About the Course
Print your own unique papers and then use them to create your own Artist's Book
Starting with an introduction of Artist Book, so that students can understand the possibilities, and how to think of their art work as a book. After this introduction, they should think about a concept and how this will be incorporated into both printing of the papers and construction of the book. They will work with the printmaker to prepare their own design of paper. Then we are going to think about the sequence and assembly of everything into a book using one unique bookbinding structure. Then finally realising all the imagination in your very own unique Artist Book to take home.
Your Instructor
Victoria Bucca & Jane Richardson
The course is led by both Victoria Bucca (Bookbinder) and Jane Richardson (Printmaker).
Victoria Bucca (Toi) is Argentinian, but she moved to Italy in 2015. She studied graphic design at the University of Buenos Aires. She discovered the world of bookbinding thanks to the university, in 2013, and since then she has never stopped studying and training in the field. In 2022 she completed a master's degree (online) in Book Art at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires). She works as a graphic coordinator, bookbinder and bookbinding teacher. Her activity as “Toi Rilegatura” has opened the doors to different institutions, associations and cultural centers in Florence and Prato where she has been teaching courses since 2016. In 2019 she participated, on behalf of the Istituto de' Bardi, in the International Craft Exhibition with two Long Stitch bookbinding workshops.
Jane Richardson. Printmaker, artist, educator, enthusiast. Jane has devoted her career to helping people develop their creative skills in painting and particularly printmaking. Her focus is on encouraging and teaching people, but she does find time to produce her own work and has successfully exhibited work at Peacock, Aberdeen Artists and Quattro Archi. Originally from the Liverpool area, her degree was in Graphic Design at Leeds.