Notts Book Arts (2024)

05/11/2024

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at the Notts Book Arts Fair 2024! 🎉

To all our incredible stallholders and visitors – thank you for making it a memorable day!

It was wonderful to gather so many book arts enthusiasts under one roof, sharing in the creativity, conversations, and community spirit that made this event memorable. We loved connecting with artists and visitors from both near and far, and seeing some of you leave with a new book or two to add to your collection!

We’d love to hear how you found out about our event! Did you hear through the UWE Book Arts newsletter, social media, local guides, postcards, a workshop or maybe by word of mouth? Let us know in the comments ⬇️

siani.djiakoua

and .philippa
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https://lynettewilloughby.com/

A special thank goes to the Midlands region of the Society of Bookbinders who supported this event, they were at the fair giving demonstrations and to talking to people interested in joining.

made us feel very welcome, the tables and chairs were set up already for us and there was complementary tea and coffee for all the stallholders - if you're interested in hiring out the venue for your event do get in touch with Dee. Such a great location in the creative quarter in Nottingham.

Also a big shout out to Cleeve Press and .phil5 who wanted to join us but weren't able to this time. Hope to see you at the next one!

02/11/2024

🎉 It’s today!!! 🎉

We’re here bright and early, putting up the banner outside Minor Oak and setting up tables for our amazing stallholders!

See you from 11am - 5pm for a day filled with book arts, creativity, and inspiration. Don’t forget to share any photos by tagging us and using !

📍 Make it a full book arts day by also stopping by Nottingham Central Library to see the Blend: Notts Book Arts Exhibition in the foyer - open from 9am to 4pm.

Notts Book Arts Fair 2024
🗓️ 2nd November 2024
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

01/11/2024

📚SOCIETY OF BOOKBINDERS (MIDLANDS REGION)📚

“We’re dedicated to traditional and contemporary bookbinding and to the preservation and conservation of the printed and written word.”

The Society of Bookbinders is a UK-based educational charity. Regional groups hold regular meetings with classes, lectures, and social events, and organise visits and exhibitions.

We would like a to say a special thank you to the Midlands region of the Society of Bookbinders for supporting our event. They will be at the Fair tomorrow, the 2nd November. If you're interested in becoming a member then this would be a great time to come along and have a chat with them.

Visit their website to find out more https://www.societyofbookbinders.com/regions/midlands/

⏰ 1 day to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Photo 2 is Rachel from the Society of Bookbinders who came to our Notts Book Arts Fair in 2022 to do a demonstration on how to do traditional bookbinding.

01/11/2024

Another featured artist at the Notts Book Arts Fair tomorrow is Peter Knight from The Common Press CRICH, bringing a range of artists books, pop up cards and pop up structures using intaglio prints. Peter often brings the printing plates to show alongside the work which is always so interesting to see.

"My bookarts spring directly from a broad art and design practice of painting, printmaking and letterpress. From a creative gambit; a process of speculative concept and material experimentation, I add to my exploration of history, landscape and memory across material and process specialisms. This hybrid approach samples traditional book structures (ie, tunnel books, leporello etc) found letterpress and halftone blocks, combined with printmaking approaches in a parallel body of my process and subject concerns.
Although not exclusively regional in subject matter my work has a focus in Derbyshire; its a primary source, accessible and relevant. My working processes range from laser cut wooden covers, to engravings with letterpress covers to single sheets of folded A4 photocopied images. I often work in series and look at different sequential and process ways of organising materials, words and concerns of subject matter."

Check out their instagram:

⏰ 1 day to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

01/11/2024

Only one more day until the Notts Book Arts Fair but still time to introduce the artists who will be exhibiting! New to the fair this year are Rock Tree Landscape - artist’s book maker Lynette Willoughby and published poet Clare Wigzell. These book are so sculptural and we're so keen to see these books in real life, having only seen them online!

"Rock Tree Landscape experiment widely with handmade book structures particularly encompassing themes of landscape, nature and maps.
Our work includes a broad variety of book forms, particularly sculptural books or complex book structures but also notebooks at accessible prices that play with contents and structures. Our large sculptural pieces often work to particular themes (e.g. 400th anniversary of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, Shakespeare’s 400th birthday, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, 200th anniversary of John Ruskin’s birth). We make use of altered books as well as handmade ones, playing with forms and ideas."

Check out their website: https://lynettewilloughby.com/

⏰ 1 day to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

01/11/2024

Really looking forward to meeting you all and having a day filled with book art.

We'll be easy to spot in our bright red t-shirts so please do come and say hello and introduce yourselves 👋

Let us know in the comments if you're planning to visit! ⬇️

⏰ 1 day to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

See you there!

31/10/2024

It's great to have The Bookband exhibiting with us again at this year's Notts Book Arts Fair on Saturday. Their displays are always such a treat to see with a wide variety of innovative handmade books to look through.

"The Bookband is a collaborative group of book artists. Our purpose is to promote our work and book-art more widely whilst sharing skills, ideas and encouragement with the group. We are six artists all of who are also members of Stroud Artists Books. We each make artists books with very differing styles and far ranging themes. Several are also print-makers and include original print in our work as well as original prose and poetry. Our work explores a range of book structures and can sometimes challenge the notion of what a book is.
By exploring our work together in regular online and in-person meetings, we aim to increase our own enjoyment of the process and to produce exciting and innovative work, both individual and collaborative.
We recently held our very first public exhibition which was very well received, raising awareness of this art form in our local area and resulted in a number of new attendees at Stroud Artist Books."

Check out their instagram:

⏰ 2 days to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

31/10/2024

The Notts Book Arts Fair is coming soon and we've been enjoying sharing the artists joining us at Sneinton Market on Saturday. Rebecca Snow also has work at the Blend: Notts Book Arts Exhibition, currently showing in the foyer of Nottingham Central Library, so why not make a day of it and see both the exhibition and talk to the artist at the fair in one day!

"During my Fine Art degree, my practice was centred around a collection of 100 books, which I had found discarded or second hand. Many of these books had inscriptions. This intrigued me: these books were holding their own innate histories; stories that could not be read in their pages. To release these stories, I created art works from the books: folded sculptures, mixed media sculptures from the pages, imprinted porcelain and slip cast installations from the covers."

Check out their instagram:

⏰ 2 days to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
📆 2 November, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

31/10/2024

⏰ 2 days to go until the Notts Book Arts Fair!
📆 2 November, 11am - 5pm
🎟️ Free entry
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Quince Press will be joining us as one of the stallholders at the Notts Book Arts Fair on Saturday. These books are definitely ones to see in person and up close as they're so delicate and detailed!

"I produce limited editions, poem prints, book forms and other objects. My creative and critical work is concerned with the effects of landscape, building and memory and what this can tell us about our ongoing relationship with built and unbuilt landscapes."

Check out their instagram:

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

30/10/2024

Meet our Fair Artists!

Janice Simpson and Danny Barbour are sharing a stall and are looking forward to showing their recent work at the Notts Book Arts Fair on Saturday.

"Janice is a printmaker using a range of printmaking techniques, particularly printing directly from nature. She makes a variety of books including stitching, pocket concertinas, flag books and bobbin books, which are created using vintage materials such as mill and sewing bobbins and incorporate stitched elements. All of Janice’s books and covers are created from her own handmade prints."

"Danny is a mixed media artist who works across a variety of media but has recently focused on monoprint and collage. His interest in history, archaeology and metal detecting has led him to incorporate detecting finds and historic items such as documents, bank notes, stamps and other ephemera into his work. "

Check out their instagram: and

🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

30/10/2024

A taste of what's to come...
We're so excited to welcome our artists and visitors to the Notts Book Arts Fair on Saturday! Next up we have HGmakes & the Caseroom Press, two artists who are sharing a stall together.

"We are 2 artists (Hazel Grainger + Philippa Wood) of separate presses (HGmakes + the Caseroom Press) who have been working on collaborative artists' book projects since 2020, alongside our own practices.
Our handmade books use discarded ephemera and analogue print processes as a starting point to explore everyday experiences and conversations, and play with words and micro stories. We have developed a methodology of sending words or printed pages back and forth between us to adapt or work from, often creating challenges and leading to unexpected results that we would not have found working alone."

Check out their instagram: .philippa

🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

30/10/2024

As we approach the Notts Book Arts Fair this Saturday we're sharing with you the artists coming to Nottingham. We're really pleased to welcome back David Armes from Red Plate Press who was at our first fair two years ago.

"I am a visual artist working with print, language and geography, primarily using letterpress printing to make typographic artworks that range in scale from artist’s books to art prints to large scroll installations. My work is often site-specific and considers how experience of place can be represented. I am especially interested in zones of contested use and ways in which capital can be resisted or circumvented. My influences come from sources as varied as vernacular maps, data visualisation and Ken Campbell’s artist’s books."

Check out their instagram:

🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

29/10/2024

We're looking forward to meeting Céline Siani Djiakoua at the Notts Book Arts Fair on Saturday. Céline has a book in our Blend Exhibition, currently showing at Nottingham Central Library so this is a great chance to meet in person and see what else they've been working on.

"My core practice consists in delicate and elegant autobiographical line drawings which are both analytical and emotional, mainly representing a female figure.
My art practice has always involved a lot of craft and these past years, I have been exploring the technique of botanical printing, which is the use of plant material, directly printed on paper or fabric. At the fair I will be offering notebooks including botanical prints and naturally dyed paper, botanically printed cards and traditional prints with drawings."

Check out their instagram: .siani.djiakoua

🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

29/10/2024

Our upcoming events are also listed on the Left Lion Website - if you live in or near Nottingham and don't know about this resource then you're missing out! Find out what other events are happening soon https://leftlion.co.uk/events/

LeftLion Magazine Nottingham

29/10/2024

Bookness Collective were at our first Notts Book Arts Fair two years ago - it's great to welcome them back again for our second one on Saturday!

"We are a collective of eight artists from the around the country. We met online in 2021 on the Leicester Print Workshop online Bookness course. We come from different creative backgrounds and have different art practices but all have an interest in the idea of 'bookness'."

Check out their instagram:

🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

29/10/2024

We're excited to be joined by Amy Sterly Prints at the Notts Book Arts Fair on Saturday.

"I am originally a printmaker from Chicago who has been living in Wales for 30 years. I have been making large scale prints for many years until the Covid lockdown and I was faced with a very small space to work so I started making collage books with book and magazine scraps around the house and playing with different book forms. I love images of birds, flowers and nature. This started a new passion and I find the process very meditative during hard times. Making small moments of peace through book forms."

Check out their instagram:

We look forward to meeting Amy at our Notts Book Arts Fair!

🗓 2nd November 2024, 11am - 5pm
📌 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Please visit our website (link in bio) for more info about the fair, the touring exhibition in libraries in Nottinghamshire and the programme of workshops as part of the Notts Book Arts Festival.
https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

28/10/2024

Join us on the 2nd of November in Nottingham for our second Book Arts Fair. The perfect opportunity to meet, connect, and chat with book artists from the region and further afield. This year we’ll be on Sneinton Market, close to the City Centre, in the heart of the Creative Quarter of Nottingham.

Sneinton Market Unit 6, Gedling Street, Nottingham, NG1 1DS

Getting there:
Easy to access by foot, train, tram and bus MinorOak is a five-minute walk from the Lace Market tram stop and a 2-10 minute walk from city centre bus stops. Nearby parking for from £2.50 a day within a 5 to 10-minute walk.

Full details of directions and parking can be found on the Minor Oak webpage https://www.minoroak.com/about/find-us/

More details on the Notts Book Arts Fair can be found on our website, the link can be found in our bio https://nottsbookarts.art/notts-book-arts-fair-2024/

26/10/2024

1 week today!!

Join us on the 2nd of November in Nottingham for our second Book Arts Fair. The perfect opportunity to meet, connect, and chat with book artists from the region and further afield. This year we’ll be on Sneinton Market, close to the City Centre, in the heart of the Creative Quarter of Nottingham. Details of all the stallholders can be found on our website and we'll be posting more on here on the lead up to the fair.

Plenty of places to eat nearby and why not make a day of it by visiting the Blend: Notts Book Arts Exhibition at Nottingham Central Library too!

2nd November, 11am - 5pm
Minor Oak, Gedling Street, Unit 6 Sneinton Market, Nottingham, NG1 1DS
Free entry
Supported by the Midlands region of the Society of Bookbinders.

22/10/2024

This Saturday at Nottingham Central Library – Japanese Stab Stitch Workshop!

Join local book artist Paula McCann for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn the art of Japanese stab binding – perfect for creating your own notepad or journal from any paper you have around! Suitable for older teens and adults, this is a great opportunity to explore a simple four-hole binding technique.

🗓️ Date: This Saturday, 26th October
⏰ Time: Drop by anytime between 11am – 2:30pm (finishes at 3pm)
📍 Nottingham Central Library

Details:
The covers on your book will be plain for you to personalise how you wish. The inside pages are varied papers, colours and patterns.
Suggested donation of £5 to cover materials (no one turned away for lack of funds).
Reserve your place on eventbrite to help us plan, but feel free to join on the day if spaces are available!
If you can, consider donating a space for someone else.
Each book takes about 30 minutes to complete, so stop by anytime and create something special!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/learn-to-make-a-book-japanese-stab-stitch-tickets-1007493077917?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

11/10/2024

We have some exciting events lined up that you won't want to miss! Whether you're a book artist, an art lover, or simply curious, join us for these creative workshops and exhibitions:

🗓️ Now – 16th November – Blend Exhibition 📍 Nottingham Central Library Foyer
Take a closer look at book art pieces from talented artists. Check out our online catalogue for more details on each artist.

🗓️ Saturday 12th October – Instant Book Workshop 📍 Nottingham Central Library | 11am – 3pm | Free Entry
Drop in anytime and learn to create your own instant book – fun for all ages!

🗓️ Saturday 26th October – Stab Stitch Workshop 📍 Nottingham Central Library | 11am – 3pm | Free Entry, £5 suggested donation
Join book artist Paula McCann and learn how to make your own journal using a classic binding style. This is drop-in but please book via eventbrite

🗓️ Saturday 2nd November – Notts Book Arts Fair 📍 Minor Oak, Sneinton Market | 11am – 5pm | Free Entry
The perfect opportunity to meet, connect, and chat with book artists from the region and further afield. This year we’ll be on Sneinton Market, close to the City Centre, in the heart of the Creative Quarter of Nottingham.

Join us and get creative with Notts Book Arts! ✂️📚

27/09/2024

Well that's a wrap for the Blend Exhibition at Beeston Library - it went too quick! If you went to visit, please let us know your thoughts.

Catch it next at Nottingham Central Library in the foyer from 4 Oct - 16 Nov, open during normal library opening hours. Alongside the exhibition there will be 2 workshops at the library; one on stab stitch binding and one for all ages on making instant books.

The Notts Book Arts Fair is on the 2nd Nov at Minor Oak in Sneinton Market, so the perfect chance to have a book filled day and visit both.

Poster image credit to Amy Sterly

24/09/2024

Jenny Stevenson's book 'Interwoven Threads' will take a short break from the Blend Exhibition from today to go into her solo exhibition 'Reviving Melbourne - an Artistic Exploration of an Industrial Past' which is on at from 25th - 28th Sept, it will be back on display when the Blend exhibition moves to Nottingham Central Library on 4th October.

'Interwoven Threads' tells the story of framework knitting and boot and shoe industries in Melbourne, South Derbyshire, which grew, flourished, and then declined. This artist book honours the generations of families who worked in these factories, weaving their stories into the town’s history.
Each element of the book, from the geometric shapes to the woven layers, captures the essence of blending past and present. The mirrored pop-up shapes in the book structure shows how some factories have been demolished while others have been repurposed for modern times. The woven paper strips represent the passage of time, the connections between people and the interwoven lives of those who built and sustained these industries.
This piece celebrates Melbourne’s industrial past and shows how it continues to shape the present. "Interwoven Threads" invites you to reflect on how we remember the past and adapt to the future.

04/09/2024

Accordion Book Workshop Reminder – Limited Spots Available!

Paula McCann and Zoe Milner met this week to finalise the content for our upcoming workshop on 14th September at Beeston Library! Get ready for a creative exploration of biography, identity, and community experience, while making your own accordion book.

This workshop, accompanied by a BSL interpreter and hosted in a wheelchair-accessible venue, is a unique opportunity to learn from two incredible artists: deaf activist Zoe Milner and book artist Paula McCann. Participants must be 18 or older.

📅 Workshop Details: 📍 Beeston Library 🗓️ 14th September ⏰ 11am – 2pm

Book your spot now on Eventbrite! Tickets are available on a sliding scale starting at £0.00 (limited free tickets; general admission £25, concession £12.50). Don’t miss out!

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/notts-book-arts-87507704863

09/08/2024

Excited to announce the artists exhibiting at our upcoming exhibition which will tour around libraries in Nottinghamshire.

BLEND: Notts Book Arts Exhibition 2024 starts on the 29th August at Beeston Library (open during normal library opening hours).

Thanks to each an every one of the artists for contributing to this exhibition, there's such an incredible array of work showcasing the diverse and wonderful world of artists books - we can't wait to show them all!

A Rosemary Watson
Amy Sterly
Anne Greenwood, Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttir https://www.annegreenwood.net/
Batool Showghi
Céline Siani Djakoua .siani.djiakoua
Clare Boothby .pylons
Elisenda Mallol Comas .cat
Frances Day
Harry Martin
Hilke Kurzke
Jenny Marshall .marshall.arts
Jenny Stevenson
Les Bicknell
Linette Lin
Lizanne van Essen https://lizannevanessen.wixsite.com/bookandmixedmedia
LJ Furner
Lynne Connolly
Mal Raggett .photobook
Mia Leijonstedt
point and place - collaboration with , , and
Rebecca Snow
Sarah Grace Dye
Sumiko Eadon

More details on each artist will be posted on here and on our website soon https://nottsbookarts.art/

The Blend: Notts Book Arts Exhibition 2024 has been made possible using funding from Arts Council England.

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