BlankPages: Issue 24
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Featured Track
Our featured track this month is Blood and Brine by Black Jack Barnet
This month we're showcasing the work of a new collective on the block – Centrepoint. They show the work of emerging photographers on their blog, so we thought we'd share it with you. blankpages caught up with one of the members to find out what it's all about.
The fiction this month is by Sam Byers – a clever argument where content marries form. And he's about to have his novel published. One to watch!
Our poetry (by Tom Harding) and music this month have been illustrated by the artists (or in the case of Black Jack Barnet, by the shipmate of the artist – Jimmy Blakeley!)
Our cover artist and spotlight share a sense of the psychedelic. Both Kevin Bradshaw's esoteric animal compositions and Monica Metsers' fantastical manifestations yield more and more as you look closer and closer...
And take a look at our new extended Recommends... section – morphing into an emerging arts events listings page – if you have an event you'd like to promote, then get in touch!
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Issue 24 Featured Artists
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Kevin Bradshaw
Kevin completed his degree in Contemporary Arts (Visual Arts and Creative Writing) at MMU with a 2:1 in 2006, then spent most of 2007 teaching English in Osaka, Japan. After returning to England he endured some hideous retail jobs, but has recently regained his sanity and creativity. He is currently working on expanding his portfolio, and has recently completed a commission for Amelia’s Magazine.
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Tom Harding
Tom Harding currently lives in Northampton. His work has appeared in various places including Identity Theory, Unlikely Stories and Nth Position.
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Monica Metsers
Monica Metsers was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1980, but has lived in the English Lake District for the majority of her life. Monica graduated from the University of Dundee with a Masters Degree in Fine Art in 2005 and has been steadily exhibiting and selling her work since then. In 2007 she was short-listed for the Celeste Art Prize and has participated in exhibitions in London, Sheffield, Newcastle, Cumbria and Swansea among others.
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Sam Byers
Sam Byers was born in Durham in 1979. He is a graduate of the UEA masters course in Creative Writing, and is now studying for his PHD. He is currently at work on a novel, entitled Idiopathy, which will be published by 4th Estate.
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Jimmy Blakeley
Jimmy Blakeley is an Illustrator based in Chorlton, South Manchester. His style is a mixture of block colour and found images creating a certain 1960s graphic look while retaining a contemporary feel. He has created a range of products such as celebration cards, posters and limited edition prints which are sold in a brilliant little independent shop in Chorlton called “WOWIE ZOWIE!” Jimmy is currently creating a series of surreal little stories and accompanying illustrations from a world called Inkkland - a land full of strange creatures and characters.
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Black Jack Barnet
Poet-singer and storytelling songwriter Black Jack Barnet performs self-penned witty-dittys, naughty nursery rhymes, torrid tales, tongue-twisters and verses of vice and villainy sung to a suitcase stompin', tambourine tappin', banjo pluckin', uke strummin' soundtrack. Bringing to life a cartoon world of prostitutes, pirates, perverts, strippers, witches, and various other comical unsavoury characters, Black Jack Barnet casts his whimsical eye upon society and makes light of its many ills. Black Jack Barnet’s unique performances are uplifting, laugh out loud, sing-a-longs for grown up boys and girls of all ages to enjoy.
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centrepointcollective
Centrepoint are five graduates from different universities and and backgrounds aiming to create a platform for photographers to showcase their work. The group is motivated by similar objectives and goals; promoting and exhibiting the work of emerging photographers as well as their own. They look for exhibition spaces, curate other people’s work and carry out activities for the endorsement of photography as an art form here in the UK and abroad.
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