Arnolfini Bookshop
Bookshop opening hours 10.00am - 6.00pm, Tuesday - Sunday.
Tel: 0117 917 2304
Arnolfini is home to one of the best specialist arts bookshops in the country.
We stock over 100 magazines and periodicals on art, design, literature and film as well as an exceptional range of books on contemporary art and culture. Our staff are adept at finding the ‘hard to find’ and can order books in for you. Link here to email them.
NUS members are eligible for 10% off all books every Wednesday through our 10% Wednesday promotions. You will need your NUS card to qualify for the discount.
If you work for an organisation or a school/college you can set up an account with us giving you a discount and free p&p. Email here to find out more.
Bookshop Showcase Mar/Apr/May
Sumi Perera
Sumi Perera’s artist books are an amalgam of influences from her work in the East (Sri Lanka, her native country), and the West (the United Kingdom, her adoptive country) as a doctor, scientist and artist. The content is often semi-autobiographical, using printmaking, photography and stitch to transform unique artwork into democratic multiples, which due to the slight variations she makes become 'unique multiples'.
Jewellery
Sophie Lowe
Sophie Lowe’s jewellery combines silver and paper to produce both a negative and a positive component which, when combined, form an embossed reproduction on paper. The image created by this process could be used for a card or a keepsake. Her work often includes images drawn from childhood celebrating the fact that there is a comical or sentimental image concealed within a more subtle, ‘grown up’ looking exterior.
Bookshop Showcase Jun/Jul/Aug
Stephanie Black
Arthur Gravy’s ‘Time Well Spent’ Chapbooks
This series of ‘grotty little chapbooks’ is a fascinating collection of bird-lore and stories as viewed through a slightly warped and dusty lens. Attempting to wrestle outlandish ideas and working methods into a communicative and reproducible form, this collection employs bathos and humour to draw the viewer into the narrative and celebrates the shabby DIY aesthetic and modest pricing of the chapbook tradition. Ideal as a companion for idle moments or an unusual gift.
Seekers of Lice:499 Quandaries #2 to #3599
Between June and August Arnolfini bookshop will be participating in the Seekers of Lice Quandaries Initiative. Ten editions of 499 white paper bags will be appearing (and disappearing) in different locations throughout the country. One side of each bag is numbered from #2 to #3599 using prime numbers only. The reverse side has a handwritten ‘quandary’, each different. The quandaries conflate meaning, sound, association and visual pattern through alliteration, rhyme, half rhyme and non-logical pairings. Meaning is jostled aside by the strangeness of language. The bags will be given out with purchases from bookshop.
Jewellery
Sarah Scott
Sarah Scott’s work is strongly influenced by her work with textiles as well as her fascination with natural and abstract forms. These individual pieces are finely wrought with an emphasis on surface pattern and texture and are notable for their delicate character and unusual design.
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