'Representing Nothing' at The Agency Gallery

Leonie's busy summer continues with an exciting group exhibition that likens minimalism to subtraction. Her new prints are featured amongst works by Sovay Berriman, Rebecca Birch, Are Blytt, Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom, Jefford Horrigan and Stefanos Tsivopoulos. The exhibition opens this Friday 8th June and runs until 28th July at South London's The Agency 

Leonie will be showing new prints from her 'Playing with Matches' series.

Preparations continue for the Bow Arts Open weekend (29th June - 1st July) in her SE1 studio in Bermondsey and for the forthcoming solo show in Exhibit Gallery (opens 4th July) on the Golden Lane Estate near the Barbican centre. 

The summer started with Leonie exhibiting this drawing about mazes in a No Way group show.

Minute

Thanks to 'we love your books' I have been playing with food again for this year's minute theme. The best natural colours and strongest printing shapes are from the best and freshest fruit and vegetables - the things that are really good for you. Hence the title 'from minute to almost immortal' is for a small book about growth. 

Books2Eat ABC

This book was designed to be updated whenever we celebrate Books2Eat on April 1st. A while ago it ceased to be a free event but is now having a revival in its earlier form via Facebook.

On April 1st this year, Heather Hunter, Jo Hinchliffe and I practised on paper printing with food and water-based inks. The image above shows a new addition to the first page 'A piece of broccoli.'

Watch this space for edible versions next year!

We were inspired by finding Books2Eat ABC in the Abcdedarium collection on this beautiful site from the Marriott Library in Utah.

Collections

This print, 'Again towards the sun', is now at Collinge and Clark's bookshop on Leigh Street (a short walk from the British Library).

'Nothing but my footprints', another print in this series, was chosen for permanent display at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford. As they are part collagraph, part etching, I have to call them 'not necessarily identical in every way'.

What also made me really happy, is that Mount Holyoke College Library, Massachusetts now has all my books in their collection.

I was delighted to see this amazing post with great photos recording the book's arrival at the library:

A Day in the Life of Archives & Special Collections: New Acquisitions Arrive!

Bookfair

p's & q's invite you to see artists' books surrounding a historic printing press at The Science Museum for the Watercolour and Works on Paper Fair next week.

For a last minute preview invitation or free entry ticket please email christine.tacq@talk21.com

Hatbox

These books (see also March 2011), created for now as 'one of a kind', just keep evolving. The larger version has extra folding. The series is inspired by the way objects in a museum tell a different story each time they are rearranged.

Poetry

These pages will start my next book. The plan is to end it with the poem by Emily Dickinson, which starts "Hope is the thing with feathers." (It was also the answer to my entry for the Thame Arts and Literature postcard trail...see September 2011)