I’m so happy to have my work exhibited as part of the collection of 32 commissioned fine bindings from the collection of Nicholas Fisher @maggsbros

The exhibition is at Magg’s Rare Books, 48 Beford Square, London WC1B 3DR
16 May - 14 June 2023
Mon-Fri 9.30-5 

I’m so pleased to have Sylvæ by Ben Verhoeven & Gaylord Schanilec included in A Gathering of Leaves touring exhibition. This exhibition showcases the prize winners alongside a selection of the entrants to the 4th International Designer Bookbinders competition.

The exhibition will be at University of Edinburgh, Main Library Exhibition Gallery (ground floor)

https://designerbookbinders.org.uk

It’s great to have two bindings included in this exhibition, which marks the 10 year anniversary of the opening of the London Centre for Book Arts. The exhibition showcases the work of paper makers, printers, bookbinders, artists, designers, publishers, and booksellers featured in BOOKS; Art, Craft & Community published by Ludion publishers in 2021.

The exhibition is open Tuesday -Saturday 10am-6pm.

https://londonbookarts.org

Field Notes

David Clarke and I are very pleased to be exhibiting three collaborative works in response to our three week residency last year. ‘Field Notes’ is currently on show at Wallénhallen, Leksand Folkhögskola, Sweden from 16-25th September, 11am-4pm.

I’m pleased to be exhibiting a new work entitled The Space in Between in Collect, at Joanna Bird Contempory Collections gallery. To find out more please visit:

www.joannabird.com

I’m pleased to be exhibiting a new work with Joanna Bird Contemporary Collections at Collect 2021. To find out more, please visit either of these websites:

www.joannabird.com
www.craftscouncil.org.uk › collect-art-fair

Joanna Bird Gallery, 19 Grove Park Terrace, London W4 3QE, UK

I am one of seventeen artists to create their self portraits for Autoritratto.
www.joannabird.com Enquire at info@joannabird.com Tel: 0208 995 9960

Circus Space, Inverness, Scotland, UK

Three artists, three journeys; from Paris to Inverness, from the top of a mountain to the sea and to the Arctic by boat. This exhibition explores water from three different perspectives, using sculpture (Marco Dessardo), video, sound installation (Nicola Gear) and drawing (Tracey Rowledge).

Madeinbritaly, at Collect, Somerset House, London, UK

ORLANDO

In her 1928 novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf makes a joyful case for transgressing all limits on desire, curiosity, and knowledge. Woolf seems unwilling to acknowledge the political edge in her playful skewering of gender roles, and in her creation of a protagonist who is bound by neither of the two forces that define us as human: sex and death.

Orlando feels like an artefact from and for the future, a character who refuses to be bound by conventions, and who invites us to consider the possibility that all of our certainties are in fact contingencies.

The exhibition embraces exactly this perspective by creating a seamless fluidity of gender, time, identity, contexts, definitions and conventions in which extremely decorative aesthetics coexists with a minimalistic one. There is a natural osmosis of light and darkness, curves and straight lines, shine and matt, light and heavy, precious and simple. Function and Beauty are interconnected with grace and profound truth within the same narration which, through the love of oddities, of the paradoxical, the grotesque, virtuosity and exaltation, ultimately ends up being the “the longest and most charming love letter” ever written.   

Exhibition curated by Valentina Buscicchio & Marco Venturi

Artists & Designers:

Annemette Beck | Freya and Chris Bramble-Carter | Mark Brazier-Jones Tommaso Corvi-Mora | Sotis Filippides | Claudia Frignani | Whitaker Malem | Rosa Nguyen | Tracey Rowledge | Andrea Salvatori

The Grolier Club, New York City, USA

A Design Binding is a singularly considered and beautifully executed book covering—a unique work of art in the form of the book. This exhibition features a juried collection of recently made books submitted from around the world, a definitive statement on excellence in fine binding today.

OPEN • SET is a competition and exhibition, a triennial event featuring finely crafted design bindings. Sponsored by the American Academy of Bookbinding, it is designed to encourage both new binders and professionals, and is open to binders around the world. This title reflects the two categories in which the binders compete—the Open Category, in which the artist chooses which textblock to bind, and the Set Category, in which participants bind the same textblock.

All entries were reviewed by a blind jury of three professional binders. The three members of the jury are Monique Lallier, Mark Esser, and Patricia Owen.

North Bennett Street School, Boston, Massachusetts , USA

The remarkable book by poet Blaise Cendrars and artist Sonia Delaunay, La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France, was produced by letterpress and pochoir in 1913. It was a landmark achievement for its time with its unprecedented format, avant-garde typography and abstract imagery, and remains vibrant and modern today.

Kitty Maryatt of Two Hands Press has been researching the production of La Prose du Transsibérien since 2012. In 2018, she debuted a new edition of 150 copies, which faithfully incorporates techniques and methods used in the original. At the same time, Maryatt and her underwriters commissioned fine bindings by notable design binders from around the world. These bindings, along with Maryatt’s La Prose du Transsibérien Re-Creation, have resulted in a traveling exhibition titled Drop Dead Gorgeous: Fine Bindings of La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation.

Debuting in San Francisco, the exhibition will feature the work of twenty-two design binders, including Don Glaister, Monique Lallier, Midori Kunikata-Cockram and Tracey Rowledge. Tools, materials, and supplemental material used in the creation of Maryatt’s edition of La Prose will also be on display. Upon closing in San Francisco in October, the exhibition travels to additional venues in the United States, Canada and England.

Tracey Rowledge and David Clarke are exhibiting ROOM (in part) in Figurer Och Figuriner exhibition, which has toured to Rörstrand Porcelain Factory Museum, Lidköping, Sweden. The exhibition focuses on representations of the human figure.

Participating artists are:
Amalia Bille (Sweden),
Maria Boij (Sweden),
Louise Hindsgavl (Denmark),
Torsten Jurell (Sweden),
Irene Nordli (Norway),
Alexander Tallén (Sweden)
David Clarke & Tracey Rowledge (UK).

Tracey Rowledge and David Clarke are exhibiting ROOM (in part) in Figurer Och Figuriner exhibition, Rian Design Museum, Falkenburg, Sweden. The exhibition focuses on representations of the human
figure. The contemporary works are placed in the cultural-historical collections and the interiors of the hometown museum.

Participating artists are:
Amalia Bille (Sweden),
Maria Boij (Sweden),
Louise Hindsgavl (Denmark),
Torsten Jurell (Sweden),
Irene Nordli (Norway),
Alexander Tallén (Sweden)
David Clarke & Tracey Rowledge (UK).

Tracey Rowledge and David Clarke will be exhibiting a new site specific work entitled ROOM at Collect Open; a direct development of two works they made in response to their collaborative residency at Tunbridge Wells Museum, Art Gallery and Adult Education Centre in 2016/17.

www.collect2019.org.uk

Tracey Rowledge and Kathy Abbott will be exhibiting their fine bindings alongside the work of Tomorrow’s Past at the VII CODEX Book Fair at The Craneway Pavilion, South Richmond, CA, USA.

Codex Foundation: www.codexfoundation.org/

Gallery S O London is very pleased to be showing a new body of artwork by David Clarke and Tracey Rowledge. Shelved resulted from a one year residency at Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery.

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