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📕 New book announcement! 📕
We are super pleased to introduce our latest publication ‘Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud’ by Nicola Singh

Part poem, conversation, anecdote and song, ‘Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud’ is set in an artist’s studio on the beach in St. Ives, Cornwall, UK. It traces a period of interrupted experimental research; the gory aftermath of an artist residency programme.

Written out of a ritualised practice that incorporates movement, vocal and hatha yoga practices, the text forms an embodied and psychic reckoning of a body buckled by St. Ives waves and whiteness. In an exercise in restorative healing, Singh negotiates the racial imaginary through autobiography, Yogic Philosophy and a diverse range of cultural reference points.

Edited by Priya Jay
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Edition of 100 available on our website, link in bio!

Egidija Čiricaitė is an artist, poet and researcher, working with and around language and publishing. 🌏

For Unfold II Egidija has created a double sided piece of work, printed at the very edge of the page, that reflects on reflection — it reflects of the idea of change as a reflection of the old. It considers how recto acts as the mirror of the verso and how the idea of UN-doing acts as a mirror image (rather than the reverse) of -doing. The is playfully interacted with through the act of reading an unfolding the publication, with the idea of 'f-old' becomming dismantled into a cacophony of possibilities.

As a researcher Egidija is currently focusing on artist books as verbi-visual art/poetry objects: how they evoke meaning and emotion, how their forms and structures synthesize language and images and the role of metaphor in the relationship between language and the visual and thought.

"As an artist, I use language as my creative medium: veering between visual poetry and poetry of the visual, I build nebulous worlds on the periphery of linguistic experience. My recent work is often bilingual, playing with ethymological interconnectedness of Indo-european languages."

Currently a PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Linguistics, working on interdisciplinary research, using Relevance Theory to address the role of metaphor and non-propositional effects in the interpretation of language and the visual information in the artists' books.

https://www.egidija.com/about.html

‘For some, unfolding constitutes a risk’ (2022) Anna Chapman Parker
Unfold II

The drawing features the words, 'For some, unfolding constitutes a risk' filtered through the stems and leaves of Oxalis acetosella or common wood sorrel, whose trefoil leaves fold up at night. Anna told us a little bit more about this work and her current practice:

"This work is part of my current research into the depiction of weeds in visual culture, considered within the context of contemporary concerns around digitalism, attention, control, the body and environmental fragility."

"My work is concerned with immersive experiences of landscape, exploring how we record and report periods of looking in the increasingly mediated culture of the attention economy.

Using drawing as a practice of sustained looking, I’m exploring how observing common wild plants can provide opportunities to expand attention and connect with our intimate environment in an accessible way, with the potential to connect contemporary anxieties of personal wellbeing and ecological vulnerability."

Writing also continues to be an important part of Anna's practice. She has previously published essays, often accompanied by drawings, in journals such as Happy Hypocrite, MAP and Rake’s Progress and is currently completing her first book, due to be published in Spring 2024.

Find out more about Anna's work at:
annachapman.co.uk or find her on insta:

Unfold II is available to buy online £4: https://copypages.org/product/copy-unfold-ii/

In the next few weeks we'll be introducing you to the 12 artists featured in Unfold II.

First up - Isobel Atacus:
Encompassing sculpture and writing, Isobel Atacus's practice playfully questions the fleeting and ambivalent nature of interactions that take place in the physical realm. Stretching from the physical landscape to the intimacy of the domestic space, her work engages objects and materials that surround us, upending ways we give meaning to things through re-describing their materiality in new ways. Her work 'Smoked Paprika 2022' included in unfold II, playfully makes the mind and tastebuds fizz.

Currently completing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art and King’s College London, Isobel’s work has been exhibited and published internationally and she also directs an artist-run space, the icing room. Find her online at isobelatacus.com