Unbound

Image: Meggendorger, Lothar. The City Park : A reproduction of an antique stand-up book by Lothar Meggendorger. Intervisual Communications. 1982

A book contains words and information on pages, bound together and protected by a cover… At least, that's what we generally understand a book to be.

Unbound challenges this perception – and reimagines the many forms a book could take. 

This exhibition focuses on two types of books: artists' books and pop-up books. 

Artists' books are works of art that utilise the book form. Marvel at a variety of creative categories, such as altered, animated, concertina, illustrated and sculptural books. Unbound marks the first artists' books exhibition at QVMAG in over 40 years. 

Pop-up books contain three-dimensional features that can be activated by pull tabs, tunnels, or flaps – or simply by opening a page. Explore worlds of animals and creatures, history and geography, literature and fiction, science, technology and space, and even TV and movie genres – each rendered into intricate and inventive dioramas.  

Discover the book form as you've never seen it – or imagined it – before.  

Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road

 5 October 2024 - 2 February 2025

Free entry