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AnomieSpring/Summer 2016

Anomie Publishing is an international publishing house for the arts based in the UK and dedicated to enabling quality arts books – especially small and medium print-run titles – to reach the book trade.

Anomie works in partnership with public and commer-cial galleries, museums, arts organisations, agencies, academic institutions, charities, collectors, artist studios and private clients to publish and co-publish books.

Anomie was established in summer 2013 by publisher and editor Matt Price, who has worked in arts publishing since the turn of the millennium, collaborating with clients including Phaidon, Rizzoli, Hatje Cantz, Koenig Books, and Thames & Hudson.

Working alongside its international distribution partners, Casemate Art, Anomie’s titles are available in the UK, Europe and the USA, with worldwide distribution for selected publications.

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Cover image:Oliver CleggEverytime I think I have discovered something I realise a poet has been there before me, 2008Mixed media, various dimensionsPhoto: Andy Keate© Oliver Clegg

This is the first monograph on the British- born, New York-based artist Oliver Clegg. A polyphonic and multidisciplinary artist, Clegg’s oeuvre stretches from painting, drawing and printmaking to sculpture, installation, site- specific art, participatory projects and beyond. Indeed, his practice is in many ways a shining example of ‘post-medium’ creativity today, pursuing the essence of art itself beyond any specific medium or artform. The irony is, he’s amazing with each artform too. With his erudite and striking repertoire, and his diverse materials and methods, Clegg offers the viewer a complex, sometimes playful, at other times moving journey into existential and ontological notions of objecthood and matter, images and signs, language and communication, creation and being. From gallery walls to the streets of New York, from Freud’s house to the Joshua Tree National Park, Clegg turns up to do remarkable things with the fabric of spacetime.

Oliver Clegg

Introduction by: Matt PriceEssay by:Martin HerbertInterview by:Sina Najafi

288pp + 4pp coversHardback 305 x 220 mmc. 135 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-07-5RRP: £30 / €40 / $45UK Release: 7 July 2016Designed by Dominique ClausenEdited by Matt PricePrinted by Asia Pacific Offset, ChinaPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

Sensory Systems documents an exhibition presented at Grundy Art Gallery in autumn 2015 to coincide with the Blackpool Illumi-nations – a six-mile-long outdoor display of lights that has drawn many visitors to the town each year since it began in 1912. The exhibition featured works by internationally acclaimed artists interested in the technology and science of light, and how this can be used to affect our perceptual experiences of space. Whether through sculpture, projec-tion or immersive architecture, each artwork invited a dialogue with the viewer, utilising colour, pattern, movement and other factors to evoke a variety of spatial and sensory experiences. The featured artists were: Angela Bulloch, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anthony McCall and Conrad Shawcross. The publication has been supported by Blackpool Council, Coastal Communities Fund, and Arts Council England.

Sensory Systems

Foreword by:Richard ParryEssay by:Luke Skrebowski

64pp + 4pp coversSoftback 305 x 235 mmc. 30 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-10-5RRP: £18 / €23 / $26UK Release: 31 March 2016Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikEdited by Richard ParryPrinted by Team Impression, LeedsPublished by Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, and Anomie PublishingDistributed by Casemate Art

James Turrell is widely acknowledged as one of the most important artists working today. Since the mid 1960s his principal concern has been the way we apprehend light and space. In summer/autumn 2015, Houghton Hall in Norfolk hosted an ambitious exhibition of Turrell’s light pieces, many collected by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, owner of Hough-ton, who has long been an admirer of Turrell’s work. This publication has been produced to document the exhibition, which was centred around works from the Houghton collection, complemented by additional loans. A high-light was a unique, site-specific installation created especially for Houghton Hall – The Illumination – lighting the whole west façade of the house each evening. LightScape followed three highly acclaimed exhibitions by Turrell in 2013/14 at the Guggenheim, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

LightScapeJames Turrell at Houghton Hall

Foreword by:David CholmondeleyText by:Peter MurrayInterview by:Hiram C. Butler

102pp + 4pp coversHardback, clothbound with dustjacket260 x 300 mmc. 60 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9932882-0-3RRP: £35 / €50 / $55UK Release: 10 December 2015Designed by Peter B. WillbergEdited by David CholmondeleyPublished by Houghton Hall in association with Anomie PublishingDistributed by Casemate Art

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain’s most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, themes and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative and sometimes provocative. These painterly chimerae are cultural mash-ups. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes witty, at other times simply beautiful, odd and arresting, they are always thought-provoking, inviting the view-er to think across time, cultures, countries and ideologies about the many languages of art. As well as encouraging us to look at historical works with fresh eyes, Lenkiewicz’s practice demands that we think about visual culture today, suggesting our understanding of the past and present rests on shifting sands.

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Foreword by:Edward Lucie-SmithText by:Richard Dyer

236pp + 4pp coversHardback, clothbound with dustjacket320 x 268 mmc. 150 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-09-9RRP: £45 / €60 / $70UK Release: 21 January 2016Designed by Peter B. Willberg with James SuttonEdited by Mark SandersPrinted by Castelli Bolis, ItalyPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

to the Bramley Family of Frestonia is a pub-lication documenting a public art project by Glasgow-based contemporary artist Nathan Coley (b.1967). During the 1970s a group of squatters moved into derelict Victorian houses in the Freston Road area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – around 150 people were living in 35 houses at one point towards the end of the decade. They became a close-knit and complex community. In late summer 2015, on the site where Frestonia once stood, the first phase of apartments designed by Haworth Tompkins Architects and built by the charitable organisation The Peabody Trust was completed. Coley was commissioned to make new artwork for the site. This publication presents the large- and small-scale sculptures created by Coley for the site and residents, as well as recording the history of the Frestonians through a variety of documentation and the photography of former resident Tony Sleep.

Nathan Coleyto the Bramley Family of Frestonia

Text by:Nathan Coley

190pp + 4pp coversPaperback, 210 x 148 mmc. 60 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-05-1RRP: £24 / €35 / $45UK Release: 30 July 2015Designed by Hector PottieEdited by Moira JeffreyPrinted by Identity Print, UKPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

Three Books by Tamara Tracz is a special three-volume slipcased publication. It is a story that follows several generations of a Jewish family as their lives unfold in various cities, countries and continents during the twentieth century. It is a story of births and deaths, of lives led and of the forces that shape them. But Three Books is not written in the usual form of family biography, and is not only the story of this family’s history. It is also a story about stories, about the passing on of information between generations and different branches of a family over time. It is a story of fragments and recollections, of oral histories and letters sent, of trying to piece things together. A unique and inspiring person, a writer, film-maker and artist based in London, Tracz does things in ways that perhaps only she can, for every word in this book has been handwritten, and reproduced as she planned and drew it, in all manner of configurations and patterns.

Tamara TraczThree Books

Text by:Tamara Tracz

3 volumes, 72pp + 4pp covers eachHardback/slipcase, 135 x 210 mmc. 15 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-04-4RRP: £35 / €48 / $55UK Release: 18 June 2015Designed by Tamara Tracz with Herman LeliePrinted by EBS, Verona, ItalyCo-published by Anomie Publishing and Parkholme PressDistributed by Casemate Art

Breathless is the first monograph on the emerging British painter Benjamin Senior. His paintings conjure up a world that is delight-ful, curious and distinctly his own. It is a world in which bathers lounge around pools and swimmers limber up before diving in; where we find people doing yoga and various exercise routines both indoors and out; where walkers and joggers take us out to the countryside, or into the city with their dogs. But despite their clear iconography and endorphin-rousing semi-otics, Senior’s paintings are no mere campaign to get, or to keep, art lovers fit and healthy. For they are also carefully conceived and meticu-lously executed studies of the human body, of shape, line and form, tone, light and shadow. They are engaging explorations of composition and colour, pattern and geometry, texture and materials, the natural and the manmade, with a strange sense of timelessness matched by a feeling of silence, loneliness and isolation.

Benjamin SeniorBreathless

Introduction by:Sacha CraddockTexts by:Ben StreetGabor Gyory

100pp + 4pp coversHardback, 225 x 195 mmc. 60 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-06-8RRP: £25 / €35 / $40UK Release: 9 July 2015Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Pressision, UKPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

Anna Freeman Bentley (b. Freeman, 1982) is a painter based in London. Her practice explores the built environment, architecture and interiors, inviting emotive, psychologi-cal and semiotic readings of space. With an intense, regularly dark palette and energetic yet often intricate brushwork, her paintings depict all manner of places – derelict fac-tories and warehouses, baroque buildings, shops, cafes, and modern and corporate architecture. With a focus on the relation-ships between architecture, its function and use, how these uses change over time, and how streets, communities and cities decline, regenerate and gentrify, Freeman Bentley’s practice documents the changing vocabulary of architecture and captures some of the complex dynamics and states of mind that these places engender. This, the artist’s first monograph, features over forty paintings spanning her career to date.

Anna Freeman BentleyMobility and Grandeur

Texts by:Michele RobecchiMarina CashdanBen Quash

96pp + 4pp coversHardback, 220 x 190 mmc. 40 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-03-7RRP: £24 / €30 / $40UK Release: 12 Feb 2015Edited by Matt PriceDesigned by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Pressision, LeedsPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

Sarah Medway’s abstract paintings are a deli-cate, evocative and sincere investigation into the nature of light as it manifests itself through the myriad environments that surround us. She navigates through the different seasons, sometimes on foreign shores – from the Med-iterranean to Scandinavia and beyond – at other times closer to her canal-side studio in central London. She leads us through different times of day, from dawn to dusk and long into the night. She takes us up to the skies, into sunlight and shade, clouds and fog, rainbows and sunsets. She takes us into fields, along the coastline, and far out to sea. With her distinctive vocabulary of abstract marks and shimmering palettes, her works build into complex webs of patterns and textures that capture something of the experience of perceiving light, colour and shapes as they filter through the atmosphere into our eyes, minds, memories and subconscious.

Sarah MedwayVoyage

Texts by:Andrew LambirthSue Hubbard

112pp + 4pp coversFlexibound, 260 x 225 mmc. 75 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-08-2RRP: £20 / €28 / $30UK Release: 11 June 2015Designed by Peter B. Willberg with James SuttonPrinted by Castelli Bolis, ItalyPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

Rachel Kneebone (b. 1973, Oxfordshire) is a London-based artist internationally renowned for her porcelain sculptures that intricately fuse human, natural and abstract forms in ways that are simultaneously serene and cacophonous, beautiful yet grotesque, otherworldly yet full of humanity. Exploring themes such as sexual desire, mortality, anguish and despair, Kneebone’s sculp-tures are contemporary visions of eternal truths, conveyed with endless imagination and impressive artistry. The publication features works from the artist’s acclaimed solo exhibition at Brooklyn Museum in 2012, which included the artist’s works in dialogue with bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin. Curated by Catherine Morris, Curator at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at Brooklyn Museum, the exhibition highlighted the two artists’ shared interest in mourning, ecstasy and death in figurative sculpture.

Rachel KneeboneRegarding Rodin

Foreword by:Catherine MorrisText by:Ali Smith

88pp + 4pp coversHardback, 170 x 235 mmc. 50 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-01-3RRP: £24 / €30 / $40UK Release: 21 August 2014Designed by Herman Lelie and Stefania BonelliProduced by fandg.co.ukPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

Wot No Bike is a new limited print-run publi-cation of the work of Paul Simonon (b.1955). Growing up in London in the 1960s and 70s he found himself part of the community of Bikers and Rockers that emerged from the shadow of post-war austerity and which lit the touch paper for the punk revolution within which Simonon came to prominence as bassist with the legendary punk band The Clash. Since the band split in the mid 1980s, Simonon has divided his time between music and art projects. With Simonon’s in-dependent-minded, outsider spirit, Wot No Bike features twenty-two paintings depicting the stock-in-trade of his life as a Biker – poised between still life and autobiography. Inspired by modernist and realist painting traditions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Simonon’s work is a personal exploration of British subculture and coun-terculture of the post-war decades.

Paul SimononWot No Bike

Text by:David LancasterInterview by:Tim Marlow

64pp + 4pp coversHardback, 285 x 200 mmc. 22 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-02-0RRP: £30 / €40 / $50UK Release: 22 Jan 2015Edited by: B. Cameron & S. ReesDesigned by: Martin Bell / FruitmachinePrinted by Grafiche Antiga, ItalyPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

London and Seoul-based Korean artist Meekyoung Shin (b.1967) is internationally renowned for her sculptures that probe the mis- and re-translations that often emerge when cultural objects are uprooted from their original context. Made from soap, her works replicate artefacts and canonicalworks of art, from Asian porcelain vases to Greek and Roman sculptures, translating between continents, cultures and centuries in the process. The publication presents works from a variety of ongoing seriesproduced by the artist over the past fifteen years, including the ‘Translation Series’ and ‘Written in Soap: A Plinth Project’. Ques-tioning assumptions about power, value and history in the creation and understanding of public and private collections of art and antiquities across Eastern and Western cultures, the texts explore some of the many facets of this celebrated artist’s practice.

Meekyoung Shin

Texts by:Jonathan WatkinsBen TufnellKyung AnJade Keunhye Lim

108pp + 4pp coversSoftback, 280 × 220 mmc. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-5-4RRP: £18 / €22 / $30UK Release: 5 December 2013Edited by Anne BloodCo-ordinated by Kyung AnDesigned by Matt WatkinsPublished by Anomie Publishing, UK, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre UK, LondonDistributed by Casemate Art

This monograph on Iranian-born, Brooklyn- based painter Kamrooz Aram (b.1978) presents the Palimpsest series, partly inspired by the painting-over of graffiti on the streets of New York by the authorities. The ongoing cycle of painting, covering-up and repainting connects with Aram’s long-standing fascination with modernism and the legacies of Abstract painting. Also run-ning through the series is a floral motif that Aram appropriated from a Persian carpet in a Manhattan shop – a motif that re-emerges within the layers of accumulated and erased marks on his canvases. For many years, Aram’s work has engaged the role that ornament has played in painting. The Palimpsest series expands on this project, raising questions about the possibilities of contemporary abstract painting, exploring whether the process of image-making can become central to the meaning of a painting.

Kamrooz AramUnstable Paintings forAnxious Interiors

Texts by:Eva DíazMedia FarzinMurtaza ValiKamrooz Aram

80pp + 4pp coversHardback, 318 × 248 mmc. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-6-1RRP: £30 / €35 / $45UK Release: 1 May 2014Edited by Yasmin AtassiDesigned by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Die Keure, BrugesPublished by Green Art Gallery, Dubai and Anomie PublishingDistributed by Casemate Art

Caroline Walker (b. 1982, Dunfermline) has established herself as one of the UK’s most exciting figurative painters of her gen-eration working internationally today. By means of a seductive yet forthright use of paint, Walker makes paintings that explore ideas of femininity in relation to architec-ture, addressing people’s physical, psycho-logical, emotional and social relationships with the buildings in which they spend time. By depicting women undertaking all manner of activities, from everyday chores, sleeping and sunbathing to more obscure or dramatic scenarios, she takes the viewer inside people’s private worlds and states of mind. While the paintings are often charm-ing and appealing, there is regularly some-thing odd or unexpected underlying them – occasionally verging on the threatening or dangerous. Sometimes dream homes can be anything but…

Caroline WalkerIn Every Dream Home

Texts by:Marco LivingstoneJane NealInterview by:Matt Price

80pp + 4pp coversHardback, 190 x 220 mmc. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-0-9RRP: £20 / €25 / $30 UK Release: 1 August 2013Designed by Joe Gilmore, QubikPublished by AnomieDistributed by Casemate Art

The paintings of Robert Fry (b. 1980, Lon-don) confront viewers with an engaging exploration of the human form that asks profound questions about people’s physical presence in the universe and the psycho-logical, emotional and spiritual engage-ment we have with the world through our bodies. With a deep sense of civilizations past, from the prehistoric to the ancient Egyptian, Medieval and Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond, Fry navigates a complex visual language that bridges the figurative and the abstract in a way that is evocative of body and mind, matter and spirit, life and death. Fry’s search for univer-sal truths leads into our subconscious minds and neuroses. Both sacred and profane, Fry’s work masterfully employs colour, mark, line, shape and form to bring us face to face with our inner and outer selves, with our humanity and, ultimately, with our own mortality.

Robert Fry

Texts by:Mamuka BliadzeJane NealDr. Anthony Fry

88pp + 4pp coversHardback, 280 × 220 mmc. 60 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-4-7RRP: £30 / €35 / $45UK Release: 17 October 2013Designed by Joanna DeansPublished by Anomie Publishing, UK, and Galerie Kornfeld, BerlinDistributed by Casemate Art