Sarah Bodman • Bristol, UK

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Sarah Bodman
Livia's Garden
Limited Edition Artist Book
$100

A tour of the garden of Livia (wife of Augustus Caesar). Livia used her knowledge of 'medicinal' plants to remove any human obstacles which threatened the stability of the Imperial family in Rome.

Edition of 30, 24 pp, 16 x 16 cms. Water-based screenprinting inks, with all pages hand-tinted in watercolour. Printed on Somerset Satin 300gsm. Hand bound by Guy Begbie, hardback cloth covers.

Sarah Bodman
Viola: An Auction of Romance
Limited Edition Artist Book
$250

'Viola' is based on the true story of a lady who loved to bake and decorate cakes for her parties; Viola would do anything to have a reason for entertaining her family and friends. Unfortunately, Viola developed such a taste for parties that she began to arrange certain events in order to bake and ice more cakes.

Archival inkjet print from original photographs and assemblages on Velin Arches Blanc. Hard covers bound in pale pink suedette with embossed title and ribbon ties by Bristol Bound Bookbinding. 2004, Bristol, UK. Edition of 10, 18 pp, 15 x 15 x 2.5 cms.

Sarah Bodman
Closure
Limited Edition Artist Book
$20

An artist’s book about the end of a love affair between a flower arranger and a plane spotter. Following the instructions within provides closure for the flower arranger.

34 pages, black and white interior, pulp-fiction paperback, colour cover.
Published through Blurb, 2009, Bristol, UK.

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Sarah Bodman
Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volume II
Limited Edition Artist Book
$35

Second in the series inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel The Abortion. The photographs in this book are of flowers I have found or placed, and actions taken in hotel rooms whilst travelling. This volume also includes tributes in reference to hotels mentioned in novels by Haruki Murakami and Colin Dexter.

The Dolphin Hotel has the same name as the hotel central to Haruki Murakami’s Dance, Dance, Dance - which I was reading at the time, so had to stay there. As with Murakami’s hotel, there was a brass plaque at the entrance and the musty smell was possibly the same. I was disappointed however, to find that there were only 2 floors rather than the 16 of the novel, and no elevator with which to enter Sheep Man’s world.

In Colin Dexter’s novel, The Way Through the Woods, Inspector Morse stays in Room 27 of The Bay Hotel, Lyme Regis. I booked the same room, and took the book with me. The room was as described in the book, except for the broken window and lack of hot water. In the morning, I got up at 6.45 am and made coffee, whilst looking at the view of the bay, as Morse had done. The evening proved more difficult; I could not follow his footsteps by eating in the hotel restaurant, as dinner was not served out of season.

Edition of 25, concertina book, 13.5 x 8 x 1.5 cms. Archival inkjet print onto artists’ paper, bound with black book card, screenprinted white title and text on inside cover

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Sarah Bodman
Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volume III
Limited Edition Artist Book
$35

Third publication in the series inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel The Abortion. The photographs in this book are of flower placings, actions and associations, produced in hotel rooms I have occupied whilst travelling. This third volume includes tributes made in Australia, UK, Japan, The Netherlands, Estonia and USA. for books by: Haruki Murakami, Ray Bradbury, Iain Sinclair, Tim Gautreaux, Robert Bloch, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe and Ed Ruscha.

Edition of 25, 13.5 x 8 x 1 cm. Archival inkjet print from original photographs on Woodstock Superfine paper, bound with six-sheet card and wallpaper covers, screenprinted text on inside cover. 2008.

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Sarah Bodman
Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volume IV
Limited Edition Artist Book
$35

This series has become a set of journals, documenting my own actions as well as those of characters in novels, or writers whose work I admire. Working in Poland, meant a stay near the home of the writer and artist Radoslaw Nowakowski so we could interview him and film his books. He lives in Dabrowa Dolna, a tiny hamlet, and as I sat outside at dusk with the dogs barking (reading Ethan Frome by Edith Warton) I noticed the garlic that had been nailed up for protection outside the front door by the wonderful B&B owner. In Minneapolis in winter, with long, cold corridors but no snow, I’m reading The Shining by Stephen King, and set about typing “all work and no play” on a portable plastic typewriter.

In Glasgow, reading Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor I amuse myself in Palahniuk fashion by asking Tom if he can write “kill yourself” in the steam on the bathroom mirror of the hotel room he is sharing with a friend of ours, who is never fully awake in the mornings, and of course he doesn’t even notice it. In Frankfurt, reading Haruki Murakami’s After Dark, I can create my own night-time take on the novel with the ink stamped on my arm from visiting Takashi Murakami’s ©Murakami exhibition that afternoon. In Whitby, England as the mist rolls in from the sea, I willingly watch it envelop the window as I read Nosferatu In Love by Jim Shepard.

Edition of 25, 13.5 x 8 x 1 cm. Archival inkjet print from original photographs on Woodstock Superfine paper, bound with six-sheet card and stitch into cover, screenprinted text on inside cover. 2009.

To purchase this work please contact Laura at 23 Sandy Gallery.

Sarah Bodman
GM Future
Limited Edition Artist Book
$25

GM Future explores some of the possibilities of genetically modifying nature on the cusp of the millennium. The book offers a series of examples from slow growing grass, to specially bred plants, and some of the consequences of these experiments. Texts are interspersed with pages collected from old gardening books, and therefore; each book is a unique copy within the edition, as no two collected pages are the same.

Edition of 200, 34pp, 12.5 x 17.5 cms. Each book comprises: 17 screenprinted text pages, 17 cut pages from old gardening books, spiral white metal binding, screenprinted heavy card covers.

Sarah Bodman
Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volume I
Limited Edition Artist Book
$35

An original selection of views for placing in a hotel room. Inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel The Abortion, which featured an old woman who wrote a book about growing flowers in her hotel room by candlelight. The photographs in this book are of flowers I have found or placed in hotel rooms whilst travelling, some with a literary reference.

Edition of 25, concertina book, 13.5 x 8 x 1.5 cms. Archival Inkjet print on photographic paper, bound with white card. 2003.

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