The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists’ books

Volume 18 No 2, Spring – Summer 2024

In this issue:

Booking Performance: On Varamo Press by David Berridge focuses on three artists’ books in the presses Gestures series: Skies by Edurne Rubio and Mariá Jerez (2022), Jozef Wouters’ The Soft Layer (2022) and Lesson on Gravity (2023) by Anne Juren.

In REAL LIES Tanya Peixoto, proprietor of Bookartbookshop in London interviews artist, curator and art conservator Natalia Zagorska-Thomas about the collaborative art project The Camden Town Hoard.

Jeanette Koch reviews two publications on the artists’ books of Susan Allix:

ON BOOKS – The creative work of Susan Allix with a catalogue raisonné. Monograph by Simon Shorvon. Published by The Old School Press, 2023. A Catalogue of Fine Press Artists’ Books 1973-2023, A celebration of 50 years of book-making by Susan Allix. Published by Susan Allix, 2023. First Edition. 100 copies numbered and signed.

In ULIXES: OUT IT RUSHES : BLUE, Alastair R Noble writes about a two-year literary journey that resulted in an artist’s book Ulixes which draws from both James Joyce’s Ulysses and Homer’s Odyssey.

In Beginner’s Mind Niamh Fahy writes about the Chilean artist Rodrigo Arteaga Abarca’s poetic practice in collaboration with ecological systems.

Featured cover and interior pages artist – Our thanks to Cristian Zuzunaga, co-founder of Frankenstein Press, who allowed us to use a selection of works from his letterpress printed series: Gravity–Skyline, Myth of Sisyphus and Space of Proximity, as the featured artist for this issue.