at the moment i am waiting for october to get the next issue of The Blue Notebook. My paper is being published this issue, which is pretty exciting.

with the move from london up to stirling it's been pretty hectic over the past months. i had not realised that my last post was about the catalogue and i hadn't posted since the show!

the show went well - a very very busy evening. the rest of the week was slower of course but still a good turn out. we had our selling table which did quite well. the catalogues didn't do so well. as suspected, 8 pounds was too much/too weird a price to ask for. we ended up giving them away for free, which we hadn't discussed but which took away the argument about value. once they were available for free, they were quite popular.

after taking down the show, we moved it over to donlon books for the Edit show roland was organising.

These photos are by my friend Tom James.

not a great picture, but today we were able to put the catalogues together...completed. well, i still have more rubber bands to put around a few of them but they are together with all but one person making the deadline. the couple of people's work that was missing yesterday was put in today and we re-checked the rest and found a few errors that were then sorted out. through a majority vote, the price is set at 8 pounds - to be sold at the private view and the days following. i think it turned out to be a good design that met our needs as a quite disconnected group. and it wasn't too much extra work when we were all really busy and it cost very little to make. so in that respect, it has been a successful exercise. we gave one to the letterpress technician and have a few more to give out as well as receiving 3 each ourselves. the rest (which will be around 200) are for sale.

we finally got together to collate the catalogue yesterday. we had nearly everybody's work in, but as we didn't have it all, we couldn't put it all together. but we did manage to stamp our names on our pages, then put them in neat piles, and then go round and round the table picking up the pages and putting them together. we then had some discussions about little things that needed sorting. a much longer day than anticipated. 

today was our final deadline...all work handed in.

managed to get a quick snap of the other book arts exhibition room, though just from one angle. ying was still to add more to hers on the taller black tables.

stephanie's table, out of shot in the above photo.

this is the other piece of work i have in the exhibition. a stack of ink drawings on newsprint nailed in to the wall. it is hung quite high so that the viewer can also look at the underneath and see the rippling of the paper and lightly flick through if they want. this should compliment sarojini's piece in the other room - also out of newsprint and also stapled directly to the wall.

this is what the room i am exhibiting in looked like today. the support work is in with everything as assessment starts tomorrow, but we took out the bags and other stuff. this room is really quite monochrome apart from small areas of colour - welmoet's books, the insides of jane's books and tiny areas on mandy's work. the other room, which i will photograph tomorrow is much more colourful. i think the divide is interesting with some works in both tying the rooms together. as of today at half 5, there was still a lot that needed to be finished, so we'll see tomorrow if that has been done. assessment tomorrow so it will be out of our hands... until the exhibition

more work from the show...

welmoet's books (with one missing)

habitat of words

mandy's

jane's 

in the garden