↑ Recently I have been working on a series of rubber stamps for a book of hours project in development with the Morgan Museum & Gallery, New York.
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Featured Content: Whistling Copse
The Whistling Copse series of books on the portfolio pages concern an incident near Bath where a gamekeeper was shot by a poacher in the early years of the twentieth century. The books Twelve O'Clock Wood, Under the Wire and Safely Infer use images to explore notions of property, food and folk customs, and the epistemology that informs both the evidence of ownership, and the proofs offered thereby to prosecute theft, or, as is the case here, murder.
Different notions of place and use inhere in the worlds of poacher and owner, and in the truths offered by forensic epistemology and folk history.
The Whistling Copse books are my attempt to work with these ideas, through images of the landscape, its inhabitants, creatures and products, and through imagery adapted from contemporary newspapers and catalogues of hunting and shooting equipment.
An ongoing project, Whistling Copse raises themes that will continue in my work for some time to come.
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Welcome to www.andreweason.com. I make artist's books. I write about them too. You can view lots of my work on this website.
I have also included resources including a large links directory, and a calendar of book art events that you can subscribe to.
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Essays, reviews and other writings are available here.
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Find out more about me, Andrew Eason, through my resumé, statement and other contact materials.
Find out more about artists’ books through my extensive links directory.
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I graduated with a Ph.D. in 2010 on the subject of artists' books, enititled Becoming What the Book Makes Possible: Aspects of metaphorisation of identity and practice in artists' books, examining aspects of how the practice of working with artists'books affected artists' creativity and ideas of the roles they were playing in the artwork's creation. (You can download the thesis here)
I subsequently graduated with distinction from an Information and Library Management MSc in 2012, gaining a professional qualification in the libraries field that brought together aspects of my interests in artists' books, mediation and creativity, and the history (and future) of the book. (My MSc thesis was about the use of artists' books in libraries and how users encountered them, relating to how the disruptive 'surprise and delight' artists' books offer can help engage library users' critical awareness and information literacy.)
I have been employed in libraries in various settings since 1998, taking every opportunity to develop workshops, fairs and other integrations of book arts into the library scenario. In 2012 I was engaged as a research consultant for the SWRLS library consortium in the West of England, reporting on provision of foreign-language titles across the region. Most recently (November 2015) I was appointed Head of Adult and Young Adult services at Springfield Library, New Jersey, where I hope to develop opportunities for local literacy, book and book-art-related events and culture, and opportunities for visual artists. I continue my own artistic practice alongside this, and teaching workshops at the Morgan Museum & Gallery, NYC, and the New Jersey Visual Arts Centre, based in Summit, NJ.
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