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George Barber
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ISBN 1 90427 018 2
PRICE £12.00
George Barber's witty and engaging video works have charmed and amused UK audiences for more than two decades. This publication looks back over Barber's always-inventive body of work from pioneering 'scratch' videos to more recent narrative/monologue pieces. Featuring newly commissioned texts by Gareth Evans and Paul Morley, it provides an illuminating introduction to an artist whose work combines idiosyncratic humour with highly polished visual flair.
'minigraphs' is a series of publications developed by Film and Video Umbrella devoted to contemporary artists working with film and video. Fully illustrated, and with specially commissioned essays and an extensive lists of works, this series provides an attractive and indispensable introduction to some of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists.
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Suky Best
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ISBN ISBN 1 90427 020 4
PRICE £7.50
This distinctively designed small-format publication chronicles a new body of work by the British artist, Suky Best. In The Return of the Native, Best highlights the gradual disappearance of hitherto common types of wildlife from their former habitats across the UK. Over a series of vivid and disarming photographs and short video animations, Best digitally reintroduces a number of birds and insects into landscapes where they were previously seen in significant numbers but where they are now virtually extinct. The slightly studied and stylised nature of each composition, in which the respective elements don't quite fit together, elicits a vague but deceptively disquieting sense of loss.
Designed to resemble an old-fashioned Ladybird book of birds, this book acts as kind of field guide to Best's recent work, incorporating the images of marsh warblers, nightingales, soldier flies and swallowtail butterflies etc that make up The Return of the Native.
The book also features a special introductory essay by one of Britain's best-known writers on birds and birdwatching, Stephen Moss author of Garden Birds (Collins) and Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching (Arum Press). A further essay, by the artist and writer Nicky Coutts, considers the themes and motifs of these new works in the context of Best's fifteen-year practice as an artist.
The Return of the Native is released to accompany the exhibition of the same name at Pump House Gallery, London (26 October-19 December 2005).
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1, 32, 170, Louise Scullion
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ISBN 978-1-904270-27-0
PRICE £12.00
A record of a long-running visual arts project that took place at venues across the east of England between 2004 and 2007, Silicon Fen considers how landscape in general (and the East Anglian landscape in particular) has been both affected and reflected by technology. Immersing themselves in the distinctive history and topography of the region, whose remote, almost desolate vistas belie the complex nature of its substantially man-made environment, the participating artists (Suky Best, Susan Collins, Dalziel + Scullion, Annabel Howland, Stephen Hughes and TNWK) contribute works that capture the unique character of the Fenland landscape and whose facility with digital forms of image-making brings their subject into sharper focus.
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Anne Bjerge Hansen
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ISBN 1 90427 006 9
PRICE £12.00
Over the last five years, the Danish-born, Glasgow-based artist Anne Bjerge Hansen has been busily compiling an ongoing series of video 'interludes', short cameo pieces whose quietly-observed, everyday scenes radiate a disarming, dream-like quality. Highlighting small-scale, often overlooked events, or homing in on fleeting, fragmentary details, Bjerge Hansen's work catalogues these haunting, ephemeral moments with a captivating brevity and clarity.
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Roderick Buchanan
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ISBN 1 90427 013 1
PRICE £10.00
Portraiture has always been a feature of Roderick Buchanan's photographic and film and video work. This survey publication, released to coincide with the artist's solo exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London (23 September 13 November 2005) traces a number of portrait pieces produced over the course of a career that now spans almost sixteen years.
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