23-24 April 2022:
BABE – Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Bower Ashton >>

*#BABEatBower*

Bristolissa (GB) järjestetään jälleen tänä vuonna yksi Euroopan tärkeimmistä taiteilijakirjatapahtumista, jonne galleristi Hannele Nyman ja taidegraafikko Eeva-Liisa Isomaa kutsuttiin kuratoimaan suomalaisten taiteilijakirjojen esittely. Mukana on teoksia 16 suomalaiselta taiteilijalta. Taiteilijakirja-teema jatkuu Galleria Duetton Taiteilijakirjanäyttelyssä 20.7.-14.8.2022.

BABE Bristol: 108 artists, collectives, small presses and independent publishers will be attending from all over the UK and Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Finland and Poland plus books arriving from Australia, Japan, Brazil, The Netherlands and the USA. Talks, demos and workshops during the weekend. Bristol Artist's Book Event will be taking place at UWE Bristol's City Campus Bower Ashton over the weekend of Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April 2022, 11am - 5pm each day. For more info visit: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/babe2022/

Finnish artists represented on our stand:

BABE Bristol 2022

Kristoffer Albrecht

Epitaph Leporello, pigment inkjet, Opus 74, 2021
Motto: W.B. Yeats
15 x 12 cm (15 x 163 cm)
Edition 12 (self-published)

Maija Albrecht

Upsidaisy Drypoint, chine collé, 2014
11,5 x 12,5 cm, opened height 75 cm
Edition 5 (self-published)

Synnöve Dichoff

Untold Story (I & II) 2018 & 2019, 10 x 12 x 10cm & 9 x 11 x 9 cm
mixed technique (paper, yarn, lace), 1/1

Eeva-Liisa Isomaa

Waterdiaries pigment print, 2018, 10 x14 cm
Edition 30 (self-published)

Tero Juuti

-............0+ - Writings by Maija
Offset- print, A6, 2015
Edition 400 (self-published)

Olof Kangas:

Terra Incognita 2015, 14 x 70 cm
Foamboard, paper, collage with ink,
stain color, acrylic paint and cloth, Unique

Janne Laine

Family Album 2014, 12 x 12 cm (10 x 215 cm)
Hand-bound, polymergravure
Edition 3 (self-published)

Elisa Matikainen

Shyness 2012, English translation 2022, 19 x 30 x1,2 cm
an unique book with a poetic text (printed) and drawings (pencil and coal on paper), covers ordered
Unique

Antti Nylén

Der Steuerman 2021, 32 pages, 130 x 150 mm
Stitch-bound booklet, Silver-gelatin print,
Letterpress printing with hot foil, digital printing
Edition 50 (Published by Bokeh, Helsinki)
BOKEH#011

Martti Jämsä & Antti Nylén

Panasonic C-700AF – Fully Forgotten 35 mm Compact Camera 2018, Car2018, Cardboard box, 140 x 85 x 55 mm
Plastic cover, Broken compact camera,
Perfect bound booklet with images and essay, 66 pages
English translation on a separate sheet
Edition 20 (self-published)

Martti Jämsä & Kaija Rantakari

Free Runoff 2021, Scroll, 185 x 1020 mm
Cardboard tube, Digital printing
Edition 50 (Published by Bokeh, Helsinki)
BOKEH#012B

Merja Kokkonen

Angel Tape Merja Kokkonen (concept, monotype series)
Graphics design and binding by Antti Nylén
2022, Stitch-bound booklet, 230 x 325 mm
Each booklet contains one original print on Washi paper
Cardboard folder, cover image inkjet printed
Digital printing & letterpress with hot foil
A4 insert with colophon in six languages
Edition 100 (Published by Bokeh, Helsinki)
BOKEH#013

Kaija Poijula

Cyclamen
Papercut on old book of poems
2013, 21 x 30 cm
Unique

Anna Sailamaa

While 1
Accordion book, offset print
Black & White
2007, A6 (15 x 168 cm)
Edition 300 (self-published)

While 2 & 3
Accordion book, offset print
Hand-made drawings and collage on
both sides of the paper
2009, A6 (15 x 168 cm)
Edition 300 (self-published)

Vaula Siiskonen

January Oilpainting, 12,6 x 15,5 cm, 2007, 1/1

Emilia Tanner

Movement 2015, 48 cm x 66 cm
inked skin on Japanese paper, Unique

Irma Tonteri

Land here, Sky there or Soaring above mountains
2018, H 22 cm, W 28 cm
Etching and pigment print, Brush painting, drawing.
Graphite powder and shellack-tinted cotton and down.
Paper: kozo 11 gr
Edition/unique : 3 of variant copies

Tarja Turpeinen

Socks 1
2017, 8,5 x 50,5 x 8 cm (box 9 x 42 x 10,7 cm)
hospital patient socks bound in the shape of
a Japanese account book, hand sewn text, 1/1

Senja Vellonen

Rice Book 3
Watercolour, 2014, 23 x 24 cm, 1/1

Codex Polaris is involved in organising the Nordic focus at this year's BABE for the Scandinavian Artists Book Particapation Project (SABPP). SABPP is supported by the Nordic Kulturpoint funding and the University of the West of England. The following Nordic stands will be attending BABE:

Pist Protta (Denmark) https://www.spacepoetry.dk

Bladr (Denmark) https://www.bladrbladr.net

Galleri Duetto / Hannele Nyman / Eeve-Liisa Isomaa (Finland) https://www.galleriaduetto.fi

ARKIR Book Art Group (Iceland) https://arkir.art

Print and Friends (Iceland) https://www.printandfriends.com

Bergen Art Book Fair / Pamflettt (Norway) https://www.babf.no / https://pamflett.no

Kurt Johannessen (Norway) www.zeth.no

Codex Polaris (Norway) www.codexpolaris.com

Malmö Artists Book Biennale (Sweden) http://mabb2022.se

GG Print Studio / Lina Nordenstrøm (Sweden) https://www.grafikverkstan.se

Timglaset / Joakim Norling (Sweden) https://www.timglaset.com