To mark the impending opening of Nottingham Contemporary, and to celebrate the long relationship between word and image – from the Book of Kells and William Blake to contemporary cross-overs between art and text – Staple 71 brings together poetry, fiction and articles by artists and writers to see where the common ground might lie.
Cornelia Parker talks about her work on subjects as diverse as Noam Chomsky, the Bronte sisters, the leaning tower of Pisa and a burned Florida forest, Mik Godley explains how his painting used online resources to explore questions of war and history in Silesia, Ellen Bell presents collage works made from dictionaries and shorthand manuals, and Errol Lloyd adopts the persona of fictional Caribbean painter Da Firenze in No Place To Hide.
Meanwhile Mark Czanik’s ‘The Secret’ explores a relationship shaped by a cache of stolen comic books, Mel Fawcett tells the story of a builder turned painter in ‘The Gift’ and Tim Love enters the mind of a Schiele-obsessed voyeur in ‘The Muses’. Barbara Cumber imagines herself as the ‘mad painter’ Richard Dadd in her poem ‘The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke’, while Fawzia Kane looks at Arshile Gorky, Robert Vas Dias recreates cubism at 32,000 feet, Rory Waterman presents three poetic snapshots of the Faroe Islands, and Sophie Mayer explores the work of Kiki Smith.
With Myra Schneider, Peter Porter, Shirley Golden, John Hartley Williams, John Saul and Marion Bell drawing on myth, perception and sensory experience elsewhere, we hope this latest issue offers a slice through the fascinating connections between word and image.
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Posted on July 24th, 2009 by staplemagazine
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