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Showghi

I exhibited at the Artists Book Fair: 1998. This event took place in the Concourse Gallery & Foyer of the Barbican Centre in Silk Street, London EC2 on October 23, 24 and 25, 1998.

"Artists Books are 
constructed from an 
inventive array of 
materials and 
encompass many 
disciplines, from
printmaking, typography, 
sculpture, book-binding
and photography to 
electronic arts."

In this exhibition I will be showing my hand made books. I use all sorts of materials to print my photographs on, some of which convey strong cultural references. My images, fragments of the past, are brought back to life, framed and stitched with material and then inserted into boxes and artist books.

Four of my books were shown in June 1998 at the Bookarts in Britain, at Galeria Miejska Arsenal, a state funded major gallery in Poznan, Poland, and will also be shown at the Museum of Bookarts in Lodz at the end of October.

I have also contributed work to The Book Project, a women's art project in celebration of International Women's Day at Bromham Mill Gallery, Bedfordshire in March 1998; this exhibition was also shown at the Genesis Gallery in Norfolk in October.