Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011, 7th June – 15th August
Two of our publications have been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition! Our third entry was also shortlisted! We are delighted to be taking part; we love the fact it has been running for hundreds of years, and the fact that we’ll be exhibiting alongside grannies and the YBAs simultaneously. In the show you
Watching a Film Not Yet Seen
“The future is but the obsolete in reverse,” wrote Nabokov. Both the future and the obsolete are to varying degrees deficient in images representing them. Traces of the obsolete can often be found in attics, archives, junkyards, museums, sunken ships and memories. “Traces” of the future, however, are intangible and images of the future can
Chip Shop at Christie’s ‘Multiplied’ Fair: 15th Oct – 18th Oct
We have been invited to keep a stall at the first ever contemporary print fair at Christie’s Auction House in South Ken. We shall be running our Chip Shop several times a day (listed below), this time taking your suggestions for a menu of Heroes. This seemed apt what with the West End being peppered
Dear Julie, (Palast part II)
It’s funny you should mention the Palast der Republik as I pass the former sight of this building every other day. Now being a large green site in the centre of Berlin it has also become a very contentious space as last year the German Parliament agreed funding to rebuild the Schloss/ palace ( destroyed
Palast der Republik
I recently came across a postcard of the Palast der Republik* (Palace of the Republic), which was a building in the former East Berlin. The Palast appears on the postcard, under a sunny sky, surrounded by people, streetlamps and trees. The clouds are scattered, the flowers in full bloom. Near the entrance of the building,
Word Chain
If you follow a pencil carefully, from the moment it is created from the wood of a tree that grew by a Czech lake which you once saw through the train window while on your way to Vienna where a waiter then used that pencil to write down your order, to the moment when that
About a Word
Names, smells or tastes that we remember from childhood and have since kept locked away somewhere in the vast storehouse of memories sometimes appear suddenly, like people who we take to be strangers before we slowly begin to recognize them. Coming across a name or a smell is the perfect recipe for a Proustian madeleine
Finsbury Art Festival: Sat 27th Feb 11am-4pm
On Saturday February 27th, from 11am to 4pm, we’ll be at the Finsbury Art Festival. Our little contribution to this positive cornucopia of fun things to do in the Art Zone will be showing off the pamphlet stitch. This simple little stitch, used for centuries by anyone from teeth-grinding political radicals to quaint little crafts-people,
A Drifting Country and a Sea in London
Dreams often allow us to do things that are impossible in waking life: hovering in mid air, walking across Antarctica, becoming a character in a film, sipping tea with a famous actor, sharing jokes with a relative who has been dead for years, speaking unknown languages flawlessly, travelling to places not found on any map…