On the Same Page
bound:unbound @ Upright Gallery, 6th -26th September 2025
On the same page celebrates the page, the book and the artists who make them.
After working together for almost 15 years, the members of bound : unbound are certainly on the same page. They all make artist books. But they also make complementary work:
Christine Sloman and Susie Wilson are printmakers, Lynda Wilson is a printmaker and painter, Liza Green is a textile artist, and Susie Leiper is a calligrapher and painter. The exhibition
demonstrates how their various practices work together and are reflected in their artist books.
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Tetrapac Printmaking Workshop with Landscape Architecture students along the River Almond. Collaborative printmaking to make one long river of prints. |
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'Press Play’ takes a light-hearted look at the cassette player, with a nostalgic nod to everything that comes with it, taping off the radio, favourite tracks to share, friendship, documenting a point in time, pencils and tangled tapes.
Susie and Gen draw inspiration from the art movements of Dada and Fluxus, taking particular interest in how these movements worked collaboratively, making work in response to instructions and one another. This circular way of working is central to their teaching and creative practice. It brings ways of getting started and encourages the development of ideas through making. Consider the actions... Rewind, Record, Play, Pause, Fast Forward, Stop, Eject. They have used this model to produce an interactive exhibition in the spirit of the cassette era. The exhibition will evolve through audience participation. People play will enhance the recording. |
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As part of Innovative Learning Week at Edinburgh College of Art, I worked with my friend and colleague, Hazel Mei from Landscape Architecture. We used the Japanese marbling technique of Suminagashi in order to investigate place. We took a group of Landscape Architecture students along the River Almond, looking at how the river flowed to the estuary and then out to the Firth of Forth. We looked at how the puddles and bodies of water had formed and how these indicated erosion of the land.
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January 2022 - April 2022
My book 'Self Isolation' is currently on display in the exhibition,
New Arrivals | From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One, Edinburgh
Open daily, 10am-5pm (Admission free)
It's so exciting to be shown alongside one of my favourite bookworks, 'Worldbackwards' made in 1912 by the Russian Futurists, Natalia Goncharova Mikhail Larionov Nikolai Rogovin, and Vladimir Tatlin and written by Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh and the wonderful book 'Lockdown, A Pocket Manifesto' by artist Corinne Welch.
My book 'Self Isolation' is currently on display in the exhibition,
New Arrivals | From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Modern One, Edinburgh
Open daily, 10am-5pm (Admission free)
It's so exciting to be shown alongside one of my favourite bookworks, 'Worldbackwards' made in 1912 by the Russian Futurists, Natalia Goncharova Mikhail Larionov Nikolai Rogovin, and Vladimir Tatlin and written by Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh and the wonderful book 'Lockdown, A Pocket Manifesto' by artist Corinne Welch.
I am delighted that this book 'Self- Isolation', exhibited at the Upright Gallery has been purchased by the National Galleries of Scotland. A wonderful ending to an unusual year.
I made this book using Cyanotype during the first Lockdown taking advantage of the beautiful weather.
Re:connections 27th November - 19th December 2020
Upright Gallery, Barclay Terrace, Edinburgh
Artists have been active in printing and book production for centuries. Artist books have appeared in a wide range of forms, from the traditional codex to scrolls, fold-outs, concertina and loose leaf, and were adopted by movements such as Dada, Constructivism and Fluxus.
Like everyone during lockdown artists have all been forced to reconsider how to best stay connected with people and life in general and many had to rethink how to physically make their work, what their artworks meant and how they could connect with their audience in unprecedented times. Re:connections features a selection of artist books by over 30 makers on the theme of connections.
Upright Gallery, Barclay Terrace, Edinburgh
Artists have been active in printing and book production for centuries. Artist books have appeared in a wide range of forms, from the traditional codex to scrolls, fold-outs, concertina and loose leaf, and were adopted by movements such as Dada, Constructivism and Fluxus.
Like everyone during lockdown artists have all been forced to reconsider how to best stay connected with people and life in general and many had to rethink how to physically make their work, what their artworks meant and how they could connect with their audience in unprecedented times. Re:connections features a selection of artist books by over 30 makers on the theme of connections.
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Field Notes: Reflections on Camp Life at the Scottish Women's Hospitals,
Surgeons' Hall Museum, Edinburgh, Nov 2018 - April 2019 The Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) were formed by Elsie Inglis after her offer of a ready-made medical unit staffed by women was turned down by the Royal Army Medical Corp. After the French government accepted her offer, 14 units of women volunteers left the safety and comfort of their own homes to help soldiers of all nations on the front line of allied countries such as Serbia and France during the First World War. For over a year, fellow artist Joan Smith and myself worked with the archive’s collection at Surgeons' Hall Museum, drawing from glass lantern slides and the journals made by the women on the front line. |
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Artist Book Exhibition
bound : unbound 20th January - 28th February 2018 &Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG The members of bound : unbound come from a variety of disciplines: Felicity Bristow and Lynda Wilson share backgrounds in architecture, Liza Green is a textile artist, Susie Wilson’s engagement is with printmaking and Susie Leiper’s with calligraphy and painting. All five artists come together through the medium of the book. In a group exhibition their works sing with variety and astound in the scope of their creativity. When artist books and wall pieces are shown together – as they will be at &Gallery in January – visitors can begin to understand the place of the artist book within the wider practice of each artist. |
Partial View IIArtist in Residence at ECA Library, 2016Artist in Residence at Edinburgh College of Art Library, 2016
In February I was invited Artist in Residence at ECA Library. From the 21st October - The work on show at Evolution House is my response to spending 6 weeks in the library looking through their collection of 2000 Artists' Books. On display are two works - one is made from 69 hand printed sections and hangs over 5 floors in the stairwell of Evolution House, Edinburgh and the other is a handmade box with different layers containing 13 books, objects and prints. The Library is open 9am - 4.45pm Monday - Friday and work will be on display for 4/5 weeks and then be in the permanent collection. There will be an informal Private View on Tuesday 25th October 2016, 5.30pm - 7pm |
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