Welcome to the GIAB website
The GIAB 2012 is now over. It was a great event with fantastic works by all the artists and an amazing creative atmosphere.
- We will be posting images here from the event and
- you will also be able to purchase the last few catalogues here in hardcopy and as a PDF
so: watch this space!
Artist Talk: Benedict Phillips ‘Objects, Performance and Books’
Friday 27th April
location: Stirling Room, Mitchell Library, Glasgow,
time: 3.30-4.45pm
==> please note that the time has changed !!!!!
This talk 'Objects, Performance and Books' will examine the Interrelationship between his extreme disleckseeya, performance, sculpture, and photography as manifest in his bookwork's of the past twenty years.
Blood Oranges dipped in Salt
book readings by Karen Babayan
Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th April, 12pm onwards
Blood Oranges Dipped in Salt
by Karen Babayan
is a book of fictionalised 'hand me down' family stories. Patiently collected over a lifetime of conversations, the stories are woven around family photos and recollections that have assumed a mythical quality over the years. Occupying a timespan of 400 years to the present day, events cover the geography of three continents: from Jugha, Dilijan and Yerevan in Armenia; Salmas, Isfahan and Tehran, Iran to Leeds and Appleby, England and finally Toronto, Canada.
The book reflects the history of the Armenians of Iran from the perspective of the author's own family. Dreams feature strongly; also births, marriages and deaths, the stuff of family life. The stories bear witness to a minority cultural with a monumental history that has experienced generations of loss, displacement, migration, immigration and assimilation. Babayan has tried to bring a sense of 'here and now', creating a tangible link from the past to the present whilst trying still to retain something of the spirit of the original tales.
Box Making For Books and Other Objects
13:00-17:00, Sunday 29th April
==> workshop is sold out!
This workshop will guide you through the steps of making a Clamshell box (See picture). Each participant should end the day with a Clamshell box. The exercise of making this box will provide participants with the skill set for making many different kinds of boxes. Examples will be shown of some of the different types of boxes that can be made, and the different types of decoration that can be used.
Rubber stamp workshop with Stephen Fowler
Sunday 29th April 2012
11:30 – 2:00
==> sold out!
Join artist Stephen Fowler to create rubber stamps from erasers and homemade ink pads using Jay Cloths and drawing ink to produce small pamphlet books. Take home a souvenir publication of the group’s prints.
Japanese Book Binding with John Heron from the Society of Bookbinders
Saturday 28th April 2012
13:00-17:00
==> workshop is sold out
This workshop will be an introduction to classic Japanese bookbinding. At the end of the day each participant will have a completed book to take home and will have acquired the basic knowledge and skill set to make more beautiful books in this style. Examples will be shown of some of the many variants of this basic structure.
Tuesday. 17th April, 13:36 / The catalogue for the GIAB has just been sent to print!
Book Cultures, Book Events Conference 23-24 March 2012
A significant development in literature at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries has been the growth of literary festivals and book towns. In the new media era, the opportunity to meet authors and readers face-to-face, to buy books and other merchandise, and to align a liking for literature with travel and tourism, is taken up by hundreds of thousands of readers every year. The Book Cultures, Book Events project brings together practitioners and academics to share their research and experience. Supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Universities of Dundee and Stirling, Queen Margaret University, and Bookfestival Scotland.
Book Cultures, Book Events Conference 23-24 March 2012:
http://www.bookcultures.stir.ac.uk/
