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CONTEMPORARY ART
By Matt Price
Showcases exhibitions that have defined contemporary painting in Britain since 2018. This new, larger anthology presents the work of sixty artists born or living in Britain through documentation and discussion of solo exhibitions of their work in museums and galleries around Britain and internationally. Featuring artists at different stages in their careers, from senior figures exhibiting at major museums and commercial galleries to emerging artists staging their first shows.
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ANOMIE PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781910221273 • September 2021 • £30.00 240 pages • c. 180 illus.
Jadé Fadojutimi: Jesture
By Jadé Fadojutimi, and essay by Jennifer Higgie
The work of artist Jadé Fadojutimi, to accompany Fadojutimi’s second solo exhibition with the Pippy Houldsworth gallery. Fadojutimi's studio is filled with objects, drawings and writings that evoke nostalgic pleasure. The synthesis of these various influences, through which Fadojutimi understands her sense of self, is transformed into large-scale gestural paintings charged with energy and emotion. This, the artist's first published book, has been co-published by Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to accompany Fadojutimi’s exhibition with the gallery.
ANOMIE PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781910221297 • January 2021 • £20.00 76 pages • c. 30 illus.
Jacqui Hallum – Workings and Showings
By Jacqui Hallum, with essays from Dan Howard-Birt, Hettie Judah, Andrew Hunt and Caroline Wilkinson
The first monograph on Devon-based Jacqui Hallum, an artist known for her mixed-media paintings on textiles. Well known for her eclectic mixed-media paintings on textiles featuring imagery ranging from medieval woodcuts to Art Nouveau children’s illustrations, this is an outstanding collection of papers on her work from experts in the artistic field: Andrew Hunt, Professor of Fine Art and Curating at the University of Manchester; Hettie Judah, arts journalist and critic and Caroline Wilkinson, Director of the School of Art and Design at Liverpool John Moores University and more.
ANOMIE PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781910221235 • March 2021 • £25.00 128 pages • 158 illus.
By Kate MccGwire, Edited by Mark Sanders and with essays by Catriona McAra and Jane Neal
A major monograph on over twenty years of Kate McGwire’s otherworldly sculptures and fantastical installations. Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British sculptor whose practice revolves around the uncanny. Employing natural materials and in particular, feathers, MccGwire creates arresting, otherworldly sculptures and site-specific works, often rendering the familiar strange and disturbing. This major monograph presents works spanning MccGwire's career, from the unsettling textile works of the turn of the millennium through to the fantastical site-specific installation and interventions of her solo exhibition in 2020 at Harewood House, Leeds.
ANOMIE PUBLISHING Hardback • 9781910221259 • April 2021 • £45.00 200 pages • 140 illus.
Nick Hornby – Zygotes and Confessions
By Nick Hornby, text by Alfredo Cramerotti, foreword by Helen Boyd and essay by Matt Price
Presents a substantial new body of sculptures exploring portraiture and intimacy in the digital age. Hornby is known for his monumental site-specific works that combine digital software with traditional materials such as bronze, steel, granite and marble. In this publication he presents a substantial new body of smaller, more intimate work comprising three discrete yet interrelated series of works inspired by the history of sculptural busts, modernist abstractions and mantelpiece ceramic dogs. With text in both English and Welsh, these new works explore themes of portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the digital era.
ANOMIE PUBLISHING Paperback • 9781910221280 • January 2021 • £18.00 80 pages • c. 38 illus.
Harry Kernoff
The Little Genius By Kevin O'Connor
A revised and lavishly illustrated full-length biography of Harry Kernoff. The value of Kernoff’s work has risen dramatically in recent years, as has his reputation. Born in London, Harry Kernoff moved to Dublin in 1914 and from 1923 until his death in 1974 was a full-time artist when it was neither "profitable nor fashionable". Against the odds, Harry Kernoff has left a more encompassing visual record of the Irish experience during the twentieth century than any contemporary painter through his empathic interest in the ordinary people, and especially rank-and-file Dubliners.
