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Essays by Jeremy Millar. Introduced by Steven Bode
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ISBN ISBN 1 90427 021 2
PRICE £18.99
This elegant, beautifully illustrated publication presents three ambitious new series of works by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht, including The Forest, a major new film work commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella.
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ISBN 978-1-904270-26-3
PRICE £10.00
The Memorial Walks celebrates a unique project, in which artist Simon Pope invited a series of writers to memorise a scene from a landscape painting, which they would then be asked to recall while out walking in the open country. Continuing the exploration of memory and place at the heart of Simon Pope's multi-disciplinary practice, this artist's book acts as a 'field guide' to the seventeen different walks that made up project and features recollections from well-known literary names such as Geoff Dyer, Iain Sinclair, Hari Kunzru, Trezza Azzopardi and Tom McCarthy.
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Essays by nature specialist Stephen Moss and artist and writer Nicky Coutts
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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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Michael Archer and Julian Stallabrass
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ISBN 1 90427 017 4
PRICE £12.00
Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead's extraordinarily varied, almost unclassifiable artworks combine conceptual flair with sophisticated technical innovation. Encompassing works for the web alongside a host of other new media interventions, this book, the first monographic survey of the artists' work, highlights a number of impressive installation and internet-based pieces which use digital technology to echo the art-historical tradition of the ready-made.
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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Steven Bode, Harland Millar and Stephen Snoddy
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ISBN 0 9536755 4 8
PRICE £14.99
Exhibition catalogue to accompany 'Tomorrow's World, Yesterday's Fever (Mental Guests Incorporated)' with essays by Harland Miller, Steven Bode and Stephen Snoddy.
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