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What is Book Works?

"The consistently impressive Book Works." Art Review

"The importance of Book Works as a structure cannot be underestimated. It is to do with consistency of presence rather than continuity of practice. A Book Works production always sits in parallel to other structures in the art discourse as a seperate yet crucial marker, shimmering between pure ongoing production and self-conscious artistic reflection" Liam Gillick

"More than any other publisher, Book Works' whole raison d'être is to explore the innovative possibilities of the book... they have had increasing reverberations in the art world."
Blueprint

"With over a dozen books under my belt, I am hardly a neophyte with regards to publishing, however none of my previous projects prepared me for the joys of collaborating with Book Works." Mark Dion

Established in 1984, with the mission to disseminate visual art practice to as wide and diverse an audience as possible, Book Works is a contemporary visual arts publisher, based in London. In addition to our main activity of book publishing, we also produce text-based works, installations, multiples, videos and new media projects.


Trustees

Book Works is a registered charity, set up to advance education for the benefit of the public in the visual arts, particularly in the form of books, which may be recognised as art forms in their own right.

We have a board of trustees who input their range of diverse expertise and interests into our development:

Stephen Bury, Chair
David Dibosa
Marysia Lewandowska
Nelson Crespo
Sharmini Pereira
Jo Stockham




If you would like to find out more about how to support our projects, please contact Gavin Everall
Supporters

Book Works is a publicly funded organisation, dedicated to distributing significant and cutting-edge work to a wide audience.

Arts Council England
The Elephant Trust
The Glass-House Trust
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
The Henry Moore Foundation
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation




For further stockists in the UK, Europe, North America and Japan please see Fact-sheet Four in the Resources section.

Where to find our books

Book Works publications are held in libraries across UK, Europe and U.S.A. including:

Bibliothèque d'Art et d'Archaeologie, Geneva, Switzerland
Chelsea School of Art Library, London, UK
Chetham's Library, Manchester, UK
The Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University, New York, USA Glasgow School of Art Library, Glasgow, UK
Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, John M Flaxman Library, Chicago, USA
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, USA
Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, USA
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, USA
Tate Library, London, UK


The following UK bookshops usually stock a selection of Book Works titles:

Arnolfini Bookshop, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA
Artwords, 65A Rivington Street London E1 7QX
CCA Bookshop, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
Fruitmarket Gallery Bookshop, 29 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF
Walther Koenig Bookshop, Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London W2 3XA
Magma, 8 Earlham Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9RY
Tate Modern Bookshop, Bankside, London SE1 9TG




For more information on sales and distribution, please contact James Brook.
Distribution and Fairs

Book Works continues to distribute its own titles nationally visiting bookshops, galleries and libraries. We are now working with distributors R.A.M Publications Distributors in the USA, and Actar D in Europe. For further information contact:

R.A.M. Publications Distributions, Inc.
2525 Michigan Avenue, Bldg. #A2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Tel: 310-453-0043
Fax: 310-264-4888
email: info@rampub.com

or

Actar D
Roca i Batlle 2
08023 BARCELONA
Spain
Tel: 34 93 418 77 59
email: office@actar-d.com


We participate in prominent book and art fairs, including:

BABE - Bristol Artist’s Book Event at Arnolfini
Book Expo America
Frankfurt Book Fair
Frieze Art Fair
The New York Art Book Fair



Book Works (UK) Ltd. Registered in England No. 3190880
Registered Charity No. 1104148