An art exhibition in conjunction with Warwickshire Artsweek and Oxfam Bookfest curated by Annie Carpenter. A group of 11 artists respond playfully to the idea of the book as both a physical object and a method of conveying information. The exhibition took the form of an intervention into the bookshop, where viewers had to seek out the artworks within the existing shop display.

Installation detail. including Chloe Edwards' 'Another's Body', Katherine Johnson's 'Wings of Fate', Robert Cliff's 'Untitled' (inside every The Art Book), Mary Partridge's 'Hands of the National Portrait Gallery, and Hannah Rollings' 'Utterly Mindless Thrills'.

Stacey Allen & Katherine Johnson's Eat Your Words

Amy McKenny's Learning Memory and Conceptual Processes Series - Your Outpour is my Downfall with accompanying correspondence with author

Yan Landy's Beehaus located somewhere in the contemporary art section

Katherine Johnson's Wings of Fate

Mary Partridge's Hands of the National Portrait Gallery located somewhere in the contemporary art section

Alice Bradshaw's Static
"Static is the remains of a hole-punched text The Rocks Remain in constant motion. The mass-produced book, found in the Manchester Oxfam, has been manually hole-punched and the remains captured as stills. The stills created a frame pool which were randomly sequenced to create the moving image based on a random number from the computer's operating system entropy pool."

Taneesha Ahmed's Untitled
This context specific event took the form of a store audit where she delegated mundane tasks to the spectator, so they could study the composition of their local bookshop. The objective of this exercise was to prompt the audience into examining themselves in conjunction with the literary debris they accumulate while raising the questions about their collective identity.

Annie Carpenter's Book Portraits