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The Visual Artists’ News Sheet
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Artists Books
Artists Books Northern Grace Published: Feb 2010. Title: Northern Grace. Dimensions: 25 x 21cm. Pages: 134. Contributors: Michael Shulman, Magnum Photos, New York. Description: A social documentary of Scotland’s people taken over an eight-year period. It deals with and contrasts urban and rural aspects of Scottish life. Available: www.syro.net/northerngrace Venice: Why/Because Title: Venice: Why/Because. Artist: Peter Morgan. Format: A concertina book, 16pp 120 x160mm, folding out to 960 x 160mm, pbk, 10pp colour photographs, 4pp text. Edition: 350. Published: Nov 2009. Price: €3. Description: A collage of photographs documenting the 53rd Venice Biennale. Four pages of text appropriated from the two exhibition catalogues: a highly ambiguous statement. Available: www.roadbooks.ie The pataphysics of making bread Title: The pataphysics of making bread. Artist: Judy Kravis. Pages: 48. Format: perfect bound, 102 x 148mm, pbk (will fit in shirt pocket). Edition: o201. Published: Oct 2009. Price: €5. Description: What the baker sees as she kneads, what she hears on the radio, her lurking stories and idle thoughts. At the centre, the morphing loaf. Different yet the same, week by week. With sourdough recipe. Available: www.roadbooks.ie A short walk along the kefir road Title: A short walk along the kefir road. Artists: Judy Kravis & Peter Morgan. Pages: 18pp. Format: 185 x 130mm, 8 b+w pictures, assembled by hand. Edition: 57. Published: Oct 2009. Price: €7. Description: Kefir is a fractal, a yoghurt plant, a zoo in a bowl on a shelf – and growing – given a few simple conditions. A rambling yet practical poem for cooks, walkers and physicists. Available: www.roadbooks.ie Samizdat Published: Nov 2008. Title: Samizdat. Dimensions: 14.8cm x 21cm. Pages: 30. Format: soft-back. Contributors: Deirdre Morrissey, Aine Ivers, Chris Fite Wassilak & Kate Mc Larnon. Description: The publication is a response to the shared ideas of an exhibition of the same name based around notions of replication, shared knowledge, the distribution and circulation of forms, philosophy and spirituality, fear and paranoia. The exhibition evolved through artist Ciaran Walsh’s ongoing and developing artistic research and resulted in three new artworks and the production and distribution of the printed text. Samizdat was printed with the assistance of printer Vinny Capriani and museum curator Mairead White at The National Print Museum, Dublin 4. Available: http://themarketstudios.wordpress.com Le Chéile Print ProjecT Published: March 2009. Title: Le Chéile Print Project: Irish Artists. Dimensions 10 x 12 inches. Pages: 8. Format: Hand made, hard cover, melodeon type. Contributors: Margaret Becker, Monica de Bath, Pamela de Brí, Bethan Hodgson, Rebecca Homfray, Eileen Keane, Eilis McCann, Deirdre Shanley. Description: Handmade book of 8 prints, some variable, 2 editions of 10. Made to order. The book is part of an ongoing Welsh-Irish Collaboration inPrintmaking. Available: http//lecheileprintproject. blogspot.com Eye View Published: Dec 2009. Title: Eye View. Author: Gloria Casey. Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Pages: 75. Format: Soft-back. Contributors: Dr Micheal O’hAodha & Peter Morgan. ISBN: 1-44381389-3. Description: What has changed with regard to photography – everything or nothing?
Contemporary commentators have suggested that due to the development of sophisticated technology and the digitization of the photographic image, the ease with which it can now be manipulated gives rise to a certain amount of distrust in the truthfulness of the images we see. Temperamental Artist: Maureen O’Connor. Title: Temperamental 2009. Published: Oct 2009. Dimensions: 210mm x 240mm portrait. Pages: 48. Format: Thread Sewn, Soft Cover. Contributors: Gavin Delahunty Curator, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. ISBN: 978-09555120-2-5. Description: The publication was initiated by the exhibition: ‘Temperamental Paintings and Projection’, at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan 2008. Loneliness in West Germany Published: February 2009. Artist: Declan Clarke. Title: Loneliness in West Germany. Dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. Pages: 32. Format: Stitched perfect bound, soft-back. Contributors: Rolf Stehle, Georgina Jackson. Description: This publication documents the sitespecific solo exhibition by artist Declan Clarke at the Goethe-Institut Ireland in January – March 2009. Included is an introduction by Rolf Stehle, director Goethe-Institut, an essay by curator Georgina Jackson, full colour installation images and list of works in the exhibition. Available: Goethe-Institut, Dublin. Walking Drawing Making Memory Artist: David Lilburn. Title: Walking Drawing Making Memory: A Ballynahinch Sketchbook. Published: July 2009. Edition: 300 (Books 1 – 150 include a frontispiece of an original intaglio print and are signed and numbered by the artist). Publisher: Ballynahinch Castle and Occasional Press. Price: Books 1-150 are priced at €85.00; books 151- 300 at €30.00. ISBN: 978-09548976-8-0. Available: www. occasionalpress.net Description: This publication is the first in a series focusing on Connemara based artists. Lilburn’s book presents panoramic drypoint printworks alongside preparatory sketches. Hieroglyphs in Unexpected Places Artist: Emma Barone (with poet Eileen Casey). Published: November 2009. Title: Reading Hieroglyphs in Unexpected Places. Dimensions: 17 x 17cm. Pages: 80 pages. Format: soft cover perfect bound. Contributors: Emma Barone and Eileen Casey. Publisher Fiery Arrow Press, D24. Description: A collaboration between the artist Emma Barone and poet Eileen Casey – a book of magical shoes /a book of magical poems about shoes. Available: www.emmabarone.com DHG publications 2009 Artist / Title: Mamma Andersson. Cry. Artist / Title: Joseph Grigely. Imbrie. Artist / Title: Matthew Day Jackson. High, Low & In Between. Artist / Title: Paki Smith. Artist / Title: Fergus Feehily. Pavilion. Artist / Title: Jim White. Superwhite!/Wild-Eyed Tree. Title: Japanese Country Textiles. Title: Questions of Travel. Available: www.douglashydegallery.ie
YOUR BOOK LISTED HERE If you are an artist and have recently produced (in the last 12 months) a monographic publication, simply email the following details to jason@visualartists.ie – date of publication; title; dimensions; number of pages; format (eg: spiral, stitched perfect bound, hard-back / softback etc.); list of contributors; ISBN number (if relevant); short description (two or three lines).