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Marc Quinn - Self, You, and the World
Jefferson Hack; Text written by Shirley Ngozi Nwangwa, Hettie Judah, Justin Bengry
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Pivotal British multidisciplinary artist Marc Quinn’s practice
explores what it is to be human in the world today. This is the
most comprehensive book to date on the artist’s bold and singular
practice. Marc Quinn came to the attention of the international art
scene in 1991 with Self, a cast of his head realized in eight pints
of his own frozen blood, exhibited in a specially designed
refrigeration unit. With his materials and techniques, Quinn
challenges the boundaries between art and science. Besides using
ice, glass, metal, marble, and lead, he has experimented with
flowers and plants frozen in silicon. Since 1999, he has been
creating sculptures in classic white marble of subjects who lack
one or more limbs. In addressing the purely physical aspects of
life, Quinn confronts the viewer with the chasm between the
physical and the mental, beauty and ugliness, the eternal and the
mortal. This overview of his practice includes a timeline of all
his major works.
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Slow Painting (Paperback)
Hettie Judah, Martin Herbert; Artworks by Darren Almond, Athanasios Argianas, Michael Armitage, …
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Lorna Robertson’s colourful paintings, often made with a
combination of oil paint and collage, have a distinctly nostalgic
tone. Shimmering female forms with swinging skirts from the 1950s
or bonneted bathers from the 1920s jostle with richly described
interiors and crowded tabletops. Hints and glimpses of tangible
forms – a fashion model, for example, or a vase – appear and
then fragment into patterns and explosions of colour. This new
publication coincides with Robertson’s exhibition at Ingleby
Gallery and is divided into sections that feature collections of
recent large paintings by the artist (2015–2022), small paintings
(all 2022) and works on paper (2016–2022), all of which
demonstrate Robertson’s characteristic layered interpretations of
the female form alongside recurring motifs such as hats, long
dresses and flowers. Her drawings (2018–2020) offer fluid forms
in ink, pencil and watercolour. An essay by art critic Hettie Judah
explores Robertson’s work in terms of pattern, costume and
architecture, drawing out key inspirations including tapestry,
advertising and magazine design through abstracted forms. The
influence of contemporary female painters and those from art
history is further considered. In another text, Robertson is in
conversation with artist and writer Mikey Cuddihy. This frank
interview reveals much about Robertson’s intuitive working
processes: from starting points, colour decisions, the rhythms of
brushwork and considerations of scale, to the wider relationship
between text, music, drawing and painting. The publication is
edited by Ingleby Gallery, designed by Joanna Deans, Identity,
printed by Albe De Coker, and co-published by Ingleby Edinburgh,
and Anomie, London. The publication coincides with Robertson’s
first solo exhibition 'thoughts, meals, days' at Ingleby Gallery,
Edinburgh, in 2022. The artist is represented by Ingleby Gallery.
Lorna Robertson was born in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland in
1967. She studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee
and currently lives and works in Glasgow. Recent public solo
exhibitions include 'Kodachroma', Glasgow Project Room (2013);
'This Dark Ceiling', Intermedia Gallery, C.C.A, Glasgow (2008);
'The Overlooked', Atelier Am Eck, Dusseldorf, Germany (2006); and
'New Paintings', 64 Osborne Street, Glasgow (2005). Robertson’s
group exhibitions include 'Once Upon a Time', Flora Fairbairn, The
Portman Estate, London (2022); 'Faces in the Water', Ingleby at
Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London (2021); 'Brexit: Mail Art
from a Small Island', Sipgate Shows, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019);
'Lorna Robertson and Robert MacBryde', Kingsgate Project Space,
London (2019); 'Psychopathology of Everyday life', Glasgow Project
Room (2011); and 'Vistas', Glasgow Project Room (2003). The artist
was awarded the John Kinross Traveling Scholarship to Florence in
1990 and the Summer Scholarship, Hospitalfield School of Art,
Arbroath, Scotland in 1989.
Few materials have experienced a similar revaluation in
contemporary art as clay has in the past few years. This timely
publication accompanies a large-scale exhibition at the Hayward
Gallery, London, exploring how contemporary artists are using clay
and ceramics in inventive and surprising ways, and pushing the
boundaries of the medium. Featuring the work of over 20
international artists-from Grayson Perry to Woody De Othello-an
introductory essay by curator Cliff Lauson, a text on the history
of fine art and ceramics by writer and critic Amy Sherlock, and a
round table discussion with artists from the exhibition, this
catalogue is a meaningful contribution to the ongoing conversation
about the relationship between art and craft.
"Hallum's painting is charged with delight in colour, line, surface
and composition, in powerfully unconventional ways." - Hettie Judah
This is the first monograph on the London-born, Devon-based artist
Jacqui Hallum. The publication documents Hallum's solo exhibition
at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (10 October 2019 - 1 March
2020), along with a series of solo, two-person and group
exhibitions held between 2014 and 2020. Hallum is best-known for
her mixed-media paintings on textiles - techniques she has
developed and refined over the course of twenty years since
completing her studies. Incorporating imagery and visual languages
ranging from medieval woodcuts and stained-glass windows to Art
Nouveau children's illustrations, tarot cards and Berber rugs,
Hallum employs ink staining, painting, drawing and printing to
create layers of pattern, abstraction and passages of figurative
imagery. As part of her working process, Hallum often leaves the
fabrics in the open air, exposed to the elements, in order to
introduce weathering into the works. History, religion, mysticism
and the beliefs and creativity of past civilisations are among the
themes that overlap - often in a literal sense of pieces of fabrics
layered, pinned, draped and hung together - to form painterly
palimpsests that carry a sense of the past with them into the
present. Along with a foreword by Professor Caroline Wilkinson,
Director of the School of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores
University, and an introductory essay by artist, curator and
director of Kingsgate Workshops and Project Space in London, Dan
Howard-Birt, the publication features newly commissioned essays by
arts journalist and critic Hettie Judah and by Andrew Hunt,
Professor of Fine Art and Curating at the University of Manchester.
Also featured is the edited transcript of a conversation between
Hallum and Howard-Birt held at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Jacqui Hallum (b.1977, London) graduated with a BA in Fine Art from
Coventry School of Art& Design, Coventry University, in 1999,
and an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Art,
University of London, in 2002. Hallum's solo exhibition at The
Walker Art Gallery followed a three-month fellowship at Liverpool
John Moores University, which resulted from winning the prestigious
John Moores Painting Prize in 2018. The monograph, designed by
work-form and edited by Susan Taylor, has been produced by
Kingsgate Project Space and co-published with Anomie Publishing.
Scotland-born, London-based artist Caroline Walker is celebrated
for her paintings exploring the lives of women, from those living
luxury lifestyles to those fleeing oppression. In this publication,
which was produced to accompany Walker's first exhibition with
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, in autumn 2020, the artist turns her
attention closer to home, presenting a series of paintings in which
the focus is the artist's own mother, Janet, as she goes about her
daily tasks: cooking, cleaning, tidying and tending the garden of
the Fife home where the artist spent her childhood. The publication
features a newly commissioned essay and an interview with the
artist by critic and author Hettie Judah. The essay opens by
comparing Walker's works to the Dutch Golden Age, encouraging
consideration of everyday domestic scenes. Judah then leads the
reader through Walker's latest series of works, exploring the daily
routines and household chores that have filled Walker's mother's
days for the past forty years, along with the artist's treatment of
these activities. Judah deftly locates this latest body of work
within Walker's wider practice, opening up discussion of women at
work in different industries and notions of invisibility. She
asserts: 'While "Janet" extends Walker's long-held interest in
women's work, the series is also a loving undertaking. The artist
offers us her mother with great pride, both in particular, and on
behalf of other mothers overlooked and working out of sight.' The
interview offers further insight into Walker's thoughts in relation
to the "Janet" series, and to the working processes behind it. The
publication features around eighty illustrations of the preparatory
studies and paintings that comprise this new body of work. It has
been designed by Joanna Deans, Identity, with photography by Peter
Mallet. The publication was produced by Ingleby, Edinburgh, and
printed by Die Keure, Bruges. It was co-published in 2020 by
Ingleby and Anomie Publishing, London, in an edition of 1500
copies. Caroline Walker was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in 1982.
She attended Glasgow School of Art from 2000-04, before completing
her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2009. Recent and forthcoming
exhibitions include Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, the Midlands Arts
Centre (MAC), Birmingham, and participation in the ninth edition of
the British Art Show. She is represented in a number of public
collections including the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, the UK
Government Art Collection, London, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker,
Norway, and Museum Voorlinden & Kunstmuseum den Haag, in the
Netherlands. Hettie Judah is chief art critic of the British daily
newspaper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian, The New
York Times, Frieze, Art Quarterly, Numero Art and The Art
Newspaper, and a contributing editor to The Plant. Recent
publications include a short biography of Frida Kahlo (Laurence
King, 2020) and Art London (ACC Art Books, 2019).
Lavishly illustrated and exquisitely deisgned, this book opens with
a stunning series of images of style icons - historic and modern -
wearing their favoured emerald jewelry. As befits a prized gemstone
that is twenty times rarer than diamond, here we see together, for
the first time, pieces worn by celebrities ranging from filmstars
to royalty, all alongside classic images of emeralds from art,
advertising and fashion, celebrated in a text by Franca Sozzani,
editor of Vogue Italia . The second part of this major volume
showcases more than forty of the world's most significant and
famous pieces of emerald jewelry, including many previously unseen
designs from private and royal collections. Historic creations that
are up to 5,500 years old are represented alongside all the modern
jewelry houses. The third and final part of Emerald tells the story
of the emerald trade from mine to market, illustrated with
specially commissioned photography taken across four continents.
Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the
surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed
the world. Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she
has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's
book character, textile print, phone cover and the inspiration for
everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more
difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brilliant,
foul-mouthed, heavy-drinking, hard-smoking, husband-stealing,
occasionally bisexual, often bed-bound, wheelchair-using, needy,
forthright and passionate woman. Hettie Judah sets out to correct
that with this superb biography of one of the most charismatic
artists of the last hundred years. Follow Frida's life through
tumultuous love and life-altering accidents, towards recognition in
the art world from the likes of Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp, to
becoming the first Mexican artist held at the Louvre. Judah delves
into Kahlo's experiences and how these came together to inspire the
art that has been described as an uncompromising depiction of the
female experience and form. From an early battle with Polio, to a
debilitating bus accident at 18, through love and heart ache, the
life of Frida Kahlo was one of pain but a pain that bore great
beauty. Hettie Judah is a contributing writer for publications
including the Guardian, Vogue, The New York Times, Frieze and Art
Quarterly. Lives of the Artists is a new series by Laurence King.
Concise, highly readable biographies of some of the world's
greatest artists written by authoritative and respected names from
the world of art. Learn about the artist behind the masterpieces.
Currently available: Andy Warhol and Artemisia Gentileschi
'A delightful storybook . . . a portrait of our whole world created
from the contents of the ground' Literary Review 'A real cabinet of
curiosities' Sunday Times From the hematite used in cave paintings
to the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation; from the stolen
sandstone of Scone to the unexpected acoustics of Stonehenge; from
crystal balls to compasses, rocks and minerals have always been
central to our story. 3,000 years ago Babylonians constructed
lapidaries - books that tried to pin down the magical secrets of
rocks. In Lapidarium, renowned art critic Hettie Judah explores the
unexpected stories behind sixty stones that have shaped and
inspired human history, from Dorset fossil-hunters to Chinese
philosophers, Catherine the Great to Michelangelo. Discover why
alchemists sought cinnabar and sulphur. Unearth the mystery of the
tuff statues of Rapa Nui, the lost amber room of Frederick of
Prussia and the scandal of Flint Jack. Find out how a Greek monster
created coral, moon rock explains the history of Earth's only
satellite and obsidian inspired the world's favourite computer
game. Stone by stone, story by fascinating story, Lapidarium builds
into a dazzling, epoch-spanning adventure through human culture,
and beyond.
For too long, artists have been told that they can't have both
motherhood and a successful career. In this polemical volume,
critic and campaigner Hettie Judah argues that a paradigm shift is
needed within the art world to take account of the needs of artist
mothers (and other parents: artist fathers, parents who don't
identify with the term 'mother', and parents in other sectors of
the art world). Drawing on interviews with artists internationally,
the book highlights some of the success stories that offer models
for the future, from alternative support networks and residency
models, to studio complexes with onsite childcare, and galleries
with family-friendly policies. Some artists have described
motherhood as providing them with renewed focus, a new direction in
their work, and even inspiration for a complete change of career.
Other artists choose to keep their domestic and creative lives
compartmentalised. All are placed at a disadvantage by the art
world as it is currently structured. This book argues that by
making changes and becoming more sensitive to the needs of artist
parents, the art world has much to gain.
Despite its limited number of inhabitants and rather small surface,
the Belgian province of Limburg has a great number of designers
with an international reputation. Based on the 10 principles of
good design by Dieter Rams this book discovers the roots of
Limburg's top design of the last 25 years. With famous names such
as Martin Margiela, Raf Simons, Bram Boo, Dieter Bikkembergs and
Pieter Stockmans but also unknown or almost invisible design. With
contributions by Jesse Brouns, Veerle Windels, Hettie Judah,
Virginia Tassinari, Nik Baerten. Cultural platform Design supports
and promotes designers and design made in Limburg. In collaboration
with different partners they provide inspiring thinking patterns
about design and create a dynamic climate for design in Flanders.
Prodigies, revolutionaries, defiers of the patriarchy; drunks,
rebels and impassioned immigrants; queer pioneers, paint-spattered
punks and proto-feminists: there have always been artists in
London. Some were celebrated in their lifetime, others were
out-of-step with the spirit of their age: too radical, too
subversive, too modest, too female, too foreign. Art London is more
than a guidebook. It will accompany you on a journey through this
great city, telling stories, uncovering histories, sharing insights
into those who have made, collected and influenced art past and
present. Moving neighbourhood by neighbourhood, Art London travels
the streets with you, revealing art in museums, galleries and
beyond, from palace to pub to studio. Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry,
Mona Hatoum, John Akomfra, Rasheed Araeen, Sunil Gupta, Tracey Emin
and Yinka Shonibare were among the artists who agreed to have their
portraits taken for this book, while at work in their studios. Alex
Schneiderman's exclusive photographs reveal the human element
behind contemporary art, while pictures of streetside galleries
place London's art scene within an ever-expanding cosmopolitan
world. Fascinating, entertaining, full of anecdote and insights,
Art London reflects the city itself: energetic, diverse, resilient,
occasionally outrageous, and never short of fresh ideas. Also in
the series: Vinyl London ISBN 9781788840156 Rock 'n' Roll London
ISBN 9781788840163 London Peculiars ISBN 9781851499182
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