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Sarah Bodman

Sarah Bodman is Associate Professor for Artists’ Books at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR), where she runs projects investigating and promoting contemporary book arts. She is also Subject Lead for MA Fine Art Printmaking at the Bower Ashton Campus at UWE, Bristol, UK.

Sarah is the editor of the Artist’s Book Yearbook a biennial reference publication on contemporary book arts, published by Impact Press. She is also the editor of the Book Arts Newsletter and The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books. She writes a regular artists’ books column 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 external institutions and artists nationally and internationally, with the ABPP Artists’ Books Partnership-exhibition Programme; with library staff at UWE to deliver exhibitions and public engagement with artists’ books; with staff at Arnolfini on the biennial Bristol Artist’s Book Event (BABE), and with artists and writers on an annual World Book Night project.

Sarah is currently supervising 5 doctoral students.

Sarah’s own artists’ books include: everything is so very much connected – with Roelof Bakker; Read With Me and Read To Me – two books made in collaboration with a psychometric reader and the public, Flowers in Hotel Rooms, a series of books inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel The Abortion; Lago Cremisi Permanente, with Chrystal Cherniwchan, commissioned for the exhibition Sarah Bodman – I Made This For You, curated by Antonio Freiles for AMACI – Quindicesima Giornata del Contemporaneo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea L.Barbera, Messina, Italy. Sarah has recently collaborated with artist and writer Roelof Bakker on a mail art and collage project This Place Will Not Exist… 2023-2024, which has resulted in a publication and exhibition tour from November 2025.

Sarah’s artists’ books have been featured in publications including: Anthology - Ten Years of Turn the Page Artists' Book Fair (2024);1000 Artists’ Books: Exploring the Book as Art, Sandra Salamoney with Peter & Donna Thomas, Quarry Books, Beverly, MA, USA, 2012, and Masters Book Arts: major works by leading artists, curated by Eileen Wallace, Lark Books, New York, April 2011. Sarah’s artists’ books are in 100+ national and international collections including: Tate Britain, the British Library and the V & A Museum, All Saints Library and Winchester School of Art, UK; Joan Flasch Artist’s Book Collection, Yale Center for British Art, MoMA New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Mills College and Rhode Island School of Design, USA Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Biblioteca de Arte, Portugal; Artists’ Books Archive, Milan; Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt; Moscow Artist’s Book Archive; The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia.

Contact Information

website: https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/
e-mail: [email protected]
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarah.bodman/
bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sarahbodman.bsky.social

Professional Practice & Experience

Education

2006–08 Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Leeds
1995 MPhil Artists' Books (P/T)
1992 Extension studies printmaking, UWE, Bristol
1991 BA Hons Fine Art, Falmouth School of Arts

Current Educational Role

Associate Professor: Artists' Books, Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England (UWE)

Career History

2010–2021 Senior Research Fellow, Artists’ Books, UWE
2004–2009 Research Fellow, Artists’ Books, UWE
1997–2004 Research Associate, Artists’ Books, UWE

Work in Collections

  • All Saints Library, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Archive Artists’ Publications, Munich, Germany
  • Archive Station, Paris, France
  • Artspace Mackay, Queensland, Australia
  • Biblioteca Casanatense, Italy
  • Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt
  • Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem collection, Sydney, Australia
  • British Library, Modern British Collection, London
  • Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
  • Coleção Livro de Artista da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
  • Emory University, Atlanta, USA
  • F.W. Olin Library, Mills College, USA
  • Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Biblioteca de Arte, Portugal
  • Jack Ginsberg Book Arts collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
  • La Tana, Spazio dal 1999, Italy
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
  • Museum van het boek, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • National University of Australia
  • New York Public Library, USA
  • Oxford Brookes University Library
  • Saint Petersburg Literary Museum XX Century, Russia
  • Smith College, Massachusetts, USA
  • Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia
  • State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  • Tate Britain Library & Archive, London
  • The Brotherton Library Special Collections, Leeds
  • University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  • V&A Museum, London
  • Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
  • Wexford Artists' Book Collection, Ireland
  • Winchester School of Art
  • Yale Center for British Art, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Sarah Bodman - I Made This For You, 15th AMACI - Giornata del Contemporaneo. Curated by Antonio Freiles, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea L. Barbera, Messina, Italy, 12/10/2019 - 15/11/2019. Publication: Lago Cremisi Permanente

2018
Read To Me - A psychometric collaboration with objects. Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA, 09/09/18 - 27/10/18; Winchester School of Art, UK 15/11/18 - 20/12/18; Collins Memorial Library, Puget Sound USA, 12/03/19 - 12/05/19; Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol (The Story of 'Read to Me' exhibition) 01/07/19 - 31/08/19; John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 26/08/19 - 27/09/19.

Selected Exhibitions: Refereed / Juried / Curated

2025

  • At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art, Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan, 15/11/25 – 18/01/26
  • BOOKMORPHS: Artists' Books from Greece & the UK, The Hellenic Centre, London, UK, 14/10/25 – 28/11/25
  • FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA curated by Ania Gilmore, Museum of Printing, Haverhill, USA, 01/08/25 - 01/11/25
  • FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA curated by Ania Gilmore, MassArt x SoWa gallery Boston, USA, 31/05/25 - 06/07/25
  • Orwell's World 2024, 40 years since Orwell's vision of 1984, curated by Przemysław Owczarek & Jacek Kozlowski, Muzeum Książki Artystycznej w Łodzi | Art Book Museum, Łódź, Poland, 29/04/25 - 07/06/25
  • The Second Artists' Book Exhibition, Galleria Duetto, curator: Hannele Nyman, Helsinki, Finland, 23/4/25 - 18/05/25
  • World Book Night 2025 - Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees), Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 03/04/25 - 30/07/25
  • unfolding library, curated by Denise Bookwalter & Tricia Treacy, Bergen Art Book Fair, Norway, 03/4/25 - 06/4/25
  • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge, a participatory digital exhibition at Polar Educators International, Boulder, Colorado, USA, curated by Street Road Gallery, 22/03/25 - 23/03/25
  • Enduring Proof: 30 Years of Contemporary Printmaking in Focus, curated by Emily Parker, PARKER Contemporary Brisbane, Australia, 21/03/25 - 05/04/25
  • Postcards for Perec, curated by Linda Parr, Jacques Tati gallery, Institut Français, Edinburgh, 05/02/25 - 31/03/25
  • Artists Protest - In Words & Images, Dunoon MOCA, Scotland, 20/01/25 - 26/01/25

2024

  • FREEDOM PROJECT KOLEKCJA curated by Ania Gilmore in cooperation with Art Book Museum Łódź at the Muzeum Józefa Czechowicza, Lublin, Poland, 18/10/24 - 16/11/24
  • EXERCISES FOR ALL - responding to Kurt Johannessen's Exercises, curated by Sarah Bodman, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 04/09/24 - 31/10/24
  • Ulises: Assembly, Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG), Boston, USA, 13/08/24 - 10/11/24
  • B for Book, curated by Sarah Bodman & Cristian Zuzunaga, Frankenstein Press, Bristol, UK, 28/06/24 – 19/07/24
  • Luiz Sacilotto's 100th birthday exhibition, curated by Marica Rosenberger, Collective 308, Ponte Grande, Guarulhos, Brazil, 15/06/24 - 15/07/24
  • Freedom Project Kolekcja, curated by Ania Gilmore, Museum of Writing and Printing, Grębocin, Poland, 08/05/24 - 02/06/24
  • Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto, organised by Marica Rosenberger, Casa Âmbar de Cultura, Santo André, Brazil, 20/04/24 - 25/05/24
  • Freedom Project Kolekcja, curated by Ania Gilmore, University of Łódź Library, Łódź, Poland (invited artist), 28/02/24 - 28/03/24
  • Archive Station, curated by Cannelle Tanc & Frédéric Vincent, Immanence, Paris, France, 03/02/24 - 24/02/24

2023

  • Freedom Project, in tandem with the 30 Year Anniversary of the Polish Book Art Museum, curators: Ania Gilmore & Małgorzata Oakes, organiser: Jadwiga Tryzno, Book Art Museum, Łódź, Poland (invited artist), 01/10/23 - 30/11/23
  • We Remember, 114 national and international artists respond to texts by Joe Brainard & Georges Perec. HKDI Learning Resource Centre, Hong Kong, 01/09/23 - 31/10/23
  • Postcards for Perec (1936-1982), curated by Linda Parr, Waverley Library Gallery, Bondi, NSW, Australia, 26/07/23 - 23/08/23
  • Night and Day, ABC at UWE exhibition, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 05/07/23 - 05/09/23
  • Dinner & A Rose in an exhibition of books by guest professor Nancy Campbell, Peter Szondi-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 10/04/23 - 30/08/23
  • Postcards for Perec, curated by Linda Parr, the Nestorian Church of St. George the Exiler, for the Eastern Mediterranean University’s 10th International Design Week in Famagusta, Cyprus, 13/05/23 – 19/05/23
  • Space, Line, Colour, curated by Julie Johnstone, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 21/04/23 - 30/06/23
  • We Remember, 114 national and international artists respond to texts by Joe Brainard & Georges Perec. Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 21/04/23 - 30/09/23
  • Shadow and Light: Honoring Iraqi Academics, photographs of witness, memory and solidarity, curated by Beau Beausoleil, Artists’ Alley Champaign, IL & Hundley Central Core Gallery, Spurlock Museum, Urbana, IL, USA, 13/04/23 - 02/06/23
  • The Mountains Are Calling… Bookarts at UWE / LAND2 at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, 03/03/23 - 17/04/23
  • Postcards For Perec exhibition tour, Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 07/02/23 - 15/04/23

2022

  • The World is a Handkerchief, curated by Cecilia Mandrile & Claudia DeMonte, Carole A. Fewell Gallery, Coral Gables Museum, USA. 27/01/23 – 15/02/23
  • Postcards For Perec exhibition tour, the Design and Architecture Festival in Istanbul October 2022; Collins Memorial Library of the University of Puget Sound, Washington, 02/11/22 - 14/01/23
  • RikArt Artist’s Book collection 22-year anniversary exhibition, curated by Emmi Martin, Rikhardinkatu Library, Helsinki, Finland, 01/07/22 - 31/12/22
  • Beyond the Pale, curated by Alexandra Franklin & Lucy Bayley, Proscholium, Old Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK, 17/09/22 - 06/11/22
  • EXCELLENCE IN BOOK ART EXHIBITION, curated by Hilke Kurzke and Jenny Stevenson, Notts Book Arts Festival 2022, Wollaton Library, Nottingham, UK, 03/10/22 - 29/10/22
  • Postcards for Perec, curated by Linda Parr, Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University, Wales, 19/08/22 - 30/01/23
  • ARTISTS’ BOOKS, curated by Hannele Nyman, Galleria Duetto, Helsinki, Finland, 20/7/22 -14/08/22
  • Imaged Words and Worded Images, curated by David Dellafiora, WordXimage gallery, Maitland, NSW, Australia, 02/07/22 - 12/08/22
  • Ghosts in the Machine, 93 national and international artists nominate and respond to ghost stories. Exhibition 13/04/22 - 31/07/22 at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK and HKDI Library, Hong Kong, 04/07/22 - 29/09/22
  • Postcards for Perec, curated by Linda Parr, Bath Spa University, 21/01/22 - 03/02/22

2021

  • To Have & To Hold, Reed Contemporary Books, Chapel Row, Bath, 15/11/21 - 28/11/21
  • Prima Facie, curated by Amir Brito Cadôr, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 08/07/21 - 31/08/21
  • Postcards for Perec, curated by Linda Parr, touring until 2023; Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol 01/07/21 - 31/08/21; Winchester School of Art Library, 14/09/21 - 12/11/21
  • The Herbarium, 141 national and international artists responding to texts about flowers, Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, for World Book Night, 23/04/21 – 23/05/21
  • RESPOND, online project by Julie Johnstone & Maria White, BABE 2021, 05/04/21 – 19/04/21
  • GOD SAVE THE BOOKS, Immanence, Paris, France, 10/02/21 – 06/03/21
  • GRAPHICS Century XXI, curated by Valeri Burov, The Children’s Philharmonic & Likhanov Library, Vyatka (Kirov), Russia, 09/02/21 – 31/03/21

Publications

Books authored

  • Bodman, Sarah Artists’ Books Creative Production and Marketing, Impact Press UWE Bristol, 3rd edition May 2010, ISBN 978-1-906501-05-1
  • Bodman, Sarah Creating Artists’ Books, Second edition published December 2007, ISBN 978-0-7136-6509-3
  • Bodman, Sarah Artists’ Books Creative Production and Marketing, Second, updated edition, Impact Press UWE Bristol, August 2007, ISBN 978-0-9547025-7-1
  • Bodman, Sarah Creating Artists’ Books, A & C Black Publishers, July 2005, ISBN 0 7136 6509 2 and Creating Artists’ Books Watson-Guptill, New York, Sept. 2005, ISBN 0 8230 1012 0
  • Bodman, Sarah Artists’ Books Creative Production and Marketing, Impact Press UWE Bristol July 2005, ISBN 0954702514

Books co-authored / co-edited

  • Bodman, Sarah and Sowden, Tom A Manifesto for the Book, February 2010, ISBN 978-1-906501-04-4, 187pp

Books edited

  • Artist's Book Yearbook 2024-2025, Impact Press, UWE Bristol, Jan 2024, ISBN 978-1-906501-22-8
  • Artist's Book Yearbook 2022-2023, Impact Press, UWE Bristol, Jan 2022, ISBN 978-1-906501-22-8

Journals / Newsletters edited

  • The Blue Notebook: journal for artists’ books, Impact Press | Wild Conversations Press, ISSN 1751-1720
  • Book Arts Newsletter, Impact Press, 1754-9086

Journal Columns

  • Artists’ Books column for Printmaking Today
  • Paying Forward - The New Lights Press model supporting artists’ books and print-based communities, Printmaking Today, Volume 34, Issue 134, Summer 2025, pp22-23
  • Sowing the Seeds: looking at artists' books that can bring us closer to nature, Printmaking Today, Volume 34, Issue 133, Spring 2025, pp22-23
  • On the Road Again, Sarah Bodman speaks to dedicated curator Kestutis Vasiliunas about his ongoing travels with the Artist’s Book Triennial Vilnius, Printmaking Today, Vol 33, Issue 132, Winter 2024, pp22-23
  • Carbon Data Mining, Sarah Bodman talks to Caroline Saltzwedel of Hirundo Press, Hamburg about her new works exploring the histories of coal, Printmaking Today, Vol 33, Issue 131, Autumn 2024, pp22-23
  • The Torchbearers, Sarah Bodman talks to Natalie Renganeschi at Women’s Studio Workshop about the upcoming anniversary and travelling exhibition, Printmaking Today, Vol 33, Issue 130, Summer 2024, pp22-23
  • All Shades of Blue, Artists’ books by Roelof Bakker and Caren Florance speak of loss through colour and texture, visual allusion and sensory touch, Printmaking Today, Vol 33, Issue 129, Spring 2024, pp22-23
  • Family Ties, Artist Terrie Reddish explains to Sarah Bodman how artists in New Zealand are building creative connections and book arts networks, Printmaking Today, Vol 32, Issue 128, Winter 2023, pp22-23
  • Signs of the Times, on reading the ongoing, environmentally-focused works encompassing Termómetos Project from Mexican artist Ireri Topete, Printmaking Today, Vol 32, Issue 127, Autumn 2023, pp22-23

Recent Contributions to Publications

  • Be Kind for BIODIVERS 1, curated and published by Odine Lang, Aachen, Germany, edition of 50, June 2025
  • Chat to a Stone for ReSite Pocketbook of Scores, Manifestos & Radical Actions, No.2 Vol 3, Field Study International, Australia, Dec 2024
  • Artists' books exhibitions in the UK & EIRE - fifty years highlights, compiled for Vico’s Spiral: Half Century of Artists’ Books, Center for Book Arts, New York, ISBN 978-1-951163-19-8, pp243-244 + individual pamphlets, November 2024
  • Imagined Worlds Abound, in Anthology - Ten Years of Turn the Page Artists' Book Fair, edited by Jules Allen & Jo Howe, Norwich, UK, ISBN 978-1-3999-9194-0, November 2024, pp79-86
  • READ WITH ME - A Psychometric Collaboration, in Anthology - Ten Years of Turn the Page Artists' Book Fair, edited by Jules Allen & Jo Howe, Norwich, UK, ISBN 978-1-3999-9194-0, November 2024, pp45-46
  • Field study emanation by Sarah Bodman for Wangari Maathai, Chico Mendes, Zeinab Mokalled, Shōzō Tanaka, for Field Report, Journal of Field Study International, report on activities 2023, April 2024
  • Filature de Soie - silk spinning - we dress as forest architecture, for ReSite, Manual of Scores, Manifestos & Radical Actions, No.18, Vol 2, Field Study International, April 2024
  • Pandora’s Hieroglyphic Primer, in RE:Making - A Documentation of Work by Angela Lorenz, edited by Judith Tolnick Champa with Jae Jennifer Rossman, the jenny-press, New Haven, CT, USA, ISBN 9780578269610, August 2023, pp152, 173
  • Emanation for the Fox Sisters for Field Report, Journal of Field Study International, report on activities 2022, editor David Dellafiora, May 2023
  • Write here for Field Report, Journal of Field Study International, report on activities 2021, editor David Dellafiora, June 2022
  • Why Publish? for Field Report 2020, Journal of Field Study International, report on activities 2020, editor David Dellafiora, June 2021
  • Spending time within books in Refresh the Book: On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing. Editors: K. Bazarnik, V. Hildebrand-Schat & C. B Schulz. Koninklijke Brill NV, The Netherlands, ISBN 978-90-04-44084-5, April 2021, pp 221-245
  • Susan Hiller for Salon for a Speculative Future, edited by Monika Oechsler with Sharon Kivland, Ma Bibliothèque, ISBN 978-1-910055-72-4, June 2020, pp28-29

Recent Conference and Symposia Contributions / Papers

Erase all the maps invited presentation for: Mapping Australia’s Artists Book Histories: A Group Effort, abbe Queensland College of Art | Griffith University | Artspace Mackay, hosted by Artspace Mackay, Queensland Australia, 06/07/25

ALL READ: recent research projects with artists' books and CFPR's World Book Night 2024 for the Visual Encounters UWE Undergraduate Research Symposium, Watershed, Bristol, 17/05/24

Exercises for All: An invitation to make work in response to Kurt Johannessen's Exercises, for PROOF! 24 Symposium, Bower Ashton, UWE Bristol, 08/05/24

'Lost and Found: artists’ books, absence and existence', invited presentation for the conference Książka artystyczna, Obecność i nieobecność, organised by Anna Juchnowicz, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland, 22/03/24

Keynote: 'To the library… where artists and books want to be' for GENERATIVE SPACES, The Creative Powers of the Art Library, ARLIS UK & Ireland Annual Conference, Norwich, UK, 03/07/23

'The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it', Sarah Bodman and Roelof Bakker, PROOF! 23 Symposium, Publishing Lab, Bower Ashton, UWE Bristol, 22/06/23

'What We Do in the Shadows: bringing book arts into World Book Night', invited presentation for
From Printmaking to Book Symposium: Artist's Book in academic theory and practice / artists' talks / miscellanea, organised by Anna Juchnowicz, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland, 23/02/23

‘Research and making of the artist's book Read With Me’, PROOF: Postgraduate Research in Art and Design, Publishing Lab, Bower Ashton, UWE Bristol, 22/06/22

‘From Literaturewurst to Looped’, Spineless Wonders - Small Press Artists Books; The Global Book; Materials, Materiality and Process conference, The UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, 12/11/21

‘Can you handle it? Artists’ books we are drawn to hold, may not want to touch, or make us complicit in their narrative’, Materi¬ality and Space Symposium, Media and Visual Arts Department, Koç University, Turkey, 15/10/21

‘Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques’, for: Médiatiser Le Livre D’artiste En Bibliothèque: Défis Et Enjeux Pour Un Patrimoine Vivant Et Sensible, Tréfilerie University Library, Saint-Etienne, France. Translated for presentation and publication by Anne Béchard-Léauté, 25/02/21

Keynote: ‘Some interactions between artists and libraries - promoting public engagement via digital and physical means’ for: re-imagining the material: artists’ books, printed matter, digital transformations, engagement, Arlis/ANZ Biennial Conference, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 13/11/20

Recent Events | Conferences | Symposia Organised

BABE - Bristol Artist's Book Event, 29 - 30 June 2024, at Bower Ashton campus, UWE Bristol. 110 artists, publishers, dealers and presses from the UK and Ireland, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, Sweden and the USA.

Printmaking, Artists’ books, Landscape and Nature, a collaboration between LAND2 & Book Arts at the CFPR, UWE Bristol, a free public symposium with 12 speakers, The Station, Bristol, UK, 30/03/23

CFPR Summer of Print and Books for Impact 12, online talks on printmaking, artists’ books, poetry, and participatory artists’ challenges, #summerofprintandbooks, 01/07/22 – 15/09/22

BABE - Bristol Artist's Book Event, 23 - 24 April 2022, at Bower Ashton campus, UWE Bristol. 108 artists, publishers, dealers and presses from the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Poland, Sweden, Australia, Japan, Brazil. Supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

BABE - The Lost Weekend, 17-18 April 2021, at Arnolfini, Bristol (online). 160 artists, publishers, dealers and presses from Australia, Argentina, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, UK & Ireland and the USA.

Collage Colloquium, CFPR in collaboration with the London Centre for Book Arts, 14/08/2020

CFPR Print and Book Festival, co-organised with Angie Butler, an online festival with daily talks on printmaking, artists’ books, poetry, publishing, asemic writing, wellbeing and more. #printandbookfest 20/07/20 – 03/08/20

MiniBABE - Bristol Artists’ Books at Home, Arnolfini, Bristol, 03/05/20 – 07/05/20

External Advisor | Juror | Committees

Conference committee: When Creation Takes Over Publishing, November 2025, University of Lille, France;
AMBruno Intervals selector 2024;
Center for Book Arts New York: International Advisory Council (2020-);
Juror: Designer Bookbinders UK Bookbinding Competition (2020-2021);
Symposium committee: Médiatiser Le Livre D’artiste En Bibliothèque: Défis Et Enjeux Pour Un Patrimoine Vivant Et Sensible, Tréfilerie University Library, Saint-Etienne, France (2021);
Editorial board: Inscription: Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History (2020-);
Committee: international colloquium L’oeuvre multipliée au prisme de la collection et de l’archive, Espace d'art Immanence, Paris, France;
Juror: turn the page artist’s book event, The Forum, Norwich (2016);
Juror (with Buzz Spector and Sandra Kroupa), MCBA Book Art Biennial Prize 2013, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA (2013);
AHRC Peer Review College (2007 - 2014);
European moderator for Artist Books 3.0 created by Robert Heather, Australia (2007-2016).

Artists’ Books and artefacts, 2021-everything is so very much connected, Roelof Bakker & Sarah Bodman, September 2025

Clouded Yellow - Field Study emanation for Field Study International's Field Report 2025, edition of 100, July 2025.

Nós Criamos Problemas | We Create Problems, Fernanda Fedrizzi & Sarah Bodman, ISBN 978-1-906501-39-6, edition of 50, English and Portuguese, April 2025.

Hold On, collage for World Earth Day Zine, curated by Jean McEwan, April 2025.

We sing to you we sing for Chico Mendes, for World Book Night 2025 - Tell the Trees (Listen to the Trees), Bower Ashton Library, Bristol & Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland, March 2025.

What is here - there, our shared seas, rocks, clouds, storms, stars, flora, beauty. Collage for HERE: a place-based polar image bridge, digital exhibition at Polar Educators International, Boulder, Colorado, USA. March 2025.

Industrial Time | Natural Time. Artist's book and video. Sound recordings accompany a companion set of two books made for the unfolding library project, USA. Each denotes a minute waiting on the roadside. Feb 2025.

Let’s Talk | Vamos Conversar, in tribute to Kurt Johannessen’s series of artists’ books Exercises. Digitally printed on Nautilus Classic 160gsm recycled paper by Axminster Printing Company. Text in English & Portuguese, edition of 100, Sept 2024.

Field Study Emanation, They awoke…, for Orwell's World 2024 Book Art Museum Lodz, altered book, Feb 2024.

Composition I and II, 2024, two collage works made in response to Luiz Sacilotto's Composition painting 1949 for the exhibition Homagen a Luiz Sacilotto, organised by Marica Rosenberger, Casa Âmbar de Cultura, Santo André, Brazil. March 2024.

here - beloved / unloved - ukochany / niekochany for Freedom Project, in tandem with the 30 Year Anniversary of the Polish Book Art Museum, curators: Ania Gilmore & Małgorzata Oakes, organiser: Jadwiga Tryzno, Book Art Museum, Łódź, Poland (invited artist), September 2023.

Birds All Sing / Every Flower Exhales, unique artist's book produced for the ABC exhibition Night and Day at Bower Ashton Library, July - August 2023. Risograph print and collage, June 2023.

Read With Me. Extending from the experimental book project ‘Read to Me’, the result of a performative drawing event, readings by a psychometric reader, collages and words assembled from the dissected readings. Produced via remote residency at the London Centre for Book Arts, UK, Edition of 100, Dec 2022.

Ghosts in the Machine. A collaboration with 92 national and international artists for World Book Night 2022. Coordinated by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr. Edition of 100, ISBN 978-1-906501-24-2. April 2022.

Dinner and a Rose, Sarah Bodman & Nancy Campbell. Anniversary edition created to mark 20 years after publication of the last Ripley novel. Text: Nancy Campbell, Image: Sarah Bodman. Edition of 500, September 2021.

Recent Public Lectures and Engagement

'Everything is so very much connected', Roelof Bakker & Sarah Bodman, an artists' talk for World Collage Day, 11/05/25

Invited talk for the Livros de artista, livros-objetos: entre vestígios e apagamentos group coordinated by Fabiola Notari, São Paulo, Brazil (online), 14/05/24

'The lives of artists' books in UK libraries and collections' online talk for the seminar: The situation of the artist’s book in the North, Kristiansand Art and Literature House, Norway, 01/09/23

To the library… where artists and books want to be II, free online talk for ARLIS UK & Ireland members, 18/08/23

The Secret Lives of Books, free public talk for the Paper Ink Print Festival, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, UK, 18/03/23

Read With Me, artist's book talk, Summer of Print and Books Festival Impact 12, 01/09/22

Artists’ Books Surgeries, The Facility, Centre of Gravity, Bristol, 17/10/20

Read To Me, CFPR Seminar Series lunchtime talk, 05/08/20

Artists’ Books from the Archives, CFPR Print and Book Festival, 28/07/20

Zine workshop co-run with Angie Butler for ARLIS SW, Special Collections & Zine-making event at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, 03/03/20

Read With Me – a drawing experiment, Arnolfini Bookshop, Bristol, UK, 14/11/19 as an emanation for David Dellafiora’s Field Report 2019 (Journal of Field Study International, 25th report, published June 2020).

Doctoral Studies Supervision

Currently supervising 5 doctoral students (2025)

Curation

At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art. An exhibition of British and Japanese book art curated with Akiko Takiguchi at the Urawa Art Museum, Saitama City, Japan, 15/11/25 – 18/01/26

World Book Night 2025 - Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees), an exhibition and mail art swap of 250+ artists responses to The Overstory by Richard Powers, at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 03/04/25 - 30/07/25. Coordinated with artist Linda Parr. Works from Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA. Published video. Keepsake letterpress printed by Rachel Marsh | Semple Press.

EXERCISES FOR ALL - An exhibition of 40+ responses to Kurt Johannessen's Exercises, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK, 04/09/24 - 31/10/24. An invitation was made to staff, students and external artists to dip into one of Kurt Johannessen's Exercises book series and make a small creative response to it. Each response is listed and exhibited, visitors to the exhibition are also invited to contribute. A small book Let's Talk | Vamos Conversar is given to each participant.

B for Book, Frankenstein Press, Bristol, 28/06/24 – 19/07/24. An exhibition of 100+ bookworks selected from my archive at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol. Created by national and international artists including: Ioulia Akhmadeeva (Mexico), Craig Atkinson (UK) Boabooks (Switzerland), Jeremy Dixon (UK), Zenon Fajfer (Poland), Caren Florance (Australia), Gloria Glitzer (Germany), Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison (Australia), Imi Maufe (Norway), Lina Nordenström (Sweden), Otto (France), Sarah Nicholls (USA), Elisabeth Tonnard (the Netherlands), Barrie Tullett (UK), Corinne Welch (UK).

World Book Night 2024 - In Praise of Birds. Coordinated with artist Linda Parr. 200+ artists’ works from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK and USA. Exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK, 19/04/24 – 30/06/24 and Learning Resources Centre, Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), 01/09/24 – 31/10/24. Published video; keepsake commissioned artwork by Stephen Fowler.

World Book Night 2023 - We Remember. Coordinated with artist Linda Parr. 114 national and international artists respond to texts by Joe Brainard & Georges Perec. Exhibition 21/04/23 - 30/06/23 at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK and HKDI Library, Hong Kong, 31/07/23 - 30/09/23. Free download publication; video; keepsake commissioned artwork by Ioulia Akhmadeeva & Sylee Gore.

The Mountains Are Calling… A selection of 90+ artists' books, publications and small printed works by members of LAND2, and from the archives at the Centre for Print Research. The exhibition accompanies a Bookarts at UWE / LAND2 symposium in Bristol 30/03/23 discussing environmental themes including water quality, land degradation, pollution and damage to the landscape, interventions and ideas. The artists' books were selected for their focus on the natural world and the environment in relation to the project's themes. A pop-up handling exhibition of prints and artists' books temporarily left the library for the public to handle at the UWE / LAND2 day event. Exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. 03/03/23 - 17/04/23

How to be in the Future? - Salon for a Speculative Future: Women Artists’ Print Portfolio, curated by Monika Oechsler & Sarah Bodman. 20 artists responses in print, touring exhibition and publication, first exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, for Impact 12 Conference, UWE Bristol, UK, 21/09/22 - 31/10/22, exhibition at MOCA London for Women's History Month, 08/03/23- 11/03/23. Touring 2023 - 2024.

Librarians’ Artists’ Books (LAB) exhibition for the Scandinavian Artists’ Books Partnership Project, Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK, supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers, 02/08/22 – 31/10/22

World Book Night 2022 - Ghosts in the Machine. Coordinated with artist Linda Parr. 93 national and international artists nominate and respond to ghost stories. Exhibition 13/04/22 - 31/07/22 at Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK and HKDI Library, Hong Kong, 04/07/22 - 29/09/22. Physical and free download publication.

World Book Night 2021 - The Herbarium. Coordinated with artist Linda Parr. 141 national and international artists respond to texts about flowers. Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK exhibition, catalogue and art exchange, with keepsake poem by Nancy Campbell, printed by The Letterpress Collective. 23/04/21 – 23/05/21.

It’s A New Day, artists’ books on mental health, wellbeing and recovery, the Centre for Print Research & Bower Ashton Library in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 02/03/21 – 18/04/21

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Coordinated with artist Linda Parr for World Book Night 2020. 98 national and international artists respond to texts by Elizabeth Bishop, Nancy Campbell, W. G. Sebald & Olga Tokarczuk. Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK 23/04/20 – 30/06/20, online exhibition, album and mail art exchange.

Curator (Europe, The Middle East, and Asia), for the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition’s artists’ books project, 260 book artists: An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street. 2010- ongoing.