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Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey, Book Pre-order
Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey celebrates Fruitmarket's 50th year. Carried out in the Outer Hebrides, where Smith has made her home, this 'ritual journey' - Smith's term for her works that consist of a series of actions spread over time and multiple locations - presents personal characterisations of the star signs, at times interwoven with references to the festivals of the Celtic year. This publication presents Smith’s diary of the year, from Virgo 2023 to Leo 2024, alongside commissioned documentary photographs from Mhairi Law. An introduction from curator Iain Morrison, and a list of Smith’s ritual journeys from 1982 to the present, put on record the life and practice that this pioneering performance artist has been undertaking, away from the gaze of the mainstream artworld, since the early 1980s.
This book will be launched early in December 2024 and posted to you then.
Zarina Bhimji, Flagging It Up
Bhimji is motivated by art’s ability to re-make experience in the mind of the viewer: ‘if I can’t make an object that describes a dusty room so someone else understands what it feels like to be in that room, then I’ve failed’. She wants to move people, and to tap into a way of thinking that is not embedded in words.
Her art communicates with the urgency that comes from working something out for yourself, rather than having been told what and how to think. Yet beauty is her principal method: ‘when you create something beautiful, you’re taking charge’.
This major publication spans Bhimji’s career from She Loved to Breathe – Pure Silence (1987), a photo-text installation that explores politics, voice, beauty and love as forms of resistance to her most recent work, a new film, Blind Spot (2023). Also lavishly illustrated is Bhimji’s first film, Out of Blue (2002), an allusive exploration of the extermination and erasure of particular groups by a state; and Waiting (2007), an atmospheric wander around a stilled factory that processed sisal into twine. Bhimji is motivated by art’s ability to re-make experience in the mind of the viewer: ‘if I can’t make an object that describes a dusty room so someone else understands what it feels like to be in that room, then I’ve failed’. She wants to move people, and to tap into a way of thinking that is not embedded in words. With an essay by Allison K Young looking at he decades-wide arc of Bhimji’s practice which also saw monumental shifts in the art world that received it. It also includes a conversation between Zarina Bhimji and novelist Kamila Shamsie which moves from childhood recollections to the poetry, music and cultural influences on Bhimjis work and the research behind it.
Zarina Bhimji, is a British artist who lives and works in London. Bhimji received a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London and a MA in Fine Art from the Slade, University College London. She was DAAD’s Artist-in-Residence 2002, exhibited in Documenta 11, the Venice Biennale in 2003 and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007. Awards include the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in 1999 and the Rauschenberg Residency award, 2014. She has had solo institutional exhibitions at Whitechapel Gallery (2012), Tate Britain (2018) and Sharjah Art Foundation (2020). Kamila Shamsie is the author of eight novels including Burnt Shadows (2009), A God in Every Stone (2014) , Home Fire (2017) which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction) and Best of Friends (2022), and is also a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature Allison K. Young is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, and an affiliate faculty member in African and African American Studies (AAAS) at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. Her scholarship, curatorial practice, and arts criticism focus on postcolonial and contemporary artists and art histories of the global South.
112pp Hardback
280 x 210mm landscape
65 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-1-908612-70-0
Club Life: Return to Devil Mountain
Neil Cooper
Club Life: Return to Devil Mountain
Published August 2023
Authors: Neil Cooper , Fred Deakin
Limited edition of 180 available
isbn: 9781908612694
175x175mm, softback
Hand finished
56pp, full colour
Artists' Editions
Andrew Miller – Stack II
Andrew Miller – Stack II – 2021
Perspex
Light comes fully assembled with 3m flex and bulb. Electrician recommended for fitting.
Edition of 11
33 x 40 x 38 cm (approx., excluding flex)
Signed and numbered by the artist.
£1200
Andrew Miller (b.1969, Dartington) is a Glasgow based artist working with sculpture, drawing, photography and installations. Through a process of drawing, altering, transforming and making he seeks to gain an understanding of the ambiguity of the relationship between form and function. Miller often salvages, reassembles and re-presents familiar objects, playing with our expectations of form and function, and asks questions about the way objects are placed, valued and used.
Stack II is a sculpture/form/light which allows the user the freedom and flexibility to arrange and rearrange the perspex components into a work of varying forms and colour. Constructed from irregular hexagonal shapes repeated in six different sizes and three different colours, the light is bought assembled but can be endlessly rearranged.
All editions are sent by tracked courier in the UK and internationally. Following purchase, the bookshop will arrange a suitable delivery date. If you have any questions, contact us via bookshop@fruitmarket.co.uk or on +44 (0) 131 226 8181.
P&P: £30.00 UK, £85 Europe, £105 Rest of World.
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