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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2023   The Postcard ShowGallery DODO, Phoenix Artspace, Brighton, UK
2019   If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail; Gallery DODO, Phoenix Artspace, Brighton, UK
2018   Book Lab; Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
2017   The Order of Things; The Wilson, Cheltenham, UK
           Artists' Books for EverythingWeserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
           Making Beyond Words; Bath Spa University, Corsham Court, Corsham, UK

2016  Complicity: Artifice & Illusion; Collyer Bristow, London

           WWOOMAFAABSU; OXO Tower, London

           Wells Art Contemporary; The Bishop's Palace, Wells, UK

2015  By the Rules; Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK (two person show)

           Sheffield International Artists' Book Prize; Bank Street Arts, Sheffield - Prizewinner

           Re: follow-ed (after Hokusai); Cabinet Du Livre d'artiste, Rennes, France

           Art:Language:Location; Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK 

           Black Swan Open; Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome, UK

2014   Art:Language:Location; Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

           ZAP Open; Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London (selected by Andrew Bick and Juan Bolivar)

2013   In Other Words; Fringe Arts, Bath, UK

         4th Sheffield International Artists' Book Prize; Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK (shortlisted for prize)

           Worcester Open, City Museum & Art Gallery, Worcester, UK

2012   This Means Something, This is Important; Parlour Showrooms, Bristol, UK

2011   Unification; Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham, UK

2010   All Is Not Lost, Annex 21, Worcester, UK

2009   Overview; Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK

            Arctic Fox; Vulpes Vulpes, London

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Solo Exhibitions
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2014   Guy Bigland - Artists' Books; Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol (solo show)

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Commissions
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Dancing About ArchitectureMIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2018

About is like about, Cheltenham, 2017

About is like about, Hastings, 2017

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Publications
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Artists' Books for Everything, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art

The Order of Things, The Everyday Press

Encounters with Books / Encuentro con libros, Impact Press

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Collections

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Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK

Bath Spa University, UK

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK

Cardiff Metropolitan University , UK

Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK

Chelsea College of Arts Library, UAL, London, UK

National Poetry Library, South Bank Centre, London, UK

Oslo National Academy of the Arts

Oxford Brookes University Library, Oxford, UK

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, USA

Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, UK

Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK

Swarthmore College Library, Pennsylvania, USA

Tate Library; Tate Britain, Millbank, London, UK

University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, UK

Volumes, Zurich, Switzerland 

Weserburg-Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

Private Collections

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Press

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Konzeptbücher 1: Bilder werden zu Text  - Lilian Landes, Kunst Zwischen Deckeln 2020

Review of The Order of Things - Saturation Point

Preview of the Bristol Artists' Book Event, 2017Poetry News, Winter 2016  

A Study in Pink, Red, Black and White - Sarah Bodman, Printmaking Today, Spring 2016

Artists’ Books 2015: 10 of the best​ - Sarah Bodman, a-n, December 2015

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Book Fairs / Talks / Events

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2021  

BABE: Lost Weekend, Arnolfini (online)

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2020 

Artists' Books Now: Futures; British Library, London

Print & Book Festival; University of the West of England (online)

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2019  

Small Publisher's Fair; Conway Hall, London

Vienna Art Book Fair #1, dieAngewandte - University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Super BOOKS, Haus der Kunst, Munich

BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol UK

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2018  

Counter; Ocean Studios, Plymouth

Baltic Self-Publishing Artists' Market, Baltic Centre, Gateshead

Small Publishers's Fair; Conway Hall, London

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2017 

Artists' Bookmarket, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

Small Publishers's Fair; Conway Hall, London

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2016  

Leeds Artists' Book Fair; The Tetley, Leeds

Small Publisher's Fair; Conway Hall, London

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2015  

BABEArnolfini - Reading from Lineman (with Tom Sowden)

Bg39, Cardiff (with Spike Island Associates)

CounterKARST, Plymouth

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Works Cited

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Livres d'Artistes: The Artists' Book in Theory and Practice

5th December 2015, Cardiff University, UK

The inaugural Prof. Jonathan Osmond Lecture: The Artist and the Book by Sarah Bodman

Cited works: All the Paintings in the Museum' & 'All the four letter words I could find on the Casimir Lewy Library Webpages

 

Artists and Their Books,

5th March 2016, The Congregational Chapel, Kentish Town, London, UK

Public talk by Sarah Bodman for the Society of Bookbinders Book Arts Day.

Cited works: All the Paintings in the Museum' & 'All the four letter words I could find on the Casimir Lewy Library Webpages

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