‘At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art’

Urawa Art Museum, Saitama, Japan
15th November 2025 – 18th January 2026

My book artwork 'Condensations' (2017) is shown in this group exhibition. ‘At the Promised Place: Expanding Imagination Through Book Art’ at the Urawa Art Museum brings together nearly 100 artists’ bookworks made in Japan and the UK. Since opening in 2000, Urawa Art Museum in Saitama, Japan has focused on ‘Art of Books’ as their collection policy to build a unique and international collection of book related artworks.

For this exhibition, artists’ books selected by Sarah Bodman at the University of the West of England, Bristol have been carefully paired with a range of Japanese bookworks from the museum collection. The exhibition offers a site of conversation where not only the books from the two countries are in dialogue, but the visitors too are welcomed into the space to extend their imaginations around what book art is and can be.

Exhibiting artists: Noriko Ambe, Karen Babayan, Roelof Bakker, Guy Begbie, Kate Bernstein, Les Bicknell, Guy Bigland, Sarah Bodman, Tracey Bush, Angie Butler, Nancy Campbell, Angus Carlyle, Chrystal Cherniwchan, Jackie Chettur, Egidija Čiricaitė, Helen Douglas, David Faithfull, Keiko Fujii, Naoyo Fukuda, Robert Good, Noëlle Griffiths, Warren Harper, Gabriella Hirst, Kosai Hori, Jane Hyslop, Susan Johanknecht, Julie Johnstone, Mitsuo Kano, Hitoshi Karasawa, Etsutomu Kashihara, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Déirdre Kelly, Nobuo Kurosu, U-fan Lee, Sophie Loss, Imi Maufe, John McDowall, John McDowall, Hiroshi Nakamura, Hiroshi Nakao, Yohei Nishimura, Alastair R. Noble, Michael O'Shea, Tsunao Okumura, Kazuhide Omi, Kouseki Ono, Yasutomo Ota, Sumi Perera, Richard Roberts, Stevie Ronnie, Colin Sackett, Lucy May Schofield, Mieko Shiomi, Tim Shore, Thomas Sowden, Craig Tattersall, Finlay Taylor, Ramon Todo, Asako Tokitsu, Nathan Walker, Aiko Yamada.