I fashion a studio in a Victorian living-room, Peter Maybury

"In my twenties, it seems important to have a city-centre studio. I find a concrete boxabove an alteration centre in a building with a distinctive zig-zag façade I've admired for years. The space on the top floor, rumoured to have had a dubious past, is partitioned into several small rooms, and I rip all of this out, filling a skip with the spoil. I paint the concrete floor grey and bring up studio equipment and furnitureI scavenged from skips, which I repair and adapt over time. The studio is home to bicycles, a sofa, music recording equipment, a photo-darkroom, and is used as meeting space, gallery, rehearsal room and recording studio. There's music playing all the time. We make a lot of graphic design, art projects, video editing, we record albums, and host events. The studio becomes a place where people drop by when they're in town." 

ALSO editions is a Dublin-based publications imprint co-ordinated by Peter Maybury. It is set to release its first four titles in 2026; two by Peter Maybury: ‘Various erasures and extractions: on memory, perception, property, recordings, and accounts of being there.’ and ‘I fashion a studio in a Victorian living-room’; ‘Apt 23 Moonlight Rose, Forevermore Rd, Co. Dublin, D01 P2M3’ by Ploypailin Fern Jitphulphon, and ‘Blackout Poetry or ‘Design is Lost’ in the pages of Domus, Design, Industrial Design, Industrijsko Oblikovanje’, a collection of works by Laura Fenner, Wayne Gannon, Orla Goodman, Robyn Murray, Meaghan O’Brien, Aoife O’Toole.

ALSO began as an entity through which to present work to students, and to present the work of students generated during modules at the School of Art & Design, TU Dublin. This began with the pop-exhibition ‘Formats’ showing books and printed publications from my collection, in sizes ranging from very small books (60x87mm) to tabloid size; ‘Finishes’ was an exhibition of more than 90 books on which I have collaborated; the zine SELECT YOUR NETWORK stemming from the module ‘SELECT YOUR NETWORK message montage sequence’ which I piloted in the second semester, 2018; and a reference book table permanently located in the design studios. Subsequently we made a wall-work presenting 446 Instagram posts from students as part of their research during the module. Current and on-going displays include slideshows and floorshows and a vitrine containing samples from various collections, all presented at TU Dublin School of Art & Design.

Published by Peter Maybury
ALSO Editions
24 pages + polypropylene insert with unique cut-out text
edition of 50 copies, with rubber stamp logo

165 x 195mm