|Sarah Bodman
Senior Research Fellow
Sarah's current CV
Sarah is the author of Creating Artists’ Books (a handbook for A&C Black, UK and Watson-Guptill, New York, USA, 2nd edition published December 2007 (ISBN 978-0-7136-6509-3). Sarah also works with other institutions nationally and internationally, with the ABPP Artists’ Books Partnership-exhibition Programme which loans books from her CFPR collection to universities, collections, schools, societies, galleries, libraries and bookshops around the world. This programme runs on a rolling basis, with free loans of books to set up exhibitions, workshops, study groups or displays that promote the subject to a wider community.
Sarah’s own artists’ books include Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volumes I-IV, an ongoing series of books inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel The Abortion; Viola, the story of a serial killer baker; Closure - a short story of the end of a love affair between a plane spotter and flower arranger (2009), How Do I Love Thee?, a collaboration with JP Willis which explores the lengths people will go to, to keep their loved ones close by (2009), and 2.43 made specially for Abigail Thomas’ Micro Pages project (2009).
2010 books include: Scott’s Flight: Migrating East, a collaborative unique book with Tom Sowden made by invitation for the The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth International Biennale for the Artists’ Book, April - May 2010, Egypt. Sarah and Tom have made another collaborative book and video for the Doverodde Book Arts Festival in Denmark, May 2010: Place of Interest: http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/denmark10.htm
A video of their previous book for Doverodde, Ø - Cherry Blossom Island Tree can be viewed at: 'www.youtube.com/watch'
Sarah's artists' books are featured in a new publication Masters Book Arts: major works by leading artists, curated by Eileen Wallace, Lark Books, New York, published April 2011, ISBN 978-1600594977, pp 208-215.
Sarah is collaborating on a new artist’s book Dinner and a Rose with the poet Nancy Campbell, for the University of Dundee’s AHRC project Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition, which is commissioning new work as part of an exploration into how readers respond to visual aspects of poetry. Sarah and Nancy’s tribute to Patricia Highsmith's Ripley quartet, has included hosting a dinner party, at which the meals and liqueurs mentioned in the books were served. Nancy will create texts around the meal’s conversations and Sarah photographed a documentary of Ripley’s mise en place and dining experiences.
A video of the dinner can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqmtJvdb738
Sarah's artists' books are included in many international collections such as Tate Britain, the British Library and the V & A Museum, All Saints Library and Winchester School of Art, UK; Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Yale Centre for British Art, MOMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Mills College and Rhode Island School of Design USA; Museum van het Boek and AKI (ArtEz) The Netherlands; Biblioteca Casanatense, Italy; Southern Cross University, Lismore and Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia.
Please see the CFPR’s bookarts website for details of all our artists’ books projects and information: 'Book Arts'.
Sarah's current CV
Email: Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk