BlankPages: Issue 29
Welcome to the final blankpages of 2010. We have had a stunning year with the magazine, and with the Collective as a whole, and we're planning to continue our trend into 2011, with the opening of BLANKSPACE, launching with BlankExpression 2011 on Thursday 27 January.
Visual treats this month come from Stanley Chow and Blanka Ciok; mesmerising in their individual fashions. As always our creative writing is accompanied by bespoke illustrative responses to the work from our own Michael Thorp. Don't forget if you'd like your work to be considered for inclusion in blankpages you can email us your submissions.
Elaine Wilson returns to our pages to talk to caro snatch, presenting this month's mp3, and her lyrics alongside. Andy Nizinskyj guides us to HIVE in Barnsley, highlighting the work going on there to generate interest in local arts and culture more widely.
AND! blankpicks takes a different tack; Editorial Assistant Matt Hull introduces Valerie O'Riordan, talking about her blog and the Manchester blogging community.
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Issue 29 Featured Artists
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Blanka Ciok
Blanka was born in 1978 in Poland. She holds a Master’s of Science degree from the University of Technology. She has been self employed since 2005. She has designed and manufactured handmade stained glass for individual orders. Blanka specializes in a wide variety of fields including web designing, digital media as well as photography.
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Virginia Moffatt
Virginia Moffatt was born in London, in 1965, one of eight children, including a twin sister who writes commerical fiction and an older sister who is a poet. Virginia works for Oxfordshire County Council and lives in Oxford with her husband Chris and their three children. She has achieved a Diploma in Creative Writing at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and attended a Faber Academy Weekend Course in Paris. Virginia has written a number of short stories, and takes part in a regular online writing community, #Friday Flash online. She is currently working on a novel, “Echo Hall” and blogs at “A Room of My Own”
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Leo Cookman
Leo Cookman was born in Cambridge in a decade he wishes the world would forget (the 80’s) and lived in a seaside village in Kent for a long time before moving to Manchester, as he had never met anyone “from the colonies” before. Leo, as well as writing lots of poetry, plays music in bands, takes photos with cameras, makes short films with his computer and has written three novels “because he was bored”. The only competition he ever won was for poetry when he was 12. So, fifteen years later he is deciding to pursue this avenue of lucrative adulation by writing poems about being a ‘man’ in the modern world or if it is, in fact, possible. Leo also has published a politically influenced Poetry Pamphlet entitled ‘At The End of Days…’ if you would like to read more.
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Stanley Chow
Stanley Chow is an illustrator and designer who started his career designing posters for Night and Day Cafe in Manchester in 1996. He has been commissioned internationally; in 2007 designing a limited edition USB stick for The White Stripes album 'Icky Thump'. He now works mostly in charicature (recent commissions include Dr Who and Graham Norton for the BBC)
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caro snatch
This “one-woman electronic avalanche” (bbc.co.uk) is often accused of being innovative and a “pioneering independent musician” (Metro UK). She creates her own brand of sound toying with musical conventions and intertwining elements from avant-garde, electronic, classical, spoken word and pop worlds
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Andy Nizinskyj
Andy Nizinskyj is an artist and writer from Barnsley South Yorkshire. Working mostly in sculpture and video Nizinskyj's work explores notion of disgust and enthralment, their subjective natures and their dependence on each other. Nizinskyj studied Fine Art and Art History at the University of Leeds and the University of California Berkeley and has exhibited internationally in both the UK and America, including Alphonse Berber Gallery, and the Worth Ryder Gallery. In the past he has served as managing editor of California's Cal Literary Arts Magazine, arts correspondent of BARE Magazine, and is currently heading Creative Arts Barnsley (CAB) and serving as guest curator at HIVE Gallery.
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Valerie O'Riordan
Valerie O'Riordan lived in Dublin until she was twenty-four; she did a BA in English and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and recently completed an MA in Manchester, after which she won the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize.
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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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