Artists' Books

The 2023 the Print and the Poem series with Jealous Gallery is Mammoth Lies Charming Baker's 9 colour screen-print on Somerset Tub sized 410gsm paper.  The print is accompanied by Robert Frost's The Secret Sits (1942) hand typed on Cartridge 95gsm paper.

The complete text of the pair’s only feature-length film (released in 1981). This hardback book includes all instructions, as well as 900 or so drawings visualising every scene and shot in the film. This extraordinary publication takes the reader on a picaresque voyage through the artists' world. Above all, their own vision of their immediate environment in London's East End. It is a world of extremes, taking in the beauty of nature and the urban landscape, sex and eroticism, religion and spirituality, drunkenness and degradation, fear and human aggression, raucous humour and poetry. Wide in its range of imagery, moods and...

A collaboration between Antony Gormley and Colm Tóibín. For the artist Antony Gormley and novelist Colm Tóibín, the unpredictability and drama of the weather is the connecting strand in their long-anticipated collaboration. In Antony Gormley’s delicate and light-filled drawings of the ‘liminal realm of the north Norfolk coast’, published here for the first time, he evokes ‘the blurring of perception between solid, aerial, and liquid’, using Chinese brushes to apply ink to water-flooded paper. He reflects on the drawings ‘as one might look at the marks left by the receding flood: dried salt on a rock, or the tideline on a...

Part of Enitharmon's print and poem series of co-publications with Jealous Gallery.  Howard's print is accompanied by Anne Sexton's poem 'Her Kind' from To Bedlam and Part Way Back (first published 1960)© Linda Gray Sexton The print and poem are presented in a screen-printed bound portfolio. Six-colour screenprint on Somerset Velvet Antique 280 gsm 35 x 28.5 cm, torn edges Poem is a one-colour print on an accompanying Somerset Velvet Antique 280 gsm sheet.   To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960) Anne Sexton Her Kind I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light...

Single sheet designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press to advertise publication of Christopher Le Brun's artist’s book with Enitharmon, a collaboration with the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes. Printed on Arches Vélin 160gsm. Title page on one side and prospectus on the other side. A collectible item for a bibliophile – could be framed or stored loose with other literary treasures.

Texas 1964 represents an amazing discovery.  Duane Michals, one of America’s pre-eminent photographers completed a project in 1964 to depict different aspects of the state of Texas.  Michals recently discovered in his archive ‘Duane’s Texas tempest in a teapot treasure trove’, the whole brilliant and resonant portrait of that celebrated state – captivating black-and-white images published here for the first time. Tender, witty, poignant and truthful, Duane Michals’ Texas 1964 captures a society in some ways unchanged from its first controversial settlement, with its racial divisions and economic and social gulfs, and in others redolent of the new America – commercialised, confident, forward-looking. Texas 1964 has...

Paul Muldoon & Philip Pearlstein It is perhaps the accidental collaborations that can prove the most imaginative and charming, as in this beautifully conceived artist’s book bringing together the Pulitzer-prizewinning poet Paul Muldoon and one of his artistic heroes, the eminent American painter Philip Pearlstein, long revered as one of the modern masters of figurative art. Sparkling new sequences of poems accompany lively watercolours which, as the artist explains, are ‘mostly of terra cotta objects…vessels and fragments of gods, goddesses, and demons from various ancient cultures.’ In his introduction Paul Muldoon sets the scene: ‘When I’d first asked Philip Pearlstein if he...

Paul Muldoon & Philip Pearlstein It is perhaps the accidental collaborations that can prove the most imaginative and charming, as in this beautifully conceived artist’s book bringing together the Pulitzer-prizewinning poet Paul Muldoon and one of his artistic heroes, the eminent American painter Philip Pearlstein, long revered as one of the modern masters of figurative art. Sparkling new sequences of poems accompany lively watercolours which, as the artist explains, are ‘mostly of terra cotta objects…vessels and fragments of gods, goddesses, and demons from various ancient cultures.’ In his introduction Paul Muldoon sets the scene: ‘When I’d first asked Philip Pearlstein if he...

Full of the macabre touches and dark humour that have made Paula Rego’s reputation, Stone Soup is a new version of the traditional Portuguese folktale by her daughter, the designer and writer Cas Willing. The fable has existed in numerous incarnations for centuries. In contrast to many others, the wily protagonist in this version is female. We follow the efforts of a young female traveller in her attempt to save herself from starvation. She persuades suspicious townspeople to supply her with food for her mysterious Stone Soup. Hence, this is a tale typically read to children to encourage cooperation in times of scarcity....

I Have Found a Song is a fascinating collection of poems and images published to mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. It originated in a commission from Arts Council England for 12 poets to write on the theme of enslavement. Interspersed with these are exciting visual contributions by five artists invited by Enitharmon to produce work on the same theme. This de luxe edition is limited to 35 copies, each accompanied by a portfolio of 5 signed original prints: Paula Rego 'Death Goes Shopping' (Etching with Aquatint, 460 x 555mm) Sonia Boyce 'Is this love that I'm feeling?' (Etching,...