Publications

If you purchase three or more publications, you will receive a 15% discount.

Our most recent publication accompanies Nowhere is here -an international group exhibition including Axel Antas, Nogah Engler, Franziska Furter, Reece Jones, Damien Roach.

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

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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  Her work hovers between abstraction and representation and art historical references range from Kazimir Malevich to Richard Prince and include Jasper Johns and Sonia Delaunay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.

ISBN 978-0-9542668-9-9

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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
978-0-9542668-7-5

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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

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Published to coincide with Drawing Links which took place at The Drawing Room in March-April 2006. The exhibition presented the work of five emerging artists practising in different parts of the UK, including Ruth Claxton, Rachel Goodyear, Ilana Halperin, Lady Lucy and Alex Pearl, who were nominated by curators from the same region.

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
Designed by Marit Münzberg.
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SOUNDS LIKE DRAWING

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 ‘1+1+1’ is a broadsheet publication produced for the exhibition
in collaboration with Double agents, Central St Martins, University of the Arts. It includes texts by: Anthony Huberman, curator of the exhibition; Graham Ellard and Anne Tallentire of Double agents; a commissioned text and image by Yve Lomax and a transcript of the ‘in-conversation’ between the exhibition curator, Anthony Huberman, the artists, Conor Kelly, Kaffe Matthews, and Steve Roden, and Ben Borthwick, Curator, Tate Modern.

43 x 31cm, 12 pages, 5 black and white and 12 full colour plates.
This publication is free. Please send a 60p stamped self-addressed A4 envelope to THE DRAWING ROOM.


LUCIA NOGUEIRA: drawings

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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.
Price £12.00

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation

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Diana Cooper and Hew Locke

This catalogue was published to accompany an exhibition of new commissions by Diana Cooper and Hew Lock 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.

40 pages with 23 full colour illustrations.
Designed by Marit Münzberg
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Adam Dant - The people who live on the Plank



The large format of this 'artist's book' (32.5cm x 70cm) is in keeping with Adam Dant's literalist approach and will provide access to the minutia of his highly detailed drawings. His large-scale works consist of interconnected roundels filled with visual, non-linear narratives. Whilst reminiscent of old-fashioned comic books, or Hogarth's prints of the 18th century, these narratives are timeless, like the human folly they depict.

18 pages with 3 full colour & 14 black & white illustrations

Price £25, £35 signed plus £6 postage and packing

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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.

24 pages with 11 full colour illustrations and a 3,000 word essay by David Musgrave.

Designed by Marit Münzberg.
Price £6.50

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Laburnum Pilot

A street magazine made with people who live, work and pass through Laburnum Street
Edited by Ella Gibbs and Amy Plant

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

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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.
28 pages with 14 colour plates, including a commissioned work by David Batchelor. Text by Helen Legg (Assistant Curator, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick), Kate Macfarlane (Curator, The Drawing Room), Katharine Stout (Curator, Tate Britain), co-curators of 'A Kind of Bliss'.

Designed by Marit Münzberg.
Price : £5

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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.

Designed by Marit Münzberg, 80-pages with 59 full-colour plates, £17.50 (including package and postage). To order a copy please send a cheque, payable to Tannery Projects, to The Drawing Room.

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The Beachcombers

texts by Andrew Renton and Katharine Stout


A small publication to accompany the exhibition with texts by Andrew Renton and Katharine Stout.

Price £1.50

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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.