Holy, Holy, Holy at No Show Space, London, presents a library of 20th and 21st century books with holes –some intentional, some not; some playful and productive; some destructive and obscuring. Curated by Inscription: The Journal of Material Text with Fraser Muggeridge & Aslak Gurholt, the exhibition celebrates the launch of Inscription issue 2, with a special preview of the journal.
On display will be a richly varied and international collection of titles, including Katsumi Komagata's What Color? (1991); Peter Newell's The HOLE Book (1908); Scott Blake's Hole Punch Flipbook #1 (2020); Lucio Fontana's perforated covers; Dieter Roth's iconic die-cut volumes and Kendell Gerrs' Point Blank (2004), an edition of 1030 blank books with each copy shot at point blank range. In addition, the exhibition will present artworks by Carolyn Thompson and David Bellingham.
'Imprints: Art Editing Modernism' at Laurence Sterne Trust
Food Lovers: Custard, 2020
Imprints: Art Editing Modernism explores the impact and meaning of modernist literary works in the present day. The exhibition asks ‘What does it mean to edit a modernist text?’ and examines the creative potential packed into that practice through a series of newly commissioned artworks. The exhibition is part of the Imprints of the New Modernist Editing project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow; Jane Hyslop, Edinburgh College of Art; and Edwin Pickstone, Glasgow School of Art.
Thompson’s work Food Lovers based on excerpts from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons was commissioned for the exhibition, which runs from 29 August to 11 September 2021 at Shandy Hall, York, the former home of proto-modernist Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
Avant Kinema / Barbara Balfour / Eloise Birtwhistle & Ane Lopez / Brass Art / Becky Brewis / Anna Chapman Parker / Joey Chin / Maria Fusco / Chris Kohler / Scott Myles & Edwin Pickstone / Gill Partington / Steve Rigley / Carolyn Thompson / Ane Thon Knutsen / Sam Winston
Creative Award from County Durham Community Foundation and Creative Darlington
Carolyn Thompson has been awarded one of five Creative Awards from County Durham Community Foundation and Creative Darlington to ‘progress or implement work’ based on her artistic heritage in Darlington including research into the lives of Thomas and Sydney Wood.
The Beast in Me in Inscription: the Journal of Material Text
The Beast in Me, 2021
The Beast in Me, has been remade especially for Inscription: the Journal of Material Text – Theory, Practice, History. The work will be included as a special print with Issue no. 2 of the Journal (published October 2021), which will also feature art from Fiona Banner, Erica Baum, Christian Bok, Dianna Frid, Kendell Geers, Carla Nappi and Harold Offeh.
Silent Fire Exhibition
Silenced, a 14-day durational performance work, will be shown in the online project Silent Fire created by Nasty Women Connecticut and Yale Institute of Sacred Music, in March 2021. The piece will be teamed with music composed by Barbara Strozzi, performed by musicians Andrea Walker and Carolyn Craig.
Art on a Postcard International Women's Day 2021 Auction
The European Urge, 2021
Two small works, I’m a big fan (lot 278) and The European Urge (lot 279) will be available in the Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day 2021 Auction in aid of the Hepatitis C Trust. Bidding opens on 25 February until 11 March and starts at £50.
New prints available from Print Editions Gallery
Pushing up Daisies, 2021
Three new prints from the series Going, Going, Gone are now available from Print Editions Gallery. Referencing vintage botanical sketches, each of the prints has been created from a number of line drawings of endangered, critically endangered or extinct British wildflowers.
Print Editions Gallery is a new publishing platform created to promote and support contemporary artists through an online portfolio of limited edition artist’s prints and photographs.
2020 MCBA Prize People's Book Art Award
After Capote: When Truman met Marlon, 2019
Carolyn Thompson has been awarded the 2020 Minnesota Center for Book Arts People’s Book Art Award for her work After Capote: When Truman met Marlon, from her 2018-19 series of work Post Moderns. The full 50 works from the series had were previously shown in solo exhibitions at The Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, York in 2019 and Eagle Gallery, London in spring 2020.
The Penguin Collector Review
The Penguin Collector 95
A review of Thompson’s Post Moderns exhibition held at Eagle Gallery, London (previously Shandy Hall, York), has been reviewed by Michael Hampton in The Penguin Collector, issue 95. Copies of The Penguin Collector are available from The Penguin Collectors Society website, or the review can be read here.
MCBA PRIZE 2020
After Capote - When Truman met Marlon, 2019
Carolyn Thompson has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts Prize 2020 with her work After Capote: When Truman met Marlon. The altered book is from her recent series Post Moderns based on the Penguin Modern box set.
The Duke in His Domain is the transcript of a six-hour interview between Truman Capote and Marlon Brando, in which the writer managed to get the actor to reveal some of his deepest secrets. Given the intriguing relationship between the two, an astrological birthdate relationship analysis report has been undertaken on the pair, sections of which have been retyped and added as notes to the original text where they seem pertinent.
The MCBA Prize exhibition has been taken online this year and can be seen here.
https://mcbaprize.org/2020-mcba-prize-peoples-book-art-award/
Synapse International Blog Spot
‘AN INTRODUCTION / "France", or... we are circles of cancelled stars’, a new article edited by Philip Davenport and including some of Carolyn Thompson’s latest body of work Post Moderns, alongside a host of brilliant artists, poets and writers, can now be found on the Synapse International blog.
The Eponymous Protagonist in CONVOLUSION JOURNAL
The Eponymous Protagonist in Convolusion Journal Issue 5-7
Carolyn Thompson’s 2018 work The Eponymous Protagonist will be published in the latest edition of the New York Journal Convolution. For further information about the journal, or to buy a copy, the Convolution Journal can be found here.
Solo Exhibition 'Post Moderns' at Eagle Gallery, London. 13 Feb-18 Mar 2020
Comprising 50 separate artworks, Carolyn Thompson’s new body of work, Post Moderns, is based on the 50 texts found in the Penguin Modern Box Set (2018), which celebrates the pioneering spirit of Penguin’s publishing.
Following her solo show at Laurence Sterne Trust, York in 2019, a solo exhibition of the full fifty works will be held at Eagle Gallery, London from 13 February to 14 March 2020. For further information visit the Eagle Gallery website here.
Residency with North Yorkshire Archives & Chrysalis Arts
Carolyn Thompson will be working with North Yorkshire County Records Office and Chrysalis Arts as part of the Unfolding Origins Residency Programme throughout 2020. She will be undertaking the Ryedale Residency. For more information about Unfolding Origins visit the Chrysalis Arts website here.
Somewhere In-Between at Brixton Tate Library
Somewhere In-Between at Brixton Tate Library, 5 - 30 November, curated by Foster Spragge.
Somewhere In-Between, a project curated by Foster Spragge, and including the work Poetry by Carolyn Thompson, will be on show at Brixton Tate Library from 5–30 November 2019.
solo exhibition at Laurence Sterne Trust & Eagle Gallery London
After Lem – War, 2019
Carolyn Thompson’s new body of work, Post Moderns, is based on the 50 texts found in the Penguin Modern Box Set (2018), which celebrates the pioneering spirit of Penguin’s publishing. The collection includes seminal works by Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, Allen Ginsberg, Dorothy Parker, George Simenon, and Susan Sontag amongst others.
A solo exhibition of the full fifty works will be held at Laurence Sterne Trust, Shandy Hall, York, from 8 September until 4 October 2019, and Eagle Gallery, London in February 2020.
GUEST ARTIST AT ARCHIVEHUMANITAS.COM
After Burroughs: Syntax, one of the 50 artworks in the collection Post Moderns, which will be shown in full in September 2019 at The Laurence Sterne Trust, will be exhibited by archivehumanitas.com from May 11th 2019 as part of a guest artist spot.
Frankenstein 2018 at Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol
Frankenstein 2018, containing the work Night Terrors, has moved to Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol and will be shown until 28th February 2019. The exhibitions contains the work Night Terrors, 2016.
Night Terrors, 2016, 3 x archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo rag, 19.7 x 12.5cm (each of three prints) Edition of 15
1968
7 February - 8 March 2019: 1968 at Eagle Gallery, London, containing works by Jonathan Callan, Simon Morley and Carolyn Thompson. Thompson’s six works included in this show are taken from an on-going series that reference seminal Modern texts re-printed by Penguin. The body of work will be shown in full at the Lawrence Sterne Trust and the Eagle Gallery in 2019–2020.
Frankenstein 2108 tour
Frankenstein 2018, containing the work Night Terrors, continues until 26 January at Kirkby Gallery, Knowsley, before touring to Bower Ashton Library, University of Bristol.