Artists’ Bookmarket Tells the Story at Fruitmarket Edinburgh

Rachel Hazell, AKA The Travelling Bookbinder, will be sharing all she has learnt about the power of creativity in her talk 'The Benefit of Books' on 15th Feb at the Bookmarket.? Image Sarah Mason Film and Photography
Rachel Hazell, AKA The Travelling Bookbinder, will be sharing all she has learnt about the power of creativity in her talk 'The Benefit of Books' on 15th Feb at the Bookmarket. Image Sarah Mason Film and Photography

Title:
Bookmarket 2025

Times:
10:00 - 17:00

From: 15 Feb 2025

To: 16 Feb 2025

Venue:
Fruitmarket
45 Market Street
Edinburgh
Edinburgh & the Lothians
EH1 1DF

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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.

Artists’ Bookmarket 2024
Artists’ Bookmarket 2024

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.

Lydia Davies
Lydia Davies

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.

David Faithfull, ‘BAROX

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