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Upcoming Show  MEDICINE & SUPERSTITION Sep 2025

Hanging book form
From 'Knowledge, Beauty, Life' art installation
From 'Softening the Blow' - artists book installation

Books Re-imagined

From 'Metamorphosis' art installation

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From the artist’s book ‘Shell Song Elegy’ installation at Strangers Hall Museum
A homage to  Alice de Bregerake  who gifted her property to St.Thomas's hospital in return for the yearly rent of one rose.
A Poulaine style shoe with wooden patten  inspired by Geoffrey Chaucers’ character ‘The Lady of Bath’

ELSE:WHERE

Enfolded  - artists book enclosed by dove wings

Enfolded

The Anatomy of Belief - Wax book housed in wraparound (Hako Chitsu) box

The Anatomy of Belief

The Book of White - A book of belongings. ​ Kid leather gloves, hand made paper, housing a collection of utilitarian antiques

The Book of White

Sorrow - artists' book made in response to Laurence Sterne's 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'.

Sorrow

The Concologists' Gloves - Victorian gloves decorated with shells and an artists' book inside a ring

The Concologist's Gloves

A False and Deceitful Colour - Artists book charting the trade route of Logwood.

A False and Deceitful Colour

Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts again when we are alone. As soon as we become motionless, we are elsewhere; we are dreaming in a world that is immense.

Gaston Bachelard

Standing book panel
Standing book form - hollow spine with prints on Japanese paper

Standing Form (Hollow)

Curled book form with prints on Japanese paper

Curled Form

Hand sewn headbands - the making of a book
Bookbinding - sewing headbands

 

To bind

is To hold together

to enclose and protect.

Between the lines, 

folds, margins and hollows, 

time is momentarily stilled.

RED
READ

Installation of 100 origami fold books for good fortune

@Turn the Page ABF

2012

Museaum.Caelum

“Not even those who have found a place amidst the heavenly constellations have perpetuated their name”’

 

 W. G.  Sebald

A CABINET OF PROBABLE AND

PREPOSTEROUS CURIOSITIES

CLEY

CONTEMPORARY

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Light
from
the
Dark

 

Bookscapes Collective

@Museum of Norwich 

at the Bridewell

Medicine

& Superstition

The Old Operating Theatre

and Herb Garret

New work exploring the museum collection of surgical and pharmaceutical objects, hospital furniture, a small collection of human pathology specimens, images, books and archives spanning the 17th Century up to the early 20th Century. 

London 

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