Resident artists will meet regularly online to collaborate and support each other
The Artists Books Online Residency
A year-long programme to enhance professional skills…
Artists will meet regularly throughout the year. They will take part in workshops to address the professional requirements for an artist to pursue a career. They will also be asked to provide an outreach activity of their own, and will work to create at least one artists book for an online exhibition which is the culmination of the residency year.
A friendly and stimulating environment for artist book-makers to flourish
Residency outline
The artists will get to know each other in the first few weeks of the residency by doing a presentation of themselves and their work in any chosen format. They will then take part in a series of workshops to provide professional skills to be used during the year and beyond.
Now begins the work of making artists books on the chosen theme that will be exhibited at the end of the year. Artists will provide feedback, critiques and support to each other.
Each artist will find an outreach project that appeals to them: leading a workshop, ……
Using the skills gained over the residency, artists will manage an online exhibition: sending out a call for work outside the group, judging and curating that work together with their own, creating publicity materials a using social media. They can also find local exhibition spaces, for example, in libraries, where physical exhibitions could take place.
Presenting artists books online is challenging. Here are some examples of using video to give a better feeling of how the books are presented and handled.
Artists Books
What is an artist’s book? The term ‘book’ can be taken loosely. It can mean taking the familiar structure of the book, using a variety of processes to format leaves, folding, cutting, stitching, gluing, or combinations of these, or it might mean deconstructing the concept of the book altogether, thus making it more conceptual than truly representative. It also means that some book-structures are sculptural in nature. They are usually produced as limited editions, or as a unique artwork.
