{"id":454,"date":"2017-07-27T14:35:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/?p=454"},"modified":"2019-12-11T13:16:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T13:16:46","slug":"prescriptions-artists-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/2017\/07\/27\/prescriptions-artists-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptions: artists&#8217; books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1 August \u2013 17 November 2017<br \/>\nCurators: Stella Bolaki, Egidija \u010ciricait\u0117, Elspeth Millar, Helen Blomfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-455\" title=\"This, is my Crisis, by Elizabeth Fraser. Photo by Egidija \u010ciricait\u0117\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2017\/07\/Elisabeth-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This, is my Crisis, by Elizabeth Fraser. Photo by Egidija \u010ciricait\u0117 \" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2017\/07\/Elisabeth-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2017\/07\/Elisabeth-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2017\/07\/Elisabeth-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/templeman-exhibitions\/files\/2017\/07\/Elisabeth-624x882.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Waiting rooms, pills, bandages, surgery, ageing, death, healing, joy, relaxation, consultation, distress and pain are ubiquitous experiences, shared around the world. This exhibition responds to such experiences through the intimate and complex medium of the artist&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p>The artists\u2019 books in this exhibition were first shown at <em>Prescriptions<\/em>, an exhibition at <a href=\"http:\/\/canterburymuseums.co.uk\/events\/prescriptions\/\">The Beaney House of Art &amp; Knowledge<\/a>, Canterbury between April and August 2016, curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/bolaki.html\">Dr Stella Bolaki<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egidija.com\/\">Egidija \u010ciricait\u0117<\/a>. A selection of the books were deposited with the University of Kent\u2019s Special Collections &amp; Archives.<\/p>\n<p>The books on display in <em>Prescriptions: artists\u2019 books<\/em> demonstrate a wide range of materials and bookbinding techniques. Bringing together books on cancer, chronic illness, disability, mental health, surgery, medicine and wellbeing, this exhibition reveals the communicative power of book art and its therapeutic potential.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prescriptions: artists\u2019 books<\/em> includes work by:\u00a0Martha Hall, Sophie Adams, Penny Alexander, Karen Apps, Heather Beardsley, Gaby Berglund Cardenas, Julie Brixey-Williams, Egidija Ciricaite, Allison Cooke Brown, Margaret Cooter, Amanda Couch, Sue Hague, Cas Holmes, Gemma Lacey, Pauline Lamont-Fisher, Andrew Malone, Anne Parfitt, David Paton, Corinne Perry, Stevie Ronnie, Mary Rouncefield, Erin K. Schmidt, Randi Annie Strand, Noriko Suzuki-Bosco, Amanda Watson-Will, Susie Wilson.<\/p>\n<h3>Further links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/artistsbooks\/\">Artists\u2019 Books and the Medical Humanities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/library\/specialcollections\/\">Special Collections &amp; Archives<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 August \u2013 17 November 2017 Curators: Stella Bolaki, Egidija \u010ciricait\u0117, Elspeth Millar, Helen Blomfield Waiting rooms, pills, bandages, surgery, ageing, death, healing, joy, relaxation, consultation, distress and pain are ubiquitous experiences, shared around the world. This exhibition responds to such experiences through the intimate and complex medium of the artist&#8217;s book. 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