The artists’ book collective Iris, who curated the 2009 exhibition Books of Place, Identity, Memory, is now curating a collaborative Book of Magic, Power, Presence.

They wish to create a book which celebrates the meeting place of the title’s words – the place where magic, power and presence overlap, not so much as disparate or parallel qualities. These words still have a very wide range of associations, some of them antipathetic as well as sympathetic to each other. This is part of the interest in the theme.

Artists are invited to submit one image and 100 words of creative text on the theme. Each selected artist will have a double page spread in the book.

Timescale:

• 30 June 2011 – deadline for digital submissions.
• Autumn 2011 – publication and distribution

All artists selected for inclusion will be asked to contribute a fee of £15 towards costs. Each artist will receive a copy of the book. Further copies can be bought by artists at cost price. For further details and a full Artist’s Brief : irisinfo@talktalk.net