Cathy Busby, wearing a blue t-shirt and her grey hair down around her shoulders, points up to her wall of poster photos which frame her colourful table of publications at the Vancouver Art Book Fair. — Cathy Busby at her table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, May 16-17, 2026. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Neighbourhood Posters featured on Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, May 16-17, 2026. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Neighbourhood Posters, artist book, Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, May 16-17, 2026. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Cathy Busby's poster-photo wall at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, May 16-17, 2026. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Cathy Busby in conversation with Tatiana Mellema at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, May 17, 2026. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Cathy Busby's table and poster-photo wall at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Vancouver, May 16-17, 2026. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Cathy Busby at her table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Charlie working Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Cathy Busby

Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

I WONDER: Art + Care + Dementia (2025), detail, Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Charlie Mahoney-Volk

A Halifax reader stops at Cathy's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 4-6, 2025. Photo: Cathy Busby

VABF Promo 2024

Cathy Busby at her table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 26-27, 2024.

Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 26-27, 2024.

Viewer holding Cathy Busby's "Sorry" at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, inner page detail, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 26-27, 2024.

A table loaded with an array of colourful publications by artist Cathy Busby. Some books lie flat, like Sorry and Branded, while other pamphlets stand up partially opened, like Beijing-Vancouver. — Cathy Busby's table at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 26-27, 2024.

Viewer holding Cathy Busby's "Sorry" at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, publication cover detail, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 26-27, 2024.

Cathy's vinyl fragments from "WE ARE SORRY" posted on a pillar at the Vancouver Art Book Fair, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Center, Vancouver, July 26-27, 2024.

Vancouver Art Book Fair (2026)

A look at Cathy Busby's tables at the recent Vancouver Art Book Fair's (2024, 2025 & 2026). In 2026, she featured her most recent publication Neighbourhood Posters (2026), alongside I WONDER: Art + Care + Dementia (2025), and selected works from the last two decades, including WHATEVER I LIKE, YOUR CHOICE, SORRY, and THE NORTH END.

Related Readings / Media:

Neighbourhood Posters Talk, VABF 2026

Neighbourhood Posters

I WONDER: ART + CARE + DEMENTIA

WHATEVER I LIKE

Related Projects:

SORRY POLITICIANS (Berlin)

WE ARE SORRY in Awalakenis II

The North End Berlin

24/7 AT WORK Aberdeen

Whatever I Like

Themes / Topics:

Collections / archives

Forms / Mediums:

Text-based works