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Things That Function as a Book

Repurposed wot-nots from the archive and recently assembled pieces.
Bookworks display at UWE Bower Ashton Library, Bristol 

4th September to 30th October 2018

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Our work is prompted by things we find, wrappers, sacks, stickers, bags, ornaments, texts, graphics, toys, cardboard boxes, dolls, games, songs – objects like this excite us. The work is in reaction to the things we bring home and the everyday places we visit – like the supermarket.

An archive of sorts, the handiwork is contained in boxes and bags in the spare room where we tend to spend time categorizing and sorting the bits and pieces we collect.

We are interested to echo structural details of books and are curious about the simple action of opening and closing and turning pages.

We want to make books, of sorts, but not necessarily conventional structures… in other words, a dollshouse becomes a book; the plastic rooms punctuated with furniture stickers come to be the pages.

The following things have helped us realize the structure and processes of making: the precincts of our home; our spare time outside of work and the fun, focus and thinking involved in piecing things together to form simple sequences that somehow work.

We are motivated to explore the work as an evolving archive of our collections and making activities converting found miscellanea to book/page type-works.

Defaced, repurposed, nonsense books made by us.

Fake books with crazy titles.

Folded croissant or funny potato bags. Plastic toy firestation.

This is our thing. These are our books.

See List of Work

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Things That Function as a Book

List of work:

  1. Three Tarsta leaflets
  2. Patons knitting leaflets catalogue
  3. Barbara Dickson All For a Song audio cassette
  4. Banana Kitchen - How to make a Fantastic Banana Display mini DV tape
  5. Gold Xmas cake platter
  6. TY Classic cat kitty plush
  7. Dartmoor Eggs Honesty Box
  8. The shop till
  9. How I Feel Today
  10. Louise Taylor folder
  11. Shirehorse - found image
  12. Chocolate box packaging / Cats Whiskers
  13. Boutique fake magazine cover
  14. Ice-cream napkin + found glitter confetti
  15. The Craft Gallery, Capitola Village gift box lid with gherkin jar dispenser part
  16. Boozy choc wrapper
  17. Moods
  18. Pony rider - found image
  19. Notes (or why did I leave it behind) / Police Academy 3: Back In Training folder
  20. Whiskers cat food packaging push-outs x3
  21. Nothing whatsoever to do with windmills
  22. Life drawing object – toy dog
  23. Garlic net bags x2
  24. My Online Painting Course
  25. Flimsy book with Amazing Express bookmark
  26. Sticking plaster
  27. Bag containing two plastic straws & an elastic band
  28. Drawing of a dog
  29. Sporty person – found image
  30. Book made from photocopied cross-channel ferry colouring-in book
  31. Blue Skies Comfort fabric conditioner box
  32. Horse gift wrap
  33. Gerbil – found image
  34. Bristol Polytechnic Handbook 1978-79 depicting two white tigers (kindly lent by UWE Bristol Library, Bower Ashton)
  35. Bundle of collected paraphernalia
  36. The Prima Pattern x3
  37. Plastic dolls house bought in Barnstaple / Country Bus timetables
  38. Dolls house base
  39. Ways to Bypass These Organizations, bundle of collected paraphernalia
  40. Chef frieze
  41. Squashed tin foil oyster dish


with thanks to Sarah Bodman.

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Pineapple Falls Atelier at FOMO 2017

FOMO: Falmouth Art Publishing Fair
Falmouth Art Gallery

29th September to 1st October 2017

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We set up our atelier in the foyer of Falmouth Art Gallery for the inaugural FOMO: Falmouth Art Publishing Fair. During the three days of #FOMOjoy our fold-up table & trolley display evolved; we enjoyed adding bits to our strung collage, making simple pieces that function as books and facilitating a collage photocopy publication workshop.

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Archive Number 1

Ringbinder holding multi-colour sleeves containing assorted book & pageworks and collected ephemera.

May 2017

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Ringbinder holding multi-colour sleeves containing assorted book & pageworks and collected ephemera.
Includes cardboard fragments, packaging, selected plastic & paper bags, stickers, game board, found book pages, stationery sundries, Xmas cracker novelty, Crapbook, sugar-fold-books and photocopied fake song set list.

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Blood Shot Eye Heads

Painted papier-mâché, edition of 5
made for Makers of the Multiverse, a pop-up shop by Juneau Projects & Spacex

13th May to 10th June 2017

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We’d wanted to make the papier-mâché objects shown in this image cut from an Australian children’s craft magazine for ages. Settling on the pink bloodshot eye head for starters, we made an edition of five - a playful contribution to Juneau Projects’ shop and event space contained in a sculptural pavillion commissioned by Spacex. We’re really interested in this idea of recreating objects and situations from found images and are now working on recreating the other joyful objects depicted.

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Pineapple Falls… The Museum

Things we’ve done so far

Quiet study area UWE library, Bower Ashton campus, Bristol

4th March to 12th April 2017

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Carefully chosen pieces from our archive are presented in the artist book cabinets.


Work includes handmade books, artworks & miscellaneous items accumulated through shopping, gifting and selectively collecting domestic refuse.


See List of Work :

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Pineapple Falls… The Museum

List of work:

  1. Long-haired doll.
  2. Set List 1 (2015). Fake song titles.
  3. Rhubarb pie dish.
  4. Cats. 19 colour guides.
  5. Sausage Plate (2015).
  6. The Sainsbury Book of Cocktails and Party Drinks, a slim book for live readings.
  7. Plastic Books 1 & 2 (2017).
  8. Fancy (2015).
  9. Plastic Book 3 (2017).
  10. Figurine with placard. Placard being a gift from artist Jean McEwan on the occasion of Wonderful Grotto at Cavern with Spacex, Exeter. Quote from NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: zines and the politics of alternative culture by Stephen Duncome, 2009.
  11. Shop glue stick - always by the till for fixing a collage.
  12. Casdon cash register - 50p from the Brownies Jumble Sale, Totnes -the shop till.
  13. Tiger. Office Spike; mostly sits by the till.
  14. Dog sticker, from original Wonderful Grotto box; a cardboard cosmetics box full of small editions and the inspiration for Wonderful Grotto the pop-up shop.
  15. Electronic cash register from RSPCA charity shop, Penzance – the second shop till.
  16. Fake 45s (2015). Cardboard cut to the size of 7” singles.
  17. Brioche bag book (2017).
  18. Readings from Teach Yourself Project Management by Phil Baguley. An Internet broadcast by Pineapple Falls, Friday 5th June 2015, 10pm.
  19. Lucky Bag (2015).
  20. A Testament to Susan Fassbender.  Three 7” singles with associated delivery packaging, sourced for the Internet broadcast by Pineapple Falls, Friday 1st May 2015, 10pm.
  21. Boutique (2014). Fake magazine cover.
  22. Sugar Fold (2015). From a series of collaged easy fold books made from old sugar paper stock. We like how sugar paper fades over time.
  23. Sausage (2017). Book.
  24. Fashionable (2014). Fake magazine cover.
  25. Atlas. Fragment of cardboard box collected late at night from Tesco shelf fillers’ wire-cage trolley.
  26. Crapbook (2015).
  27. Pizza packaging from Amsterdam research trip, 2016.
  28. Found image.
  29. Pale Blue Plastic Book (2017).
  30. Noodles. Shop window display from DIY show Something Else, Ashburton 2015.
  31. Grey book cover from stationery shop, Amsterdam.
  32. Palm Trees (2015). Game board with found image.
  33. Amazing Express. Accessory from electronic cash register (see item 15)
  34. Book of Rules.
  35. Clouds (2015). Panty liner wrapper presented in this instance within UWE library book DAVID, 759.05 DAV.
  36. Funny Face. 10p charity shop toy purchased for life-drawing activity, presented here on collected cardboard box plinth.
  37. Please return my book PHILLIPPA.
  38. E.T. Storybook, from Stand Alone Book Unit, PAC Home Salon at St Saviours, Plymouth Art Weekender 2015.
  39. Collaged H&M bag.
  40. Sugar Fold (2015). From a series of collaged easy fold books made from old sugar paper stock
  41. The box that we keep stuff in with attached Christmas cracker shuttlecock.
  42. Desktop pen, a gift for Paul from Maddy, Barcelona 2016.
  43. Reverse of a cut found image.
  44. Dog poop bag.
  45. 12 Joy. Fibre-tipped pens, a gift for Paul from Maddy, Barcelona 2016.
  46. Collection of cut cat food boxes.

with thanks to Sarah Bodman.

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