Pattern Recognition
V&A Pattern - Limited Edition Box Set
A&C Black. $Au 79.99.
Containing: Owen Jones / Novelty Patterns / Kimono / Garden Florals
On the third floor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, along from the sacred silver and the wall tapestries, there are five interconnected rooms housing row after row of head high wooden sample cabinets. You can stop there in the ambient gloom and browse through the back pages of textile history. Screen-printed, block printed, roller printed, woven, dyed, embroidered, hand crafted or industrial, exclusive or populist, abstract, figurative, subtle or bold – an encyclopaedic multitude of styles. Read more
Une Petit Livre du Stooge – Seth Scriver
- Elizabeth Prater
Stooge Pile by Seth Scriver
A Petits Livres from Drawn & Quarterly
So we take a touch of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy’s cat, we slip in a semi-consciousness of Big Daddy Roth and Philip Guston, we bypass (but can’t ignore) Spongebob, Ren and Stimpy and a legion of bulbous co-fiends, we remember we are in Canada – doff our deerstalkers and don our lumberjack flannels – we cultivate the fuzzy, the flaccid and the wrinkled, we doodle a bit, we pull out the airbrush and go stoner mental, then we bundle it in a sack and sit on it. And we are enthroned, I would say, on a stooge pile. Read more
Monkland - Meanjin, Autumn 2010
Nick Terrell
Meanjin Quarterly - Autumn 2010 (vol. 69, no.1)
Melbourne University Press. $Au 24.99
Here come the spectres, here come the tempting voices. Is this the desert? Is this the devil, whispering in the wilderness? Read more
Amy Lockhart’s ‘Dirty Dishes’
Dirty Dishes by Amy Lockhart
Drawn & Quarterly - Petits Livres, $US 14.95.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Prater.
Slim, easily browsed and just about small enough to fit into the back pocket of your jeans, Dirty Dishes offers a compressed look at some of the less exposed aspects of Amy Lockhart’s practice. Drawn and Quarterly is a broad church, it has gathered together many independent, thoughtful and intellectually aspiring graphic novelists and comic artists. Read more