Born in Hemel Hempstead, u.k.
Lives in London
Worked extensively with books and sequences of images, an example from 1983 is Alphabet Book,,which reworks the illustrations from a soviet childrens book.
Bol Marjoram was the first co-recipient of the Arts Council funding stream for independent curators for The Daylight Club (1986), a groundbreaking independent art event which encompassed film, installation performance and gallery based exhibitions.
Collections
Work in the form of Books and Book art is included in the following collections and libraries.Work has been also been distributed through outlets in Britain Europe and the U.S. including; 'Printed Matter' in New York, Boekie Wookie in Amsterdam and 'TheBookartbookshop' in London.
The Tate Gallery, London
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The New York Public Library
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of the Book, The Hague, Netherlands
The Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main, Germany
The Statens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
S.L.U.B. Dresden, Germany
Staalichen Museen, Berlin, Germany
Kunst Bibliothek, Cologne, Germany
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
MOMA (Franklin Furnace Archive)
M.A.K. Vienna
The Bayerische Landes Biblioteque, Munich, Germany
The British Library, London
Edinburgh Central Library, Edinburgh, Scotland
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Royal College of Art, London
Chelsea College of Art, London
Camberwell College of Art, London
London College of Communication
Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts Wits Art Museum South Africa
Solo and 2 person exhibitions
Barbican Arts Trust Gallery 2014
Bookartbookshop 2014
Canal Projects 2017
Group exhibitions include:
Studio1.1 This Years Model 2026
Studio1.1 This Years Model 2025
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Mind the Cracks: Collages from the Museum and Other Collections 2009
Education
Post Graduate Certificate in Animation, Central St Martins 2001
M.A Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art 1992/1994
B,A Sociology and Politics, Leeds University and London Guildhall University 1979/1982
Portsmouth College of Art 1975/1976
Watford College of Art 1974/1975
Awards
British Council Travel Award (Macedonian language and culture 1982 )
British Council Travel Award (Bulgarian language and culture 1983 )
Greater London Arts Film Making Award 1984
Arts Council Award as an independent curator 1986
Eaton Fund For Artists Nurses and Gentlewomen 2007 Oppenheim John Downes Memorial Fund 2007