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105 Artists’ hands - at the printers

14/5/2021

Thank you so much to all our supporters ... Cally Trench and I are so grateful to everyone who has thrown their hat into the ring and committed to ordering a copy of her forthcoming book.

We succeeded in our target for advance orders, and we are pleased to report that the book is currently in production.

Hands of Cally Trench with 'Hands' by Cally Trench (2018)

Hands - Cally Trench

12/3/2021

Excited to announce that PP are working with artist Cally Trench to produce a book of her photography project '104 Artists' Hands: An Exploration of Hands'.

The book will include Cally's images with texts by each artist photographed, as well as texts and images as an exploration of hands. We're working on a schedule that is a little Covid dependent, but publication will be this summer or early autumn.

Hands of Saliha El Houssaini create and destroy by Cally Trench, 16th October 2018.

Breaking - at Cable-Depot.com

11/12/2020

A new evolution of Robert Good's Breaking project is now an online installation at www.cable-depot.com until 7th February 2021. The site is hosting the collaboration between Robert and Richard Ducker, and includes the presentation, the full wall text, as well as an interview and Q&A that you can watch.

While the online event is live - get a copy of Breaking at a discounted price of £15 including P&P

A Walk for Stanley in the News this week

22/10/2020

A lovely article by Paul Grist - National Trust Property Manager at Sandham Memorial Chapel in the Newbury Weekly News this week about Stanley Spencer and the chapel - and a pull-out about Peter Driver and his 'A Walk for Stanley' book

Learning to Learn review

4/6/2020

Some lovely praise recieved for Learning to Learn: how to teach children with learning difficulties or autism to learn by Merete Hawkins.

"Merete has written a book that is clear, comprehensive and practical. You will learn so much about such an interesting area of early development whilst learning how to implement it that you will just have to give it a go, and you won’t be disappointed when you do."

Josh Connick, Head of Early Years and Primary Explorers, Brookfields School

Merete's book is brimming with ideas for practical activities for parents, carers and teachers to use with young children and children with special educational needs.

A Walk for Stanley by Peter Driver launched

7/7/2019

Peter says: "Thank you to everyone who came to the stealth launch of my book this afternoon with Peculiarity Press. It was very generous of Picnic Foods to host it and of Suzanne Floss Stallard and the Jelly team for fitting me into the OpenForArt programme. It was a delight to share the venue with Lisa- Marie Gibbs and Emma Bradbury's Emotional State installation and Plant Emporium.
I really appreciate the support and friendship that have made this project possible."

Thank you so much to everyone who made advance orders and trusted that we would get there. Hope you enjoy the results. Books available here if you've not got yours yet.

This is not art?

6/7/2019

Hosted by the Stash Collective Micro Gallery as part of the Reading Open for Art festival programme and inspired by Robert Good's 'A New Dictionary of Art', I spent a couple of hours chatting and debating with shoppers in Broad Street about what art does or doesn't mean to them. I think we sparked a good few thoughts throughout the morning.

With thanks for inspiration from Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Marcel Duchamp and Carl Andre and the many people that define art for themselves by deciding what it is not.

Breaking at Glastonbury festival: Shangri-La

1/7/2019

A corner of Glastonbury included a billboard based on the Breaking book by Robert Good.

Described by the NME as:
"Shangri-La, the outspoken and much-loved corner of Worthy Farm is celebrating its tenth incarnation this year, serving up its usual dizzying dose of the theatrical, the radical and the bizarrely brilliant through its latest set of visual arts, curious installations and live performance."

'Breaking' in its first incarnation at Cambridge Arts Space

A Walk for Stanley is at the printers

11/6/2019

Delighted to say that Peter Driver's 'A Walk for Stanley' has been put to bed and is now at the printers. The first copies are expected by early July. So pleased to have been able to work on this beautiful book - a real pleasure.

Oliver Sumner (Manager, Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) South East) reviews the book:

“Peter Driver’s ‘A Walk for Stanley,’ shares Spencer’s unflinching yen to be amongst the world, in all its epic and everyday detail. Both book as artwork and walk as artwork, he has found a multi-sided form of expression; containing magical bird sightings, drawings made urgently on the hoof, a hint of memoir, the personal and the political, by the discipline of point to point navigation. In the honest vulnerability of this endeavour we find a more grounded way of thinking about the things that matter, even a philosophy of how to be an artist; sustained by self-reliance but open to the world, doubts and all. He writes in a poem, ‘A boy again, being a soldier on a mission to acknowledge something I couldn’t quite express another way’."

Breaking Book Launch: 7th March, Cambridge Artworks

15/2/2019

Every day during 2018 Robert Good collected the headlines offered to him by the automated Google News feed, to find out what sort of information we are being drip-fed hour by hour, day by day - and what sort of picture it paints of life today.

The result is BREAKING, over 13,000 news headlines carefully and compulsively edited into a hypnotic new book that holds a mirror up to the wallpaper of our lives - a mesmerising mix of sport, fashion, gossip and gloom.

We are excited to say that BREAKING will be launched on Thursday 7th March at Cambridge Artworks with an accompanying exhibition plus new video by Manchester artist Lizz Brady. Save the date - full details to follow!