Past Work: We Love Your Books Exhibition 2008

For a while I was invloved in a fantastic annual exhibition called We love Your Books. Each year they give you a theme to go away and create something lovely and bookish to submit for the exhibition. I've had several pieces of work accepted so far but the last few years have been way too hectic with children and teaching so i've been unable to create the work for the last exhibitions. Maybe next year...
The theme for my last 2 pieces of work was simply: RE, and work could be related to these letters in whatever way took my fancy.
The first piece was entitled Dressmaking Reassembled 2008 and here it is along with my personal statement from the exhibition.

‘Dressmaking Reassembled’ 2008

I am interested in the construction and form of many everyday things including the making of a piece of art.

I collect and use a wide range found materials in my work including vintage fabrics, books and dressmaking patterns.

In this bookwork I chose to work with a lovely old school text book from 1959 which serves to teach the reader a range of needlework and dressmaking skills. I decided to reassemble pages of the book to form a miniature fifties style prom dress.

My work explores and celebrates the initial ideas and processes involved in creating many everyday things including works of art.

For my second entry to RE, I collaborated with a friend who writes lovely stories, to create a boxed book work.

‘The Little Button’ written by Allison Green 2007

Remember: ‘The Little Button’ limited edition bookwork 

Designed and produced by Imogen Davison 2008

Bound in vintage dress fabric and button. Boxed set includes vintage lipstick and tape measure contained in an antique drawer.

We Love Your Books is a voluntary organisation and is superbly organised. They sell their catalogues online which helps to fund some of the costs of running the exhibitions my work is featured in the following publication; we love your books 2005 – 2009 five years of experimental artists' books exhibitions