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Featured Track

Our featured track this month is Starved Dog by Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra

Ladies and Gentlemen, blankpages is 20! Can you believe it? We've emerged from our teens with bright, hungry eyes, and yours should be too – the treats we have in store for you this month!

Our cover art, from Adam Booth, is an image from Blank Media Collective's second exhibition of the year (and it's only March!) - 'Seeing and Being Seen' at the greenroom in Manchester - showing until 10th April.

Showcased poetry this month is from Adam Hyde, an artist based in Dudley, whose poetry is natural and beguiling, with a wonderful shade of e.e. cummings. Anna Percy chooses the English legend of the Selkie in this month's fiction, an intriguing vehicle for transformational metaphor, and Lisa Denyer shares her utopian magical landscapes in this month's artist's spotlight.

Our roving reporter, Elaine Wilson returns this month reviewing Nine Doors by Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra, who also supply this month's psychotically aching mp3 'Starved Dog'.

On top of all this, blankpages catches up with the brains behind Sixty_six_events, a 24-hour global participatory art happening that challenged the very notions of performance, to share some of their inspirations and footage they have so far received from the event.

Compelling stuff, I'm sure you'll agree!

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Issue 20 Featured Artists

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    adam booth

    Adam Booth’s work concentrates on creating images of hidden beauty in banal everyday objects. He studies shape, space and symmetry within the urban landscape, using lighting to affect the way in which the viewer can interpret the most mundane subjects. He says “I want to create a sense of intrigue with the images, confusing the viewer and questioning the subject matter of the work.” Much of Booth’s work has an eerie feel, adding a sense of isolation to the places that would usually be bustling with human activity.

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    Adam Hyde

    Adam Hyde is an artist living and working in Dudley. After completing a Fine Art degree in Manchester, 2009, he moved back to his home town of Dudley to pursue a life dedicated to art. Although he is primarily a painter his creative output is broad, encompassing film, poetry, sculpture and installation.

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    Lisa Denyer

     Lisa Denyer was born in Watford in 1984. She studied for her Fine Art degree at Coventry University from 2006 - 2009. After graduating, she moved to Manchester where she set up her studio in the city centre. Since then she has exhibited her contemporary landscape paintings around the country. She has recently shown work at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London, where she won second prize in the Gilchrist Fisher Award.

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    Anna Percy

     Anna Percy was born in Norfolk, obtained a joint honours BA in Creative Writing and Contemporary Culture from the now defunct Cumbria Institute of the Arts and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester. Her work mostly focuses on poetry, she has been performing poetry around the country for over five years, and takes in nature, love, losing your mind, loss and the strangeness of perception. This is her first piece of published short fiction.

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    Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra

    Levenshulme Bicycle Orchestra are infamous in the North West of England for their chaotic live performances held in warehouses across Manchester. Gigs centre around their trademark multi-wheeled bicycle sound-sculpture, amplified and beaten into an infectious groove.A group well experienced on the live scene, this is the first time they have put their work to tape. Debut album Nine Doors is available now from Concrete Moniker.

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    Sixty_six_events

    The brainchild of Andy Ingamells and Matthew Lee Knowles, sixty_six_events took place on 21st January 2010. It was a global 24-hour happening designed to enable many different interpretations and performances. Andy and Matthew are both composers who are influenced by performance art and Fluxus, particularly the work of John Cage and La Monte Young, and are interested in challenging the notion of what actually constitutes a performance, be it musical or otherwise.

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BlankPages Team

  • Editor: John Leyland
  • Fiction Editor: Phil Craggs
  • Poetry Editor: Baiba Auria
  • Music Editor: Dan Bridgwood-Hill

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