Dr Angie Butler

• Qualifications:PhD CFPR, UWE Bristol | MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking, UWE Bristol | MA Visual Culture, Fine Art, Bath Spa University | BA Hons Fine Art (Painting), Winchester School of Art
• Position:Senior Research Fellow CFPR
• Department:Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
• Telephone:+441173281177
• Email:Angie.Butler@uwe.ac.uk

About me

Angie is a Senior Research Fellow at UWE, based at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) running projects within the research strand Visual Art, Print & Artists’ Books: Methods and Making. She utlises printing, stitch and the book as collaborative spaces, to connect people and language through shared haptic experience, embodied research and sensory approaches to studio practice. Angie works with artists, technicians, organisations and institutions, poets, printers, publishers, and scholars on studio projects and practice-related research and events.

She is a PhD supervisor and an occasional tutor on the MA Fine Art Printmaking course at UWE teaching practical workshops, tutorials, lectures and symposiums on professional practice. Angie organises the readings programme and workshops for the biennial Bristol Artist's Book Event (BABE), and UWE Bristol Materials Network developing the exhibition programme for the Reel Cases at Bower Ashton Campus. She also works with UWE Library staff on the Print in Conversation series and the Library Artist-in-Residence Programme. Angie hosts the Readings Programe for the annual Small Publishers Fair, London and is a member of the organisational team for Stroud Wayzgoose Printers’ Fair .

She was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s ECR Award For the Dissecting Craft Making project 2021-2022, and teamed up with (previous CFPR RA) UWE Senior Lecturer: Crafts, Sofie Boons. Together, Angie and Sofie presented their project at the Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences, BICCS (Mariestad, Sweden), 2023. Their paper is published in FormAkademisk Design Educational Journal. Angie was co-investigator on the Scandinavian Artists' Books Partnership Project, supported by the Nordic Culture Council from 2020-2022 and now facilitates the seminar at Malmö Artists’ Books Biennial (MABB).

Angie contributes articles to the journal ‘Printmaking Today’, has recently published in ‘Arts’ (open access journal from MDPI) and her work also features in, ‘For the Love of Letterpress’ by Cathie Ruggie Saunders and Martha Chiplis, published by Bloomsbury (2019) and 'Type Tells Tales, by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson, published by Thames & Hudson, (2019).

Area of expertise

Letterpress printing, artist publishing, artists' books, small press publishing, phenomenological and haptic approaches to studio practice

Angie utilises the letterpress process and the book as collaborative spaces, to connect people and language through a haptic environment. She is interested in examining practitioners' physical and psychological relationships with presses, materials and making within their work spaces through phenomenological and haptic enquiry.

Links to other websites:

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7534-0750

Twitter: https://twitter.com/angelacbutler

Editorial advisor/advisory board/reviewer roles: Inscription: The Journal of Material Text–History, Practice, and Theory, Letterpress: Past, Present, Future: AHRC funded research Network, Readings programme: Small Publishers Fair, London, IMPACT Printmaking Journal.

‘Print in Conversation: Artists in the Library’ event series in collaboration with UWE library alongside the exhibition programme at Bower Ashton campus. An informal lunch-hour public engagement session where it is possible to interact with the artefacts on show and talk more candidly with the artist. Free, open sessions for anyone to join. All sessions archived at: https://cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/project/print-in-conversation/

Research projects: Scandinavian/Nordic Artists' Books Partnership Project 2020-2022

Angie is working with Sarah Bodman (CFPR) on the ‘Scandinavian/Nordic Artists' Books Partnership Project’ funded by Nordic Culture Point. This is a collaborative project bringing together artists, publishers, librarians and curators from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK to discuss problems around collecting, archiving, curating, and working with artists' books. http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/sabpp/ #nordicculturepoint

Publications

Publications loading...