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12/10/2024

Introducing Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud by Nicola Singh, part poem, conversation, anecdote and song. 🎶

Our latest publication traverses the practices and research interests of the artist, including movement, voice and Yogic philosophy. 🧘‍♂️

https://copypages.org/product/punjabi-princess-smoking-black-cloud/

Limited edition of 100 copies available, now available, £14 at copypages.org

23/09/2024

📕 New book announcement! 📕
We are super pleased to introduce our latest publication ‘Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud’ by Nicola Singh

Part poem, conversation, anecdote and song, ‘Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud’ is set in an artist’s studio on the beach in St. Ives, Cornwall, UK. It traces a period of interrupted experimental research; the gory aftermath of an artist residency programme.

Written out of a ritualised practice that incorporates movement, vocal and hatha yoga practices, the text forms an embodied and psychic reckoning of a body buckled by St. Ives waves and whiteness. In an exercise in restorative healing, Singh negotiates the racial imaginary through autobiography, Yogic Philosophy and a diverse range of cultural reference points.

Edited by Priya Jay
Designed by
Printed by
Edition of 100 available on our website, link in bio!

11/12/2023

Egidija Čiricaitė is an artist, poet and researcher, working with and around language and publishing. 🌏

For Unfold II Egidija has created a double sided piece of work, printed at the very edge of the page, that reflects on reflection — it reflects of the idea of change as a reflection of the old. It considers how recto acts as the mirror of the verso and how the idea of UN-doing acts as a mirror image (rather than the reverse) of -doing. The is playfully interacted with through the act of reading an unfolding the publication, with the idea of 'f-old' becomming dismantled into a cacophony of possibilities.

As a researcher Egidija is currently focusing on artist books as verbi-visual art/poetry objects: how they evoke meaning and emotion, how their forms and structures synthesize language and images and the role of metaphor in the relationship between language and the visual and thought.

"As an artist, I use language as my creative medium: veering between visual poetry and poetry of the visual, I build nebulous worlds on the periphery of linguistic experience. My recent work is often bilingual, playing with ethymological interconnectedness of Indo-european languages."

Currently a PhD candidate at the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Linguistics, working on interdisciplinary research, using Relevance Theory to address the role of metaphor and non-propositional effects in the interpretation of language and the visual information in the artists' books.

https://www.egidija.com/about.html

09/12/2023

‘For some, unfolding constitutes a risk’ (2022) Anna Chapman Parker
Unfold II

The drawing features the words, 'For some, unfolding constitutes a risk' filtered through the stems and leaves of Oxalis acetosella or common wood sorrel, whose trefoil leaves fold up at night. Anna told us a little bit more about this work and her current practice:

"This work is part of my current research into the depiction of weeds in visual culture, considered within the context of contemporary concerns around digitalism, attention, control, the body and environmental fragility."

"My work is concerned with immersive experiences of landscape, exploring how we record and report periods of looking in the increasingly mediated culture of the attention economy.

Using drawing as a practice of sustained looking, I’m exploring how observing common wild plants can provide opportunities to expand attention and connect with our intimate environment in an accessible way, with the potential to connect contemporary anxieties of personal wellbeing and ecological vulnerability."

Writing also continues to be an important part of Anna's practice. She has previously published essays, often accompanied by drawings, in journals such as Happy Hypocrite, MAP and Rake’s Progress and is currently completing her first book, due to be published in Spring 2024.

Find out more about Anna's work at:
annachapman.co.uk or find her on insta:

Unfold II is available to buy online £4: https://copypages.org/product/copy-unfold-ii/

07/12/2023

Unfold II - introducing our next contributing artist Erika Cann.

Cann's work 'Setting Up' is a linocut print of the building/collapse of a tent. Inspired by Dartmoor National Park, currently the only place in England where it is still legal to wild camp - a right which is currently under serious threat. The unfolding matter of space, occupation, freedom to pitch a tent, land ownership and the duality of the unfolding of this case in Dartmoor are brought to the page in Unfold II.

Erika Cann is an artist whose home lies between the granite tors of Dartmoor National Park and the dynamic cliffs of the Jurassic Coast. Her work investigates place through accounts, both historical and contemporary, within the guides and maps of an area. She navigates the environment through climbing - pushing, pulling, jamming and squeezing her way up and through time, geologies and accumulated narratives. The work takes the form of photography, film, and printmaking, which is often imbued with language.

Erika is an advocate for public access to nature, and has recently been awarded a New Perspectives bursary from Campaign for National Parks to use her practice to engage local communities with public transport access to Dartmoor National Park. She hopes to engage local communities with the landscape in a position of care and enjoyment through exploration, which is ecologically considered yet adventurous. Find out more about her work at: www.erikacann.com

17/11/2023

In the next few weeks we'll be introducing you to the 12 artists featured in Unfold II.

First up - Isobel Atacus:
Encompassing sculpture and writing, Isobel Atacus's practice playfully questions the fleeting and ambivalent nature of interactions that take place in the physical realm. Stretching from the physical landscape to the intimacy of the domestic space, her work engages objects and materials that surround us, upending ways we give meaning to things through re-describing their materiality in new ways. Her work 'Smoked Paprika 2022' included in unfold II, playfully makes the mind and tastebuds fizz.

Currently completing her PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art and King’s College London, Isobel’s work has been exhibited and published internationally and she also directs an artist-run space, the icing room. Find her online at isobelatacus.com

14/11/2023

📚 Our latest publication, "unfold II," is now available to purchase from our online shop! 🌟

Immerse yourself in the unfolding worlds of twelve incredible artists and writers. From bodies to narratives, they explore the essence of unfolding in captivating ways. Get your copy for £4 and we can ship in time for Christmas 😁

https://copypages.org/product/copy-unfold-ii/

13/09/2023

✨ unfold II has landed! ✨

The second in a series of publications from COPY, unfold brings together works by twelve artists and writers based across the UK and internationally. Arranged in a series of unfolding pages, the works respond to or embody a state of unfolding: the unfolding of bodies or narratives, unfolding environmental or social conditions, fantasies and the unfolding of worlds, or the unfolding translation of a single word.

Contributors: Isobel Atacus / Erika Cann / Anna Chapman Parker / Egidija Čiricaitė / Charlotte Cullen & Tora Hed / Arit Emmanuela Etukudo / Zoé Keller & Stu Hansom / Niamh Mairead Cullen Dunphy / Seray Ozdemir / Rachel Smith

💥£4 💥

Buy your copy at: https://copypages.org/product/copy-unfold-ii/

unfold II is published 2023 by COPY (copypages.org). Design by aw-ar.studio.

12/09/2023

See you there! 💥

We’re heading to Miss Read later this month… a highlight of the Art Book fair calendar, with 340 exhibitors from 52 countries, and this year including COPY repping the UK and the North. It’s our first time at the renowned artists book fair in Berlin, with a focus this year on publishing practices from the East (s), we cannot wait.

More posts incoming from Berlin later this month…✈️

05/05/2023

Duplicate Artists Book and Zine fair kicks off today 4-8pm Birmingham.

We’ll be joining with a stall tomorrow 12-5pm, hope to see you there!

So happy this annual celebration of printed zines, comics, artists books and alternative publishing is back. Heaps of workshops to get involved with too.

Full venue info & how to get to there: eastsideprojects.org

08/12/2022

07/12/2022

✏️ Last few days to apply! Deadline Sun 11 Dec ✏️

We are pleased to invite submissions of contemporary writing and visual work for inclusion in our forthcoming edition of Unfold.

We welcome contributions that connect to a process of unfolding in form or content. From the unfolding of personal or collective narratives, to unfolding environmental or political conditions, the coming together and unfolding of bodies, or a state of being in progress, works may ingterpret the theme broadly.

We encourage contributions from artists and writers working across material and time-based practices, as well as those working with text, print, performance and the page.

🟧 Applications are made via Curatorspace.
🟨 A fee will be paid to all selected contributors.
🟪 Completed works or proposals welcome.
🟦 Unfold II will be designed by .
⬜️ Please see listing for full details and criteria, link in bio.

📸 Copy Unfold, issue I. Photos by