05/02/2011

Artists' Books 2000

Boy Meets Girl


MSDA 0300/M+F–boy meets girl

A traditional bound book that plays with the readers' expectations.

The 'story' ends in the middle when 'boy meets girl', in a sequence of building shapes.

Further explored as a 2min. rostrum animation of the same name uploaded below.


Hand-cut and bound book (2000)

Cover size: 16x27cm

Edition of 5 – SOLD OUT


Sponsor: GF Smith, London


In private collections and also the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Manchester Metropolitan University Library All Saints.


video



'Boy Meets Girl' the movie 2000.
























6 Degrees

The structure holds the book together whilst also illustrating the theory (Six Degrees of Separation).

No beginning, no end – everyone is connected in whatever direction the reader chooses. The text is of recorded conversations from a trip around the Circle Line, London, between 2-4pm, Friday 19th Nov. 1999.


Rubber-stamp printed (2000)

Circular box size: 13x18.3cm

Edition of 6 – SOLD OUT


In private and public collections such as: Tate Britain, London College of Communication Library, Leeds College of Art & Design Library and more.


Below the edition boxed up.