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Monday School Illuminations

By - David
Posted on January, 11, 2013December, 23, 2022

Monday School Illuminations Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 10 four screenprints 182 x 260 mm £450 (£630 framed) Drawing upon the monastic tradition of illuminating manuscripts, and the Nonconformist practice of charting the Bible narrative, we made these screenprints as a commission for the new buildings at the church where David went to Sunday School

Credit Crunch

By - David
Posted on January, 11, 2013December, 23, 2022

Credit Crunch Eddie Farrell & Henningham Family Press 2009 Edition 70 screenprint dimensions vary £180 (£348 framed) Exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011 We were printing “price prints” with Eddie Farrell as the recession hit in 2009; packets of groceries he had bought that he then screenprinted with their original value in the hope

Austerity Measure

By - David
Posted on January, 11, 2013December, 23, 2022

Austerity Measure Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 50 screenprint and lasercut 460 x 340 x 2 mm £180 (£348 framed) Exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012 It isn’t just everything that is solid that melts into thin air, language itself becomes bankrupt, and loses currency. We kept a post-it note on the radio

Trench

By - David
Posted on January, 11, 2013December, 23, 2022

Trench (bold, italic) Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 75 screenprint 184 x 262 mm £138 (£228 framed) In our An Unknown Soldier project we are writing as people who have felt the legacy of the First World War, primarily through family stories, but not first-hand. We wanted to depict the impression it had made upon

Royal Poster (left aligned)

By - David
Posted on January, 11, 2013December, 23, 2022

Royal Poster (left aligned) Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 30 screenprint 20 x 25in £234 (£390 framed) Selected C0llections: Victoria and Albert Museum Saison Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall) Royal Poster (left aligned), is from our An Unknown Soldier project, which ruminates on the meaning of a memorial to an unknown soldier in the age

Imperial Poster (fully justified)

By - David
Posted on January, 11, 2013December, 23, 2022

Imperial Poster (fully justified) Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 30 screenprint 22 x 30in £234 (£390 framed) Selected C0llections: Victoria and Albert Museum Imperial Poster (fully justified), is from our An Unknown Soldier project, which ruminates on the meaning of a memorial to an unknown soldier in the age of DNA testing. Does he now

Going for Gold with Poetry Parnassus and Poetry Library at Southbank Centre

By - David
Posted on June, 26, 2012June, 26, 2012

We made two deluxe Solander Boxes for two key projects that the Poetry Library are exhibiting with Simon Armitage’s Poetry Parnassus in the next few weeks in the Poetry Library. We worked closely with risk-enamoured Head Librarian Chris McCabe and logophile curator Nick Dubois on boxes that will archive hundreds of poems: ‘Polip Poems‘ came

Conlon Nancarrow at Purcell Room

By - David
Posted on April, 22, 2012

Yesterday we took the rare opportunity to see and hear some of Conlon Nancarrow’s studies for player-piano at the Southbank Centre. Nancarrow punched his own music rolls, writing music that suited the technology itself, rather than simply using it to approximate a professional pianist. The machine in action was something like a life-support machine with

Clegg’s Last Tape

By - David Barnes
Posted on May, 6, 2010May, 6, 2010

So it emerges that Nick Clegg has been a Samuel Beckett fan all along. I couldn’t help wondering what an election scripted by Beckett would look like: The stage light slowly illuminates a rocky plateau. Buried in pebbles up to their necks are BROWN, CLEG and CAM. BROWN. Finished, all finished now. Old Brown’s gone

Settees, Serenades and Public Spheres, David Barnes

By - David Barnes
Posted on February, 1, 2010

The other week I gave a lecture (the subject of which is not the subject of this blog) at the Universettee. As its name suggests, the Universettee is interested in shifting the seat of learning from the academy to the home – university to universettee. It’s a university of the comfy chair, and takes place

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