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It's great to see the doors are finally open...
28.1.11
Incline Press – now with added Paypal
On the other side of the hill in Oldham, lives Incline Press – a fine maker of letterpress printed books.
They've added a shopping cart facility to their website,
and looking forward to get a hold of their forthcoming book on E R Weiss...
They've added a shopping cart facility to their website,
and looking forward to get a hold of their forthcoming book on E R Weiss...
Idler 44 – illustrators
The next issue of the Idler magazine will be out in May 2011.
We've asked Pete Willis, Sam Green, Karolin Schnoor, Clifford Harper, David Galletly, Bron Jones and Nina McNamara to illustrate more Idler essays.
We've asked Pete Willis, Sam Green, Karolin Schnoor, Clifford Harper, David Galletly, Bron Jones and Nina McNamara to illustrate more Idler essays.
31.12.10
Au Revoir the Mountains of 2010
Bright things coming out of the blue! / being snowed in for most of December / Bracketpress’ 5th year & an exhibition at MMU / realising we’ve printed and published over 500 Bracketpress items in the last 5 years / finally publishing This Crippled Flesh / getting back to pencil & ink / screen printing at Hot Bed Press / the installation of the Carnaby Street exhibition / working with Judith Clark / superman bookshelves / Computer Arts magazine/ AOI annual and exhibition /reads from Hamish Hamilton and Virago / learning & teaching, teaching and learning… / cottage industries/ HANDS + GRAY + RGB + CMYK / prints and posters / shit happens at Pictures On Walls / Murderme / Alexander McQueen rip/ the Protests… a rebelution / meeting Jo – pamphlet and book sewer at the speed of light, lending us a much needed hand / starry moment after Killing Joke gig / talking atoms and cosmos with Dad /keeping up with the Jonesy / Mum’s boots / quickest days and sunsets in Cyprus / hate planes / ear infections from hammering ipod / good intentions & wishful thinking / falling short… must try harder / saying goodbye to Grandma /finally learning to drive / flowers glowing in the dark / prefer giant trees to green-shoots / badly behaved cancers / riddles /herbs and filth/ …
24.12.10
Christmas Card Artillery + Deadline
The perfectly timed / too-late New Year books have gone into production, under the watchful eye of the Gangmasters at Bracketpress.
And will be fired out to all 'Friends of the Press' very soon...
You can become our 'friend' too by buying anything from Bracketpress.
Merry Christmas!
And will be fired out to all 'Friends of the Press' very soon...
Merry Christmas!
A Grimm Outlook at Building
Some illustrations for Building magazine, done last week during the snow-in!
full page & spot illustrations - Heroes & Villains, A Land Far Far Away, The Deadly Rivals, The Fallen & Unhappy Endings...
19.11.10
Computer Arts magazine
I was recently interviewed by Garrick Webster for the December issue of Computer Arts magazine... which has just landed on my doorstep!
[spot-the-erratum?]
the Idler's Academy
Here's a first glimpse sketch of our new Idler's Academy that will open early next year...
more info soon...
more info soon...
18.11.10
Towards Re-Enchantment
A new book from Artevents...
with essays by the likes of Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane, Richard Mabey, and Jay Griffiths — who's essay: 'The Grave of Dafydd', I illustrated...
The book is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.
And the book is available to buy from...
http://www.artevents.info/projects/current/the-re-enchantment/towards-re-enchantment
The book is designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.
And the book is available to buy from...
http://www.artevents.info/projects/current/the-re-enchantment/towards-re-enchantment
17.11.10
Memories book project
http://memories.subism.co.uk is an amazing art book project for the cancer charity Maggie's, and has been set up over the last year by Designers Against Human Rights Abuse (DAHRA), Subism, OneTenEleven Media and editor Garrick Webster, the proceeds from the sales of Memories will go to the charity Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. One of my illustrations accompanies a story called After the Storm. There are 12 stories and 144 artworks included in the book.
Logo by Luke O'Neill
4.11.10
NEW EDITION: Tissues & Bone
The first booklet in a series of illustrated visceral studies by Alice Smith.
Published by Bracketpress.
"You cannot experience your own interior by closing your eyes and concentrating on it. In order to discover your own contents you have to investigate the inside of someone else". JONATHAN MILLER, 'The Body in Question'
210mm x 148mm, 20 pages, hand sewn. Colour digital printing on 140gsm recycled stock with card cover in tissue wrapper with ribbon.
Edition of 50 copies
£9.00
Available at http://www.bracketpress.co.uk & http://alices.bigcartel.com
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