After graduating from the Royal College of Art and working
for two decades as a graphic designer, Virginia McArdle
established her studio and bindery in 2000.
Successful Collaborations with artists, designers and architects
have produced a wide range of individual projects which include;
Bespoke fine binding
Box making
Folders
Small pre - production runs
Marketing prototypes
Presentation material
Packaging
Twice a year a range of handmade limited edition notebooks,
journals and paper products are for sale to the general public
from her Clerkenwell studio.
2008
Ontario Crafts Council Toronto . Art of The Book 08
The blue guitar , etchings by David Hockney who was
inspired by Wallace Stephens who was inspired by Pablo Picasso
The poster museum .
Epicentrum Gallery . Chelmek
27 05 57 ... Suicide Bomber
2007
International Book Arts Festival V11 Time City Art gallery . Poland
BWA Gallery . Krosno
National print gallery . Dublin
27 05 57 ... Suicide Bomber . Virginia McArdle . Third Juried Award
Book Arts Program J. Willard Marriott Library . Utah
Brandford P. Millar Library . Portland State University
The Bridewell Library . Dallas Texas
Dartmouth College Library . New Hampshire
A-Bomb Haiku, Nagasaki 'The Unforgettable Summer's day'
2006
Guild of Bookworkers Centenary Exhibition
The Grolier Club . New York
Special Collections . Michigan University Library
A-Bomb Haiku, Nagasaki 'The Unforgettable Summer's day'
Atsuyuki Matsuo
2005
Bath University
Ariel . Sylvia Plath
The Cancer Chronicles . Damien Hirst
Galeria Materia . Quebec
Harrier Irving Library . New Brunswick
The secret block for a secret person in Ireland
2004
The British Library
Selected Poems . Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Saskatchewan craft gallery . Saskatchewan
Mary E. Black gallery . Nova scotia Centre for Craft and Design
Centre Culturel Franco - Manitoban
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery . British Columbia
Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery . Alberta
The secret block for a secret person in Ireland
2003
The British Library
The silk road . Frances Wood . Highly commended
York Quay Gallery Toronto Art of The Book 03
The secret block for a secret person in Ireland . Joseph Beuys
2002
The British Library
Journey to the centre of the earth . Jules Verne
2001
Basilica di San Paolo . Macerata Italy
Il cantico della creature. Saint Francis of Assisi
2000
The British Library . Joseph beuys
St. Martin's School of Art
Royal College of Art
Chelsea School of Art
Studio 41
33 - 35 St John's Square
London
EC1M 4DS
City Art gallery . Poland
. Joseph beuys 
