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  1. Billy BOOTH 229
  2. The Myth of Barter
    2.i) Artist Bookmark 2025
  3. Exhibition as Catalogue
    3.     i) Back Catalog (2020)
    3.ii) Artist Postcard-Pack 2025 - coming soon,
    in collaboration with Noble and Common
  4. Est. 1690
  5. Artist Multiples / Editions
    5.i) Artist Bookmark 2025 - coming soon..
    5.ii) Artist Postcard 2025 - coming soon..
  6. POST-London, book/chair review,
    moderated by Lynda Morris


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One Dozen Bookmarks

Thirteen artists. Twelve bookmarks.
An edition of 50 (+ 1AP), boxed.
Each artist receives a box-set of twelve bookmarks.
240 bookmarks, drawn from twenty of the fifty box-sets, are secretly hidden in books across twenty British libraries.
The remaining thirty box-sets are offered for sale, covering production costs and perpetuating myths.

Six artists were each invited to create a bookmark and, in turn, to invite another artist to do the same.


Artists
Ryan Gander, John Wood and Paul Harrison, Mark Titchner, Harun Morrison, Matthew Cornford, Becky Shaw
invited  Harry Grundy, Ruaidhri Ryan, Ellie Wyatt, Sasha Ercole, Duncan Poulton, Denise Lobonț

More details on general release; 14th October 2025 - soon..
For more info and to reserve a linited edition box-set email us here


Libraries (all tbc)
N.Ireland Derry Central Library, Ballyhackamore Library Wales Port Talbot Library, Hay bookshops, Barmouth Library, Scotland Paisley Library, Gorbals Library, England Birmingham Central Library, The Hive-Worcester, Pensby Library, Gladstone Library, Portico Library, The British Library, Gipsyville Library, Spike Island, Junction 3 Library, South Lambeth Library, Penge Library, Bethnal Green Library, The National Art Library.





Ryan Gander
The verbing of a noun (2024) Screenprint on 320gsm 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP 
A functional bookmark randomly hidden in books in British libraries, containing an image of annotations and highlights made by the Artist whilst reading, made illegible due to the fact that the source text is not visible. The uppercase 'T’ character underlined twice is a symbol used by the artist to denote a potential title to use for an artwork or project.
     
Harry Grundy
A Brief History of Time (2025) Digital print on 320gsm 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP.  
A scanned collection from the span of published editions of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time.
Matthew Cornford (The Art School Project)
A  R  T (2024) Digital print on 320gsm 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP Inspired by the historical practice of art schools prominently spelling the word ‘ART’ within the architecture on their buildings, the artists have utilised typefaces used by Hereford College of Arts in historic promotional literature. Hereford College of Art is one of the last art schools not to have closed or be amalgamated into a University system.
Duncan Poulton
O% (2025) Laser print on acetate, paper-clip 150x50mm, edition of 50+1AP. 
A modular bookmark made up of multiple acetate sheets, 0% recombines the components of a dismantled Kindle e-reader. In a cruel joke of sorts, the book now holds its nemesis captive, letting it fulfil its future role as an obsolete waste product. On 0% battery, the e-reader adopts a humiliating new function as a paperweight, a bookmark. 
   
John Wood and Paul Harrison
Play/Pause (2025) Screenprint on 320 on 320gsm 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. A book is like a movie in your head. An extremely low budget movie but with a great cast and brilliant special effects. You can pause this movie at any time, for any amount of time; a bit like a VHS tape* or a DVD* or a Streaming service* (*select depending on how old you are). You can play this movie at any time, in any place; on the bus, on the beach, on the toilet. And a bit like a movie, if it’s crap, you can pause it forever.
Ruaidhri Ryan
HB (2025) Digital print on 320gsm 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. HB is from a framed unglazed Porcelain & concrete mosaic made by the artist. In a conversation with Nat Pitt, - the curator for Myth of Barter, One Dozen Bookmarks - Nat commented that his father would often use a pencil for a bookmark and whilst reading it would rest it behind his ear. It was decided this mosaic would make a wonderful bookmark.
Harun Morrison
Spooky action at a distance (2025) Digital print on 320gsm 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. ‘Spooky action at a distance’ is a phrase Einstein used to describe his perception of quantum entanglement: two particles becoming linked regardless of the distance between them. This notion is explored typographically. On one side of the bookmark, each letter making up the phrase is on a varying axis ranging from 0 to 75 degrees in a clockwise direction. 
   
Sasha Ercole
Foreword (2025), Digital print, on 320gsm card, 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. Foreword is a reference from the artists’ ongoing work of the same title, which displays scanner bed images of codes, documents and books on architectural standardisation from the British Library. Cropped at the margin, the image only contains a bookend of the artists hand, presenting the edges of the frame and background of the scanner as the content of the work. 
       
Becky Shaw
A Bookmark for A (2025) Digital print, on 320gsm card, 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. An original ‘play-script’ was developed after visiting ‘A’, a woman ill with dementia, every day for ten weeks. ‘A’ spoke using remembered rhyme, a strategy to get around the disruption of language by illness. The play-script records the visits verbatim. The original script was commissioned by David Clegg, Age Concern in 2015.
Denise L0bonț 
Performance Marking the Abusive Disparition of a Flower Shop in the Name of a More Civilised City. (2024) Digital print on 320gsm card, 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. This work is part of a larger artistic exploration questioning  the attitude of the majoritarian population towards Roma ethnic groups.  



Mark Titchner
None of This is True, A Thought in a Dream (2025) Digital print on 320gsm card, 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP A statement of doubt questions whether reality can ever be trusted. A statement of denial rejects the possibility of absolute truth. Descartes’ dream argument warns that the world itself may be nothing more than an endless nightmare. No, that won't do.

   
Ellie Wyatt
core collapse (2025) Digital print on 320gsm card, 152x52mm, edition of 50+1AP. core collapse is a perforated bookmark that can be taken apart and redistributed across a constellation of reference points, pages or books. The bookmark’s text consists of reassembled fragments, sourced from historical records of unfamiliar or unexplained celestial phenomena.