Projects

Bookbinding Workshops (2023 - ongoing)

Public workshops · Craft education · Delivered across London including Somerset House

Forty-Four Words has hosted numerous bookbinding workshops across London for audiences of 150+.
Here's a TikTok from a past attendee. 
See images from past workshops, here and here.
View the A8 limpback bindings, here and here.

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SAY LESS (2023)

Handmade book · Experimental publishing · Acquired by the National Art Library, V&A
SAY LESS is the debut Forty-Four Words publication, treating the book as a sculptural, intimate object. Handmade to order.
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TRAIL OF THOUGHT (2024 - ongoing)

Participatory installation · Interpretive publication · Commissioned by The Courtauld Institute of Art
An interpretive reading-object designed for exhibition visitors to carry through the gallery, guiding them with prompts and questions that reframe spectating as an active act of slowness and reflection.
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REIMAGINING GHANA (2024 - ongoing)

Publishing project · Transnational research · Supported by the British Council
A UK–Ghana project re-examining Paul Strand’s Ghana: An African Portrait (1964) and broader questions of photographic heritage and representation. Including workshops, writer commissions, talks at V&A and British Council Accra, and more.
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TABULA RASA (2025)

Travellers notebook.
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GUEST BOOK (2025)

Bespoke artist’s book · Cultural memory object · Commissioned by Somerset House
A commemorative guestbook inspired by The Somerset House Conference (1604), featuring velvet covers, ruffled corners, and diamond-cut edges echoing Seamen’s Hall.
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