Artists’ Bookmarket is an annual celebration of art publishing at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket. The event runs over two busy weekend days with stalls laid-out to showcase a wide array of work, and is accompanied throughout by a busy programme of talks and workshops.

Over the weekend, featured artist Lydia Davies will present an exhibition of work, The glass with the fingers dipped in. Taking place in the Fruitmarket’s Warehouse space at 5pm each day, it comprises a large-scale moving image projection, six suspended paintings, and a live vocal performance, alongside Davies’ new artist book, featuring a collection of short stories and poems.

Also, artist David Faithfull will bringing back his artist book project BAROX, first presented at Fruitmarket’s Sum of Parts exhibition in 2000. An investigation into fairgrounds, beach promenades and amusement arcades, it incorporates one of the original machines from Portobello Beach in the 1960’s, and visitors are invited to play the machine and record their results with supplied rubber stamps and souvenir cards.
