Turpe Art Books

Turpe (Tu:rpæ) is a newborn publishing house from Milan. We focus on art books of every form, from graphic arts to photography. Our philosophy is to design beautiful books and print them using the most noble techniques. There's no trace of digital production in our publications, we want human beings to take care of them in every step of their existence. They're made by artisans in Italy.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: Tokyo, our first book. The illustrations collected in it have been on show at the Society of Illustrators of NY and in Japan. It is part of the Tabula Turpis collection, a series of artist's books on the topic of traveling. It has been printed in 250 limited and numbered copies on Fedrigoni Vellum paper and with double gold Pantone.

London Centre for Book Arts

London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA) is an artist-run, open-access studio providing education programmes for the community and access to resources for artists, designers and makers. Our mission is to foster and promote book arts and artist-led publishing in the UK through collaboration, education, and by providing open-access to printing and binding facilities; a space for hands-on experience, knowledge sharing and skills exchange. LCBA was founded and is run by artists Simon Goode and Ira Yonemura.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: We have a new book out, Making Books, published by Pavilion Books - we hope to have advance copies and pre-sales ready!

Minesweeper Collective

Collaborative Art Crew - Screenprinters - Exhibitions - Online Design and Printing Shop - Creative Events - Workshops - Autonomous Liberation of the Soul - Custom designs The MINESWEEPER COLLECTIVE is a group of onnit artistic characters aiming to make their collective creative ambitions a productive reality.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: Handmade screen-printed books and posters / Promoting Minesweeper Collective's general activities.

Hafod Press

I have been making one-off books since 1996, and started Hafod Press in 2003 making limited editions of digitally printed books. This has enabled me to use photographic images and text and has widened my visual language and communication. As an artist involved primarily with painting, I make maybe one or two books a year. My books fall into two categories: my travel books and those that relate to the ideas and images I explore in my paintings. For me a book is a distillation of an experience or concept, often with an element of recording something that will never exist or happen again.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: A selection of limited edition and one off books. The most recent books include FRAGILE one off books made in response to the Re-Take/Re-Invent project and MOSS GARDEN which responds to a piece of music by David Bowie and his legacy.

ARTISTS BOOKS ONLINE

artistsbooksonline.com is an artist-run website which brings together a diverse range of artists who make one-off or small limited editions (max 50 copies) of books.

artistsbooksonline.com provides the opportunity for artists to share exhibition costs at artists book fairs, to collaborate making books, run workshops and curate exhibitions.

The artists exhibiting at The London Artists' Bookfair include:

Larissa Cox

Frans Baake

Bob Guy

Andrea Hill

Heather Hunter

artistsbooksonline.com aims to introduce the viewer to books made with love, care and integrity.

Becky Baur

After having designed freelance for many clients, established textile designer Becky Baur started her business in 2011 designing cushions, cards, notebooks and ceramics. Her work is now stocked in shops and galleries worldwide. Her recognisable hand drawn designs cover her products which are made in England using good quality materials and craftmanship. 
 

Alexandra Czinczel

I make artist's books in small editions, all bound by myself. My books often have absurd and humorous narratives. I use different printmaking techniques including screenprint, linocut, rubber stamps, letterpress, inkjet printing.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: I will exhibit my pop-up books "Secret Exclusive Shame" and "Minimalism vs. Cats", my letterpress book "16 Murders and a Stonecutter", my new rubber stamp & linocut book "You can't catch me" which was inspired by my 4-year-old daughter, and more.

Luke Drozd

I’m an artist and illustrator based in London. My work includes screen printed gig posters, short story books and performances, comics, patches and more, for self-initiated projects and clients ranging from Jameson’s Whiskey to comedian Stewart Lee.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: The work I would display at LABF would include small press publications, including comics Dark Days and Threnodies, as well as recent story collection Harsh Lung, alongside recent collaborative screen printed books with Berlin based duo Palefroi; patches, including my range of Alt. Scouting ones; and art prints and screen printed posters for a range of bands and comedians including Adam Buxton, Dinosaur Jr, Evan Dando and more. I am currently working on a new recorded / spoken word project and book ‘The Mount’, as well as some new lapel pins and patches, which I would hope to finish and launch for the fair.

Chie Hosaka

Boom Press is a print collective founded by screenprinting duo Beatriz Lostale and Chie Hosaka. We make original screen prints, artist books and risographs.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: Screenprints, Artist books, Risographs and limited edition prints

Batool Showghi

As a multidisciplinary artist I have a passion for making artists’ books and family albums. My work moves between photography, illustrations, painting and textiles evolving from single images to books, images in boxes or larger mixed media pieces. My artwork is concerned with my cultural heritage, memory, identity and loss. As an Iranian woman who has experienced discrimination through cultural and religious boundaries, such issues and subject matters are repeatedly addressed in my work. There is a sense of story telling and narrative in my photography work, which repeats and continues as you look at the body of work.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: Showing Artist's Books and illustrations recently made

Richard Roberts

Set up in 2012, Roberts Print is the eponymously-titled imprint of artist Richard Roberts. The books I self-publish range from one-off artist books to larger edition publications. Thoughtful consideration is given to the design and content of the books with particular emphasis on the quality of the printed object. My books are in a number of collections including the Tate Library and Archive and the Bower Ashton Library, UWE.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: I would like to exhibit some artist books and some prints

urray Marshall

I try to upset the natural order of things through parody of serious publishers. I Have scientific works such as 'The Young person's Guide to Quantum Mechanics' and adventures into theology such 'After the Break - John Snow talks to God. I was the first book artist to parody Ladybird books and mine are still the funniest and blackest.'

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: The full range of my books as they appear on the application PDF

Owl & Dog Playbooks

Owl & Dog Playbooks is an independent children's book publisher based in the UK. Our books are designed to be read and used creatively. We explore new and unusual formats, we delight in the magical moments of discovery, a surprise you didn’t expect, so children can experience books in a new way. We promote playing and learning, encouraging the interaction between children and their parents.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: current 5 titles : Guess Who, Flat Zoo, Fish, The Adventures of 3 Bears, This Clumsey Monster

David Barton

Everything that happens in my work is concerned with the body and the human predicament. I present it in book form 'as it happens' showing images 'in the making’ as I experience them evolving in drawings and paintings and texts from day to day. I do not work towards final or definitive statements; images are in perpetual motion, always changing. Their restless imminence hurries my pursuit. I am dependent on a dialogue with a visual process which however unpredictable and accidental it may seem, is the only instigator I trust.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: I will be exhibiting books printed between 2010 and 2017 – small paintings in folders.

Design For Today

Design For Today is a small press and publisher, launched in the summer of 2015, with the aim of working with designers and illustrators to create limited edition books, cards, and printed pleasures for the discerning collector and enthusiast.

Design For Today’s artists’ books are all designed, crafted and printed in the UK, using quality, sustainable materials and printed using the traditional processes of lithography, letterpress, screenprint, or linocut.  Editions are small, from 500 – 1500. Tomorrow’s collectable books today!

Aside from our Artists’ books Design For Today will also be reissuing ‘forgotten classics’ of mid-century design, contemporary European classics of illustration, and books devoted to aspects of 20th Century design and illustration, crossing the boundaries between academic dissertation and coffee-table publications.

Design For Today was founded by Joe Pearson, an established collector and writer on mid-century lithography. If you seek Design For Today’s inspiration look no further than Noel Carrington’s Puffin Picture Books, John Piper’s textiles, the fun of Bruno Munari, or the graphic design of the avant-garde Russian Children’s books.

Design For Today has a varied programme of publications. In our shop you will find Alice Pattullo’s Brick House, a tribute to Eric Ravilious & Edward Bawden. Louise Lockhart’s concertina book, Up My Street, a celebration of the vanishing High Street of laundrettes and children’s outfitters is available too. The Noel Carrington project is Joe Pearson’s definitive study of Noel Carrington, a privately printed limited edition book, bound at The Fine Press Bindery and printed at the Northend Press. The Special Edition features miniature books by Emily Sutton, Alice Pattullo, Jonny Hannah, Tom Frost & Liz Loveless. The Journal is a gallery of inspiration.

The Mainstone Press

The Mainstone Press is a small, independent publishing house based in Norfolk. Each year we produce several books on a select group of British artists who worked in England during the early 20th century, including Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash, John Minton and Edward Bawden.  

Pollocks Toy Shop

Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop of Covent Garden is one of the few toy shops in the West End of London. We stay true to the original aesthetic of our namesake and the tenets of the R.L.Stevenson quote. 'If you love art, folly or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock’s’. We now produce our own range of theatres and paper models designed by contemporary artists.

Books, small comics, small toys, and Toy Theatres published by Pollocks Toyshop Covent Garden and connected artists ZEEL and Orson. New Works Launching :- Pollocks Toy Theatres including the new 'Hansel and Gretel' by Clive Hicks Jenkins, Plus the new Colouring Book of images by Simon Seddon, Plus the new ZEEL 'Denizens of Otranto' Paper Playset book.

Joanna Gibbs

Rag-&-Bone Shop books comprises my handbound artist’s books, book necklaces, drypoints, etchings and cards. My imagery often arises from digital photographs, which I work into with etching, linocut, drawing, letterpress, typewriter, rubber stamps and embroidery. I’m interested in the opportunities the physical properties of the book afford to further narrative themes. Hence I often employ non-traditional materials, such as baking paper in 'Leaf Watermarks': its translucence and featherweight texture conveys the book’s theme of impermanence in a tactile way. My work is held in private and public collections and features in publications including 'Typewriter Art', ed. B. Tullett (Laurence King, 2014).

I would be exhibiting a range of my handbound books (including those books pictured), a small collection of miniature, handbound book jewellery, recent etchings, drypoints, hand engravings, giclée prints and cards. As I typically bind one original artist’s book, which I then reproduce as a limited edition, some of the books will be my originals and these wouldn’t be for sale, but can be handled and are available to commission.

Andrew Law

My books are all unique pieces made using collage,ink,watercolour, Cyanotype, acrylics and photographs. I frequently use a variety of Indian handmade papers.My subject matter is concerned with travel,the natural world, landscape, memory and loss and other stuff.

Please describe what you intend to exhibit and any projects you wish to launch at Ink Paper + Print: A variety of my hand made unique books .

The Factory Press

narrative illustration and printmaking, including cyanotype printing / screen print / drawing / mixed media / collage

Hand made books, prints and canvas.