My biblionautic chums and friends.
I am very pleased to announce that I, perhaps it would be best to say OBLIQUEa and Réarrangement de Poupée will be participating in the Designer Bookbinders UNIQUE exhibition.
UNIQUE, an exhibition by Designer Bookbinders, features new work from the very finest UK based binders and artists from one of the world's foremost bookbinding societies.
The exhibition will take place at the Benjamin Spademan Gallery, 14 Masons Yard, London SW1Y 6BU.
Please note.... there are other studios/binderies/ doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.
Author/Artist. Mark Cockram
Publisher and Date. Mark Cockram, Studio 5 London. 2024
Edition Number (if Applicable) 1 of 1
Dimensions. 274mm x 374mm x 34mm
Desc: (150 words Max)
Réarrangement de Poupée.
One distinct memory I have of things that scared me as a child was dolls and, to some degree, I am still disconcerted by Edwardian and Victorian adult like dolls. My dreamscapes were of malevolent dolls waking from their daytime sleep on the bookshelf. Clockwork, robotic stuttering movement, never still eyes with a scratched child like voice that crawled over my senses.
Intended to be a wall mounted book/assemblage, Réarrangement de Poupée offers a variety of formats in which the book work can be encountered and viewed. Perhaps in the conventional manner of the book in the hand or as a multi faceted, articulated book-assemblage.
Text Block. Drum Leaf Construction with applied hand cut, hand coloured collage with machine sewing and stencil work. All edges hand coloured.
Binding. Minimalist Tight Back Binding in leather and remboîtage boards. Blind tooled binders stamp to top right back board.
Frame. Hand coloured found frame with assemblage of antique end papers. Blind tooled binders stamp to bottom right of shelf.
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Title. OBLIQUE a
Author/Artist. Mark Cockram
Publisher and Date. Mark Cockram, Studio 5 London. 2024
Edition Number (if Applicable) 1 of 5
Dimensions. 294mm x 186mm x 10mm
Desc: (150 words Max)
OBLIQUE a
I am always curious to see what is on the other side or to experience from different viewpoints.
By combining and manipulating the visual texture of bygone glass negatives with the stylistic nature of illustrations from Victorian publications, ‘OBLIQUE a’ is a series of 14 prints that explore altered states. Though we may think we understand what we see, on closer inspection, the altered frames of reference renders distorted, often grotesque hidden perspectives. With the nature of the printing technique employed each print is unique.
Text Block. 14 Hand printed off set illustrations of manipulated Victorian illustrations. 145gsm Liber Charta acid free paper. Hand sewn with secondary sewing. Solid coloured edge decoration to head.
Binding. Minimalist Tight Back Binding in leather and hand dyed palimpsest parchment. Full Linen laminated board attachment. Hand printed leather jointed end papers with hand printed edge to edge to edge paper doublures/doublers. Blind tooled binders stamp to bottom right corner back doublure/doubler.
