Workshop
Handmade Books
Owhanake Barn, 57 Korora Road, Oneroa, Waiheke, Auckland
Thursday 9 October 2014, 10.30am – 4.15pm
Create your own handmade books, journals and gifts with talented book craft artist Beth Serjeant at this all-day workshop.Part of the Waiheke Book Festival 2014.
$85, all materials are supplied. BYO lunch (tea and coffee supplied). Phone 0800 289 849 to book.
Exhibitions
Proceed and Be Bold: The Pear Tree Press
Until 6 October 2014
Christchurch Art Gallery
An exhibition of beautifully crafted, designed and hand-printed books from New Zealand's most renowned private press, The Pear Tree Press.
Mark Cleverley: Objectspace Master of Craft
Until 11 October 2014
Object Space, 8 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
Objectspace’s Masters of Craft is an on-going series of exhibitions that tell the stories of New Zealand craft and design practitioners whose practice is distinctive, enduring, influential and redefining of tradition.
Janus Press: The New Zealand Connection
17 October – 1 November
Object Space, 8 Ponsonby Road, Ponsonby, Auckland
Internationally renowned Janus Press is the oldest private press currently operating in the US. Founded in Vermont 1955, by artist, illustrator and typographer Claire Van Vliet. Open for just two weeks, this curated collection features over twenty books on loan from Auckland book makers Elizabeth Steiner and Beth Serjeant.
For the Love of Books
Opens 20 October
Auckland Central Library, Sir George Grey Special Collections, Lorne Street, Auckland
This exhibition will inspire lovers of books with the inventiveness, imagination and technical skill of the work of contemporary book artists and fine printers. The books on show are a selection of the best international and national examples of fine book making held in Sir George Grey Special Collections.
Dark Arts: 20 years of the Holloway Press
24 – 26 October 2014
Auckland University of Technology, City Campus
This retrospective celebrates the work of the Holloway Press, the fine press of the University of Auckland, which was established in 1994 by Alan Loney and Associate Professor Peter Simpson. If you missed this exhibition at the Gus Fisher then this is your second chance to see the entire Holloway Press collection on show during the ABC conference at AUT.
AHP Members Outing
B&F Papers, 33 Oakleigh Avenue, Takanini, Auckland
Saturday 1 November 2014, 10am
B&F Papers Ltd are a New Zealand owned paper supply company that have been serving the printing industry for over 85 years. They have an excellent range of specialty papers and boards, most of them cut and packed to convenient sizes. This is a trip to their warehouse to see how a paper merchant operates. There may be samples available!
Conferences/Symposiums
Art and Book/Against the Odds:
The Editing, Design and Production of Books
16-18 October 2014
Dunedin School of Art
Two days of papers and discussion from those engaged in art and book – as artists, art historians or theorists, teachers and cultural workers, and others involved in the wide constituency of the art world, as well as those engaged in the world of books – writers, illustrators, librarians, publishers and the many others whose lives are touched by the use of books in all forms – from those clay tablets to e-books, blogs, online hypertexts and any future manifestations of books. For more information visit http://www.artandbook.org/
Inside Outside – A Case for the Book
24-26 October 2014
Auckland University of Technology, City Campus
The Association of Book Crafts is hosting its first international conference, providing a platform for discussion on all aspects of book production, the bindings and contents of both traditional and innovative structures including conservation/history, exhibition of books, design, illustration, book arts, book collecting, education and so much more. It's an exciting programme of presenters, there'll also be a trade fair where book industry traders can network with the professional and amateur bookbinders, craft printers, calligraphers, librarians and specialists in other related fields. For more information and registration visit www.abc-nz.org
Storylines
For many years now AHP has participated in the Auckland Storylines - Children’s Literature Festival event and this year was no exception. Thanks to financial support from the Waitemata Local Board we were able to set up a game of letterpress Scrabble, view images here. Thanks are also due to our volunteers on the day Nathan, Amy and Brendan Laing and Graham Judd, who helped to make letterpress Scrabble a big success.
Wayzgoose
The date for your diary this year is Sunday 23 November 2014, 11am - 3.30pm. Please note the change of venue: The Auckland Horticultural Centre, 990 Great North Road, Western Springs, Auckland.
Entry is the usual $5 on the door and we ask that you bring a plate of savoury food for a shared lunch.
Vinculum
Look out for news of a Vinculum day coming up soon at MOTAT, meantime please post your submissions to Lesley Smith, 69 Paturoa Road, Titirangi, Auckland 0604 by 27 October 2014. Submissions are held until we have a minimum of 12 pages, we currently have six.
AHP Survey
Thank you to those members who have answered the AHP survey we hope to bring their stories to the website soon. For those who haven't, it's not too late, the information gathered will develop into a valuable resource and reveal the state of letterpress printing in New Zealand today. Take the survey here.
On the Web
Calcutta was the hub of India's printing trade in the 19th Century, here's an interesting picture story from the BBC of a letterpress print shop that has survived the transition to desk top publishing.
