Artists' Books & Small Press Editions

Sarah Dobai’s The Donkey Field weaves a link between a racist attack in on a young boy and the story of the persecution of Marie and Balthazar in the acclaimed film Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966). The book features a text, based on sections of...

Rare & Collectible Published in 1980, this artist’s book collects together a series of black and white photographs of an outdoor garden documenting the transformations taking place ‘from Spring 1974 to Spring 1979’ with an accompanying text by the artist.  Shelagh Wakely (1932-2011) was...

Sigune Hamann's work combines experimental approaches in photography, video, and sound with cross-disciplinary inquiry. She explores how time, perception, and attention shape the construction and experience of images through interventions and installations. This catalogue was published to mark Hamann’s residency in Experimental Psychology Oxford University...

Sigune Hamann's work combines experimental approaches in photography, video, and sound with cross-disciplinary inquiry. She explores how time, perception, and attention shape the construction and experience of images through interventions and installations. Freshers was the first project of Hamann’s residency working with perception and attention in...

Made at the time of the epidemic lockdown in all of Europe, but where life in our valley was much as it usually is, but with no visitors. We have endured almost a year eating our own food, with no abatement. No cafés to...

Rare & Collectible Letterpress printed, stitched binding and double gate-fold pages. This exquisitely produced little book contains brief sentences that seem to describe the process of opening and closing the book and its fold-out pages. The vocabulary and physical properties of book making are...

some forms of availability assembles speculative essays, reviews, interviews, and collected statements and texts by Simon Cutts, long-time publisher of Coracle Press. The book is concerned with the recent history of the book and the idea of publication arising from its occurrence in modernism,...

The 'X' mas Files is a random cross-section of extracts from postcards, folding cards and notes sent by Stephen Duncalf to Simon Cutts between 1994-1995. The title is a deliberate pun, as Simon Cutts writes  – a reference to ‘the eponymous movie in dubious taste’....

The Window Paintings series looks up from from the window of the artist's bedsit to treetops, rooflines and clouds, in almost colour-free compositions that re-examine the scarce variations of a view both mundane and ominous of the suburban dormitory. The poem written to accompany the...

Rare & Collectible This eight-page booklet documents the work Book Mosaic made in an academic bookstore in Helsinki in 1991.  Willats' many projects with communities exist in specific times and places. Publications such as this provide valuable records of the work and are themselves now...

Rare & Collectible This catalogue was published on the occasion of Stephen Willats' exhibition Conceptual Living at Victoria Miro Gallery, 1991. The booklet presents images of works from the exhibition as well as an introduction by Willatts and an essay Stephen Bann, A View...

Rare & Collectible This booklet documents the making of the work, Meeting of Minds, developed during 2005 with residents of the Sefton Park Tower Blocks in Liverpool. The work was then presented in the foyers of the buildings in which they lived. The primary...

Rare & Collectible A description of the work Multi-Storey Mosaic made in a tower block at Highfields Estate, Feltham, West London in 1990 along with illustrations of the work in situ. Willats' many projects with communities exist in specific times and places. Publications such...

Rare & Collectible During the early 1970s, while living in Nottingham and teaching at the Nottingham College of Art and Design (now Nottingham Trent University), Willats began several interactive projects exploring the relationship between artist and audience, and people in private and public space. Social Resource...

Rare & Collectible An artist's book by British conceptual artist Stephen Willats (b. 1943) consisting of black-and-white photographs of the stairwell in Homecourt, Highfields Estate, Feltham, West London.  Beginning at the top floor, each page works gradually downward, with pairs of images presenting the...

Rare & Collectible This eight-page booklet documents the work Tower Mosaic made by Stephen Willats in Brinklow and Princethorpe Houses, Warwick and Brindley Estates, Paddington, West London in 1991. Willats' many projects with communities exist in specific times and places. Publications such as this...

In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in intrinsic yet unexpected ways. ‘I use the portability of the printed sheet, mostly in book form,’ she...

A small anthology of the writings of Tim Robinson, together with a previously unpublished essay Geometer. The View from the Horizon is the first attempt to link the work of the artist Timothy Drever with the writings of his alter ego Tim Robinson. Drever's...

In The Balthus Poems, fragment and detail achieve a form of still-life, in this case surrounding the life and work of its protagonist. These poems move with their own innate syntax, detailing the enigma of the single phrase in its own space, and cohere through a particularly laconic sensibility.

Rare & Collectible The printed quarterly Uniformagazine ran to ten issues, from 2014 to 2017, gathering contributions by writers and artists that the publisher (Uniformbooks) works with, sometimes thematically, as well as slighter or singular content. With this tenth issue, Uniformagazine’s quarterly structure of sequence, and direction,...