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'The Reverend Babel Darks Secret'

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Two limp bound books housed in a repurposed leather prayer book cover. Made in response to Jeannette Winterson's 'Lighthousekeeping' for Essex Book Festival.
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'Immemoratae Commemorate' Turn the Page Norwich Artist made book fair 2014 Glass covers with repurposed blank pages to represent the lost and forgotten women in history.
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'Commemoratae' is the companion book to 'Immemoratae Commemoratae' members of the public are invited to write on repurposed papers a woman they feel should be remembered. 
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Books in a library, library as a book : Chelmsford Library ArtBookArt group show 2013
'I am What is' : Collaboration with Susan Allen/Smith : Three small books using egg tempra and inks.
"I am what is, what will be, and what has been. No man uncovered my nakedness, and the fruit of my birth was the sun"   Carved on temple of the 'Holy One'
Hand cut pages for the sequential chain poetry Book of Sand, by Karen Dennison.
​Responding to  'The Clearing' by Sharon Black : 
Book of Sand | Karen Dennison
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'Smell The Coffee'

Dried coffee filters, coptic stitch in response to Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here : A call to all book artists to respond to the bombing in Baghdad of the street of the book sells. To make 3 books. One book for touring exhibition in USA another to tour UK and 3rd one to be donated to University Library Baghdad.

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Pocket Fold Books made from repurposed lino cut prints and mono prints
'In The Steps of the Master' by H.V. Morton : Altered book a work in progress to address the lost and forgotten women in history
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365
A book of 365 pages of papers, junk mail and other stuff that makes up our lives.


“We live in a world that's very much compiled of fragments.  
Fragments of information and experience” 

                                                                                  Doug AitkenDoug Aitken


'Wild Landscapes' : Three small books : hand made paper, ink dyed and  printed.
"​....wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth."  Dale Pendell

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Iron Bars

This altered book was in direct response to an on line petition, to release a human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from a prison in Zimbabwe.  
 
Altered book and LED lights
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'Stone Walls Do Not A Prison Make
Nor Iron Bars A Cage' 

                          Richard Lovelace 1618-1657  















Self Assembly Mumbia Dwelling : 1. Assembled dwelling 2. Preliminary sketches 3. Artist made book
​All recycled materials, fused plastic bags, brown paper, card board.

 Book Artist's Competition. Summer Read 2014  (First Prize) in Collaboration with WCN Norwich
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Moments in Time
In my life drawings and my book art I try to capture light and shadow, a feeling, a moment in time. This one is about the quiet and silence of a morning, or possibly late afternoon, when the shadows are long.

This posses the question, is this book art or installation?
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Because what can be achieved in a photograph is not always possible in the stand alone book art piece, unless there is the convenient shaft of direct sun light or some well placed lighting. 

 'Falling Leaves' by Adeline Yen May : Altered Book : 
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