Bloomsbury Jamboree 2024
In gleeful collaboration with Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press and Joe Pearson of Design for Today, I am hosting our annual BLOOMSBURY JAMBOREE, a festival of books and print, illustration, talks and seasonal merriment next SATURDAY 7th & SUNDAY 8th DECEMBER from 10:30am until 4:30pm.
It takes place at the magnificent ART WORKERS GUILD, 6 Queens Sq, WC1, which was founded in 1884 by members of the Arts & Crafts movement including William Morris and C R Ashbee. These oak panelled rooms lined with oil paintings in a beautiful old house in Bloomsbury offer the ideal venue to celebrate our books, and the authors and artists who create them.
There will be book-signings and a programme of ticketed lectures and readings plus we have invited our talented friends to exhibit, including print and paper makers, small press publishers, toy makers, potters, craft workers and importers for food by small producers. We present a selection of the work of some of our exhibitors below.
We need volunteers all day Saturday and Sunday. We offer bags of books and other goodies as rewards – if you can help us, please email hello@inkpaperandprint.co.uk
Click here to book for our talks and lectures
Design by Rob Ryan
Art Workers Guild
Art Workers Guild
Art Workers Guild
Le Lapin by Mark Hearld printed by Penfold Press
Tea towel by Marion Elliot
Wooden decoration designed by Elizabeth Harbour
Hand cut decorations by Printed Peanut
Cats by Lesley Barnes
Hand printed cards by Starch Green
Produce from small producers imported by Sail Cargo
Affordable solar-powered house made of boxes from Whitechapel Market by Robson Cezar
Patterned by papers designed by Enid Marx, Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden published by Judd St Papers
Cat Decorations by Printed Peanut
Fratelli Camisa, Soho, by John Griffiths 1959, published by Mainstone Press
Toy Theatres by Pollocks Toy Museum
Card by Pressed & Folded
The Fishing Lodge by Emily Sutton published by Penfold Press
The White Horses of Wiltshire published by Pressed & Folded
Plate by Rena Gardner from Portrait of Dorset published by Design For Today
Affordable solar-powered house made of boxes from Whitechapel Market by Robson Cezar
Silver bracelet by Anna Lovell
Wooden decoration designed by Elizabeth Harbour
Endurance & Joy In The East End 1971 -1987 published by Spitalfields Life Books
Tea towel by Marion Elliot
Eric Ravilious Seen Through The Eyes Of His Contemporaries published by Mainstone Press
Beauty & The Beast published by Design For Today
Figures by Lesley Barnes
Map of Maigret’s Paris published by Herb Lester
The Wicker Man by Catherine Anteney
Textile work by Doris Dyke Halliwell (1908-88)
From Meet the Typographer published by Design For Today
Pop-up book by Chisato Tamabayashi
Ceramic trees by Beth Morrison
The Life & Times Of Mr Pussy published by Spitalfields Life Books
A Memorable Meal, print by Amanda Ribbans
Design by Marion Elliot
There are so many beautiful things to see again: Robson Cezar’s houses inspire me, but also the BAUHAUS figurines and the cats, as well as the silver jewellery and the other fine printed matter and decorations.
I was particularly surprised by the lino print of the ‘White Horses of Wiltshire’ — I now learnt that the Millennium Whitehorse was created in the Devizes Hills in August 1999. I didn’t know anything about this when I photographed the ‘Westbury White Horse’ at exactly the same time (!) …
https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/westbury-white-horse-wiltshire-augu-achim-schmidtke/31551661
Love & Peace
ACHIM
This sale looks so yummy, that even seeing the ANNOUNCEMENT fills me with envy and covetous joy. Over here in the far flung wilds of the USA, I’ve been happy to purchase unique publications from Spitalfields Life, Design For Today, and Mainstone Press. Easy-peasy and highly recommended.
A glorious array of unique artists! Wishing you all a very successful event.
An auspicious day for the arts hereabouts. Our region is hosting an artists’ studio tour, and there will be visiting and prancing about. And hopefully some commerce. Hurrah!
I was most interested to see the Plate by Rena Gardner from Portrait of Dorset published by Design For Today, as Rena Gardner taught me art when I was at Bournemouth School For Girls back in the 1960s.
Some lovely things here, but the Wicker Man is creepy. It’s my all time favourite horror film.