The Gallery

Plastic Vanitas - by Mariele Neudecker

ISBN: 978-0-901196-67-5

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A Short Grand Tour

Professor Simon Olding writes about Jim Hunter’s featured watercolours in the publication accompanying A SHORT GRAND TOUR, detailing the time he spent in Venice:

"In Jim Hunter’s Venice studies he explores the potential of watercolour and its meaning within the context of contemporary practice. He responds to the historical and cultural heritage of Venice and he raises a number of questions on the role of the artist and parallels with earlier artists in the landscape ‘tradition’: questions of pictorial and cultural representation, appropriation, topographical portrayal and Romantic ideals”.

This publication exemplifies Hunter’s recent watercolours and celebrates the freedom of expression found within ambiguity.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2007 (now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-17-7

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…In the Footsteps of Henry Taunt.

This publication accompanied the exhibition …In the footsteps of Henry Taunt, curated by Graham Diprose and Jeff Robins, offering a unique insight into one of England’s most prolific Victorian photographers Henry Taunt.

Taunt’s maps, guides, postcards and lectures provided inspiration for books such as ‘Three Men in a Boat’ and ‘The Wind in the Willows’ as well as nurturing the Victorians’ love for London’s river Thames.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2008 (Now formally Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-28-6

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All Flesh is Grass

An exhibition where John Hopkins, and Grenville Davey display drawings, sculpture and a projection of the Olympic park. The publication includes a 3D pocket exhibition and CD-ROM, along with drawings, essays and song lyrics by the artists. It also presents the artists in conversation with author of Art In Question (2003) Karen Raney.

John Hopkins is a landscape architect, urban designer and environmental planner, while Grenville Davey is an artist and sculptor who has worked with landscape artists involved in regeneration projects in the UK.

The exhibition questions the power of landscape and art, with emphasis on what we rely upon to live. A commentary is sparked by the contrast between the physical (soil, water, vegetation) and the emotional (joy, fear, sadness). That both the artists are concerned with landscape art and architecture and its ability to enhance a community makes the relationship between the stadium and the public more human.

Karen Raney’s interview discusses the importance of promoting creativity when thinking about sustainability, the transitory nature of human life and the temporality of drawing in an era where realising projects such as the Olympic Park is possible, but has a great impact on our environment. The publication also includes a manifesto by John Hopkins.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2008 (now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-26-2

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Borderlands

Artists Christian Edwardes and Tom Hall along with writers Lee Mackinnon and Frank Brown present Borderlands; an exhibition that examines boundaries. The text analyses the edge of systems and the hinterland between places and social classifications, opposing in nature the two artists works.

That boundaries can be physical as well as verbal is explored in the interplay between personal narrative and statistical fact, solid form and conceptual suggestion. Edwardes’ and Hall’s works are forced together to deal with the notion of the reaction to difference.


The publication includes an informative essay Postcode Warfare in Contemporary Urban Britain by Frank Brown who looks objectively at social boundaries. This is complemented by Lee Mackinnon’s Landings: a wholly subjective and narrated exploration of the same topic.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2009 (Now formally Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-30-9

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Come Closer

Curated and written by Bob Cotton and Jim Campbell, Come Closer explores the work of Squidsoup who combine sound, physical space and virtual worlds to produce immersive and emotive headspaces.

Squidsoup presents two new artworks Come Closer and Ghost. These allowed participants to take active control of their experience, exploring the modes and effects of interactivity, looking to make digital experiences where meaningful and allowing creative interaction to occur.

In an essay which contextualises Squidsoup’s work in contemporary New Media research and development, Campbell suggests that by encountering unfamiliar experiences within the white cube an audience can actively engage in a creative analysis of cultural behaviours.

The publication comes with 3D glasses to enhance the reader’s experience.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2007 (Now Formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-18-7

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Crab by the sea

The exhibition Crab by the sea coincided with the 2010 bicentennial of Bournemouth celebrating the connections between experimental architecture and the seaside. Curated by Simon Besson, Crab by the Sea illustrates a period of continuous architectural activity led by professor Sir Peter Cook RA which began in 1953 and is on-going in his CRAB studio space where he works alongside Gavin Robotham.
As an inaugural event to celebrate the opening of the new gallery at the Arts University College Bournemouth Crab by the Sea reinforces the links between thinking and making. By welcoming back a former student whose sideways look at architecture owes much to seaside heritage, reflection is stimulated in Bournemouth’s bicentenary year.
With text by Professor Oren Lieberman which explores the importance of imagination in drawing as a response to our environment, but also as a catalyst towards the transformative.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2010 (Now formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-46-0

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Facing East

Liz Wells curates Facing East, a collection of contemporary landscape photography from Baltic areas. Facing East, work by 16 artists, encompasses a range of aesthetic strategies and thematic concerns.

The artists included are:

Mara Brasmane
Joakim Eskildsen
Ane Hjort Guttu
Margareta Klingberg\Ritva Kovalainen
Sanni Seppo
Petter Magnusson
Herkki-Erich Merila
Riitta Päiväläinen
Merja Pirlä
Gatis Rozenfelds
Jaro Silomäki
Juha Suonpää
Per Olav Torgnesskar
Remigijus Treigys
John S. Webb

The publication includes an essay which elaborates on the influence that the dissolution of the soviet union has had on the thematic and aesthetic decisions of landscape photographers from the Baltic region. It also explores the genre of landscape as ‘the cultural representation of space and place,’ as curator Liz Wells states.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2004 (Now formally Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 0-901196-08-8

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Family Village

Family Village gathers together a large body of empirical research conducted both in the UK and China, by the multi-media artist Dinu Li. This substantial text+work initiative examines the second co-commission between Artsway and the Arts University Bournemouth.

A mixture of candid reportage and weighty factual texts are combined to give a thoughtful representation of how life-changing events can affect the individual.
Texts by Peter Bonnell and Stephanie James, Steve Pharoah and Proffessor Gerard J. Degroot are featured, as well as an interview between the artist and independent writer and curator Teresa Gleadowe.

Published by Text+Work, TheGallery The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2009 (Now formally the Arts University Bournemouth) in association with ArtSway.

ISBN: 978-0-901196-34-7

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Fashion Revolution China

Fashion Revolution China focusses on the story behind the history of clothing. The curator Antony Bednall collected many of the pieces on display over a ten-year period while he lived and worked in Beijing.

Fashion Revolution China analyses contemporary China by looking at how the fashion industry has been nurtured during a time of social revolution. As well as manufacturing garments for internationally recognised brands, local designers are creating beautiful collections and extravagant fashion events which reflect newfound wealth and global engagement.

This text+work publication includes an informative essay by the curator and 13 colour plates. It is written in both English and Chinese. Bednall was academic director at Raffles Design Institute in Beijing and is now Head of the School of Design at Arts University Bournemouth.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2011 (Now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-49-1

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From here to there

From here to there curated by Phil Beards and Geoff Drury draws together fifty years of photography at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. The exhibition offers an insight into the distance travelled by these photographers and comprises of one image from their graduate portfolio alongside examples of current work. These include Philip Townsend, Nick Knight, Michael Birt and Wolfgang Tillmans with over twenty other successful photographers representing a selection of photographic talent from Bournemouth, who have achieved success and who are working all around the world.

The essay contextualises the work of alumni from The Art Institute at Bournemouth in contemporary photography, as well as giving an insight into the significant diversity of direction taken by the artists.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2009 (Now formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-35-3

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Going Back

In Going Back photographer Denny Robson explores how stillness can take time itself as its subject and suggests something of the complexities of relationships with the past. As the relation of photography to time has been a topic of growing interest in recent years, the artist has chosen the funfair as a subject, an icon of childhood and fond memories.

In this publication David Bate, a Reader in Photography, muses over the psychological and aesthetic concerns of contemporary photography as a means of reflecting on the past. His essay contextualises the thematic concerns of Robson, providing an insight into her expanding practice as a photographer.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2006 (now formally the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-15-6

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Goldberg Variations by Bach

Goldberg variations by Bach reflects on the development of the performance hall at the Arts University Bournemouth for recitals, allowing TheGallery and its underlying concept, text +work to expand the already stimulating interest in creative practice to both music and performance.

Ideas and commentary generated in words interact with those rooted in images or music. The text by Terry Barfoot on JS Bach’s Goldberg Variations illustrates this interaction and is complementary to the performance of this great work by David Wright on harpsichord.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2008 (Now formally Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-31-6

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Hanging Garden

The work in Hanging Garden is an attempt at the selective articulation of the surfaces of aluminium structures through the use of paint and resin. It has been made through a process governed by specific rules by artists James Barron and Eric Butcher.

James Barron is and artist and writer who studied at Norwich and now lives in France. Writing projects include Gaps (catalogue essay 200), ‘Subway Special – A Democratic Platform’ (editorial work and catalogue essays 2001) and an ongoing series of small-scale publication presenting the work of other artists and writers.

Eric Butcher is an artist and lecturer in Fine Art at the Arts University Bournemouth. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, and is currently represented on London by Vertigo.
Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2006 (Now Formally Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-09-6

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Health and Safety

Health and Safety follows on from Sian Bonnell’s previous work: Everyday Dada and kaput! both of which address the absurd in art. The show consists of two new series of photographs, Health and Safety and Risk Assessment; two video pieces Assessed: egg and Assessed: bathroom, and selected images from the series kaput!
Health and Safety is the culmination of research undertaken this year at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth and is presented to the public for the first time. The work on show illustrates an important shift in Bonnell’s work. They tap into something much more personal and autobiographical than one might first expect, and show her as an artist who has ‘come of age’ with vigour, intelligence and bravado.
With an essay by Susan Bright which analyses the value of this autobiographical approach to exhibition.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2007 (Now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 9780901196224

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In no particular order

In no particular order: painting as metaphor for presentness, is an exhibition of paintings by Simón Granell with the writings of Kathleen Abiker and curated by Josepha Sanna. The collaboration is an exploration into the process of painting as metaphor for presentness and into what it means to be stuck, unable to act: a reason to create or a reason to stop. The work does not merely reflect the process of painting but is about the method of painting; it is evidence of an act, but of process interpreted by gesture.

Kath Abiker studied Fine Art at the Slade School in London and subsequently completed a research led MA in the History and Theory of Modern Art at Chelsea School of Art. She is Course Leader for Art History at Ashford School of Art and Design and teaches on the MA in Contemporary Arts programme at the University of Kent, lecturing primarily on the significance of philosophy and postmodern theory in relation to contemporary art.

Born in England in 1964, Simón Granell studied fine art at Falmouth School of Art and The Slade School of Art, London. He was nominated for the Picker Fellowship at Kingston University in 1991, and in 1992 was nominated for the Barclays Young Artist of the Year Award and shortlisted for the British School at Rome. He has exhibited widely in the UK and Spain, and has worked with artist Tania Kovats on the Drawing Quarters symposium at Bristol School of Art.

Josepha Sanna is the editor of Word Matters - a book of seminar transcripts about the interaction of language and art, which were hosted in Venice on the occasion of the 52nd Venice Biennale.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2009 now formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

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Insect Theatre

For three years, photographer Tim Edgar closely observed and documented the epic struggles of the insects that colonised his outside toilet. Insect Theatre reveals a world at once familiar and strange, a world of life-and-death drama laid bare. Stunningly detailed and atmospheric, Edgar’s images provide a meditation on conflict, survival, and transformation.
Anthropomologist Hugh Raffles contributes four short essays provoked by Edgar’s work. Pairing natural science with a philosophical fascination for animals lives, these reflections anchor Edgar’s uniquely personal and absorbing photographs and suggests ways of navigating their darkly beautiful vision.
A provocative and inspiring book for anyone interested in nature, science or photography, Insect Theatre offers a singular perspective on the natural world and the insects that surround us.
Published by Black Dog publishing, London 2013

ISBN: 978-1-908966-11-7

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Into the Light

Julie Marsh is a video artist and film-maker, using video installation and sound to explore the phenomenon of sense perception as a language of the body. INTO THE LIGHT marks a subtle departure in Marsh’s work. Rather than her usual focus on human subjects, INTO THE LIGHT features moths flitting from one light source to another. As one light is switched off the moths are attracted to another and appear to pass through the camera lens and, by extension, virtually through the viewer.

This explorative approach leads to work that is highly engaging, taking into account the relationship between viewer and the specific place where the works are shown. Her installation work pushes the boundaries of traditional two-dimensional video by dragging her imagery into the three dimensional gallery space, involving the viewer within the environment depicted in her work.

This publication includes a text by Peter Bonnell whose insightful text sheds light on the artists innovative use of media.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2008 (Now formally the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-24-8

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Lache pas la pataté and Pulp

The exhibition featured two of three installation works from Tom Hackett’s highly successful textual triptych tour in 2003 which took place at PM Gallery, London, UH Galleries Hatfield and, Rugby Art Gallery in 2003.

With lache pas la pataté the viewer is presented with a sweeping configuration of approximately seventy cast concrete open books. Each book has a hollowed recess on its opposite pages to suggest the idea of a hidden compartment. In the left recess of each book lies a cast resin potato form. Embedded inside each cast potato form is a short phrase collected from a different person from the Rugby locale. This eclectic mix of maxims, aphorisms, and truisms become the central core of the resin potato forms and the project.

With Pulp 200, medical drip bags are patterned in a rhythmic configuration along the long gallery wall. Each drip bag contains a pulped text or a piece of theory nominated by an invited contributor. Faced with a field of shredded texts held in the bags, with a dangling mass of capillary tubing, the viewer is presented with the opportunity to be fed by the pulp, the theories, opinions, thoughts, and narrative of others. In actuality, the final experience offers only the objects themselves and the Gallery: a space for viewer contemplation; that of the discursive and negotiated field between artwork and audience, amongst the inescapable schism between the written interpretative and the actual.
An essay by Steven Adams, the co-ordinator of critical and cultural studies at the University of Hertfordshire gives an account of the work and looks and the implications that the work has as a comment on the relationship between art and knowledge.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2004 (Now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth)

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Lifecycle

Lifecycle displays the eco-work of designer Michelle Brand, alongside poems by Jenny Swan, in response to the works displayed in the exhibition.
Susan Lambert, curator of Lifecycle, states: “Products and poetry present the unseen beauty within throwaway by-products of consumer society, creating a discourse on the perceptions and presumptions surrounding beauty and disgust.” (Consultant to MoDiP, Museum of Design in Plastic situated at the Arts University Bournemouth).
Lambert’s essay places the designs in the context of a modern consumer society and raises questions for the reader about the value of good design and its ability to transform that which we are repulsed by into something remarkably beautiful.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2009 (Now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-41-5

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Meeting Place

Meeting Place signifies the place where contemporary art intertwines with the museum collection. The exhibition, curated by Stephanie James, provided a platform for the 'meeting' of two art institutions in Bournemouth: the then Arts Institute at Bournemouth, in conjunction with TheGallery’s text+work programme, and the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.

The project invited artists and designers to create artwork in response to the unique and varied collections in the Russell-Cotes Museum and to exhibit the work for a period of four months.

Artists involved included:

Simon Granell, Eric Butcher, Lisa Richardson, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Anne Marie Howat, Tim Edgar, Tom Hall, Debra Swann, Julia Flatman, Al Gebra, Poor Photographer, Yuya Nitta, Christian Edwardes, Julie Marsh, nomethod, Peter Symons, Mark Orton, Mike Griffiths, Jim Hunter, Roy Brown,Dominic Shepherd, Les Buckingham, Jackie Sarafopoulos and Jared Wood.

The publication includes documentation of the work accompanied by short explanatory texts by the artists.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2007 (Now formally the Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-20-0
ISBN: 978-0-905173-95-5

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Mycelium

Mycelium presents a body of paintings by Dominic Shepard all referring to the mycelia: fungal strands that grow in the dark, spreading and thriving in the unseen.

The mushroom motif is commonly displayed within Shepard’s work. The paintings are accompanied by text from Gavin Parkinson, author and Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, London.

The artist and writer both share an interest in New Physics, Surrealism, Borgesism and the poetic forms of verbalizing and visualizing the metaphysical, all of which form the core part of the exhibition and publication.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2010 (Now formally the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-42-2

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Paintings

Curated by Professor Jim Hunter, this show brings together paintings by Frank Bowling, whose large-scale work rose to prominence in the 1980’s. Working together to present an exemplary selection of Bowling’s work, the curator and artist revisit work from the past and exhibit it alongside more recent pieces.
Bowling has a distinctive style, using paint as the subject and the medium. By hanging and re-hanging the work, sometimes even upside down, the interpretation of the painting is nuanced and re-interpreted.
With an essay by Professor Jim Hunter which explains the artist’s motivation to paint on such a big scale.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2009 (Now formally known as the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-37-8

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Power Plays

Power Plays presents two new works Muster and Fought, by artist Laura Eldret. At first seemingly unconnected, they together explore issues of artistic authorship, personal empowerment, choice, obligation and how powers constantly shift.

Eldret’s enduringly charismatic work sits somewhere between sculpture and performance. That the event and the remnants of the event can inhabit or critique the white cube is successfully explored in her exhibitions and is further explained in an essay by Colin Perry.

The text + work publication features a text by Sally O’Reilly, an essay by Colin Perry and an interview between the artist and the exhibitions curator Violet McClean.

Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2012 (Now formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-53-8

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Sentinel South

Sentinel (South) is a project that examines and explores British Second World War pillboxes and their potential to act as cameras and provide a unique perspective on the British landscape by artists Martin Neweth and Pippa Oldfield.

In this text+work publication Oldfield looks at the project in the context of war photography whereas in Newth’s essay he discusses movement and stillness. The publication includes 15 plates from the exhibition and several reference images.

Pippa Oldfield is a writer and Head of Programme, Impressions Gallery, Bradford. Martin Newth is an artist, Photographer and Programme Director, BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College at Bournemouth 2012 (Now Formally Arts University Bournemouth).

ISBN: 978-0-901196-51-4

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Tape Runs Out

Tape runs out is a collaborative project between Mark Hutchinson and Paul O’Neil. It involves the generous participation of David Burrows, as the writer, Pil and Galia Kollectiv , Barnaby Drabble, Sarah Pierce, John Lalor and Annie Fletcher who participated in email dialogues with Mark Hutchinson about the project and his work.

As Hutchinson states:
The project arose out of a desire to make visible the broader conversations that influence and constitute individual art practices.

The publication includes a transcript of seven recordings found on a disc marked ‘Unsolicited Proposal’: a recording of unknown origin and intriguing content.

Paul O’Neil is an artist, curator and writer currently based in London. David Burrows has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. Mark Hutchinson is an artist, writer and organiser.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2007 (Now formally Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 0-901196-16-9

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The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005

The exhibition, formerly The Cheltenham Open Drawing exhibition, has been an annual open show since 1996 and became The Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2001. The aim of the exhibition is to promote and reward talent and excellence in contemporary drawing. As the UK’s largest annual open drawing competition of its calibre, the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2005 has attracted 2600 entries from throughout the UK, from both professional, non-professional and student artists. The exhibition includes 78 drawings by 71 artists.

Every year, the changing panel of distinguished artists, writers, critics, collectors and curators select the show independently and without knowledge of the artists submitting; they define their own priorities for an exhibition of current drawing practice. This fashions a constantly shifting set of values and concerns, evidenced in the resulting touring exhibitions, in which fundamental questions are asked about what drawing is: its purpose, value, relevance and nature.

This publication records the winners of the 2005 prize and includes some information about the competition and its supporters.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2006 (now officially known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-13-2

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The Soldier’s Tale

This production of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale brings together the Arts University College at Bournemouth and The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s new music ensemble Kokoro. It is performed in a space developed by Bournemouth Borough Council for South West Dance
The production is in every sense a collaboration in which mutual interests in the arts are enhancing the cultural offer to our communities and providing a platform to demonstrate the variety of arts performance.
In 2009 the Arts University Bournemouth initiated a series entitled text + work which underpins our exhibition and creative events programme. This performance of The Soildier’s Tale forms part of text + work and the essay by Steven Pratt, composer and Professor of Music at Liverpool Hope University, provides a critical text to accompany it.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University Collage at Bournemouth 2011 (Now formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-50-7

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Them and Us/Land to Sea

The text +work exhibition introduces two substantial bodies of work by British artist Richard William Wheater Them and Us (2009) and Land to Sea (2012). He uses performance and Installation to discuss our relationship with the natural environment. The exhibition ran in conjunction with the Bournemouth Arts by the sea festival 2012.

Wheater works predominantly with that most fragile of material, glass. Wheater turns glass to his advantage, revels in its brittleness – ultimately producing work that is elegant, delicate and transitory; work that is informed and strengthened by a series of apparently futile acts.

The publication features an essay by Peter Bonnell, the curator, who thoughtfully describes Wheater’s work and process.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University College at Bournemouth 2012 (now formally known as The Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-54-5

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Time is Diamond

'Christopher Orr: Time Is The Diamond' is a publication that marks the fifth collaboration between The Arts University College at Bournemouth’s text+work programme, and ArtSway’s Production Residency Programme – a collaboration that has accompanied ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion at the 2007 and 2009 Venice Biennales.

The publication includes 20 colour plates of Christopher Orr’s skilful oil paintings introduced by Stephanie James, associate Dean of Arts University Bournemouth and Peter Bonnell, curator of Artsway.

With texts by Hugh Brigstocke and contemporary critic John Slyce which discuss the role of oil painting within contemporary art.

Published by text+work, The Arts University College Bournemouth 2010 (Now formally the Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-41-5

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Unscripted

A rare collection of images of Usain Bolt 2004-2011 by photographer Karen Fuchs are brought together for the exhibition Unscripted. This exhibition was supported by Arts Futures and is introduced by Sports Journalist and Senior Writer at Runner’s World Magazine Kerry McCarthy.

Candid, colourful and charismatic, this photographic journey showcases Fuch’s portraiture skills at their best. We travel through an intense few years with the subject, Bolt, from gangly teenager to Olympic champion. The collection gives us a glimpse of his essence: “a young guy almost unaware of his prodigious talent but also with a healthy lust for life” as McCarthy puts it. This situates Fuchs work between documentary photography and mediated narrative, prompting us to stop and wonder what it means to achieve exceptional greatness today.

Published by text+work; supporting the production of written text to accompany exhibited work by TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth 2012.

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Values

“Jane Wilbraham is Value Obsessed”. Her works enquire into the nature of her own value systems and those constructed to keep the world turning. She is interested in how they came about and the possible consequences of living within or outside of their rules.
In Values the viewer can be forgiven for not initially seeing this in her carefully crafted objects, which are often wilfully enigmatic. However, over the last fifteen years, Wilbraham has used many material guises to achieve this end.
Her work has become particularly relevant in the light of the dire economic climate we have currently found ourselves in. What constitutes as an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work is certainly being re-examined by the general populous and whilst physical graft is not by any means all there is to be found in Wilbraham’s objects, it certainly has its part to play both in concept and aesthetic.
With text by Paul Hedge (Director), Hales Gallery, which explores the value of the materials that Wilbraham uses in relation to the ideals of democracy in the 20th Century.
Published by text+work, TheGallery, The Arts University Bournemouth 2013

ISBN:978-0-901196-55-2

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Witness: An Odyssey with Otto Freundlich

Michael Roberts work is concerned with boundaries, both personal and public, examining the points of tension where the inside and outside of ourselves meet and where memories of the past make sense of experiences in the present. This body of work springs from a fascinating story that took Michael on an unexpected journey back to his childhood.

This text+work publication includes a narrative account by Michael Roberts plus 14 colour images of his works as well as a contribution by David Evans.

David Evans is a writer and Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Photography at AUCB. Michael Roberts trained at the Royal College of Art and Nottingham Trent University. He has shown extensively including venues such as Fred and Mann and the Cut Gallery in London.

Published by text+work, The Gallery, The Arts University at Bournemouth 2011 (Now formally Arts University Bournemouth)

ISBN: 978-0-901196-48-4

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Word Matters Too

Word Matters Too marks the second occasion that text+work has had a presence at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Stemming from a partnership between ArtsSway, a contemporary art gallery in the New Forest, and the Arts University at Bournemouth, the Word Matters seminars, first held in 2007, sought to investigate links between contemporary art and its surrounding text.

In Word Matters Too writer Gemma Seltzer leads a discussion alongside Professor Stephanie James on the role and presence of narrative in contemporary art, with a focus on the artworks presented in ArtSway’s New Forest Pavilion.

The publication is a transcript of the event where the Work of by Jordan Baseman, Hannah Maybank, Alex Frost and Dinu Li are discussed.

Published by text+work, The Gallery The Arts Institute at Bournemouth 2009 (Now formally the Arts University Bournemouth) in association with ArtSway.

ISBN: 978-0-901196-44-6

Chasing Sputnik is an artist book covering a yearlong project that examines the potential relationships between site, a fine art discourse and the National Trust. The title Chasing Sputnik is taken from a British scientists youthful imaginings that he could chase down a visible Russian satellite by running down the street to get a closer look. Artists Roy Brown , Julia Flatman and Tom Hall, respond to ideas thrown up by sites of 'near history' such as the concrete bunker and cold war architecture of the National Trusts former rocket testing facility of the British Space Programme at High Down on the Isle of Wight.

ISBN - 978-0-901196-59-0

Improvisations with tragic and comic consequences has culminated in an artist's book ctreated by Claire Barclay in response to her project focusing on an exploration of the collabrative process participatory workshops, talks and Punch & Judy performances. Images were developed by Claire from the workshop documentation and an insightful reflection of the 350 year old characters of Punch and Judy, entitled 'Harm is where the Hert is' by Francis McKee. The artist book was published and produced by text + work, TheGallery, AUB. artSOUTH Commission Project.
ISBN 978-0-901196-58-3

Glimpses from Giles Duley

Published on the occasion of the One Second of Light exhibition by internationally renowed photographer Giles Duley, AUB Photography Alumnus.

A collection of photographs by Giles Duley created over the past decade. An anthology of stories and moments that let us take a glimpse into the lives of others.

Whilst the photographs are created in places of conflict and disaster, the images are not of victims or events, but rather moments of life and normality, scenes that we can all relate to. They are stories about a shared humanity.

ISBN: 978-0-901196-68-2

Published by text + work, TheGallery, AUB
2017, Soft cover with images
Publication includes contributions by Associate Professor Dominic Shepherd, Willem de Bruin and Professor Emma Hunt
ISBN 978-0-901196-77-4

£10 per publication.

This poster was originally designed and printed by the Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation to celebrate the centenary of Lucienne Day. This is an A2 sized poster. Limited to 1 per person
£10 per item