Justin's Amazing World At Fenner Paper: Valle Walkley

Monday, 26 August 2019

The Dark Self

Shown at York St Mary's in the city of York, Susan Aldworth’s exhibition The Dark Self was inspired by her research into sleep during her three year residency at the University of York working with neuroscientist Professor Miles Whittington and art historian Professor Michael White.

This is the supporting literature, which is a single piece of paper but which folds down in a most interesting way, forming a diagonal fold.

The finished size is 210x120mm and is folded so it forms this 8pp format as you can see from the birds eye view below...

...and below shows the way the text concertina's into the folded spine.

Below shows it folded out flat.

Images showing the way that the diagonal fold works

The publication folds out to a finished size of 420x600mm (see below) which as I mentioned previously folds down to a size of 210x120mm - which actually makes a 20pp, however as the front and back cover has the fold, it's probably more accurately described as a 16pp - it's a very clever fold indeed!

Monoprint by Susan Aldworth 2017

It is printed offset litho in just two metallic colours - silver and gold, the gold only featuring on the Monoprint image above. One of our black paper ranges, Notturno 110gsm was chosen as it is a bit smoother than other black ranges and is lightweight enough (but not too light!) to perform the tricky fold. Below shows the detail of the front cover and the type in the silver which works superbly.

The literature concept and design is by Valle Walkley. Print and finishing is by Calverts.

https://susanaldworth.com/
https://www.yorkstmarys.org.uk/exhibition/the-dark-self/
http://www.vallewalkley.com/
https://www.calverts.coop/

Posted by Justin Hobson 26.08.2019

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Extreme Imagination

The first ever exhibition of works of art created by artists who have no “mind’s eye” casts new light on the creative brain. Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye features works by people who cannot visualise, alongside works by those who have particularly vivid mental imagery.

This is the catalogue for ‘Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye’, an art exhibition produced by the Eye’s Mind research team at The University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health, curated by Susan Aldworth and Matthew MacKisack.

Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye presents their artwork, inviting us to consider the impact of these phenomena on the creative process. How can someone make anything without being able to imagine what they want it to look like? Is there a distinctly hyperphantasic kind of art? Aphantasia and its opposite teach us about human diversity: the easily-missed, potentially startling differences between individuals’ inner lives. The work of the participating artists – and designers, architects, and writers – demonstrates the diversity of means by which things come to be made, challenging long-held beliefs about what it means to be ‘creative’. Find interviews with participating artists here.

The catalogue is divided in two halves in what I would describe as a 'double-ender' - the catalogue can be read from either side – essays on the art, science and philosophy of ‘extreme imagination’ one way; turn it over and you see artist interviews preceding their work on the other.

Size of the publication is 190x115mm, portrait and is perfect bound. The 108pp text is printed on Chromolux 1 sided 120gsm from Zanders in Germany. Chromolux is a cast coated paper, which is gloss one side and uncoated reverse. This publication has been collated in such a way that the gloss coated is one side facing an uncoated side as you can see in the image below: