Sarah Bodman
Impact Press & Centre for Fine Print Research
Bristol School of Art, Media and Design, UK
Sarah Bodman is Research Fellow for Artists’ Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of Western England in Bristol in the United Kingdom. She has worked on many print research projects including Books by Artists, a survey of British Artists’ Books. Sarah has also curated an exchange exhibition of artists’ books between 20 artists in Bristol and New York – A Tale of Two Cities (2001) and the artists’ book element of If Pressed at Sherborne House in Dorset (2002). In April 2002 Sarah curated a web-based book art project The History Book that Never Was, which included the work of 27 artists as part of a book conference in Boston, USA.
Sarah recently curated an exhibition of 112 artists’ books that incorporate nature,and the landscape ‘Arcadia id est’ which was launched at TRACE Gallery in March 2005 before touring to Europe, Australia and the USA until 2007. The exhibition was launched with a one day symposium at UWE. Her recent projects also include an AHRB funded survey of Marketing and Creating Artists’ Books, which is due for completion in 2005. Sarah is also editor of the 'Artist's Book Yearbook' a bi-annual publication on contemporary book arts, the next issue will be published in September 2005 Sarah has also recently written Creating Artists’ Books for A&C Black on contemporary artist's book production, which will be published in April 2005.
Sarah’s own artists’ books include Time Itself a limited edition artist’s book made after a residency at the Jenner Museum, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in September 2002 and The Marsh Test made during a four- week residency at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York in Dec 2002. Sarah's own artists' books are included in many international collections such as Tate Britain, the British Library and the V & A Museum, London; Yale Centre for British Art and MOMA, USA; Museum van het Boek, The Hague: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York The Art Institute of Chicago, USA and Artspace Mackay, Australia.