Overview

Square decorated box containing watercolours of roses, sheets of handwritten notes and a gladd perfume bottles filled with rose petals.

An artist’s book is a work made, or conceived of, by an artist and demonstrates the creative experimentation with the medium of the book. Our collection of artists’ books is one of the largest in the country and currently holds more than two thousand items, ranging in date from the 1960s to the present day.

The strengths of the collection lie in its comprehensive, chronological coverage and in its representation of the wide variety of forms within the genre. The emphasis is upon British artists, although not exclusively so.

Image: La Voisin by Sarah Bodman, 1999 © Sarah Bodman

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