Fine binders Sue Doggett and Kate Holland will be giving a free public lecture following the conclusion of their HBC workshop, Creative Processes and Decorative Techniques for Bookbinding. It will be a rare opportunity to hear from two masters of the craft while they’re visiting us from the UK.

Sue Doggett creates artist's books and bindings and her creative interests include memory, the history of magic, haunting, mythology, folklore and women’s history. She has a degree in Visual Studies and Art History, and an MA in Design. She a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders and has lectured and led workshops in book arts in the UK, Europe and the USA. She teaches bookbinding and book arts at The City Lit in London, where she is also co-ordinator for Bookbinding and Calligraphy classes. Sue is commissioning editor of The New Bookbinder, the international journal of Designer Bookbinders. She is a regular binder of the Booker Prize, and her work is represented in the National Library of Australia, Tate Britain, The Folger Library, San Francisco Centre for Book Arts, Brooklyn Library special collections, Newlyn Library Special Collections, Oxford Brookes University, Manchester Metropolitan University and in private collections in Europe and USA.

Kate Holland is a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, a Homo Faber Master Artisan and a QEST tutor and scholar, funding study into continental fine binding techniques. Her books are in collections at the British Library, Bodleian, Miami,Yale and Berkeley Universities as well as the Library of Human Imagination and many private collections all over the world. She represented bookbinding as part of the Harewood Craft Bienniale. She is a regular binder to The Booker Prize and featured in a film on BBC The One Show exploring this. She runs the bookbinding department at Bath Spa University and is a regular tutor at West Dean College. She also runs private courses from her workshop and regularly lectures.