Pamphlet Library
A collection of twentieth century pamphlets pamphlets - each one exemplifying a pressing issue and opinion of their time.
SE8 Gallery, London, 7 May - 11 July 2010
'The Mulberry Tree Press'
A changing topical selection of pamphlets presented within a group show about space, object and text. Part one: 'The Post-Election Selection'. Part two: 'Reading List for the Coalition Government'. Also the launch of a new series of pamphlets: New Sixpenny Pamphlets.
www.se8.org.uk
Reading for Reading's Sake, Salford
'Pamphletathon', 9–11 April 2010
A pamphlet-reading marathon at Reading for Reading's Sake - a weekend of reading, workshops and performances
www.readingforreadingssake.wordpress.com
SPACE, London, 6 November - 19 December 2009
'WHAT I BELIEVE (A Polemical Collection)'
The library was fully accessible throughout the show, presented on specially-made bespoke furniture that formed shelves, seats and lecturns for the events. A reading group and five print works highlighted a particular series: The Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets published by the Hogarth Press in 1939 to “provide thinking people with the means to consider fundamental problems in art, literature, taste and morals”. The reading group and a forthcoming set of five new texts by contemporary writers revived arguments made in these pamphlets by E.M. Forster, Stephen Spender, John Betjeman, Virginia Woolf and Graham Bell around personal morality; art and politics; the heritage industry; the circulation and appreciation of art; and artists and capitalism. On the penultimate weekend of the exhibition a free symposium explored the subject of Agitation.
www.spacestudios.org.uk
Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, 1 - 30 May 2009
'Paper Trail: Serial Material', group show
www.galleryatsui.com
Takt, Berlin, 13 September - 11 October 2008
'Pamphlet Library', solo show with reference library and seven
watercolour paintings
www.taktberlin.org
Installation at SPACE: WHAT I BELIEVE (A Polemical Collection), 2009
Antiquarian Prejudice (John Betjeman), screenprint on paper
What I Believe (E.M. Forster), screenprint on paper
