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Book Arts Courses
Bradford College
School of Art, Design and Textiles
Bradford College
Great Horton Road
Bradford
BD7 1AY
Tel: 01274 438 998
Fax: 01274 433 236
www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk
Contact name: Ian Colverson
Bradford offers a range of courses at
Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.
A well-established printmaking department.
Camberwell College of Arts
Peckham Road
London
SE5 8UF
Tel: 020 7514 6302
Fax: 020 7514 6310
enquiries@camb.linst.ac.uk
For more information and to order a
prospectus see www.camb.linst.ac.uk
Book Arts - General Course Information.
Camberwell is the only college in the UK
providing specialist postgraduate study in Book
Arts. Book artists are at the forefront of
creating a new role and identity for the book,
which is being freed from its traditional role as
container of information by technologies such
as ‘e-books’ and downloadable internet sites.
The increasingly important role of the book
within fine art practice is at the heart of this
unique course, which is led by a teaching team
of experienced educators and artists. Students
are asked to explore the concept of the book
through analysis of its form and function, and
its changing nature with reference to its
historical context and its relationship to
current practice.
Postgraduate Diploma
The Pg Dip is an intensive course providing an
introduction to the concept and practice of
Book Arts. Students develop skills in areas such
as printmaking, reprographics and computers,
and follow set projects to investigate narrative
structures, image and text. The course has been
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particularly designed to enable people from
diverse academic or professional backgrounds
to establish specialist skills, knowledge and
focus in preparation for practice in the field or
further study at Masters level.
Masters Degree
The MA offers you the opportunity to develop
a project from proposal to final exhibition.
Students are asked to research the content,
materials and technical skills appropriate to
their project, and produce written as well as
practical work exploring their chosen subject
area and their relationship to contemporary
practice. Applicants are expected to be well
grounded in relevant aspects of book arts and
able to define and debate their study proposals.
Individual programmes are negotiated and
supervised throughout the course in tutorials
with specialist academic staff.
Both courses include a Postgraduate
Professional Development Programme, which
helps students update or acquire research and
career development skills.
The Book Arts teaching team is made up of
experienced educators and practising book
artists. The course is led by Subject Leader
Susan Johanknecht, who is the founder of Gefn
Press. Course tutor Les Bicknell has work
included in the collections of the Victoria and
Albert Museum, The Rijksmuseum, and MOMA
in New York. Visiting tutors include Dr Helen
Douglas who is the co-founder of Weproductions
and winner of the Nexus Press book award,
Virginia Nimarkoh artist and curator and
Melanie Jackson artist and curator.
Hereford College of Art and Design
Folly Lane
Hereford
HR1 1LT
Tel: 01432273359
Fax 01432 341099
www.hereford-art-col.ac.uk
hcad@hereford-art-col.ac.uk
Contact name: Guy Begbie
Hereford College of Art and Design has a
strong interest in artists’ books. The following
courses all deliver book arts projects: