Art Monthly Review
My 2005 multiple work Melancholia, together with my 2015 bookwork Lectolalia have been reviewed in the March edition of Art Monthly. To buy Lectolalia from the publishers please click here. There are only a very few of the Melancholia works left. Should you be interested in buying one then please contact me direct, through my Bio / CV / Contact Me page.
The Editions at The Tetley, 5th and 6th of March
THE EDITIONS III
NORMAN ANDERSON, EMMA BOLLAND, LOUISE FINNEY, JAC LE MENS, LURDES MONTEIRO, LEA TORP NEILSON, BERNADETTE O’TOOLE, SARAH PENNINGTON, TRINITY SETT, JANINE SIDDALL BURTON, RACHEL EMILY TAYLOR, A. TENNANT, TRINITY SETT, MADELEINE WALTON, SIAN WILLIAMS, AND YUTONG ZHOU.
EDITED BY SHARON KIVLAND, CURATED BY EMMA BOLLAND AND SHARON KIVLAND
The Editions is an annual publishing project, undertaken by past and present M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. students in Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University, working with number of constraints.
In 2015–16, over several months, the participants in The Editions III prepared their novels, following Roland Barthes, thinking about how to produce a book that while unwritten is described or figured, given form. The Editions III is the trial of writing. Material, without which the books would not be possible or which is constructed after the fact, is collected and displayed: the parts and processes of writing as terms of reference.
The participating artists in The Editions III have each produced a book in response to Roland Barthes’ text The Preparation for the Novel. This exhibition aims to recreate the artist’s /author’s moment of production, bringing together fifteen sets of preparatory material for these books – notes, drafts, crumpled sheets of paper, reference books, Post-Its, and other ephemera. Displayed as individual writing desks in the Tetley’s Boardroom, the installation will be activated by exhibiting artists taking turns to sit at their desks, writing, idling, or otherwise engaged.
EXT. INT. solo exhibition at the University of Leeds
My solo exhibition EXT. INT. at The Wild Pansy project Space, University of Leeds, curated by Simon Lewandowski and Chris Taylor, runs from Weds 20th April to Friday 20th May 2016. I will be showing new work created especially for the space: a short film, a text drawing installation, and a short text. The preview takes place on Wednesday 20th April from 6pm to 8pm. All welcome.
Emma Bolland 