Book Transformations – Meet the Artist
Kate Bufton is a book artist, or more accurately, in her words, a book sculptor. She takes old books - ”their old musty smells and textural pages…their stained colouration and markings” - and manipulates and transforms them into works of art that tell their own story. Having taken her work to book fairs in Manchester and Leeds (where one of her pieces was snapped up by the Henry Moore foundation!), Kate now has an exhibition at The Gallery in Quay Bank House, Warrington.
On Wednesday 26th October (that’s next Wednesday, get those diaries out!), 6-8pm, you can go along to meet Kate and find out about what inspires her and how she makes her work – from her fascination with the “unknown possibilities a book holds” to how intricate cuts and folds allow the viewer to pick out words, “re-writing the story through their own imaginations. [Becoming] narrator to these unique scupltures.”
The Book Transformations exhibition is part of the Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival 2011 and runs until 3rd December.
Details: Meet the Artist, 26th Oct, 6-8pm, Free admission, refreshments available: The Gallery at Quay Bank House, Warrington.
Alex Herod
Kate Bufton – I *love* what you do and hope you have a show in the southern hemisphere sometime soon!