The exposed and elusive soul is the essence of these texts. To relish, little by little, following its music, without trying to understand, but understanding it all. ‘Why bother trying...
Echo’s Bones is a public art project led by Sarah Browne with autistic young people in North County Dublin. It borrows its title from an unpublished story by Samuel Beckett...
Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity catalogues a 12 year performance art project between the artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti. Edited by Catherine Marshall and published by WAAG (Women...
Antenna is a collection of revised experimental drawings and homemade prints created about a decade ago. From humble and monochrome beginnings, each piece was given a new lease of life,...
Lovers’ Lane is the first collaborative zine curated and published by Don’t Try Anything New, featuring work by young creatives across different disciplines.Artists in order of appearance: Farren van Wyk,...
Take an intimate glimpse into the sultry mood of a lazy afternoon or a passionate sleepover. The curtains are open and the lights are on. Why not steal away a...
Could cars be the most fitting mascots for the emotional highs and lows of our messy lives? The lovers, the haters, the serial heartbreakers. It’s hard not to fall asleep...
Bringing together the artist’s own photographs, found archival material, handmade drawings, oral accounts and extracts from literature, Lay Her Down Upon Her Back looks at the history of medical mistreatment...
Some art forms have had more of an impact on the language of graphic design than others, but not many have helped contribute the same dynamism, energy and vitality as...
Playing with typographic puzzle pieces is one of the joys of graphic design and typographers have many entertaining, esoteric and eccentric options at their disposal. The Typography Idea Book presents...
An epic folkloric guide to rambling, re-enchanting the landscape, and reconnecting with nature. In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain, engaging with the...
Vol 9 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
Shadow The Solar Trail · From A Cosmic Drift Through Higher Prairie documents Richard Proffitt's 2023 exhibitions at VISUAL, Carlow and The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon. Includes a 32-page zine featuring texts...
Walking through the Luxembourgish Ardennes, Gaffney documented his wanderings using polaroids. Later, he re-explored certain routes after nightfall, to photograph under the light of the full moon. Bathed in its...
The work presented in this book is an invitation to undertake an urgent architectural and political thought experiment: to rethink today’s struggles for justice and equality not only from the...
This richly illustrated catalogue celebrates two genre-defying artworks by Jesse Jones Tremble Tremble and The Tower. Includes contributions from feminist activist and writer Silvia Federici, curators Tessa Giblin and Tara Londi, leading...
The accompanying book to the video for the Lyon Biennial 2022. Do humans take themselves too seriously? After all, they consider themselves the most intelligent beings on earth. They claim to...
Global awareness of climate change is increasing, and the scientific evidence is incontrovertible: an environmental crisis is upon us. Art and Climate Change presents an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary...
Douglas Crimp (b. Coeur d’Alene, USA, 1944; d. New York, USA, 2019) was one of the most influential art critics, curators, and AIDS activists of his time. His writings on...
Douglas Crimp (b. Coeur d’Alene, USA, 1944; d. New York, USA, 2019) was one of the most influential art critics, curators, and AIDS activists of his time. His writings on...
William O’Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in...
The mythical Kirin is a noble, gentle creature from ancient times that is said to bring peace, justice and happiness. The Kirin is of hybrid nature, with the head of a dragon,...
Zoom Books is a collection of three photo shoots taken by Catherine Walsh through Zoom conference and made into visual art by Pénélope Delaur. Catherine was inspired to collaborate with...
Broken English Goodbye brings together ES Kibele Yarman's illustrations and poems on departure and detachment, produced between the years 2015-2020. 'Broken English Goodbye is an assemblage made up of 20 fragments of a...
It is the second volume in a social and political trilogy of artist books: ‘I Saw You’, 2007; ‘I Must Behave’, 2009; ‘I Drive You Crazy, to the Moon’, which...
EVER GIVEN by Rindon Johnson is the artist’s latest collection of poetry and visual art, examining the contentious relationship between work and title. Johnson’s titles, which range from paragraph-long philosophical investigations...
The Law of Large Numbers is a publication with original writings by artist Rindon Johnson that accompanies the exhibitions Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies at SculptureCenter, New York, and...
In L.A. Warman's anti-sequel to her award-winning debut Whore Foods, two anonymous lovers traverse the vast and lonely desert which has blighted most of the continent. In their possession is the...
'A factory in transition from workplace to event venue is haunted by Foucault’s ideas of a disciplinary society and the ghosts of former workers. But I myself feel like a...
'Phlogiston is based on photographs taken in southern Poland and the Czech Republic. I felt an unexplained sense of dread there, and, while walking in one city, I observed that...
Baron is pleased to present artist Joyce Lee’s debut book, dedicated to the artists archive of watercolour and pencil works, exploring aspects of love, sex and sexuality, and the human...
The third edition of Death Book collects contemporary depictions of death, in the form of drawings, illustrations and paintings. Before photography was invented, we relied on illustrations, paintings and, even more...
For the third edition of Baroness, photographer Yushi Li takes us on a journey of desire, fantasy and looking, through a photographic study of the male body. For Li’s debut...
Edited and published by Matthew Holroyd, the founder of Baron and Baroness Magazines and photographer Edith Bergfors, the death book is a series of loosely connected vignettes exploring photography’s relationship...
For the seventh instalment of Baron photographer Richard Kern explores the dichotomy between girl and woman, between the nude and the dressed, and between playfulness and seriousness. Kern does not...
'I want your meat & cheese, blood & pie' is a collaborative picture book from British artists, Julie Verhoeven and Alan Faulds, whose works - created in response to each...
Calling the shots from beneath her Versace satin sheets, Baroness is back for the holiday season with her scintillating book Baroness by Sarah Baker and a very new guest editor, Donatella Versace. The...
For Alice Hawkins second book ‘Dear Dolly’, the photographer uses herself to appropriate the imagery and guises employed by country western sensation and American dream, Dolly Parton. As Hawkins states herself...
Titled after Soft Cell's version of the original 1965 Gloria Jones track, Tainted Love is the first book-length inquiry into the subject of the twisted romantic ballad, giving a sense...
Created in 1952, Jackson Pollock’s “Convergence” is one of the American artist’s most famous drip paintings. It first came out as a jigsaw puzzle in 1964. Then one of the...
Partial overview of meanings: denoting the people of Persia; Iranians (colloquial) short for: Persian carpet one of the great tragedies by the Greek poet Aeschylus Volker Renner's latest artist's book Die...
Call them readymades: plastic food replicas (manufactured for food photographers?) out of which Volker Renner has assembled a visual ode to German cuisine that may well ruin your appetite. The...
The blurriness that pervades this artist's book by Volker Renner starts right with the title: the Dutch "aangeschoten" is colloquial for "tipsy" but, more literally, also means "wounded by a shot," alcoholic or otherwise....
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise...
From one of Ireland’s leading curators and writers on visual art, John Hutchinson’s Countercultures, Communities, and Indra’s Net unravels an understanding of embodied life, of commonality and sharing.Beginning with his lived experience...
Seanie Barron roams around his native Askeaton, looking for wooden branches left in a field or ditch, or growing in a bush. He then collects and shapes them into walking...
This project is concerned with female members of the Irish diaspora living in England and is engaged with representational imagery and personal testimony from the Irish community ensuring the collective...
Capicua is a collaboration with visual artist Eglé Vismanté. For Stereo Editions' 11th publication, the concept of palindrome number or capicua (from the Catalan “head to tail”) is deployed through...
The theme of our fourth issue stems from conversations within the SEED Collective about experiences of change post-pandemic. So many of us recently went through, or know someone who has...
As printmakers, we follow patterns of iter and reiteration in our marks and processes, ever mindful of the necessity of each step. Just like optimistic gardeners, the marks we make...
How to Live Here is a visual arts project that asks questions about the artist's desire to return to rural Ireland as a queer woman who once left in search...
Evangelos Daskalakis' Kuebiko rises from the experience of the pandemic and captures the mnemonic trace of an Apocalypse. It is an ominous travelogue through a black and white urban landscape,...
A Rose and A Prayer is the first photobook by Ode, a multidisciplinary Brazilian artist working in the realms of directing, styling, writing, and curating. Composed by two photoshoots in...
Unportraits is an collection of anonymous portraits captured by Google Street View's cold and impersonal camera. The series is dedicated to non-portraits of Brazilians. The images are presented here in...
Contretemps is a project developed by visual artist Romeu Silveira during his residency at the Cité internationale des arts, in Paris (FR), between January and March 2020. The book is...
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.-Oscar Wilde In Then and There, the well-known photographer Harvey Stein documents a...
When you’re sick people say things:What are avocados good for?Your stomach is your second brain.You probably shouldn’t be eating that.You can stay as long as you like.I didn’t sign up...
Epilogue to After Geography Tomorrow is another day for meTime to dreamTime to think I travel along these paths in circular motionsSearching for something that is missing In these spaces I...
Alleyways occupy a unique position in the urban landscape. Neither entirely public nor private, conceptually they are non-places, often without names and left off of maps. They are the negative...
Zero Line Boundary is a mediation and discourse on the 49th parallel – the International Border between the United States of America and Canada, the longest continuous border in the world...
"As I was saying hum, hum was happening. I was saying haw and haw was happening. With a mildly higher voice, my chin a little bit up, eyes staring just above the...
In The View from "No-Man's Land", Shehadeh documents the year 2020 by using online culture's main currency—memes—to tell stories of crashes, depressions, and violence caused by acceleration and the hyper technologies of...
After a long time since the domestication of cats, new tools and gadgets were developed to support cats in gaining their autonomy. Published by Well Gedacht PublishingEdition of 50Softcover16 pages100 x 165...
A Dying Monster is a photographic collection of corporate logos; plastered on people’s bodies, machines, and surroundings. In A Dying Monster, Eren Ileri treats Formula 1 motor racing as a defining...
In his twenty-fifth artist’s book, Volker Renner adapts the courtroom drama genre. On the movie screen, the latter is defined by its heavy reliance on dialogue; Renner, by contrast, lets...
Volker Renner, the collector and recycler of found photographs, has tapped a new source: the website “Faces of the Riot,” which went online within weeks after the storming of the...
Gewinner is Volker Renner’s smallest book to date but, at 384 pages, not the slimmest. It’s coming out on occasion of the visual arts working fellowship from the City of...
Effigy hanging and burning, a specific theatrical form of political protest, has become increasingly visible in the news media, particularly in protests against United States military operations in Afghanistan and...
When Abba was ill is an intimate look at two narratives placed together in time. The outer images portray a sons’ world, trying to find a semblance of normality in...
Lindenstraße, Germany’s oldest soap opera and longest-running TV series, will be put to sleep by the end of 2019. A media phenomenon since it first hit the air - waves...
Pension Schlange Pension Schlange turns the mechanics of classic animal photography on its head. Instead of waiting for hours until the animal to be captured shows itself, this photographer hangs...
Drawing from the Well takes us on a personal journey; a pilgrimage from west Wales to Wexford seeking a deeper understanding of ancestry, roots and inheritance. What is passed from...
Song of the Water presents two stories set in the time of the early saints by Diana Powell. In ‘Gift’, we are submerged into the birth of St David in...
Heldenteile Right on time for the 2018 football world cup, Volker Renner is bringing out his riposte to the conventional collectible card album. His artist’s book Heldenteile pays homage to...
Saint Aidan of Ferns is written by Christopher Power, a historian and librarian living in Ferns. He has tracked the story of St Aidan, the founder and first bishop of...
The Bright Plain contains two short stories by Michelle Dooley Mahon; ‘The Deacon’ and ‘The Meadow of Women’, in which ritual devotions are placed in contemporary contexts. She writes of...
The brown and slightly greasy patent-leather cover brings back memories of family albums that were antiquated long before we got old. Nowadays such heirlooms end up in the trash, at...
The Oldest Music has been compiled by Phil Cope, a photographer and author based in south Wales who has several published works on the subject of holy wells. It explores...
The King's Beards or Hair. As a tribute to Elvis Presley on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his death, Volker Renner stages the King as a collectible silhouette...
“You don’t truly know what your homeland is to you until you’ve traveled to faraway places,” a German saying has it. In his artist’s book But Pedro’s a Pony, Volker...
In Wo waren Sie, Herr Renner? Volker Renner returns to the scenes of his numerous travels over the past years and takes a trip down memory lane. The artist’s book is his...
The project Sleep Tight represents a very different kind of search for clues that challenges the viewer to do his own detective work. Everyone knows Columbo, the slightly quirky American...
Bright frames before blue backgrounds. Rectilinear or, less frequently, curved. The view of the sky is unobstructed or crisscrossed by transverse struts; occasionally clouds gather. One, two, or three pillars...
Die Anderen This book—the title means The Others—presents eighty-seven found photographs, or more precisely speaking, slides. And yes, Volker Renner, who unearthed them, studied with Peter Piller, who works with...
Der Grosse Preis Large golden graphical letters embossed into a hardback jacket made of gray book linen advertise the Grand Prize. “Hang on a second …,” many readers, at least...
A crack in a wall marked with black masking tape, four slices of restructured ham rolled up and laid side by side on a piece of paper towel, several knit...
The book project “A Road Trip Redone” is based on Stephen Shore’s legendary A Road Trip Journal, which served as the matrix for the route, motifs, and layouts. Shore’s book...
Wie war Las Vegas (What was Las Vegas like) is not the portrait of a city. Volker Renner doesn’t waste a single picture on the familiar motifs, and even avoids...
Volker Renner’s images play with our expectations of what a photograph does. The center of his pictures is often veiled or blank, the angles are unusual, a grand hotel’s back...
Portraits 2013-2023 is a look-back to the 10 last years of the Chinese female photographer Vaccine (formerly called SickGirl). A self-written year-by-year introduction opens the book, followed by 120 pages of...
Hypnagogic States is a 58 page publication exploring the strange and uncanny experience of sleep paralysis. The publication features the 1987 study - ‘High Prevalence of Isolated Sleep Paralysis: Kanashibari...
“The sum of what I have seen via screen/bare eyes/a telescope does not come together as a single scene.” - Minji Yi The fifteenth photobook of Aprilsnow Press is photographer...
Ways of Working, starts from an article in the 5th issue of Dot Dot Dot (April 2003). Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, a British graphic designer, contributed an article to the 5th issue...
“The photobook does not contain the photos in a fish tank. It would be ideal for a photobook to release photos and images like fish in the river. The most...
“The photographs of the wild dogs in Bukhansan Mountain will be transcribed on paper and web, perpetually floating around in the infinite purgatory of images. These dogs, of whose existence...
The Train Passed By: Stills starts with director Kam Jeong-won's first feature-length independent film, The Train Passed By. Hee-su, a young female worker, works at a dyeing complex in Daegu....
This is the first arts education book project in Hong Kong that focuses on artists as parents. Through delivering ‘Instructional Art’, the participating artists investigate the numerous possibilities of how...
‘A mosquito barges into your sweet dreams, a gecko hides itself at home, a whale sweeps the town, a wild boar intrudes a kid’s wear shop in a mall, a...
Roseanne Lynch had an 18 month residency at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau in 2018 and 2019. She immersed herself there in the sites of the Bauhaus and its Materials Research...
A singular achievement, Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes explores, with immense care, profound questions about loss, pain and beauty; private memory and public monument; art; complexity; and the shapes of Black...
Hold That Thought is a walk through the work of visual artist Johannes Langkamp. This book is a reflection of an archive with (digital) works of art, experiments, (kinetic) models...
Productive Archiving discusses a variety of problems archival organizations. It mainly focuses on the following three issues with archival organizations that are usually overlooked: first, the question of inclusion in...
In 1969, shortly after moving to Detroit, Lorraine and Fredy Perlman and a group of kindred spirits purchased a printing press from a defunct militant printer and the Detroit Printing...
Idealism and imagination, dreams and reality, all come into play when we consider glass: from an elemental, ritual and decorative material of mysterious origins, to functional, technological, mass-produced commodity. Remaking...
For thousands of years, architects have used models to invent, experiment and communicate. A world in miniature, such models are even more varied in their purposes and materials than their...
Ursula K. Le Guin witnessed and contributed to many of the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the Civil Rights movement and US anti-war and environmental activism. Spanning...
a beam in the karmic strip presents a selection of psychedelic visions and haunted landscapes from Richard Proffitt's recent works on paper. Includes On A Midnight Wild, an accompanying piece of writing by the artist...
‘1-900-660-GALS’ celebrates 80s women's wrestling phenomenon 'GLOW' the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Through the combined visuals of the four talented artists of No Bad News, colourful characters, strong women, and...
Woods found himself in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he came to learn through conversations with locals, of genetic ties between Irish and Icelandic people. From behind the camera, this trip saw Woods documenting...
Love is one of the most difficult things to photograph, yet this anthology of moving, unexpected images captures the heart of what it means to know and love another. From...
Weave is the second of the Solstice Stories, an innovative series designed to celebrate the small, the brilliant, and the beautiful. In this unique collaboration, writers Deirdre Sullivan and Oein...
From Brutalist blocks to Modernist towers, this book is a visual celebration of 68 of London’s most iconic council estates, reminding us of the pride, thought and innovation that went...
Bill Young is a US pilot.Bill Young has stayed in a lot of hotels. Bill Young likes carpets. Now you can share his joy. From Austin to Amsterdam, Lille to...
Vol 8 of Winter Papers, Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation...
Passing Time is a collaborative publication between the artists, An Gee Chan and Justin Larkin. The publication presents a series of paintings of nocturnal skies alongside a collection of etchings...
Issue #2 of SEED contemplates ‘labyrinths’. In Greek mythology, the labyrinth is an elaborate maze. For artists working today, it holds symbolic and psychological significance as we try to find...
Originally from Chicago, Ryan W. Kennihan has been working in Dublin since 2007 and has taught at various universities. His architecture is reserved, peaceful and elegant. Each building is a...
The majority of discussions surrounding young Sydney-based artist Daniel Boyd’s particular iteration of postcolonialist history painting, video and installation work have centred on the idea of the deletion of information...
Groundwork, a major new book by Sydney-based artist Bianca Hester, finds its footing in the volcanic terrain of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand). An expanded sculptural project that grew...
Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the...
Tracing the Melbourne artist’s photorealist graphite renderings of fruit, foliage and figure, Mad Deep Thoughts captures Riley Payne’s technical acumen and offbeat humour to equal effect. Comprising uncanny accumulations and pairings of classical...
Danielle Mericle’s The Dark Wood explores broad questions of history and our collective ability to document and learn from the past. Through intertwined images of abandoned Greco-Roman casts, an ancient...
Knowledge subjectivises us – it makes us who and what we are. It informs our evolving sense of self and our place in the world. One of the most powerful...
Edited by Kate Rhodes and Nella Themelios, this expanded second edition of An unreliable guidebook to jewellery by Lisa Walker further explores how the work of the internationally celebrated New...
Skein Press' first publication of 2022 and the first Solstice Stories book is by writers Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Mícheál McCann in collaboration with photographer Michelle Moloney. Through poetry, imagery...
The Restless Bogman is a book written by Artist, Laura Fitzgerald that accompanied her exhibition, "I have made a place" at the Crawford Art Gallery in 2021. Through the book, Laura wanted to...
Revenants documents selected works from Irish artist Kevin Mooney's recent practice. His paintings utilise languages of expressionism, alongside figurative elements that disclose political, social and cultural histories. As well as...
Anna Ehrenstein (b. 1993; lives and works in Berlin and Tirana) studies the exchanges between humans and objects in the digital era. Individual realities and reflections around migrant visual cultures,...
Of Bounds, which includes an essay by the artist, combines two works that focus on land reform, borders, and the design of space. ‘Líne’, a series of colour photographs shot over...
Sampler is an artist's book on the occasion of Aleana Egan's solo show at Void Gallery, Derry. Egan has a nuanced approach to working with materials that are familiar and that...
Through a series of interconnecting paintings and drawings, poetry and insert leporello book the publication I Build My Own Island explores Pilkington's connections to Sligo. A series of recurring characters inhabit...
Amazonia: Anthology as Cosmology is devoted to Amazonia, its peoples, allies, and nonhuman spirits, and their myriad material and immaterial practices, from certain cosmopolitics and visual languages to past and...
A Special Area of ConVersation is a publication resulting from an artist residency sited on the Fingal Coast in Co. Dublin in 2019. The residency was part of 'An Urgent Inquiry'...
First published in 1971, A Documentary HerStory of Women Artists in Revolution documents the efforts of a group of women artists, filmmakers, writers, critics, and cultural workers organised around advancing...
The invention and continuance of the “white race” is not just a political, social and legal phenomenon – it is also visual. From the advent of early colonial photography in...
To Be Determined: Photography and the Future is a book with a radical proposal: the photograph is as much an object of the future as it is of the past. Exploring...
Ireland is an island surrounded by ocean, with a high percentage of its population living in the coastal zone and has often been referred to as an “island nation”. The...
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where...
Failed Images: Photography and its Counter-Practices tries to understand photography in its difference from the reality it shows. It sets as a task to analyse the different ways the photograph transforms...
Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in...
Holy Pictures captures the last vestiges of popular devotional practices once widespread in Ireland. Tony Murray’s vivid images from the late 1970s and early 1980s are a compelling record of an...
In Anna Charlotte’s new book “The Word of Colours”, she shares her love for creative power, nature’s inherent wisdom and her great passion for living an holistic life through colour,...
Why did Andy Warhol decide to enter the music business by producing the Velvet Underground, and what did the band expect to gain in return? What made Yoko Ono use...
A History of Head Trauma is an experiment in short story making and presented as part of RHA FUTURES, Series 3, Episode 2. The beginning section of the book was...
First published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an “active attempt to reshape...
An Atlas of Agenda's is a political, social and economic atlas: informing the public about socio-political power structures and activating opportunities for the self and the commons. The French research...
“Dear Brian O’Doherty,Here is my article, short enough and I apologize; I hope you can accept him [sic] and it will be in a sufficient harmony with the issue you...
In the light-filled Centre Gallery of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, behind layers of liner paper and white emulsion, lay, until recently, a very well-kept secret. One, Here,...