Our guest is Mark Cockram, a book artist, teacher, and bookbinder from London, UK. Mark is the owner of the Studio 5 Book Arts.
See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk.
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00:00 - Introducing Mark Cockram
00:26 - Reinstalling Art Deco toilets to old buildings
02:47 - College: art and conservation
03:54 - Opening the studio and teaching
05:43 - Bookbinder vs. Book Artist
09:09 - Book as a universally recognizable object
10:37 - Breaking the rules
14:18 - Damaging books for art and teaching
15:21 - Books and microwaves
16:38 - Experimenting with materials
22:11 - Relation of materials to the theme of the book
23:57 - Clay from Singapore
27:10 - Public perception of a traditional book as an 18th-century binding
28:08 - Education and paying the bills
31:00 - Collections of modern bindings
34:38 - When a client asks to do something wrong
39:46 - Where Mark finds his inspiration
41:47 - Mark's collage work
47:27 - How the approaches change over the years
48:51 - Mark's current classes
52:47 - Setting students on a path
56:32 - Educational videos Mark shares on Facebook
