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Publications If you purchase three or more publications, you will receive a 15% discount. The Urpflanze: The Primal Plant: Plants of The Future Limited Edition By Melanie Jackson & Esther Leslie
This artist’s newspaper is composed of articles, texts and images that have grown from a dialogue between the artist Melanie Jackson and the writer Esther Leslie. It takes Goethe's notion of the Urpflanze as a starting point: an idea of plant form that had all future plants coiled up inside it. The Ur-form or Ur-phenomenon, is an effort to think through the relations between polar opposites, form and metamorphosis, nature and history, simultaneity and succession. The Urpflanze projects forward from its origins whole worlds that are yet to come. The publication is supplied in a limited edition of 100 in a screenprinted archival box also containing a unique offset litho 'make ready' print version signed by the artist. 297 x 420 x 15mm, 2 x 24 pages ISBN 978-0-907623-68-7 Available through Cornerhouse or The Drawing Room Price: £20.00 The Urpflanze: The Primal Plant: Plants of The Future By Melanie Jackson & Esther Leslie
This newspaper was published to coincide with Melanie Jackson: The Urpflanze (Part 1) exhibition at The Drawing Room. It is composed of articles, texts and images that have grown from a dialogue between the artist Melanie Jackson and the writer Esther Leslie. Published by The Drawing Room and Matt’s Gallery, funded by Arts Council England. ISBN 978-0-9558299-2-5 It is available for free at Matt's Gallery and The Drawing Room. To order a copy please send an A4 envelope with a first class stamp to The Drawing Room or order via PayPal Price: £2.00 'Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today’: a book
This book was published to coincide with Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today exhibition which took place here at The Drawing Room. This book was co-published by The Drawing Room and MuHKA, Antwerp, in collaboration with Middlesex University. In this 112 page book extracts from ‘Treatise’, ‘Schooltime Compositions’, ‘Nature Study Notes’ and other visual material are interspersed with essays by Michael Parsons (composer, performer and co-founder of the Scratch Orchestra), Andrea Phillips (Director, Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London), Adrian Rifkin (Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London), Rob Stone (Senior Research Fellow, Visual Culture Research Group, Middlesex University) , John Tilbury (musician and Cardew collaborator and biographer), international artists’ collective Ultra-red and Grant Watson and a photo-essay by the Otolith Group. These artists, writers and curators pursue and rekindle the questions and contradictions that Cardew’s practice incorporated. Play for Today: Cornelius Cardew book in collaboration with Middlesex University and M HKA, Antwerp. Price £18.00 ISBN 978-0-9558299-1-8 Available through Cornerhouse or The Drawing Room
Nowhere is Here
This catalogue is published to coincide with Nowhere is here, curated by The Drawing Room. The international group exhibition taps into the capacity of drawing to capture the contingent quality of the natural environment and our complex relationship with it. Four of the artists have gravitated to London from different parts of the world and all are establishing international profiles. Each artist brings a different relationship to the natural environment, be it imagined, experienced or remembered, emotional or dispassionate. The artists use drawing to create hybrid worlds that could suggest a repositioning of our relationship to nature and society. Edited by Kate Macfarlane, Co-Director, The Drawing Room, London. Essays by Becky Beasley (an artist based in Berlin) and Kate Macfarlane (curator and Co-Director of The Drawing Room). softback, 48 pages, 30 colour illustrations, 230 x 200 mm Price £8.00 ISBN 978-0-9558299-0-1 Available through Cornerhouse or The Drawing Room
Hayley Tompkins This book was published to coincide with Hayley Tompkins’ first solo exhibition in London which includes newly, commissioned works including a film, works on paper and painted, wall-hung objects. The book is intended as an extension to the exhibition and will include works made especially for the page which address a different form of viewing. Tompkins’ was born in 1971 and is based in Glasgow. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Inverleith House, Edinburgh in Spring 2009 and has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin; Spike Island, Bristol; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York and The Modern Institute, Glasgow. She is known for her minimal installations of works on paper and sculptural elements. Her work hovers between abstraction and representation and art historical references range from Kazimir Malevich to Richard Prince and include Jasper Johns and Sonia Delaunay Exhibition catalogue: Softback, 32 page, 20 full colour illustrations, 290 x 205mm. Essay by Michael Archer, a critic and writer on art & Head of School at the Ruskin School, Oxford University. Price £8 including postage and packaging. Available through Cornerhouse or The Drawing Room. Katja Davar
Produced following Katja Davar’s first solo exhibition in the UK, this catalogue focuses on a body of work which makes reference to the threat of deluge explored by Leonardo da Vinci in his drawings and his treatise on water. Katja Davar explores sub-traditions of pictorial representation through her drawings, animations and embroideries on canvas, creating fictional worlds inspired by literature and the multiple images and political issues to which we are all subjected. Katja Davar was born in London and lives and works in Cologne. She has had solo exhibitions at Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, (2005, 2003), Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, (2003, 2000), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, (2001), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2001), PARKHAUS, Düsseldorf (2000) and has been included in numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe. Exhibition catalogue: Hardback, 56 pages, 28 x 24cm, 43 full colour plates. Introduction by Kate Macfarlane, (Co-Director, The Drawing Room) and essay by Tom Holert, (a writer and researcher based in Berlin and regular contributor to Texte zur Kunst and Artforum. Price £20 including postage and packaging ISBN 0-9542668-7-0 SOLD OUT The Secret Theory of Drawing
David Austen,Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Patrick Ireland, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan Šarcevic, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes. This exhibition explores the possibilities of drawing using non-traditional or indirect means, whilst addressing such traditional art-historical subjects as portraiture, narrative, figuration, the seascape, the still life and the decorative frieze. The specific notion of drawing the exhibition is designed to evoke is one of displacement, deferral or obliquity, as opposed to the more currently popular conception of drawing as gestural, expressive, more or less instantly communicative, and complete in and of itself. While there is relatively little drawing per se in the exhibition, the various works included conspire to emphasise the status of line, graph, and pulse. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition curated by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, writer, critic, curator and Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish at University College Dublin. The exhibition took place at The Drawing Room, London, 5 October – 19 November 2006 and The Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland, 27 January - 11 March, 2007 Foreword by Mary Doyle and Kate Macfarlane. Essay by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith. 48 pages, 23 x 20 cm, 32 full colour plates. Edited by Kate Macfarlane. Price £10 including postage and packaging ISBN: 0-9542668-8-9 978-0-9542668-8 DRAWING LINKS Drawing Links includes an introduction by Kate Macfarlane, Co-Director, The Drawing Room; statements by each of the five artists and essays by the nominating curators: Lucy Byatt, (Director, Spike Island, Bristol);Paulette Terry Brien, International 3, Manchester; Helen Legg, Curator (Off-site), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Lynda Morris, Curator, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design and Andrew Patrizio, Director of Research Development, Edinburgh College of Art. 28cm x 21.5 cm, 20 pages, soft cover, 29 black and white plates SOUNDS LIKE DRAWING ‘1+1+1’ is a broadsheet publication produced for the exhibition 43 x 31cm, 12 pages, 5 black and white and 12 full colour plates.
LUCIA NOGUEIRA: drawings Produced to coincide with the first exhibition of drawings by this influential Brazilian artist. The catalogue offers an insight into the thinking process behind much of her work in three dimensions. Drawing was an integral and essential part of Nogueira’s life and work. Often very beautiful and complete in themselves, the drawings also give an understanding of the origin and thinking behind her sculptural work, installations and films. Exhibition catalogue: 24 pages, hardback cover, 13 full colour plates. Texts by Penelope Curtis, Curator, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and David Austen, artist. Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation Diana Cooper and Hew Locke This catalogue was published to accompany an exhibition of new commissions by Diana Cooper and Hew Locke at The Drawing Room. It marks the culmination of a partnership between The Drawing Room and the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon School of Art. The 5,000 word essay by Dr Jon Wood examines in detail
the working process of Cooper and Locke. Their tendency to use drawing
to activate the divide between the second and third dimension is linked
to the practice of their contemporaries and its historical legacy is
unravelled.
Adam Dant - The people who live on the Plank
18 pages with 3 full colour & 14 black & white illustrations Price £25, £35 signed plus £6 postage and packing
Waste Material - Curated by David Musgrave
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition curated for The Drawing Room by David Musgrave, one of the leading figures within an emerging generation of British artists. It presents new work by Musgrave and that of his contemporaries - William Daniels (UK), Hannah Greely (US), Rupert Norfolk (UK) and Clare Stephenson (UK) - in juxtaposition with a 19th Century lithograph by Georg Scharf and a drawing of c.1940 by Yves Tanguy. 'Waste Material' is about time, matter and the imaginary.
Hannah Greely's 'Assembly', a papier-mache stepladder which is home
to numerous handmade insects, implies a future world from which human
beings have been erased. At the opposite end of the time-line is Georg
Scharf's 'Duria antiquior' (A more ancient Dorset), a print made after
a drawing by the geologist Henry De la Beche based on fossil evidence
of prehistoric life, which offers a complementary impossible perspective. Designed by Marit Münzberg. Laburnum Pilot
A street magazine made with people who live, work and
pass through Laburnum Street A 60 - page glossy magazine that challenges the concept of standard magazines in its lively, creative and new approach. An entirely drawn and written magazine, its contents are humorous, serious, eccentric and credible and portray much of the life of the street and its people. Price : £2.00 A Kind of Bliss
‘A Kind of Bliss’ celebrates the visceral power
of colour and explores its relationship to drawing in the work of Polly
Apfelbaum (US), David Batchelor (UK), Katy Dove (UK), Lily van der Stokker
(NL) and the twentieth century historic predecessor, Len Lye (NZ). This
publication seeks to question historical debates in which intellectual,
moral and aesthetic supremacy is attributed to line over colour. Designed by Marit Münzberg. Sold Out Drawing on Space
Drawing on Space crosses continents and generations to
demonstrate the potential of drawing to articulate the spaces we occupy.
The book combines new commissions, existing work and archival material
by Russell Crotty (USA), Katja Davar (UK), Graham Gussin (UK), Alan
Johnston (UK), Takehito Koganezawa (Japan), Julie Mehretu (Ethiopia
/ USA), Nasreen Mohamedi (India), Max Neuhaus (USA), Paul Noble (UK),
Silke Schatz (Germany), Tomoko Takahashi (Japan / UK), Bjarni Thórarinsson
(Iceland) and Oliver Zwink (Germany). Work by George Maciunas, Constant
Nieuwenhuys, Mieko Shiomi and Yasunao Tone, artists associated with
Fluxus and the Situationist International, provides an historical context.
Price £17.50 including package and postage. To order a copy please send a cheque, payable to Tannery Projects, to The Drawing Room. The Beachcombers texts by Andrew Renton and Katharine Stout
Price £1.50 Drawn by Amy Plant
Leaflet including drawings with captions and a text by
Amy Plant. To order a copy please send an A5 envelope with a first class
stamp to The Drawing Room. |
