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Following the success of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British
Painting in 2018, a second volume has been created to showcase more
than sixty solo exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting
in Britain since the first volume. This new, larger anthology
presents the work of sixty artists born or living in Britain
through documentation and discussion of solo exhibitions of their
work in museums and galleries around Britain and internationally.
Featuring artists at different stages of their careers, from senior
figures exhibiting at major museums to emerging artists staging
some of their first commercial gallery exhibitions, The Anomie
Review of Contemporary British Painting 2 offers an overview of
recent activity in the medium of painting in Britain. Artists and
venues featured in this new volume include Hurvin Anderson at Rat
Hole Gallery, Tokyo; Lisa Brice at Stephen Friedman Gallery,
London; Gareth Cadwallader at Josh Lilley, London; Denzil Forrester
at Nottingham Contemporary; Sophie von Hellermann at Pilar Corrias,
London; Matthew Krishanu at Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham; Joy
Labinjo at BALTIC, Gateshead; France-Lise McGurn at Simon Lee,
London; Benjamin Senior at BolteLang, Zurich; Anj Smith at MOSTYN,
Llandudno; Tim Stoner at Modern Art, London; and Phoebe Unwin at
Towner Eastbourne. The anthology, which features cover artwork by
Jade Fadojutimi from her spring 2019 solo exhibition at PEER,
London, has been compiled and written by London-based editor and
writer Matt Price, who in addition to editing more than fifty
monographs, catalogues and books including Phaidon's international
anthologies of painting and drawing Vitamin P2 and D2, has written
for magazines such as Art Monthly, Art Quarterly, ArtReview, Flash
Art, Frieze and Modern Painters. Endorsements for the first volume
of The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting: "This
insightful, richly illustrated anthology is a celebration of an
artistic medium that is not only surviving but positively thriving.
In discussing the work of [...] diverse painters, author Matt Price
proves a passionate and engaging artworld guide to British painting
today." - Helen Sumpter, Editor, Art Quarterly, ART FUND "It is
hard to believe that nobody has thought to publish an anthology of
this sort before, so valuable is it to current and future curators,
artists and scholars, as well as audiences interested in the
medium. A highly enjoyable read." - Charlotte Keenan McDonald,
Curator of British Art, Walker Art Gallery / National Museums
Liverpool.
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Nick Hornby (Hardcover)
Nick Hornby, Hannah Higham, Helen Pheby, Luke Syson, Matt Price
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Nick Hornby (b. 1980, London) is one of the leading sculptors of
his generation in Britain today, creating works on both intimate
and monumental scales, and at the intersection of art history and
contemporary technology. Hornby’s practice uses software that
allows him to extract, alter and hybridise sculptures from art
history into new works made from marble, steel, bronze, resin, wood
and composite materials. It could be said that Hornby has opened up
a new sculptural language for the twenty-first century. This, his
first major monograph, features approximately 175 images, many of
which are reproduced here for the first time or have been
commissioned for the publication. Alongside documentation of works
presented in galleries and outdoor spaces are production images
taken in the studio and fabrication workshops. Hornby’s practice
is here divided into four categories: Intersections, Extrusions,
Hydrographics and Collaborations. A foreword by Luke Syson,
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, offers insight into
Hornby’s internal and external relationship with sculpture,
considering the links between two and three dimensions, abstraction
and representation, the ‘real’ and the digital. Editor Matt
Price’s introduction takes readers on a whistlestop tour of the
artist’s oeuvre, from his early family life and studies at
Chelsea and The Slade in London, to his latest major exhibitions
and commissions. Price covers a range of significant aspects such
as the importance of music and sound, which were key elements of
Hornby’s early work, to sculptures made in collaboration with
others, and recent pieces combining art history with technology in
their design and fabrication. An essay by Dr Hannah Higham, Senior
Curator of Collections and Research at the Henry Moore Foundation,
provides the most substantial piece of critical writing on
Hornby’s work to date, drawing out specific touchstones in the
history of art and discussing the relationship between the work and
time. Higham further explores the ways that the motion and position
of the viewer alter the experience of the sculptures, with new
angles revealing fresh artistic inspirations from Hans Arp or
Elizabeth Frink to ideas from communities Hornby has worked with
and other contemporary artists with whom he has collaborated. An
interview with Dr Helen Pheby, Associate Director, Programme, at
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, probes the artist further about his
cultural and theoretical inspirations, methods, materials and
ideologies, including his views on collaboration, the public nature
of art and its accessibility. Their conversation provides an
insight into the thinking of the artist at a crucial stage in his
career. The monograph brings together works spanning Hornby’s
career for the first time. It follows Hornby’s first
institutional solo exhibition at MOSTYN, Wales, and his first
permanent outdoor sculptural commission for Harlow Science Park in
Essex. The publication is edited by Matt Price, designed by Herman
Lelie, printed by EBS, Verona, and published by Anomie, London.
Nick Hornby, born in 1980, is a British artist living and working
in London. Hornby studied at The Slade School of Art and Chelsea
College of Art where he was awarded the UAL Sculpture Prize. In the
UK he has exhibited at Tate Britain, Southbank Centre, Leighton
House (all London), Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex, MOSTYN,
Wales, and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. International
exhibitions have been held at the Museum of Arts and Design, New
York and Poznan Biennale, Poland, along with residencies with
Outset, Israel, and Eyebeam, New York. In 2014 Hornby was made a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Matters of Life and Death is a limited-edition publication
documenting the remarkable new and recent paintings of celebrated
Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b.1963). An engaging
introduction by Paul Moorhouse, Senior Curator at the National
Portrait Gallery, London, discusses the dynamic and complex
relationship between figuration and abstraction in Patterson's
oeuvre. Moorhouse observes: 'Visual ambiguity defines Patterson's
art, and its most conspicuous feature is the interaction between
figurative painting, abstraction and photography that his recent
work continues. From the outset he moved between these disparate
visual languages, combining them in ways that seemed deliberately
oppositional and subversive.' Patterson's latest works are as
provocative as ever, and as he enters mid-career, have become
increasingly accomplished, cryptic and, at times, haunting. In his
illuminating essay, art historian James Cahill explores the
subjects of portraiture and personae within the artist's works,
asserting that 'his strategy of distancing his figures - whether
through a broken veil (or enclosing frame) of abstract paint, or
the gauze-like intercession of a photographic source - throws into
relief the idea that selfhood is ultimately a succession of masks.'
Curator and critic Jane Neal deftly navigates ideas of gender and
sexuality in Patterson's practice, taking us into the realms of
fetish and the male gaze, proposing that his painting overtly
'points towards the patriarchal and often misogynistic attitude to
women's bodies still prevalent in magazines, films and social
media, even in the twenty-first century. Patterson sets us up to
confront the darkness that often underlies the male gaze, even
affording it physical form.' Featuring a selection of works
executed between 2013 and 2016, many of which are published here
for the first time, the cloth-covered book is presented in a
specially printed hard slipcase and has been published in an
edition of just 500 copies. Born in the UK in 1963, Patterson
graduated from Goldsmiths College in 1986. He was included in
Damien Hirst's renowned Freeze, Surrey Docks, London (1988); as
well as Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi
Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; Hamburger Bahnhof -
Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New
York, USA (1997-00). Other notable exhibitions include The Rowan
Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2002); Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Germany (2003); Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, Texas, USA (2007) and Attention to Detail, curated by
Chuck Close, the FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA. Patterson has
had solo exhibitions at Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (1997);
James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (1999 and 2002); Dallas Museum
of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA (2000), Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
(2005, 2008 and 2013); the Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA
(2009); and the FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2014). In February
2017 he will present new and recent works at Timothy Taylor 16x34,
New York.
Zygotes and Confessions is a publication devoted to the work of
London-based artist Nick Hornby, and has been produced to accompany
his first solo exhibition in a public gallery. The exhibition,
which shares its title with the publication, is presented at
MOSTYN, Wales, UK, from November 2020 to April 2021. Hornby is
known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital
software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite
and marble. In this publication he presents a substantial new body
of smaller, more intimate work comprising three discrete yet
interrelated series of works inspired by the history of sculptural
busts, modernist abstractions and mantelpiece ceramic dogs. United
by glossy photographic surfaces created by means of an industrial
process in which his marble and resin composite sculptures are
dipped into liquid photographs, these new works explore themes of
portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the
digital era. A number of the works have been made in collaboration
with fashion photographer Louie Banks. Along with a foreword by
Helen Boyd, Head of Marketing and Publisher Relations at the
Casemate Group, the publication features a text by MOSTYN director
Alfredo Cramerotti and an essay by London-based publisher, editor
and writer Matt Price. Price writes: "With one eye on the sculpture
of the past and the other on that of tomorrow, technology is at the
heart of London-based Nick Hornby's practice and is central to the
production of his often imposing, mind-bending and
futuristic-looking sculptures. Using materials such as bronze and
marble, his work points back towards the Renaissance or the
nineteenth century, yet his use of resin and digital technology
positions him very much in the present, exploring languages both
figurative and abstract, often simultaneously." The texts are
presented in both English and Welsh. Newly commissioned studio
photography of the works by Ben Westoby, along with installation
views of the exhibition commissioned by MOSTYN from Mark Blower,
illustrate the publication, which has been designed by Joe Gilmore
/ Qubik. The publication is co-published by MOSTYN, Wales, UK, and
Anomie Publishing, London, and distributed internationally by
Casemate Art, a division of the Casemate Group. Nick Hornby
(b.1980) is a British artist living and working in London. Hornby
studied at the Slade School of Art and Chelsea College of Art. His
work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Southbank Centre London,
Leighton House London, CASS Sculpture Foundation, Glyndebourne,
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Museum of Arts and Design New York,
and Poznan Biennale, Poland. Residencies include Outset (Israel)
and Eyebeam (USA), and awards include the UAL Sculpture Prize. His
work has been reviewed in the New York Times, frieze, Artforum, The
Art Newspaper, The FT, and featured in Architectural Digest and
Sculpture Magazine.
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Anomie Collections 1
Matt Price, Anneka French
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Anomie Collections 1 is a publication accompanying the first
edition of Anomie Collections – a London-based initiative that
supports the work of contemporary British painters by acquiring
works on behalf of a group of private collectors. This first
edition of the scheme resulted in the purchase of fifty-six
paintings and works on paper, documented and presented here along
with newly commissioned texts by Anneka French and an introduction
by Matt Price, Publisher at Anomie Publishing and curator of the
edition. The works span a variety of genres, from landscapes and
urban scenes to still lifes, portraits and abstractions. The
artists featured in Anomie Collections 1 are: Jasmir Creed,
Marguerite Horner, Cathy Lomax, Kathryn Maple, Kate Mary, Daniel
Shadbolt, Caroline Thomson and Jim Threapleton.
Kathryn Maple (b. 1989, Canterbury) is an artist specialising in
drawing and painting. Her large-scale paintings feature urban,
suburban and rural landscapes which are frequently populated by
human figures. Her work is distinctive for its use of intensely
layered mark making, lending the work both urgency and intimacy.
The places and people depicted, rendered in a range of painting and
drawing materials, are frequently afforded a sense of wildness or
mystery by dint of their colour palette, collage-like compositions
and recurring motifs such as wind-blown trees and winding pathways.
This, her first monograph, features 379 images, many of which are
reproduced for the first time. These include the presentation of
her recent major series of oil pastel on paper works 'A Year of
Drawings', alongside reproductions of her mixed media works on
paper, as well as large oils on canvas. An essay by Kathryn Lloyd,
writer, artist and Contemporary Art Editor at The Burlington
Magazine, offers insight into Maple’s impulse to explore the
world around her through her work. Large-scale paintings, replete
with dense layers of marks, are constructed by means of personal
encounter, memory and imagination. Details of man-made objects,
tree bark and human skin, for instance, become composite, crucial
in capturing fleeting experiences of place and of people. Lloyd
brings out the symbolism of Maple’s work, making art historical
comparisons while connecting these to the specific local
characteristics of Maple’s familiar South London landscapes and
the importance of walking to the artist’s practice. An interview
with independent curator and critic Anneka French is focused on 'A
Year of Drawings', a series of 365 drawings made daily since
January 2022 outside the artist’s studio. They discuss the
process, materials and art historical and literary influences upon
Maple’s work, with a focus on how her drawing and painting
strands of work impact each other. Their conversation provides an
insight into the thinking of the artist at a crucial stage in
Maple’s career. Taking its title from the lyrics of The Cure’s
A Forest (1980), Editor Matt Price’s essay 'Into the Trees'
offers an introduction to, and an overview of,' A Year of
Drawings', discussing examples of the works and considering aspects
of the series ranging from art historical precedents to themes,
recurring motifs and interpretation. The monograph is published to
coincide with the exhibitions: Under a Hot Sun, by Kathryn Maple,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 11 February – 30 April 2023 and
Kathryn Maple: A Year of Drawings, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London,
1–17 March 2023. It has been edited by Matt Price, designed by
Anomie Studio, printed by Mixam, Watford, and published by Anomie,
London. Kathryn Maple was born in Canterbury in 1989, and lives and
works in South London. She graduated in 2011 with a degree in fine
art printmaking from the University of Brighton, before undertaking
a postgraduate programme at the Royal Drawing School in 2012–13.
Maple has featured in exhibitions at venues including Barber &
Lopes at the British Art Fair, London, The Royal Academy, London,
Beers London, Messums Wiltshire, Flowers Gallery, London,
Frestonian Gallery, London, Christies New York, Kristin
Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, and Drawing Room, London. Maple was
the winner of the Times Watercolour Competition 2014 and 2016, and
The John Moores Painting Prize 2020. Her exhibition Under the Hot
Sun at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 2023, was awarded to
Maple as part of her prize for winning the latter.
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Breathless (Hardcover)
Ben Street; Edited by Matt Price; Gabor Gyory; Introduction by Sacha Craddock
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'Breathless' is the first monograph on the emerging British painter
Benjamin Senior. His paintings conjure up a world that is
delightful, curious, quirky, and distinctly his own. It is a world
in which bathers lounge around pools and swimmers limber up before
finally diving in; where we find people doing yoga and various
exercise routines both indoors and out; where walkers and joggers
take us out into the countryside, or into the city with their dogs.
These physical activities - both leisure and sporting - would
undoubtedly leave some of their protagonists out of breath, as the
title of the monograph suggests, and may well inspire some viewers
to shake off any lethargy and get physical too. But despite their
clear iconography and endorphin-rousing semiotics, Senior's
paintings are no mere campaign to get, or to keep, art lovers fit
and healthy. For they are also carefully conceived and meticulously
executed studies of the human body, of shape, line and form, of
colour, tone, light and shadow. They are engaging explorations of
composition and colour, pattern and geometry, textures and
materials, the natural and the manmade. This interplay between the
natural and synthetic is played out in surprising juxtapositions,
such as blue rubber exercise balls in dialogue with various-sized
cacti, or between the materials and designs of sports clothing in
contrast to the rolling hills of a spring landscape, or to autumnal
trees at sunset. There are many other intriguing tropes, devices
and recurring motifs within Senior's repertoire, from cast iron
grilles to unorthodox hats and hairstyles, perhaps leading his
stylised vocabulary into the realms of nineteenth-century symbolist
painting as much as into the health clubs, spas, leisure centres
and parks of today. Indeed, there is a strange sense of
timelessness to Senior's practice that is matched by a captivating
sense of silence, loneliness and isolation, despite the figures
often being present in couples, clusters or small groups. Behind
their toned physiques, stripy towels and goggles, underneath their
winter coats, cagoules and peaked caps, there are, perhaps, some
small glimmers of inner lives- of sentient, intellectual, cultured,
emotional, sexual beings trapped within. Senior's oeuvre is, in
many ways, preoccupied with repression and expression, freedom and
conformity, motion and stasis, balance and inertia, engagement and
disengagement. One might even describe it as a bittersweet analogy
of the human body for human states of mind, for energy versus
futility, effort versus relaxation, health versus decline. Benjamin
Senior completed a BA in painting at Wimbledon School of Art before
graduating with an MA in painting from the Royal College of Art in
2010. Recent solo exhibitions include at Grey Noise, Dubai, Studio
Voltaire, London, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milan, James
Fuentes, New York, and BolteLang, Zurich. Featuring an introduction
by art critic, writer and curator Sacha Craddock, an essay by art
historian, museum educator and writer Ben Street, and a text by
curator, writer and lecturer Gabor Gyory, this 100-page hardback
monograph has been designed by Joe Gilmore / Qubik, edited by Matt
Price and published by Anomie.
What separates campaigns that win from those that don't? At any
given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek
to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a
certain way. Engagement Organizing shows how to combine old-school
people power with new digital tools and data to win campaigns
today. Over a dozen case studies from NGOs, unions, and electoral
campaigns highlight this work in practice. At a time of growing
concern about what the future holds, this book is an indispensable
guide for seasoned campaigners as well as those just getting
started, who want to apply the principles of engagement organizing
to their own campaigns.
The practice of Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College
graduate Greg Rook (b.1971, London) explores the rich visual
history, curious cultural politics and often complex ideologies of
those who seek to start a new life or wish to lead alternative
lifestyles. From pioneers travelling to new continents to those
wanting to stay put and live self-sufficiently, Rook invites us to
join him on his own aesthetic and critical journey through a world
of colonies, communities, communes and cults. By means of
figurative painting that pushes the boundaries between realism and
lyricism, Rook captures something profoundly revealing in terms of
the hopes, dreams and successes as well as the disappointments,
disillusionment and disasters that radical departures from home
life and mainstream society can entail. For some, utopias can turn
to dystopias, the Romantic imaginary can turn to tragedy, the
sublime can turn to misery. For those fleeing oppression, however,
it can be completely the opposite - newfound freedom, affluence and
happiness. Rook's oeuvre, which incorporates cowboys and
communists, agrarians and anarchists, believers and book-burners,
depicts how the relationship between people and land is regularly
fraught with issues, especially when migration and a clash of
mindsets or ways of life is involved. What are brave new worlds for
some are threatened old worlds for others... This hardback
publication, the first monograph to be devoted to the work of Greg
Rook, has been co-published by Vento& Associati and Anomie to
coincide with a substantial mid-career survey exhibition of the
artist's work being staged by Vento & Associati at the Fabbrica
del Vapore in Milan in spring 2019. Featuring approximately fifty
illustrations of paintings and works on paper made by Rook since
2006, along with an introduction by London and Milan-based critic
and curator Michele Robecchi and a significant newly commissioned
essay by Matt Price, a leading voice in the field of contemporary
British painting, the publication offers an engaging and pertinent
commentary on Rook's long-standing painterly investigation into how
people choose to live their lives. Vento& Associati is a
Milan-based company operating in global contexts that specializes
in strategic cultural communication within fields such as public
affairs, corporate and social responsibility, and cultural
fundraising. Vento & Associati manages a programme of
exhibitions at the Fabbrica del Vapore as part of the Spazi al
Talento initiative of the City of Milan.
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