| Title | Flowers in Hotel Rooms Volume I |
| Artist / Creator | Sarah Bodman |
| Artist's Nationality | British |
| Place of Publication | Bristol, UK |
| Publication Date | 2003 |
| Structure / Binding | Accordion |
| Medium / Materials | Archival Inkjet print on photographic paper, bound with white cord |
| Dimensions (WxHxD) | 3.5 x 5 x .5 inches (13.5 x 8 x 1.5 cms) |
| Edition Size | Edition of 25 |
| Signed & Numbered | Yes |
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An original selection of views for placing in a hotel room. Inspired by Richard Brautigan’s novel The Abortion, which featured an old woman who wrote a book about growing flowers in her hotel room by candlelight. The photographs in this book are of flowers I have found or placed in hotel rooms whilst travelling, some with a literary reference.
Artist Bio
Sarah is Research Fellow for Artists' Books at the Centre for Fine Print Research (CFPR), where she runs projects investigating and promoting contemporary book arts. She is also the editor of the Book Arts Newsletter a vital monthly book arts resource published at the CFPR; and the Artist's Book Yearbook a biennial publication on contemporary book arts, published by Impact Press. She is the editor of The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books, and writes a regular news column on artists’ books for the ARLIS UK and Ireland News-sheet, and for the journal Printmaking Today. Sarah is the author of Creating Artists’ Books (a handbook for A&C Black, UK and Watson-Guptill, New York, USA, 2nd edition published December 2007, ISBN 978-0-7136-6509-3). Sarah's artists' books are included in many international collections such as Tate Britain, the British Library and the V & A Museum, All Saints Library and Winchester School of Art, UK; Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Yale Centre for British Art, MOMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Mills College and Rhode Island School of Design USA; Museum van het Boek and AKI (ArtEz) The Netherlands; Biblioteca Casanatense, Italy; Southern Cross University, Lismore and Institute of the Arts, Canberra, Australia.