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GILES ROUNDUntitled, circa 1994  BRIGHTON CCA Beautiful publication documenting Giles Round’s show at Brighton CCA including a new text commissioned from Rebecca Heald.

Untitled, circa 1994 by artist Giles Round was presented across the North and South Galleries at Brighton CCA, combining archival research with the production of new work, presentations of modernist design and a programme of live events. Design is a register of our changing priorities, tastes and politics and therefore can be a lens through which to understand the evolution of society. The exhibition drew on Round’s  long standing investigations into these narratives – of product design, histories of display and the ways in which we choose to identify, record and organise them. It is a meditation on the evolution of ideas and how they are communicated.

Limited edition
£6.00
Available here

Giles Round 
Rebecca Heald BECKY BEASLEY
TWO PLANTS IN DIPARTISTS’ RESEARCH CENTRE
Two Plants’ in Dip was the culmination of Becky Beasley’s research project commissioned by the Artists’ Research Centre’s Creative Libraries Programme in collaboration with Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea Libraries and Museums and University of Essex. Softback, 88 pages.

Published and distributed by Artists’ Research Centre.
£8.00

In partnership with Focal Point Gallery and University of Essex
Supported by Arts Council England 

HOW TO MAKE AN IMAGE OF SOMETHING YOU’VE NEVER SEENBRIGHTON CCA: GRAND PARADE PRESS
How to Make an Image of Something You’ve Never Seen begins with the idea that research can be as equally embodied by sculpture as an equation and that the processes of making and thinking are closely bound. Preconceptions, even prejudices, about the answers to these questions have embedded divisions in the ways we value different approaches to the pursuit of knowledge.

Engaging in research, the act of investigation, is fundamental to human nature and yet what is considered of value in research is deeply contested. By interweaving research from the University of Brighton and elsewhere with the Brighton CCA programme, the Grand Parade Press articulates a more comprehensive conception of what research can be. Is it for example, only the preserve of the academic community? Is it necessarily empirical? Must methodologies be logical in their approach and what is the role of chance? How is it possible to characterise the relationship between research and understanding? How do we consider artistic practice in this context?

SIMON FAITHFULLKINGS CROSS A PICTORIAL GUIDECAMDEN ARTS CENTRE
Published by Camden Arts Centre to accompany a guided walk by the artist of the King’s Cross area
April 29th 2012

A personal and esoteric guide to King’s Cross including new drawings and texts, inspired by the Wainwright Guides of the Lake District. Edition of 300, hand-numbered and signed by artist Simon Faithfull

 ILANA HALPERIN TOWARDS HEILPRIN LAND
A creative research project - a diary, notebook and a narrative. Published in memory of geologist Jim Luhr with special thanks to the Smithsonian Institution, Scottish Arts Council and Sharjah Biennale 8

2007

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