Dr Sarah Bodman

Qualifications:

DPhil; Higher Education Academy (Fellow)

Position:

Subject Lead MA Printmaking / Associate Professor CFPR

Department:

College of Arts, Technology and EnvironmentFaculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)School of Arts

Telephone:

+441173284915

Email:

Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk

Social media:

About me

Sarah is Associate Professor for Artists' Books at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR), where she run projects investigating, promoting and publishing on contemporary book arts. Sarah is also Subject Lead for MA Fine Art Printmaking at City Campus, Bower Ashton.

She is the editor of the Artist's Book Yearbook a biennial reference publication on contemporary book arts, published here at UWE by Impact Press, and also edits the Book Arts Newsletter and The Blue Notebook journal for artists' books. Sarah writes a column on artists' books for the journal Printmaking Today and has written for other journals including: Art In Print; Axon: Creative Explorations; IMPRINT; JAB; PLI Arte & Design; The Poetry Society; The New Bookbinder; zum Beispiel / zum Buch.

Sarah works with library staff at UWE to deliver exhibitions and public engagement with artists' books, collaborates with staff on the biennial Bristol Artist's Book Event (BABE), and with artists and writers on our annual World Book Night project. She also runs the Artists' Books Partnership exhibition Programme (ABPP) which loans books from the CFPR archive.

Sarah completed a two-year Scandinavian Artists' Books Partnership Project, supported by the Nordic Culture Council in December 2022 and organised the LAND2 & Book Arts Printmaking, Artists’ Books, Landscape and Nature symposium in Bristol in March 2023. She collaborated with artists and curators towards a Japan focused edition for BABE 2026 preceded by an exhibition at the Urawa Art Museum in Japan. Recent artist’s book projects include a collaboration with artist and writer Roelof Bakker on a mail art and collage exchange This Place Will Not Exist…, which resulted in 3 publications and exhibitions over 2025-2026, and with artists and writer Stephen Emmerson on How We Read Books – an alternative ‘reading’ project and exhibition at Bower Ashton Library Sept-Oct 2026.

Sarah has given keynotes for ARLIS and ABBE (Brisbane) Booknesses (Johannesburg); and papers / presentations at Artists' books v. Livres d'artistes (St Etienne), Directed: The Intersection of Book, Film And Visual Narrative (Minneapolis), Impact 7 (Melbourne), Perspectivas do Livro de Artista (Belo Horizonte), Resurrecting the Book (Birmingham), Small Press Atlas (Rouen), Women: Art, Books and Printed Matter (Hauser & Wirth, Somerset).

Sarah has given lectures and run surgeries for external organisations such as ARLIS, Artlab, The Association of Art Historians, Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial, Book Art Museum Łódź, Association of Book Crafts (New Zealand), Festival of Ideas, London Centre for Book Arts, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Printhaus, The Society of Bookbinders, State Library of Victoria, and was interviewed for the NewLights Press for two published sessions over 2026.

Recent exhibitions have included: The Mountains Are Calling… for World Book Night 2026; At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art at the Urawa Art Museum; touring Freedom Project Kolekcja; Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus, PARKER Contemporary Brisbane, Australia; Archive Station, immanence, France; Orwell’s World – how do we read ‘1984’ today?, Łódź, Poland.

Sarah has been a juror/ committee / editorial board member for: Designer Bookbinders UK Bookbinding Competition; Médiatiser Le Livre D'artiste En Bibliothèque; Inscription: the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History; L'oeuvre multipliée au prisme de la collection et de l'archive; turn the page artist's book event; MCBA Book Art Biennial Prize. Sarah is also on the International Advisory Council for the Center for Book Arts New York.

Sarah is currently supervising 7 doctoral students.

Area of expertise

Artists' books and printmaking.

Curating/organising exhibitions, writing for reference publications and working with external institutions in the field of artists' books.

Organiser of BABE - the biennial Bristol Artist's Book Event.

Collaborating with artists and writers on an annual production for World Book Night since 2010. Each event is in tribute to a particular novel. For more information on any artists' books projects or publications please visit:

https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/sarah.bodman/

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