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Featured Track

Our featured track this month is Black Water by Samuel Sharp

Welcome to a new decade! It's the first blankpages of 2010! Our guest visual designer this month is Michael Thorp, who did some sterling illustration for the last issue, and is back this month to show us his vision for an entire issue. He recently graduated from Coventry University with a degree in Fine Art and Illustration.

Andy Glinka provides our cover art this month – polaroid shots from his series 'This Boy's Life', exploring the effects of adults' choices on a child's life through this most evocative and  nostalgic of photographic media.

Salford rock group Samuel Sharp provide this month's mp3 sound companion, and poetry this month comes from John Maher and Karen Lavin, coupled with yet more beautiful illustration.

Our visual art spotlight this month returns with experiments in reflection and landscape by Peter Hiett, and our showcased fiction comes in the form of simple and effective short shorts from Luke Kenyon, who studied Creative Writing at The Bolton Institute, and now resides in Kurume, Southern Japan.

On top of all this, Blank Media Collective's Special Projects Co-ordinator, Petra Hoschtitzky, gives us her account of the Turner Prize exhibition and the recent announcement of the prize's winner. So come on in and start 2010 with a cultural and creative bonanza for you eyes, ears and mind!

Issue 18 Featured Artists

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    AndyGlinka

    Andy Glinka is a fine-art photographer/visual artist based in Manchester, England. Having recently graduated with a BA (hons) in Photography, he successfully continues to produce work that is experimental in both medium and concept. Dealing with both personal and social issues such as loneliness, childhood, escapism, neglect and the everyday, his work is often reflective, challenging the viewer to delve into the world he has captured and asks them to further explore it for themselves. 

     

    Andy Glinka is currently studying for his post-graduate degree in teaching and has ambitions to complete an MA whilst continuing to have his work publicly shown, having already exhibited locally and in California, USA. 

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    John Maher

    John Maher was born in Liverpool. He has roamed the streets of Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Manchester and London, but returned home because he missed the smell of the water. He writes poems and short stories about reality without the spam filter on. He likes techno and cats.

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    Karen Lavin

    Karen Lavin has just hit a magical milestone in age. She has enjoyed writing poetry for family and friends over the years, but after joining Cozi Writers in Fallowfield, run by Steve O’Connor, poetry has become a passion – the more diverse the better. Karen is also a regular attendee at Freed Up in Manchester. This poem is her first to be published and she is quite excited about it!

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    Samuel Sharp

    Samuel Sharp are a band based in Salford. They formed in a town called Wigan in August 2005. They got together because finding other people who understand how you like to make music and play music is near impossible.

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    Luke Kenyon

    Luke Kenyon studied Creative Writing at The Bolton Institute (as it was then), and now resides in Kurume, Southern Japan, teaching English to people from 3 to 83. He does all of his writing whilst commuting, loves the way that the gloved hand admonishes the snake in the Blackadder 2 credits, and is currently growing a ridiculous moustache.

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    Petra Hoschtitzky

    Petra Hoschtitzky started her career in the UK at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London where she worked for 10 years in the Nineteenth Century, Impressionist and Modern Art Departments. Since leaving London six years ago she set up as an independent designer-maker and freelance art advisor and organises art and craft classes for children. She has been creating accessories and textile items for fashion and interiors for as long as she can remember and has been making costumes for theatre since the age of fifteen, most recently she was the costume designer for Fencing for Losers. She even appeared on stage itself, being an extra in “Turandot” and “Aida” in The Manchester Opera House in 2009. Petra was born in The Netherlands, where she studied History of Art at the University of Leiden. Petra leads Blank Media Collective’s Special Projects.

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    Peter Hiett

    Peter Hiett is a Cheshire based artist, mainly working in and around Manchester. He studied Fine Art Sculpture at Leeds University where  he became fascinated with minimalist art, geometric patterns and producing system based art works. After leaving Leeds and moving back to Cheshire he became interested in exploring his rural environment and how to make work which would compliment the already beautiful landscapes.

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    Michael Thorp

    Michael Thorp is guest Visual Designer for this month's issue of blankpages. He recently graduated from Coventry University with a degree in Fine Art and Illustration.

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BlankPages Team

  • Editor: John Leyland
  • Music Editor: Dan Bridgwood-Hill
  • Visual Editor / Designer: Michael Thorp
  • Visual Editor / Designer: Henry Roberts

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