THE BOOK : MATERIALITY AND MAKING

4 Feb-7 Mar 2014

Overview

Sheena Calvert, Emma Dodson, Christine McCauley, Katherina Manolessou London Gallery West is delighted to present an exhibition of bookworks by four artists, designers and illustrators who traverse various content, media and contexts. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between the book as a material object and the processes of making which lead to its final outcome. These diverse narratives of process, which include letterpress, silk-screen, blacksmithing, and hand binding, reveal the act of making a book to be as significant as the final work. They touch upon contemporary concerns about retaining the sensual, human attributes of the book in an age of digital transformations and dematerialised, screen-based outputs; whilst at the same time retaining a place for making as a form of thinking.