Second Century Press: artists' books from the School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art

Thursday 2 October 2014

London Art Book Fair 2014

Whitechapel Gallery, 25th - 28th September 2014

Again this year we were delighted to be accepted to exhibit at the London Art Book Fair.

Students from across the School of Art were invited to submit artists' books and publications for selection for inclusion on our stand and we had a wide range of work on show at this exciting event. Students from all levels of study were represented and their work was well received. We were also pleased to be able to showcase ECA Library Book-Artist in Residence, Julie Johnstone's book 2 - 20.

Two student volunteers along with our Print Workshop Graduate Studio Assistant helped out on the stand and they had the opportunity to present the work to the audience and be part of the event, attending associated talks and meeting other artists and publishers.

Book Fair Publicity, Commercial Road

Whitechapel, Lower Gallery

Second Century Press

featured books from all stands

William Spendlove's book FTFW in featured books cabinet.

Wednesday 20 August 2014

London Art Book Fair 2014

London Art Book Fair

Edinburgh College of Art, Second Century Press have been selected to exhibit at the London Art Book Fair 2014.

Join us for the Opening Evening on Thursday 25 September (6-9pm).

Opening times: Friday 26 September 11am – 9pm.

Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 September 11am – 6pm.

Free entry

Monday 19 May 2014

Painting Degree Show 2014

A selection of work from this year's Painting Degree Shows.
24th May - 1st June 2014

Jake Howe

Deirdre MacLeod

Emily Lang

Emma Kelsey

Tom Brice

Sam Caldwell

Mark Connolly

Sophie Hopkinson

http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/eca-home/news-events/edinburgh-college-of-art-degree-show-2014

Monday 28 April 2014

Picture Stories

Picture Stories is a collaboration between Illustration and Painting students and staff at Edinburgh College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It is lead by John Brown, lecturer in Painting at ECA.
The brief centres on each participant responding to a short written narrative in the mode of a single page comic strip and is rooted in the spirit of Harvey Pekar's American Splendour.
It will culminate in a publication later in 2014.

Seamus Killick, Painting Stage 4

Thursday 26 September 2013

London Art Book Fair, 2013

Whitechapel Gallery 13^th – 15^th September

Second Century Press was selected for the fifth year running to exhibit at this prestigious event, which is recognised internationally and attended by artists, publishers and audiences from around the world.

Students from across The School of Art were invited to submit books for consideration and a variety of examples were selected for inclusion on the stand. ECA’s stand showed books from the 2^nd Year Artists’ Book Elective Collaborative Print Project, The Peploe Project and a wide range from students who have chosen to use the artist’s book as an important element in their practice. ‘Forest Pitch’, Craig Coulthard’s publication recording his project that was part of the London 2012 Festival and Cultural Olympiad was also a valuable addition to the books on display.
The event offered students an excellent opportunity to showcase their work and for those attending to meet their audience and other exhibitors and to take advantage of the events programme associated with the fair which this year included talks by Luc Tuymans and Cornelia Parker.

Main Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery

Second Century Press

Jason Leech, (pictured right), 'The Apprentice' candidate 2013, veiws Devin Wallace's, (pictured centre), book 'You're Fired!'

Friday 10 May 2013

ECA / Ed Neuro - A Collaboration Between Artists and Scientists at The University of Edinburgh

This Second Century Press publication records the ECA / Ed Neuro project where students at Edinburgh College of Art were invited to collaborate with scientists across Neuroscience at The University of Edinburgh. The students visited the labs and made work in response to their findings. After presenting proposals they were all asked to design a poster and these were shown at the Edinburgh Neuroscience Conference in March 2013. Five finalists were chosen to make work that was also exhibited at the conference. The book includes documentation of the whole project, from the initial meetings when students and scientists looked at one another's work in order to negotiate collaborative pairings to the conference day and was launched at 48hrs / Encounters at Inspace, The University of Edinburgh in May 2013.