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Rachel Hazell
Rachel Hazell "The isolation of making is alleviated by the radio talking in every room."

Every working day is shaped by Radio 4's schedule. Narratives of each page and book are created alongside the turning programmes. I must have stepped into the workshop by Woman's Hour, and the phone remains unanswered during the Afternoon Play.

The isolation of making is alleviated by the radio talking in every room. I bind books as I listen to stories. Spoken words are translated into text. As I don't make time to read newspapers, Radio 4's regular bulletins keep me in touch with the world, so my flights of imagination and creation are grounded in reality. The repetition and order of bookbinding somehow mirrors the accumulation of each 15, 30 or 45 minute unit of programme. Public service broadcasting provides the motivation for a self-employed craftsman to carry on; working through until the story's end.

Intelligent listening, background education, moral debate, stimulating entertainment ... all reasons why Radio Four is an essential and fundamental studio partner.
Rachel Hazell is book artist. She designs, writes, illustrates, prints, binds and exhibits book-related work. It's all handmade using age-old labour-intensive methods.

She strives to produce the ultimate artist's book: one that combines form and function in the most simple way.

Commissions and collaborations stimulate new approaches to the book. Rachel has worked with authors, galleries, businesses, councils and a fashion designer.

Apart from making books, she also sings, travels, practices yoga, takes photographs and looks out for the worldwide possibilities of workshops, residencies and the chance to prove that everbody has a book inside them.

A lifetime love of order, repetition and containers preceded work generated by a particular storage system at Camberwell College of Art, during the Bookart MA, and has continued to be an influential theme.
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