Beer and Skittles
Steven Bode has written a new text reflecting on the expansive life and practice of late artist Julie Henry, alongside the creation of her FVU-commissioned work This Sporting Life (2002).
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Our projects are invariably accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here.
Lola Olufemi on Rhea Storr
Lola Olufemi's textual response uses objects, images and phrases found in Rhea Storr’s film Subjects of State, Labours of Love and weaves them together to create a textual meditation on work, ‘blackness’ and political transformation.
Commencement Speech
To accompany Patrick Hough's feature on FVU Watch, you can now read Naomi Pearce’s 2017 essay, Commencement Speech, commissioned as part of the catalogue for the Jerwood/ FVU Awards 2017, which took the form of a facsimile of fictitious documents.