Selected Group Exhibitions
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2023 The Postcard Show; Gallery 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 Everything; Weserburg 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 Architecture, MIT, 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
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, 2017 - Poetry 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)
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
BABE; Arnolfini - Reading from Lineman (with Tom Sowden)
B; g39, Cardiff (with Spike Island Associates)
Counter; KARST, 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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