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Nairn’s Paris – Notting Hill Editions (a review)

By - David
Posted on March, 29, 2017

Is it worth buying a guide book to a city that no longer exists? There are guides to places that never existed. Invisible Cities by Calvino provides a kind of general purpose guide to our curiosity about life in exotic places. Tolkien and every goblin-merchant that followed him always provided a map at the beginning

A Press of One’s Own: The Hogarth Press was the luxury Virginia Woolf couldn’t do without

By - Ping Henningham
Posted on March, 23, 2017March, 23, 2017

Owning the means of production is one of those luxuries which can change your trajectory in life so much, it is a gamechanger. This especially applies if you’re an artist or writer at those fragile early stages where you are full of skills and promise and energy, but have nothing much to your name (yet).

Making The New Concrete deluxe edition with Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe

By - David
Posted on March, 3, 2017

Some of you will remember the delicious Clotted Sun loose leaf book we made with Chris McCabe. His recent editorial collaboration with Victoria Bean, The New Concrete (Hayward Publishing), has led to another similarly satisfying project with us; an edition of 15 deluxe solander boxes containing a copy of The New Concrete and five giclée

There’s Sense In Nonsense: HFP in Moscow with The British Council

By - David
Posted on February, 3, 2017February, 2, 2017

I Five metres from a slipper bath filled with ice and cocktails, discussing Modernist Art with Paul Mason, Jenny Broom, Aysulu and Anna (from British Council Russia) we found we had experienced the same epiphany as Paul at the Tretyakov Gallery that day. We had been confronted by an alternative narrative of the origins of

Nothing In The Rulebook Interview

By - David
Posted on February, 1, 2017March, 8, 2017

We were interviewed recently by an online magazine called Nothing In The Rulebook while waiting for an aeroplane. By way of introduction they say: It seems old hat to say that mainstream publishing has been facing an existential crisis in recent years. As profit margins thin, the go-to response from the biggest publishing houses has

The British Council send HFP to Moscow with UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature commission.

By - David
Posted on November, 22, 2016November, 22, 2016

The British Council have commissioned us to make a major public art contribution at The Central Hall of Artists, Moscow. We are among the British artists and writers being despatched to Moscow next week to represent Britain as Guests of Honour at Non/FictioNo.18 Literature Fair, including Sebastian Faulks, David Almond, (and several people I think

Formerly London

By - David
Posted on October, 6, 2016October, 6, 2016

London was wiped out shortly after the USSR perfected their H-Bomb. It could so easily have happened in real life, but thankfully it was only to be on British Civil Defence plans that our capital city was erased and replaced by “Area 5a”. It is extraordinary how quickly the ubiquity of Civil Defence planning has

Formerly London: HFP asked to introduce Spike Milligan’s The Bed-Sitting Room, 4th October

By - David
Posted on September, 23, 2016September, 23, 2016

We have been invited by critic David Collard (the Times Literary Supplement, the Literary Review, Sonofabook etc.) to select and introduce a film set in London. Somewhat perversely we have chosen a satirical comedy that takes place after a nuclear attack: The Bed Sitting Room by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. The capital only persists

From Here – John McAuliffe

By - David
Posted on June, 27, 2016

I’m pasting this understated masterpiece here so as to never lose it, and in case it helps others like it did me. A digital cutting from The Irish Times: From Here The word for it might disappear, the road run through its invisible wall. The view from here is the border vanishing around an otter,

Buy The Maximum Wage Magazine!

By - David
Posted on June, 13, 2016June, 20, 2016

The Maximum Wage Magazine is now available to buy! A 72-page A4 full-colour glossy magazine splashed on every page with photos from the live show and packed with brand new art and articles on earning a living. Only £3.50 & FREE delivery within the UK. Where Are You? Within UK £3.50 GBPOverseas £10.95 GBP Performance