new book: This Crippled Flesh, now taking pre-orders at Bracketpress

A new edition from Bracketpress...
We've started taking orders for our forthcoming book This Crippled Flesh,
a long awaited novel written by Penny Rimbaud, typeset by Christian Brett and includes a series of my illustrations. For more details and you can buy it from the Bracketpress website.

a lovely pair of bollocks...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of two-colour letterpress prints on archival paper
by Christian Brett

& available to buy from  Pictures on Walls

Jabberwocky poem

A new letterpress printed pamphlet from Incline Press,
they asked me to do a little illustration of the beast...
I have 20 copies only available to buy from:  http://alices.bigcartel.com

Idler launch

"You are invited to a party at Rough Trade East this Friday, 7 May, to launch the new Idler. It starts at six sharp and will end at 8pm. Our DJ for the night is Mr Tim Burgess of The Charlatans, and there will be live performances from Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction, Asbo Kid, Louis Eliot and Zodiac Youth. I will personally torture you with a rendition of “Big Rock Candy Mountains” on the ukulele, and Ian Bone and Ray Roughler-Jones will discuss Ray’s new book. You’ll be able to buy the new Idler at the shop. It is even more splendid than the previous one. We have raised our costs and have even employed a proper proof-reader. It contains a long interview with David Hockney, who has also contributed two sketches. There are essays on land reform, the 13th century, the commons, hedgehogs and the Dacha system, and pics from Stanley Donwood, Clifford Harper and Alice Smith. Our typesetter is Mr Christian Brett of Rochdale. Long live beauty, truth and William Morris! Hail William Blake and Samuel Johnson! Bow down before William Cobbett, Robin Hood, and all defenders of liberty! Anarchy and allotments! Cakes and ale!"  Tom Hodgkinson

Dummy Jim

'Dummy Jim' is a film produced by Matt Hulse + others, and we're involved in the making of The Book, for more info about the film visit: http://dummyjim.com

An interview with Caustic Cover Critic

Caustic Cover Critic has asked me a few questions...
http://causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-like-idea-of-not-defining-what-it-is.html

The Concise Dictionary of Dress

Judith Clark commissioned me to contribute to a couple of installations... one of which was a nude Victorian collage image that was projected as a 'Pepper's Ghost' effect onto a Victorian dress, and the above image is another very small contribution to the many curiosities at this new exhibition:

The Concise Dictionary of Dress
Judith Clark and Adam Phillips
28 April - 27 June 2010
Blythe House
London W14 0QX


"The imposing monolith of Blythe House has since 1978 been the quiet repository for the V&A's reserve collections of furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery, textiles, fashion and fine arts.


Located within its vast spaces, The Concise Dictionary of Dress begins as you navigate a turnstile, cross a corridor and take the industrial goods lift up to the top floor. A wrought iron staircase leads you out onto the roof towards an exposed cupola containing the first of a sequence of intriguing definitions in a walk-through dictionary of dress."
for more details: http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2010/the_concise_dictionary_of_dress

Bracketpress New Website

Bracketpress new website now online...
http://www.bracketpress.co.uk

more butterflies have arrived in the shop...

more handprinted and hand collage'd Butterflies cards have arrived in alice's shop...

http://alices.bigcartel.com

Artists’ Book Fair

Bracketpress will be at the Leeds Artists' Bookfair on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th March 2010, it's at The Parkinson Court, University of Leeds
opening times: Friday 11.00–6.00 Saturday 10.00–5.00

We'll be selling the usual surreptitious pamphlets...

Carnaby Street's 50th Anniversary exhibition and book

We've just finished installing this exhibition for Carnaby street's 50th anniversary, it's located at 38 Carnaby Street and will be opening on February 26th until late March 2010.

The main installation of the exhibition is a 3D layered timeline. The collage wall illustrates a detailed history dating back to the 1600s to the present. It's an eclectic collection of photographs, ephemera, old prints, patterns and details that depict the spirit of Carnaby Street.

I was commissioned by Judith Clark and Amy de la Haye to work with them and John Morgan Studio to collage elements of the Street's history, produce a logo which adorns the front of the building and banners along Carnaby street and other promotional material. John Morgan studio produced a beautiful book of the exhibition, which is available to buy from the Carnaby Street website.

 

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen has just been published by Hamish Hamilton

I did the cover design and inside illustrations, which I've just found out have been picked to be featured in this year's AOI's illustration annual and touring exhibition.
 
Thanks for the heads up HH & A...
http://fivedials.com/news/meant-to-be

And Caustic Cover Critic.

It's a fantastical novel, well-recommended, read more reviews in the Guardian and Metro, and an interview with author Marilyn Chin on the Penguin website.

On Kindness, now available in paperback format

On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor, published by Hamish Hamilton and now available as a paperback from all good book shops.

I did the cover illustration and Christian Brett did the elegant typesetting inside and out.

Clifford Harper

A revolutionary, revelatory weekend... I spent the afternoon with Clifford Harper, who I've commissioned to illustrate an article in the forthcoming issue of the Idler. His archive of work and the way he works is astounding, I thought all his work was woodcuts, but actually it’s all pen-drawn on CS10 HPS Illustration Board! A very fine anarchist.

Very pleased to meet you Clifford Harper.

the Idler: issue 43 'Back to the Land'

The latest Idler magazine has now gone into production and will be published on May 1st 2010.

Edited by Tom Hodgkinson, typeset and designed by Christian Brett, I did a few illustrations and commissioned this lot of artists: David Hockney, Stanley Donwood, Clifford Harper, Keiron Rhys Johnson, Joe Wilson, Sarah King, Matthew Green, Abigail Rorer.