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Featured Track

Our featured track this month is Francis Thompson by Emphemetry

Spring has sprung [or has it?!]! Welcome once again to this month's issue of blankpages, as we continue our mission to provide a platform for emerging artists. This month's cover art is by Jenny Core, a graduate of Huddersfield University, now based in Manchester, whose irreverent drawings really caught our attention from the Blank Media Collective artists' portfolios.

This month's mp3 is from Emphemetry; a fuzzy, folky post-hardcore experimenter from Derby. Lois Entwisle and Simon Barron provide the poetry and fiction respectively, and this month's artist's spotlight falls on Peter Day. blankpages are proud to be showcasing a selection of works from his Garden Manifesto publication. Finally, Liverpool-based independent reviewer, Elaine Wilson visits Blank Media Collective's, Neck of the Woods exhibition which is coming to a close this month.


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Issue 21 Featured Artists

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    Jenny Core

    Jenny Core was 2009 photographer in residence at The Castlefield Gallery in Manchester. In 2008 she was awarded The Rosette of Excellence by Noise Festival, and in 2009 received the award for Outstanding Professionalism in the Arts from The University of Huddersfield. She has trained in South Korea and has a studio in Mirabel Studios, Manchester.

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    Lois Entwistle

    Lois Entwistle is a 25 year old girl born and raised in Manchester. She grew up with Oldham Theatre Workshop which provided a forum for her work and other people’s. She has written and performed her own theatre pieces in university. She has a BA in English and Performing Arts and hopes to carry on some research in 20th Century Modernist Literature to Phd level. She says “I love that the North West has a really vibrant creative streak that runs right through it and I have always wanted to be as much a part of it as I can be.”

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    Peter Day

     

    Peter Day is a UK artist, lecturer, educational consultant and researcher Published works deal with the banal and everyday within photographic images and the theory of this representation. Peter Day has exhibited within the UK and Europe. He has been recognised for his teaching and research through an HEA teaching fellowship and StAR teaching awards.

     

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    Simon Barron

    Simon Barron is an aspiring young writer living in Manchester, England. He recently graduated from university with a degree in Philosophy and now he is studying to be a librarian. He is inspired by the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, and Italo Calvino. Recently he has had short stories published in First Edition Magazine and New Scientist.

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    Emphemetry

    Emphemetry is Richard ‘Biff’ Birkin. He's been toiling away for the majority of the last decade in underground rock circles as part of adventurous post-hardcore groups The Little Explorer and, more recently, Crash Of Rhinos - both streets ahead of any competition. Emphemetry, while no less emotionally involving, is a rather more sedate affair based around acoustic ballads with just a twist of post-rock experimentation and influenced, very much in the folk tradition, by what he sees and hears around him in his home town of Derby. ‘Francis Thompson’ is taken from his forthcoming album which will probably be called ‘A Lullaby Hum For Tired Streets’. For more information go to www.timetravelopps.co.uk, and also soundcloud.com/rjbirkin for a listen to the full album (soon).

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To submit work to blankpages simply join Blank Media and select the "Publish in blankpages" option when you add work to your Portfolio or drop as an email using the form below. Please read the Submission Guidelines before submitting your work.

Having problems with the form or want to submit more than one piece of work? Email us directly at editor@blankmediacollective.org.

blankpages Team

  • Editor: John Leyland
  • Assistant Editor: Abigail Ledger-Lomas
  • Fiction Editor:
  • Poetry Editor:
  • Music Editor: Baz Wilkinson
  • Features Editor: Sarah Handyside
  • Features Editor: Rebecca Owens
  • Visual Editor / Designer: Michael Thorp

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