Our spring releases celebrate both extraordinary artists and the enduring pleasure of beautiful books.
Welcome to our spring catalogue! This season, we’re delighted to launch the Hurtwood Artist & Gallery Series with three distinguished artists: Barry McGlashan, Helen Berggruen and Jane Hammond. Each volume presents new, recent and selected works by a single artist of national and international standing, complemented by a foreword from a leading figure in the art world, a specially commissioned essay and an in-depth interview. Together, these offer fresh perspectives and unique insights into the artists’ practices and ideas.
In Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams, our first title in this series, Barry McGlashan explores thresholds – both metaphorical and literal –through dreamlike paintings of lakes, rivers, roads and mountains. This book documents the past two years of McGlashan’s practice, including his celebrated solo exhibition at Frestonian Gallery in spring 2025. In The Song Inside of Things, Helen Berggruen transforms the everyday into the extraordinary in her colourful artworks on canvas and linen, many of which were exhibited at the prestigious Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco in 2025. And Chocolate Cosmos, String of Pearls presents Jane Hammond’s intricate botanical collages and explores her practice in connection with environmental and sociological subjects, such as evolution and visual cognition.
Further highlights this season include Promise in which the photographer-physician Sean Palfrey presents his sensitive portraits of children and young people from across the world, enriched with his reflections on their stories. A new exhibition catalogue explores Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans’ exhibition Forms in Space…through Light (in Time) at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. And Liminalism captures twenty years of London artist Based Upon, presenting images that document exploration in global landscapes and the epic sculptural works that result from its process.
The artists here offer fresh perspectives and unique insights into life –from fleeting everyday moments to journeys into faraway places and the evocative thresholds of liminal spaces.
New Titles
Helen Berggruen The Song Inside of Things
A new publication featuring recent oil paintings by California-based artist Helen Berggruen, including those exhibited at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco in 2025.
This new publication of recent work by California artist Helen Berggruen features paintings in oil on canvas and linen, many of which were exhibited at Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 26 June – 14 August 2025.
The Song Inside of Things includes a foreword by Mary Kate Tankard, an extended essay by Craig Burnett and an interview by Jeff Gunderson. These explore Berggruen’s wide-ranging subjects, her musical, literary, historic and artistic influences, and her working processes.
The book forms part of the Hurtwood Artist & Gallery Series, offering an in-depth insight into the practice and thinking of some of the most engaging artists working nationally and internationally today.
After a youthful life on stage working with such internationally acclaimed directors as Robert Wilson and Peter Schumann, in the early 1980s Helen Berggruen stepped away from the theatre and began painting. Primary influences include Vincent van Gogh and early 20th-century French and German modernism. Based in San Francisco, Berggruen’s work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Southwest France, throughout Iowa and at the Demuth Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Contributors
Craig Burnett
Jeff Gunderson
Mary Kate Tankard
Jane Hammond Chocolate Cosmos, String of Pearls
A new publication featuring recent botanical collage works by New York-based artist Jane Hammond, accompanied by essays exploring her practice in connection with environmental and sociological subjects.
Hurtwood Artist & Gallery
Series Hardback, c.80 illustrations
Extent: 124pp
Size: 285 x 230 mm, portrait (111/4 x 91/6 in.)
ISBN: 978-1-917627-07-8
RRP: £30 / $40
Edited by Anneka French
Designed by Alice Daisy Pomfret
Published in association with Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
UK release: 9 Apr 2026
US release: 28 Apr 2026
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Syrian Silver and Copper Vase with Shaggy Scarlet Cups, Pears and Lotus Leaves, 2024
Chocolate Cosmos, String of Pearls is a new publication featuring highly intricate botanical collage works by New York-based artist Jane Hammond. Alongside a new essay by Hammond herself, the book includes a foreword and an extended essay. These texts focus on Hammond’s practice in connection with environmental and sociological subjects such as evolution and visual cognition, exploring the gathering and making processes inherent within her complex collages.
The book forms part of the Hurtwood Artist & Gallery Series, offering an in-depth insight into the practice and thinking of some of the most engaging artists working nationally and internationally today.
Jane Hammond, born 1950, is an American artist who has shown regularly since the late 1980s. She has had 18 solo exhibitions in New York City and additional solo exhibitions in Paris, London, Stockholm, Barcelona, Milan and Amsterdam. She has had 29 solo museum exhibitions in the United States. Her work is held in over 80 museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Hammond lives and works in New York City where she is represented by Galerie Lelong. She also shows regularly with Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco and Lyndsey Ingram Gallery in London.
Barry McGlashan Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams
This publication documents two years of work by Edinburgh-based painter Barry McGlashan, including the titular exhibition at Frestonian Gallery, London.
Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams by Edinburgh-based Barry McGlashan (b. 1974, Aberdeen), documents the past two years of his practice, including the celebrated solo exhibition of the same name at Frestonian Gallery from the spring of 2025. Thresholds – metaphorical and literal – are an omnipresent motif in Barry McGlashan’s evocative paintings. The featured works bring viewers to the edge of lakes, to rivers and roads, and lead to the foot of mountains. Other times the viewer is inside, looking out through windows to the landscape and sky beyond. Transcending time and geography, reality and folklore, McGlashan’s dreamlike and otherworldly paintings are as haunting as they are enchanting.
The book forms part of the Hurtwood Artist & Gallery Series, offering an in-depth insight into the practice and thinking of some of the most engaging artists working nationally and internationally today.
Barry McGlashan was born in 1974 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied painting at Gray’s School of Art, graduating in 1996, and taught in the painting department at Gray’s between 1998 and 2005. In 2001, McGlashan was awarded the Alastair Salvesen Scholarship through the Royal Scottish Academy, by whom in 2024 he was elected academician. Examples of his work are held in numerous private and public collections including Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland; The Scottish Society, New York, USA; and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. Today, McGlashan lives and works in Edinburgh.
Contributors
Rollo Campbell
Matt Incledon
Kathryn Lloyd
Cerith Wyn Evans Forms in Space…through Light (in Time)
An exhibition catalogue exploring Cerith Wyn Evans’ exhibition of the same name at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon.
Paperback, c.40 illustrations
Extent: 96pp
Size: 260 × 210 mm, portrait (101/4 × 85/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-1-917627-08-5
RRP: £30/ $45
Author Sérgio Mah, Michael Newman
Edited by Laura Allsop
Designed by Studio Mathias Clottu
Co-published with MAAT –Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
The conceptual art practice of Cerith Wyn Evans encompasses installations, sculpture, film and text, translating ideas from philosophy, art history, film and literature into lyrical, often monumental, site-specific exhibitions. This publication provides valuable insight into Evans’ wide-ranging practice, as well as a document to the artist’s 2025–26 exhibition of the same name – Forms in Space…through Light (in Time) – at Lisbon’s MAAT –Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.
Featuring specially commissioned photographs of Evans’ complex, captivating works in situ, the title includes an introduction by exhibition curator Sérgio Mah, who also conducts an interview with the artist, and an essay by Professor Michael Newman
Cerith Wyn Evans (b.1958, in Llanelli, Wales) is a London-based artist known for staging exhibitions that upend and elucidate the viewer’s perception of reality.
Educated at London’s St Martin’s School of Art and Royal College of Art, Evans’ work has been exhibited extensively in galleries and institutions worldwide, and features in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate, London, among numerous others. Recent solo exhibitions include Pompeii Threnody, the first site-specific exhibition of the Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters programme, Naples; .... in light of the visible, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (both 2025); and Borrowed Light Through Metz, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (2024–25). Evans has participated in multiple editions of the Venice Biennale, and represented Wales for its inaugural national pavilion in 2003. In 2018, Evans was awarded the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture.
Contributors
Sérgio Mah
Michael Newman
Sean Palfrey Promise
Promise showcases Sean Palfrey’s portraits of children and young people – joyful, curious, resilient – pairing images gathered over decades with compassionate, reflective stories.
With Promise the latest title in Sean Palfrey’s photography series, the photographer-physician draws on his immense archive to present a suite of portraits of children and young people from across the world.
Enriched with the author’s reflections on the stories that these pictures embody, the photographs gathered here span decades and continents, from Boston to Bali, from China to Chile. These are images of joy, curiosity, wonder and spontaneity – but also of resilience and grace in adversity. Every page attests to Palfrey’s fascination with the lives of the young, to whom he has devoted himself as a paediatric doctor and healthcare professional.
Sean Palfrey has had an illustrious career as a paediatrician, Faculty Dean at Harvard University and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Public Health at Boston University. Simultaneously, Palfrey has spent a lifetime exploring the boundaries of image-making through photography, with his work as a doctor informing his practice. In addition to being a teacher, Dean and clinician, he served as president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Since the 1970s, he has also been a legislative advocate for child health programmes and policies. Palfrey frequently exhibits his photography in solo and group shows in the USA.
Based Upon Liminalism
Liminalism. The art of knowing no thing. Entering the space between and beyond.
Colour illustrations
Extent: TBC
Size: 330 x 300 mm, portrait (13 × 1113/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-1-917627-09-2
RRP: £55 / $75
Edited by Based Upon Designed by Based Upon Co-published with Based Upon UK release: 26 Feb 2026
Following on from Based Upon’s award-winning book Manual, Liminalism captures twenty years of the London artist. Presented as a non-linear work where viewers are invited to explore the pages through live indexing, Liminalism offers a collection of thoughtprovoking visual pairings that document Based Upon’s exploration in global landscapes and the epic sculptural works that result from its process.
Becoming a philosophical treatise, Liminalism illustrates that truth exists not only in those things which can be named, but in the apparent space between them. Readers are invited to allow the images to act as edges between which a connective tissue can be found. In bringing awareness to the liminal space between these pairings, each viewer creates their own exhibition, and the artist, a poetic reflection on life as a creator.
Elemental art. The magnetism of the profound.
Based Upon creates physical manifestations of the unsaid. Its process is the excavation of origin and lore; it faces the sacred, invites the personal and pursues the rare intersection of imagination and realisation. The space between chaos and masterpiece, transience and timelessness.
Guided by founders Ian and Richard Abell for over twenty years, Based Upon counts some of the world’s most influential figures and notable collectors as clients. It has exhibited internationally at major art fairs and in solo and group shows across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Artworks can be seen publicly in cultural capitals from Mumbai and New York to London and Hong Kong, as well as in collections of luxury brands including Tiffany & Co., Rolls-Royce Motor Cars and Steinway & Sons, for whom it has created commemorative works for landmark moments.
Contributors
Meagan Kelly Horsman
Backlist Titles
Gilbert & George Daytripping
A three-volume set of books, each showcasing one film from Gilbert & George’s Daytripping series. Made between 1992 and 2025, the films, directed by Iain B. MacDonald, follow the artists’ day trips at different stages of their remarkable career.
Gilbert & George, one of the most significant artist duos of our time, created their three-film series Daytripping between 1992 and 2005. This three-volume set of books showcase Daytripping, Daytripping (Again) and Daytripping Forever! Directed by Southend-on-Seaborn British film and television director Iain B. MacDonald, the films follow three of the artists’ day trips from their studio, famously located in the East End of London, to the Essex coastline, asking bold and significant questions of the artists at different stages of their remarkable career.
This three-volume set of hardback books is presented in a printed slipcase. The books feature stills from the films and a selection of the artists’ pictures.
Published to coincide with Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES, a major retrospective of Gilbert & George’s work at London’s Hayward Gallery, 7 October 2025–11 January 2026.
Gilbert & George began creating art together in 1967 when they met at Central Saint Martins. From the beginning, in their films and ‘Living Sculpture’ performances, they have appeared as figures in their own art. The ‘two men, one artist’ believe that everything is a potential subject matter for art. They address social issues and taboos, challenging what might be considered ‘good taste’. The backdrop and inspiration for much of their art is the East End of London, where Gilbert & George have lived for nearly fifty years.
Iain B. MacDonald is a British director and producer whose work spans drama, comedy and documentary. He began his career with arts documentaries before moving into scripted television with acclaimed series such as Bodies, The Last Enemy and Mansfield Park. His short film Billy’s Day Out won Best Short at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Since relocating to Los Angeles, he has directed episodes of Shameless, Wayne, Black Monday, Shantaram and Poker Face. A passionate advocate for emerging talent, he co-founded the Essex International Film Festival to celebrate bold, independent filmmaking in his home region.
Lucy Williams Radiant City
Radiant City documents a decade of figurative and geometric mixedmedia bas-relief collages by London-based contemporary artist Lucy Williams, depicting modernist architecture and interiors.
Published by Hurtwood with generous support from Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Radiant City is a monograph documenting a decade of figurative and geometric work by London-based British contemporary artist Lucy Williams. Her mixed-media bas-relief collages depict modernist architecture and interiors, from tower blocks and municipal buildings to private residences in Palm Springs.
Painstakingly made by hand, this is a contemporary art practice that, with the precision of an architect or a draughtsperson, references craft traditions, using materials including paper, Plexiglas®, wood veneer, fabric and thread. Space, form, pattern, design and geometry meet with colour and light to form mesmerising, detailed scenes such as tiled swimming pools with mosaic walls, the imposing facades of Brutalist buildings and domestic interiors containing bookcases replete with books, vases and ornaments.
In addition to figurative works, the publication also features the artist’s Threaded Collages abstract geometric pieces inspired by Bauhaus tapestries and constructivism. Williams creates repeated triangular and diamond forms, using painted papers along with silk and cotton threads.
Lucy Williams (b. 1972, Oxford) studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. She has exhibited internationally with solo shows at McKee Gallery, New York and at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, and since 2016 has been represented by Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. Group shows have included Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut (2008); Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (2011); and Cut & Paste | 400 Years of Collage, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (2019).
Contributors
Salena Barry
Joseph Becker
Kathryn Lloyd
Charlotte Mullins
Ben Street
Susie Hamilton Underground
This vivid collection of drawings by Susie Hamilton, made between 2023 and 2025, captures the London Underground as both a real journey and a metaphorical transformation.
This publication presents a compelling new body of work by London-based painter Susie Hamilton, created on the London Underground between 2023 and 2025. Comprising nearly ninety drawings, the book captures the shifting, solitary figures of Tube passengers. ‘Tube travellers became moon-eyed with stick arms or hands like hooks,’ Hamilton notes, ‘and I liked the way they seemed rickety, outlandish or menacing.’
Ranging from monochrome pen-and-pencil sketches in sketchbooks to colourful mixed-media works on paper, cardboard and torn canvas scraps Hamilton calls ‘rags’, these drawings explore the Underground not only as a physical site but as a metaphor and place of metamorphosis.
The book includes a foreword by Eleanor Pinfield, Head of Art on the Underground, situating Hamilton’s work within the Tube’s long history of working with – and providing a rich seam of inspiration for – artists. An in-depth interview with writer Amah-Rose Abrams explores Hamilton’s making process, from site-responsive sketchbook works, to pieces later developed in her studio, while an extended essay by Dr Matthew Holman delves into the literary, poetic and theological influences on her practice. A new text by the artist presents the Underground as a metaphor and place of metamorphosis in psychology, myth, poetry and religion.
London-based artist Susie Hamilton studied Fine Art at St Martin’s School of Art and the Byam Shaw School of Art and holds a PhD in Shakespeare studies from the University of London. She is represented by London’s Paul Stolper Gallery and her work is held in major collections, including the Government Art Collection, the British Museum and the Science Museum.
Contributors
Eleanor Pinfield
Amah-Rose Abrams
Dr Matthew Holman
SUSIE HAMILTON
Suzi Morris & Celeste Nazeli Snowber
Portals
The Colours of our Longing
Portals is a visual and poetic conversation between a writer and an artist, where images and words come together to explore the body and spirit in all their mystery and wonder.
Portals: The Colours of our Longing is a visual and poetic dialogue between a painter and a poet/performance artist. Suzi Morris is an artist whose paintings question ideas of the sublime body, most recently through her affiliation with the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, in response to the new science discipline of genomics. Celeste Nazeli Snowber is a poet, dancer and multidisciplinary artist whose work, through her writing, teaching and site-specific performance, explores embodied forms of inquiry.
In Portals, lyrical texts sit alongside images that are both delicate and intense, as words and paintings invite the reader to consider how body and spirit can move in harmony together. This collaboration creates something personal and universal, bringing beauty to a troubled world. The two artists – one based in Vancouver, the other in London – unite in a shared vision of sensual ways of being in the world, opening portals to the infinite.
The book includes a foreword by Cherry Smyth, poet and art writer.
Suzi Morris, PhD, is a visual artist whose work explores the notion of the sublime in contemporary life. She completed her Master’s in Fine Art at the City & Guilds of London Art School and continued her research with the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, drawing inspiration from the emerging field of genomics.
Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD, is a dancer, poet, writer and Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her work focuses on embodied forms of inquiry and the presence of the body in arts-based research. Her one-woman shows integrate comedy, contemporary dance and improvisation. The Marrow of Longing, her latest poetry collection, reflects on her Armenian heritage.
Contributors
Cherry Smyth
Jinya Zhao Holding Air, Holding Light
A poetic, cross-cultural meditation on light, colour and perception through the sculptural practice of artist Jinya Zhao, featuring writing by Emma Crichton-Miller and Dr Xiaoxin Li.
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 50 illustrations
Extent: 140pp
Size: 235 × 210 mm, portrait (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-1-917627-02-3
RRP: £24 / $30
Edited by Susanne Hillen
Designed by Jenny Kohler
UK release: 16 Oct 2025
US release: 11 Nov 2025
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A Shadow Distant yet Clear, 2024 (detail)
The Dream Reader, That is Your Name, 2024 (detail)
Holding Air, Holding Light presents the work of artist and researcher
Jinya Zhao, whose practice explores the perceptual, spatial and emotional dimensions of colour, light and material. Working across geographies and temporalities, Zhao creates sculptural forms that resist fixity – inviting viewers to dwell in states of suspension, subtlety and transformation. Through blown glass and other translucent materials, she reconfigures not what we see, but how we see: perception becomes porous, light is held and refracted, and colour appears not as surface, but as atmosphere.
The book features fifty full-colour images and two special contributions: an essay by Emma Crichton-Miller, a leading British writer and critic on art; and a conversation with Dr Xiaoxin Li, Curator in the Asia Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Together, these voices form a rich meditation on how perception, matter and memory converge across cultures, materials and time.
Jinya Zhao is a London- and China-based artist and researcher exploring perception, memory and material presence. Using blown glass, layered transparencies and site-responsive installation, she investigates the overlap of vision, sensation and time. Currently completing a PhD at the Royal College of Art, her research focuses on synaesthetic touch – the convergence of visual, tactile and emotional experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in collections including the V&A, Prague Gallery of Czech Glass, Qingdao Art Museum and Ulster Museum. Zhao’s practice reframes material not as a medium, but as a condition for perceptual and emotional resonance.
Contributors
Emma Crichton-Miller
Dr Xiaoxin Li
Hylton Nel
Things Made Over Time
A survey of Hylton Nel’s ceramics – whimsical plates and insightful sculptures blending history, humour and critique – with a foreword by Kim Jones OBE. Essential for lovers of ceramic art.
Things Made Over Time is the third monograph on South African artist-potter Hylton Nel’s work, presenting a selection of works from the 1960s to 2024. From his early days in Antwerp to his studio in Calitzdorp, Nel’s ceramics – plates, bowls, vases and sculptures –embody a unique voice in contemporary ceramics.
Featuring a foreword by Kim Jones, who paid tribute to Nel in his Dior Summer 2025 menswear collection, and a photographic series by Pieter Hugo, this book explores Nel’s vast inspirations, from Staffordshire pottery to Tang Dynasty China, as well as his home which is filled with objects and books.
With insights from Nel’s own words and an essay by art historian Tamar Garb, who highlights his whimsical cats as symbolic witnesses, Things Made Over Time captures Nel’s blend of humour, critique and timeless tradition. A must-have for collectors and lovers of contemporary ceramics.
Hylton Nel born in 1941 in N’kana, Zambia, is an artist-potter based in Calitzdorp, South Africa. His ceramics – plates, bowls, vases and figurative pieces – are known for their witty and sometimes poignant hand-drawn imagery and script. Nel’s work blends decorative arts with literary and historical references, showcasing a unique iconography that ranges from Madonnas and angels to cats and playful symbols. His work has been featured in major exhibitions, including This plate is what I have to say at Charleston in Sussex (2023) and Hylton Nel at 80 at The Fine Art Society in London (2021), among others.
Contributors
Tamar Garb
Pieter Hugo
Kim Jones
Tyler Hobbs Order/Disorder
Tyler Hobbs’ debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Order/Disorder contextualises Hobbs’ groundbreaking art from 2018 to 2023 and includes works from his 2023 solo exhibitions at Unit, London, and Pace, New York.
Tyler Hobbs’ debut monograph is one of the first to focus on the work of a generative artist. Contextualising his art from 2018 to 2023, Order/Disorder includes works from Hobbs’ solo exhibitions at Unit, London, and Pace, New York, in 2023.
Structured around the concept of dualities, the book explores Hobbs’ systematic approaches to art-making, the creative relationship between man and machine, computer-led aesthetics and the interplay of repetition and emergence across long-form generative projects.
Order/Disorder features an interview between Hobbs and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, and an essay by Melanie Lenz, Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum, alongside texts by the artist that introduce each thematically arranged section of plates.
Tyler Hobbs (b. 1987) is a visual artist from Austin, Texas. His work focuses on computational aesthetics, how they are shaped by the biases of modern computer hardware and software, and how they relate to and interact with the natural world around us. Hobbs’ project Fidenza, a series of 999 algorithmically generated works, is one of the most sought-after fine-art NFT collections of all time. His solo exhibitions include Mechanical Hand (2023) at Unit, London, UK; QQL: Analogs (2023) at Pace, New York, USA; Incomplete Control (2021) at Bright Moments, New York, USA; and Progress (2018) at Galería Dos Topos, León, Mexico.
Contributors
Melanie Lenz
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Ptolemy Mann
Thread Painting
The first monograph on British artist Ptolemy Mann is a celebration of her unique weaving and painting practice and extraordinary use of colour.
British artist Ptolemy Mann’s studio practice bridges weaving and painting, creating distinctive, refined and radiant wall-based work, often on a large scale. Her early work was focused on weaving, and she then turned to painting on paper, later combining the two to paint directly onto her hand-woven artworks.
Focusing on the past decade, Thread Painting features over 140 stunning, full-colour images of these three phases in Mann’s artistic career, and is her first published monograph. Thread Painting includes written contributions from Ann Coxon, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, and Chloë Ashby, arts critic and author. A conversation between Mann and childhood friend, artist and stage designer Es Devlin sheds light on Mann’s early influences and her meticulous process.
Thread Painting is a celebration of Mann’s unique work during a fascinating decade of artistic output, exploring the relationships between dye, thread, paper, paint and time.
SHORTLISTED AT THE BBD&P AWARDS FOR ART/ARCHITECTURE MONOGRAPHS
Ptolemy Mann (b. 1972) is an artist based in East Sussex, England, who creates paintings and hand-dyed and woven artworks underpinned by intelligent colour theory. She describes her large-scale, emotive work as flirting with the dynamics of restriction, control and spontaneity. Mann studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, where she explored the possibilities of her chosen materials. Mann lectures regularly, writes for the magazine Selvedge, curates and has received three grants from the Arts Council of England. She is represented by Taste Contemporary in Geneva, Gallery Lau in Munich and Findlay Galleries in the USA.
Contributors
Chloë Ashby
Ann Coxon
Es Devlin
A Savage Kingdom
Cloth-bound hardback, 217 illustrations
Extent: 200pp
Size: 350 × 270 mm, portrait (134/5 × 104/5 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-75-3
RRP: £90 / $130
Edited by Eliza Scott
Designed by Myfanwy Vernon-Hunt
UK release: 9 May 2024
US release: 13 Jun 2024
Artist and print designer Sabina Savage creates her own visual world informed by nature, myth and history in the exquisite hand-drawn illustrations printed on her silk and cashmere scarves. A Savage Kingdom is the first book on her eponymous luxury brand, marking its tenth anniversary and exploring the fascinating narratives behind some of her most successful drawings to date.
Grouped by collections, A Savage Kingdom guides readers through the details and symbolism contained within each design, presenting largescale images of the pencil drawings and full-colour prints of the scarves.
Writer and curator Zoë Lescaze introduces the book, covering Sabina’s development as an artist and the tensions between humans and other animals at play in her designs. A Savage Kingdom is for devotees of the brand, curious newcomers and anyone with an interest in drawing, craftsmanship and fantastic tales.
SHORTLISTED AT THE BBD&P AWARDS FOR BEST BRITISH BOOK
Rachel
Jones say cheeeeese
Hardback, 68 illustrations
Extent: 128pp
Size: 230 × 305 mm, landscape (91/16 × 12 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-54-8
RRP: £35 / $60
Edited by Zoé Whitley and Amy Jones
Designed by David Pearson
Co-published with Chisenhale Gallery, London
UK release: 26 May 2022
US release: 5 Jan 2023
The highly anticipated first book by British painter Rachel Jones, say cheeeeese showcases her vibrant works and includes a die-cut sticker of an original artwork, designed by Jones. The book was published to accompany Jones’ new commission at Chisenhale Gallery, London, in spring 2022. For this first solo exhibition, she used oil pastels – her signature material – to produce a new body of paintings on canvas and paper.
Say cheeeeese includes a photo essay and commissioned texts by poet and artist Anaïs Duplan; Chisenhale Gallery senior curator Ellen Greig; curator and researcher Aïcha Mehrez; poet, essayist, playwright and MacArthur Fellow Claudia Rankine; and curator Yates Norton. The foreword is written by Zoé Whitley, Chisenhale Gallery Director.
In her work, Rachel Jones explores ideas of community and shared history as she celebrates Black culture.
SHORTLISTED AT THE BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS FOR EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
Ben Sadler You and I
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 70 illustrations
Extent: 148pp
Size: 235 × 210 mm, portrait (91/4 × 81/4 in)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-96-8
RRP: £24 / $35
Edited by Matt Price
Designed by Jenny Kohler
Co-published with MAC Birmingham
UK release: 3 Apr 2025
US release: 1 May 2025
Ben Sadler’s colourful paintings of imaginary people are full of personality, eclectic states of mind and varying degrees of intrigue. These are consistently charming, sometimes amusing and occasionally heartbreaking portraits of ordinary and extraordinary people. The publication features two bodies of work: You and I (2024) and Exclamations! (2023), both of which present small paintings corresponding to each letter of the alphabet (though the letters U and I are curiously missing from the series You and I).
The starting point for the series You and I was the idea of visitors to an imaginary exhibition – who are they, what kinds of people are they and what thoughts are going through their minds? Such questions are explored in celebrated Birminghambased author Catherine O’Flynn’s text commissioned for the publication, along with a foreword by Deborah Kermode, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham, and an interview by Londonbased creative coach, podcaster and public speaker Ceri Hand
Jacqueline Poncelet
Jacqueline Poncelet
Hardback, c.200 illustrations
Extent: 160pp
Size: 270 × 240 mm, portrait (105/8 × 97/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-81-4
RRP: £35 / $45
Edited by Sara Goldsmith and Elinor Morgan
Designed by Joanna Deans, Identity
Co-published with MIMA
UK release: 26 Jun 2024
US release: 25 Jul 2024
This, the first monograph on acclaimed Londonand South Wales-based artist Jacqueline Poncelet, surveys fifty years of the artist’s practice. Working across diverse media, Poncelet transforms patterns from urban and rural contexts, exploring how fashions play out in the ways humans dress, decorate living spaces and shape architecture.
Having trained in ceramics, Poncelet moved into sculpture, painting and textiles before turning to public commissions. The publication presents works from different eras, including small-scale ceramics from the 1970s, large, brightly coloured paintings and textiles from the 1990s, as well as woven textiles, watercolours and wallpapers made in the 2020s.
The publication, which includes documentation of In the Making, an exhibition by Poncelet at MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, in 2024, features a foreword by Laura Sillars; an essay by Elinor Morgan; texts by Salena Barry, Claire Doherty and Penelope Curtis; and an interview by Hettie Judah
Sabina Savage
Cloth-bound hardback, 97 illustrations
Extent: 176pp
Size: 283 × 245 mm, portrait (111/8 × 95/8 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-72-2
RRP: £55 / $80
Edited by Bramley Studios
Co-published with Bramley Studios
UK release: 20 Nov 2025
US release: 23 Dec 2025
In Rites of Passage, photographer Scott Mead revisits his formative years spent documenting New England, USA. Shot over a five-year period between 1971 and 1976, we follow Mead through early adulthood and explore scenes of discovery, ritual, rural beauty and urban metropolis.
Situated between an American road trip and a personal visual diary, Mead’s images depict a world as it was then, shaped by political upheaval, profound civil changes and the Cold War. This cloth-bound hardback book features a hundred large-format prints of Mead’s poignant photographs, presented in a new context.
Rites of Passage shows Mead with a camera always at hand and presents his delicate, often amusing and sometimes uneasy portraits alongside cityscapes, landscapes and snapshots of the lives of friends and strangers. All of the artist’s proceeds from Rites of Passage benefit Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London.
Collecting the World Edward Hillel Holding the Main
Hardback, 180 illustrations
Extent: 256pp
Size: 305 × 229 mm, portrait (12 × 9 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-97-5
RRP: £45 / $55
Edited by Edward Hillel and Michel Hardy-Vallée
Designed by A–Z Studio
UK release: 16 Oct 2025
US release: 9 Dec 2025
In 1987, The Main: Portrait of a Neighbourhood [978-1-55013-046-1] was published and quickly sold out. This critically acclaimed project celebrated the communities around Montreal’s Boulevard Saint Laurent and contributed to the eventual designation of The Main as a Canadian heritage landmark. In 2017, to celebrate the city’s 375th anniversary, the author was invited to reimagine the original book.
Returning to his former neighbourhood, Hillel’s new book weaves old and new photographs with texts and archives, inviting us on a journey into his creative process to reflect on questions of home, identity, time, memory and the evolving urban landscape, and asking: in a globalised world where people and cities are in constant movement, what happens to places and memories? Can we go home again?
Hardback, 100 illustrations
Extent: 112pp
Size: 260 × 210 mm, portrait (101/4 × 81/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-79-1
RRP: £40 / $55
Edited by Eliza Scott
Image curation by Amanda Renshaw
Designed by Agatha Smith
UK release: 31 Oct 2024
US release: 5 Dec 2024
Sasha Gusov (b. 1960) is a Russian-born, UK-based photographer, fascinated by the morals, customs and manners of people across the world. Alongside his commercial work for influential clients, including Vogue, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Gusov is an avid street photographer, and his keen eye finds the differences, commonalities, comedy and gravity in people and places.
Collecting the World presents photographs taken over twenty-five years in a picture selection curated by editor Amanda Renshaw. An essay by academic and photographer Peter Hamilton sheds light on Gusov’s life as a photographer in Russia and London and his unique visual language.
In Collecting the World, Gusov juxtaposes toreadors outside a bullring in Spain with synchronised swimmers in Belarus; a sumo wrestler riding a bicycle with a pilot sitting with his bike in front of an aircraft; and Jude Law in jeans and a ballerina from the Bolshoi Ballet in costume puffing on cigarettes. His message is clear: people are people all over the world.
Hardback, 188 illustrations
Extent: 240pp
Size: 305 × 230 mm, portrait (12 × 9 in.)
ISBN: 978–0–903696–93–7
RRP: £55 / $70
Edited by Matti Weinberg
Designed by Jeannine Herrmann
Co-published with moholinushk archive, Zurich
UK release: 26 Sept 2024
US release: 17 Oct 2024
Annick Tonti (1951–2023), known by her alias moholinushk, produced an incredibly refined and singular body of work in her eight years as a practising artist. Her drawings, in combinations of coloured pencil, chalk pastel, ink and watercolour, reveal keen observation of the world, expressed through circles and in balanced geometric compositions. Later collections saw her language expand to include looser, more organic forms, underpinned by a meticulous choice of materials. With a foreword by Annick Tonti’s husband, Matti Weinberg, a biography by Bettina Diem, an essay by Rebecca Alcaraz and studio photography by Zoe Tempest, the publication features 163 drawings made during the last eight years of her life (2015–2023), following retirement from her international diplomatic career and teaching commitments in the field of intercultural communication. Alongside past interviews with the artist, the publication includes letters and notes written by Annick Tonti that reflect on connections with Islamic geometry, Japanese graphic art and the Bauhaus.
Sean Palfrey Dance
Sean Palfrey Photography Series
Paperback, 70 illustrations
Extent: 168pp
Size: 210 × 235 mm, landscape (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-91-3
RRP: £25 / $30
Edited by Susanne Hillen
Design & layout by Jenny Kohler
UK release: 18 Sep 2025
US release: 18 Sep 2025
What presents itself to our minds when we hear the word ‘dance’? Movement, music and rhythm, of course. The jitterbug and the slow waltz. But what if we go beyond the obvious?
Dance, the fourth volume in Sean Palfrey’s photography series, seeks to expand our conception of dance and to find and celebrate its presence in the world around us: in the graceful shape of a flower or leaf; in the elegant cursive of a spiral staircase; and in the joyfully uplifted arm of the newly-wed.
Palfrey is a renowned paediatrician and child health advocate who travels the world with his work and for pleasure. His fascination with people, places and stories informs both his artistic and his professional practice. In Dance Palfrey has curated a beguiling set of pictures and poetic texts that riff on movement and stillness, rhythm and flow, and the poetry of the curve. He asks us to consider the form of the ancient, gnarled tree, or the sinuous line of the winding river; the play of light and shadow on a frescoed wall, or the luminous colours of stained glass – all these are examples of dance. It is everywhere around us: pay attention and we will find it.
Sean Palfrey
Imagine
Sean Palfrey Photography Series
Paperback, 73 illustrations
Extent: 168pp
Size: 210 × 235 mm, landscape (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-92-0
RRP: £25 / $30
Edited by Susanne Hillen
Design & layout Jenny Kohler
UK release: 6 Mar 2025
US release: 13 Mar 2025
Think of the images our minds create from the simplest combinations of line and form, and of the stories and scenes they evoke. Imagine, the third volume in Sean Palfrey’s photography book series, is filled with the mysterious, the beautiful and the abstract: a suite of pictures of expressive shapes, strong patterns and ideas in colour.
Palfrey is a renowned paediatrician and child health advocate who travels the world with his work and for pleasure. His fascination with people, places and stories informs both his artistic and his professional practice. In Imagine, Palfrey has created a wide diversity of images, both figurative and abstract, but all of them starting from a photograph of the real in nature – an object, a texture, a landscape. Whether it’s a single, framed shot of a patch of sand or a composition of multiple exposures taken to make the familiar new, Palfrey’s images and musings on them stimulate our imaginations into taking flight.
Sean Palfrey Home
Sean Palfrey Photography Series
Paperback, 70 illustrations
Extent: 164pp
Size: 210 × 235 mm, landscape (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-65-4
RRP: £25 / $30
Edited by Eliza Scott
Designed by Billie Temple and Agatha Smith
UK release: 14 Dec 2023
US release: 8 Jan 2023
Polymath Sean Palfrey’s work as a paediatrician and natural scientist informs this fascinating first entry, Home, in his series of photography books. In Home, Palfrey shares his beautiful images and stories of the many people and places he has encountered around the world in his work and travels over the past forty-five years.
A lifetime of observation and experience with children is channelled into his lyrical image-making and poetic text. Home ruminates on the variety of human habitations across the globe, from castles to cave dwellings and isolated farmhouses to refugee camps.
The result is an emotive book that leaves us with a poignant message: that all living creatures need to have safe places that they consider ‘home’, where they can be protected, loved, sheltered, preserved, fed and surrounded by community.
Sean Palfrey Wander
Sean Palfrey Photography Series
Paperback, 70 illustrations
Extent: 168pp
Size: 210 × 235 mm, landscape (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-86-9
RRP: £25 / $30
Edited by Eliza Scott
Designed by Agatha Smith
UK release: 15 Aug 2024
US release: Sept 2024
Wander, the second volume in Sean Palfrey’s photography book series, explores the joy of following a winding course.
Palfrey is a renowned paediatrician and child health advocate who travels the world with his work and for pleasure. His fascination with people, places and stories informs both his artistic and professional practices. Wander traces Palfrey’s journeys across continents and cultures over five decades and features seventy photographs of remarkable places, from mountain ranges in South Africa to the beaches of Chile, the woods of Canada and the deserts of New Mexico, to name a few. In the text accompanying each photo, Palfrey recounts his experiences and meditations in lyrical narratives. Wander depicts and describes vastness, intimacy, beauty and loss. Palfrey affirms photography’s capacity to spark our imaginations: ‘Every photo here has a story, a back story, a then story, and a since story.’
Gilbert & George Death Hope Life Fear...
Hardback, 33 illustrations
Extent: 60pp
Size: 245 × 300 mm, landscape (92/3 × 114/5 in.)
ISBN: 978-1-917627-01-6
RRP: £19.95 / $25
Produced by Hurtwood
Co-published with The Gilbert & George Centre
UK release: 12 Jun 2025
US release: 20 Jun 2025
Gilbert & George
Dark Shadow
Limited edition of 2,000
Cloth-bound hardback, 140 illustrations
Extent: 258pp
Size: 200 × 130 mm, portrait (77/8 × 51/8 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-63-0
RRP: £195 / $250
Designed by Gilbert & George
UK release: 27 Apr 2023
US release: 13 Jun 2024
Gilbert & George are two men, but one artist. Tying in with the exhibition Death Hope Life Fear... at the Gilbert & George Centre in London in 2025, this book presents a striking selection of eighteen works created by Gilbert & George between 1984 and 1998. This period saw the artist’s practice expand into bold, visionary realms, marked by heightened colour, confrontational imagery and intensity.
At the heart of the exhibition is the monumental quadripartite work Death Hope Life Fear (1984), a pivotal piece within The 1984 Pictures, encapsulating themes of youth, nature, identity and cosmic order. The artists’ use of colour – jarring, industrial and synthetic – intensifies their subject matter, while their own presence within the images transforms them into seer-like figures, navigating the moral and existential dimensions of modern existence.
Through their ever-evolving visual language, Gilbert & George reaffirm their commitment to ‘Art for All’, using their pictures as both a reflection and challenge to contemporary society. Death Hope Life Fear… is a powerful testament to their lifelong pursuit of universal truths, inviting viewers to engage in a deeply personal and provocative encounter with their art.
Gilbert & George created Dark Shadow in 1974 as a ‘living sculpture book’, the ‘result of our past three years of earnest daily thoughts, shadows, deeds, cares and pleasures.’ Hurtwood’s limited re-edition of 2,000 marks its fiftieth anniversary.
Featuring original text and artwork by Gilbert & George, the publication offers an unparalleled perspective on the early career of one of the twentieth century’s most significant artistic duos. Like their art, Gilbert & George’s writing is irreverent, rebellious, often funny and deeply poetic. The book includes a letter to their readers and photographs by the artists of themselves, their home in East London and their pictures.
Dark Shadow is structured in eight chapters, which elaborate on the inspirations behind their work, such as London life and British culture, including, of course, Gordon’s Gin. As is emblazoned on the cover, Dark Shadow is a continuation of their lifelong agenda ‘Art for All’, and each book is a piece of art in itself, uniquely bound in the UK with hand-marbled cloth.
Gilbert & George LONDON PICTURES
Gilbert & George
The Meaning of the Earth
Paperback, 34 illustrations
Extent: 56pp
Size: 245 × 300 mm, landscape (95/8 × 1113/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-89-0
RRP: £15
Designed by Gilbert & George
Co-published with The Gilbert & George Centre, London
UK release: 9 May 2024
Gilbert & George’s LONDON PICTURES created in 2011, are their largest group of works, inspired by a collection of 3,712 newspaper posters carefully amassed and sorted by the artists over several years. In their words, ‘London is the most important part of our inspiration. It is all that surrounds us,’ and the artworks articulate the magnificence and sordidness of London life. The posters’ headlines announce violence, passion, misery and greed, a veritable torrent of human existence.
Writer and novelist Michael Bracewell’s essay, written in 2011, considers how Gilbert & George came to know London by roaming the streets as Dickens did a century earlier, absorbing the city in exact proportion to the manner the city absorbed them. He depicts the LONDON PICTURES as the cumulative force and intensity of the pair’s art to date.
This catalogue features the twenty-eight LONDON PICTURES displayed at The Gilbert & George Centre in their 2024–25 exhibition, alongside a scale model of the show and exhibition views.
Hardback with printed edges, 410 illustrations
Extent: 560pp
Size: 250 × 200 mm, portrait (913/16 × 77/8 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-53-1
RRP: £35 / $75
Text by Wolf Jahn
Edited by Billie Temple and Jenna Burwell
Designed by Kelsey Corbett
Co-published with The Gilbert & George Centre, London
UK release: 13 Apr 2023
US release: 21 May 2023
The Meaning of the Earth offers a retrospective on the lives and work of the relentlessly controversial artists Gilbert & George, placing them within the context of twentieth-century British culture. Wolf Jahn tells the story of how Gilbert & George found their identity in opposition to pervasive ideas around social conformity and religion after meeting in 1967.
The artists staged an internal revolution, mining their psyches to create visionary and unwaveringly modern art. The ‘two people but one artist’ ask the questions that gnaw at us all: ‘Where do we come from?’, ‘Who are we?’ and ‘Where are we going?’ The book meditates on the artists’ role in this century, connecting their beginnings as ‘Living Sculptures’ to their pictorial work of today.
The Meaning of the Earth is a continuation of Jahn’s 1989 work, The Art of Gilbert & George. It’s a playful philosophical interrogation of Gilbert & George’s work that truly grasps its cosmic scale.
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN ART/ARCHITECTURE AT THE BBD&P AWARDS
Freya Douglas-Morris
Shadows of Boulder Hill
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 50 illustrations
Extent: 108pp
Size: 235 × 210 mm, portrait (91/4 × 81/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-84-5
RRP: £24 / $35
Edited by Anneka French and Eliza Scott
Designed by Agatha Smith
Co-published with Fabienne Levy
UK release: 26 Jun 2024
US release: Jul 2024
Shadows of Boulder Hill presents a group of fifty powerful paintings in oil on linen by artist Tang Shuo (b. 1987 in Guangxi, China) that delve into his childhood experiences in rural southern China. This, Tang’s first book, documents the concurrent exhibitions of these works at Fabienne Levy’s galleries in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2023.
Shadows of Boulder Hill marks a significant point in Tang’s career: in 2023, he incorporated narrative threads into his paintings for the first time, depicting young lovers, recluses and wanderers lost in imagined and remembered landscapes of lush vegetation and wildflowers. A selection of the fascinating true stories from Boulder Hill that inform Tang’s practice, personal and collective, are detailed in the gallery notes.
Shadows of Boulder Hill includes a foreword by gallerist Fabienne Levy and an essay by multidisciplinary scholar Dr Matthew Holman Here, Tang appears as an artist who has found his voice as he eloquently explores scenes of family, friendship, suffering, solitude and survival.
Raghav Babbar Indian Summer Jai Chuhan
This
star I give to you
Small Paintings
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 70 illustrations
Extent: 132pp
Size: 210 × 235 mm, landscape (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-83-8
RRP: £24 / $35
Edited by Anneka French and Eliza Scott
Designed by Agatha Smith
Co-published with Nahmad Projects
UK release: 25 Jul 2024
US release: Jul 2024
Indian Summer presents a group of skilful and expressive figurative paintings in oil on canvas and linen by artist Raghav Babbar that include intimate portraits as well as large-scale group compositions. Babbar’s sitters span friends from his childhood in Rohtak, a city north-west of Delhi, pan-sellers, dancers from the south of India, family members, as well as himself.
Indian Summer is the first publication on Babbar. It features reproductions of over forty works created from 2020 to 2023 and views of his 2023 exhibitions at Nahmad Projects, London, and Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice. Lock Kresler Senior Director at Helly Nahmad Gallery, London, introduces the book, explaining his first encounters with Babbar and his practice. An essay by art historian, broadcaster and commentator Dr Cleo Roberts-Komireddi examines how Babbar uses his materials, treats his subjects and delves into his sources of inspiration, classic Hindi and Tamil cinema and the School of London artists.
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 33 illustrations
Extent: 76pp
Size: 235 × 210 mm, portrait (91/4 × 81/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-78-4
RRP: £20 / $29
Edited by Matt Price
Designed by Agatha Smith
Co-published with Alexander Berggruen
UK release: 7 Dec 2023
US release: 20 Dec 2023
This star I give to you is the first publication on the work of London-based artist Freya Douglas-Morris, presenting a body of paintings exploring the poetry, beauty and magic of landscapes and the natural world.
The book documents the artist’s first solo exhibition of the same name at Alexander Berggruen, New York, in 2023, and showcases the eight large oil paintings on canvas and five oil paintings on copper that were on display.
This star I give to you includes a conversation between the artist and British publisher Matt Price and a foreword by New York-based writer and Associate Director at Alexander Berggruen, Kirsten Cave along with studio notes by the artist on each of the reproduced works.
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 70 illustrations
Extent: 132pp
Size: 210 × 235 mm, landscape (81/4 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-76-0
RRP: £24 / $35
Edited by Anneka French and Eliza Scott
Designed by Agatha Smith
Co-published with Nahmad Projects
UK release: 26 Oct 2023
US release: 16 Nov 2023
Small Paintings presents the gestural, intimate and hauntingly beautiful paintings by Jai Chuhan. The book showcases the pieces created for her solo exhibition of the same name at Qrystal Partners in London in the summer of 2023.
Chuhan often paints lonely figures in indistinct rooms in works that explore love and alienation. They evoke psychological tensions between agency and subjection, the familiar and the unreal. Her practice engages deeply with histories of painting as she navigates transculturalism and the female gaze.
Donald Ryan, co-founder of Qrystal Partners, contributes a foreword contextualising the exhibition and delineating Chuhan’s key artistic concerns. In her essay, Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator of Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain, ruminates on the ideas of being seen, holding space and how Chuhan’s art speaks on its own terms.
Marguerite Horner
Numinous
Hurtwood Contemporary Artist Series
Paperback, 37 illustrations
Extent: 76pp
Size: 235 × 210 mm, portrait (91/4 × 81/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-77-7
RRP: £20 / $29
Edited by Eliza Scott
Designed by Agatha Smith
UK release: 25 Jan 2024
US release: 2 Feb 2024
100 Royal Academicians
Varnishing Day: A Moment in Time
Collated as a set of 100 works presented in a gift box
Numinous presents the monochromatic, radiant and accomplished paintings of British artist Marguerite Horner (b. 1954), inspired by a trip to Beachwood Canyon, California, and produced in 2023.
The twenty-one watercolours and two oil paintings which make up the series of the same name depict flat expanses of sand, the sunlit sea, cacti, American highways and the silhouettes of distant people seen from above. The publication features a foreword by writer Matt Price and an essay by multidisciplinary scholar Dr Matthew Holman
Through the series, Horner explores the ‘numinous’, a concept defined by Lutheran theologian Rudolf Otto that indicates the presence of divinity. A keen observer, she is interested in the possibility of transcendence in everyday life and places.
Varnishing Day: A Moment in Time is a single collective artwork devised by David Mach RA and Hughie O’Donoghue RA featuring the work of 100 Royal Academicians – from Antony Gormley to Yinka Shonibare. In 2020, for the first time in 252 years, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and, along with it, Varnishing Day. Traditionally, Varnishing Day is the day when Academicians with work in the Summer Exhibition meet and celebrate, adding finishing touches to their work before the opening the next day.
For Varnishing Day: A Moment in Time, 100 Academicians made a picture on Varnishing Day 2020, expressing their thoughts and feelings at an unprecedented time.
The artwork is introduced with a letter from Camilla, Queen Consort.
Edited by Emma Dawson, Cindy Hurlow and Tanya Goodma
Designed by Billie Temple and Agatha Smith
UK release: 2022
Danie Ferreira’s extraordinary photographs and stories from his expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic over thirty years are collected for the first time in Out in the Cold. This limited-edition luxury collector’s item is divided into two stunning hand-crafted volumes – North and South – with each book hand-bound with special silk screen and overstamped and certified at the geographical poles.
Across the two volumes, Danie weaves written reflections of six expeditions with his poetic photography, documenting Svalbard, Greenland and the Canadian High Arctic in the North and his Cape to Cape route and race to the South Pole. The wild becomes familiar in Danie’s intimate photos: close-up shots of polar bears and seals, among other creatures, reveal the humanity in nature.
The two volumes of Out in the Cold are roundbacked and bound in silver dupion silk with a bluish lustre, while cover details are foil blocked in a silver blue foil and the book edges are hand-painted metallic silver.
WINNER
BEST BRITISH BOOK & BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BBD&P AWARDS
Yoyo Munk
Medusa
Hardback with exposed spine,
380 illustrations
Extent: 324pp
Size: 240 × 210 mm, portrait (97/16 × 81/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-66-1
RRP: £45 / $70
Edited by Alysha Naples and Eliza Scott
Designed by Billie Temple and Agatha Smith
Published in association with MAC Birmingham
Co-published with Tin Drum
UK release: 23 Apr 2023
US release: 27 Sept 2023
The mixed-reality Medusa installation takes its inspiration from natural structures as it explores the function of technologies and architecture amid the climate crisis. It began with the question: is there even such a thing as non-physical architecture? Directed by Yoyo Munk and produced by Tin Drum, Medusa headlined the 2021 London Design Festival at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The book documents the installation and features original artworks, alongside conversations between Munk and architect Sou Fujimoto; artist and writer James Bridle; cultural anthropologist Veronica Strang; and entomologist and behavioural ecologist Seirian Sumner. A dazzling poetic contribution from Octavia Bright, author of This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal, is interspersed throughout the book.
Medusa is an art object to be treasured, created using multiple inks, foils, papers and processes.
SHORTLISTED AT THE BBD&P AWARDS FOR EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS
Paperback, 296 illustrations
Extent: 268pp
Size: 260 × 205 mm, portrait (101/4 × 81/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-55-5
RRP: £35/ $60
Edited by Zoé Whitley and Amy Jone
Designed by Billie Temple
Co-published with Chisenhale Gallery, London
UK release: 15 Oct 2022
US release: 5 Jan 2023
IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS is Nikita Gale’s first monograph, which marked the finale of her exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery. It contains an intergenerational conversation with conceptual artist Barbara Kruger and a short meditation by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Hilton Als. These feature alongside contributions by artist and Chisenhale Gallery alum P. Staff and Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron, author of Afro-Dog
Through the lens of a multifaceted practice, Gale examines themes of invisibility and audibility, interrogating the dynamic between performer and spectator, structure and decay. Four visual essays, hand-annotated by Gale – ‘Absence’, ‘Ruin’, ‘Silence’, ‘Dog’ – explore themes central to the work.
IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS deploys throw-outs, gatefolds, five different types of papers and a subtly disruptive design.
David Kynaston
Banker & Philanthropist: A Portrait of Anthony de Rothschild
Hardback, 63 illustrations
Extent: 204pp
Size: 235 × 156 mm, portrait (91/4 × 61/8 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-56-2
RRP: £20 / $35
Edited by Vaughan O’Grad
Designed by Sally McIntosh
UK release: 8 Dec 2022
US release: 12 Apr 2023
In Banker & Philanthropist: A Portrait of Anthony de Rothschild historian David Kynaston tells the fascinating story of Anthony de Rothschild (1887–1961) for the first time. Through access to never previously consulted diaries and letters, a three-dimensional picture emerges of a complex and thoughtful man guiding the City’s most famous merchant bank through the turbulent years between the 1920s and 1950s.
In politics de Rothschild was open-minded and constructive while in his philanthropy, not least through his leading role in helping Jewish refugees (especially children) to leave Nazi Germany for England, he was considerate and generous. Austere on the surface but warm beneath, impatient equally of fools and ideologues, always searching for how he could contribute to make a better world – de Rothschild deserves, arguably more than almost anyone else in the twentieth-century City, to be known properly by later generations.
Shrub-let of Old Ayivu
Cloth-bound hardback, 93 illustrations
Extent: 208pp
Size: 300 × 235 mm, portrait (1113/16 × 91/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-68-5
RRP: £55 / $75
Edited by Kelsey Corbetts
Designed by Billie Temple and Agatha Smith
Co-published with Unit London
UK release: 27 Apr 2023
US release: 27 Sept 2023
Katherine
Preston
Inn of the Few
The White Hart, Brasted 1932-1971
Hardback, 43 illustrations
Extent: 154pp
Size: 190 × 250, landscape (71/2 × 913/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-60-9
RRP: £20 / $45
Edited by Hurtwood
Designed by Billie Temple and Agatha Smith
UK release: 27 Apr 2023
US release: 30 May 2023
The debut monograph of Stacey Gillian Abe’s work is created to accompany her first solo show at Unit, London. Featuring works spanning her career to date, the book explores the key themes from Abe’s work and delves deep into her expressive and symbolic indigo portraits.
Shrub-let of Old Ayivu includes insightful written contributions from Flavia Frigeri, art historian, lecturer and the Chanel Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and Serubiri Moses, renowned writer and curator, alongside a conversation between the artist and Catherine McKinley, author of the critically acclaimed Indigo: In Search of the Color that Seduced the World and The Book of Sarahs: A Family in Parts.
Abe’s work reflects her past and her memories, highlighting her personal experiences and her relationships with her community.
At the onset of the Battle of Britain in the dark days of 1940, Churchill’s ‘Few’, the brave fighter pilots who battled over the skies of Southern England, found a haven in the White Hart Inn in Brasted. Here they could escape the traumas of war for a few hours.
The landlords Kath and Teddy Preston were there to share the hopes and fears, the elation and sorrow of the men who lived on the edge daily. Inn of the Few is a tale of those precarious days, an insight into life at the White Hart Inn and the young pilots, soldiers, princes, prime ministers and strays who came through its doors.
Inn of the Few includes fascinating anecdotes, archive photographs and documents of a momentous time in history in which local lives gained national significance.
Nikita Gale
Stacey Gillian Abe
Scott Mead
Thoughts for My Children
Limited edition of 2,000
Cloth-bound hardback, 140 illustrations
Extent: 258pp
Size: 200 × 130 mm, portrait (77/8 × 51/8 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-71-5
RRP: £12.99/ $15
Edited by Bramley Studios
Designed by Bramley Studios
Co-published with Bramley Studios
UK release: 22 Feb 2023
US release: 1 Mar 2023
‘Thoughts for My Children took shape over many years, in many places and at many times. Perspectives and insights on life’s journey would come to me, usually out of the blue and at unexpected times, sometimes on planes far above the clouds, in new places or in familiar surroundings where my mind would wander.’ –Scott Mead
Over time, this collection of thoughts evolved into a book that explores family, legacy and what it means to share the lessons we learn with future generations. The images that sit alongside the text, part of Mead’s extensive photographic archive, continue to resonate beyond the pages of the family album and expand the reach of the words into something at once deeply personal and universal.
Thoughts for My Children is meant to be picked up and carried with you, the small format inviting moments of contemplation and celebrating the lives unfolding around it.
Gilbert & George
The Paradisical Pictures
Hardback, 54 illustrations
Extent: 120pp
Size: 245 × 300 mm, landscape (95/8 × 1113/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-59-3
RRP: £65 / $90
Edited by Hurtwood
Designed by Billie Temple
Co-published with The Gilbert & George Centre, London
UK release: 22 May 2023
US release: 27 Apr 2023
Gilbert & George’s work confounds and rejects all art historical classification or affiliation with other schools or movements in art. As affirmed by THE PARADISICAL PICTURES there is no formalist, aesthetic or conceptual precedent to the ideology and vision they convey with such intensity.
The paintings are fantastical, allegorical, narrative, representational, psychedelic, absurdist, modern yet archaic, surrealist-grotesque, inflected with both tragedy and comedy, filled with pathos, touchingly eloquent of human frailty, age and exhaustion.
THE PARADISICAL PICTURES suggest a chapter in a story that has been unfolding before them and will continue beyond Gilbert & George. This ‘paradise’ is not a destination but a stage on a longer journey.
This special edition brings the fantasy of the paintings to the hardback book. It showcases the original artwork by Gilbert & George, as well as eleven different metallic foils on the cover and a painted red edge.
Julia Peyton-Jones Pia’s World
Softback, 280 illustrations
Extent: 200pp
Size: 200 × 150 mm, portrait (77/8 × 515/16 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-51-7
RRP: £9.95
Edited by Julia Peyton-Jones and Emma Enderby
Designed by Mark El-khatib UK release: Sept 2021
Leticia Valverdes Dear Ana
Hardback, 210 illustrations
Extent: 204pp
Size: 235 × 210 mm, portrait (91/4 × 81/4 in.)
ISBN: 978-0-903696-52-4
RRP: £45
Edited by Hurtwood
Designed by Billie Temple UK release: Nov 2021
Pia’s World is a moving record of family life under the unprecedented restrictions of Covid-19 lockdowns. Artist and curator Julia Peyton-Jones arranges her sketches, executed in ink, charcoal, pencil and watercolour, into grid formations that act as windows into the special moments of each day. Peyton-Jones’ drawings are paired with her reflections on motherhood and the changing state of the world during the pandemic.
At the heart of the book is the tender relationship between a mother and daughter, simultaneously personal and universal. The book is a visual diary chronicling their bubble as they are contained at home, watching the park from their window. Everyday events and activities gain new significance as all sense of time collapses.
When lockdown lifts, we share their joyful return to normality.
Dear Ana is a lyrical manifestation of Leticia Valverdes’ award-winning project that took her on a journey back to her grandmother’s motherland, Portugal. This extraordinary project resulted in a magical collaboration with the inhabitants of Ana’s birthplace, the village of Mundão. By inviting the villagers to write a postcard to her now dead grandmother, they became the fictional friends she believed she had while dying with Alzheimer’s in Brazil. Through photography interspersed with poetic text, cyanotypes and votive offerings, this personal yet universal story explores transgenerational trauma, longing, migration and what it means to feel divided between two cultures. A hundred years on, this is the perfect time to tell this story, as Europe is engulfed in debates about borders, nationalism and migration.
‘The most memorable artist’s book of 2021.’
– Sophie Howarth
Thames & Hudson
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