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Archive: Monday School with Half-handed Cloud

Thursday 19th January 2012, 8.00pm St Barnabas Church, Shacklewell Row, Dalston, London, E8 2EA We asked Oakland based Indie musician and artist John Ringhofer (aka Half-handed Cloud of Asthmatic Kitty Records) to join us in making a show as part of the Monday School Project. He brought with him several unreleased songs and his extensive

Monday School Illuminations

Monday School Illuminations Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 10 four screenprints 182 x 260 mm £450 (£630 framed) Drawing upon the monastic tradition of illuminating manuscripts, and the Nonconformist practice of charting the Bible narrative, we made these screenprints as a commission for the new buildings at the church where David went to Sunday School

Credit Crunch

Credit Crunch Eddie Farrell & Henningham Family Press 2009 Edition 70 screenprint dimensions vary £180 (£348 framed) Exhibited at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2011 We were printing “price prints” with Eddie Farrell as the recession hit in 2009; packets of groceries he had bought that he then screenprinted with their original value in the hope

Austerity Measure

Austerity Measure Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 50 screenprint and lasercut 460 x 340 x 2 mm £180 (£348 framed) Exhibited in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2012 It isn’t just everything that is solid that melts into thin air, language itself becomes bankrupt, and loses currency. We kept a post-it note on the radio

Trench

Trench (bold, italic) Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 75 screenprint 184 x 262 mm £138 (£228 framed) In our An Unknown Soldier project we are writing as people who have felt the legacy of the First World War, primarily through family stories, but not first-hand. We wanted to depict the impression it had made upon

Royal Poster (left aligned)

Royal Poster (left aligned) Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 30 screenprint 20 x 25in £234 (£390 framed) Selected C0llections: Victoria and Albert Museum Saison Poetry Library (Royal Festival Hall) Royal Poster (left aligned), is from our An Unknown Soldier project, which ruminates on the meaning of a memorial to an unknown soldier in the age

Imperial Poster (fully justified)

Imperial Poster (fully justified) Henningham Family Press 2011 Edition 30 screenprint 22 x 30in £234 (£390 framed) Selected C0llections: Victoria and Albert Museum Imperial Poster (fully justified), is from our An Unknown Soldier project, which ruminates on the meaning of a memorial to an unknown soldier in the age of DNA testing. Does he now

Puppets, Broadcasts and Stress

I took a walk across town yesterday, south to Kreuzberg. My friend Michael Schoenke had invited me over to watch the European Championship match between Germany and Portugal. The game didn’t start until 8.45pm so apart from that kick-off time I was free of a niggling deadline for what felt like the first time this

The Clocks Went Forward Tonight

I lost an hour somewhere But it’s that time of year I once wrote a song in half an hour it was called Clocks.* I remember trying to write down everything I was thinking from quarter to until quarter past 12 on the night winter officially turned into spring. That was in 1981, upstairs in