A THESIS ON THE BALLAD

Design and a series of six illustrations for a limited 12" vinyl edition of 'A Thesis on the Ballad': poems by Kelvin Corcoran and music by Jack Hues and the Quartet. 

Available here.

SISSINGHURST

100 copies of 'Sissinghurst' by Vita Sackville-West, finished, collated, and bound into hand marbled wrappers for the Letterpress Reimagined project.  

LEAP OF DEATH

Leap of Death Bookwork / LP out today!

To order, and to view / hear a full digital version of the work, visit robertstillman.com/leapofdeath

LETTERPRESS REIMAGINED AT SISSINGHURST

This week I was at Sissinghurst Castle, marbling paper and binding notebooks as part of the Letterpress Reimagined project. 

A group of volunteers are working with Vicki Adams to produce a limited edition run of 'Sissinghurst’ - a poem written by Vita Sackville-West (1930) and printed on the Minerva Press that Leonard and Virginia Woolf used for a number of years - as a hand typeset and letterpress printed reproduction of the original.

Next week I will be taking the group on a special 'Bloomsbury Books' tour of Charleston and Monk's House.

PRINTING THE POET LAUREATE

A commission from Charleston Festival to print 500 copies of a new poem by Carol Ann Duffy, 'Lessons in the Orchard', written in celebration of their 25th Anniversary: 

Hand set in metal type and letterpress printed - with photopolymer plate design - in 4 colours on 250gsm Somerset Velvet Newsprint. Signed by the poet and for sale at Charleston.

ADANA WORKSHOP

On 7th June at Hello Print Studio, Margate.

On this one-day workshop, participants will learn how to hand-set and print from metal type using an Adana table-top press. 

Working with a short piece of text, we’ll create an edition of letterpress prints and learn all the basic techniques needed to create your own pamphlets, artist’s books, small posters and broadsides. 

We will cover case layout, typesetting, spacing, composition, lock-up, make-ready, inking, and printing. Suitable for beginners as well as those with some experience, we will explore versatile techniques and skills that can be incorporated with other printmaking and creative practices.

More details and booking: hello-adana.eventbrite.co.uk 

LEAP OF DEATH Launch Event, 6th May 2014

Robert Stillman and the Archaic Future Players, performing the 'Leap of Death', 

with projections of images and text from the bookwork.