BlankPages: Issue 39
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This month we're shedding some light on the world of Neon Art, with some stunning visuals from Karen Ay and Nick Malyon. The Tern Collective artists behind Manchester Time Piece (Annie Harrison, Jude Macpherson and Jacqueline Wylie) tell us how they turned Beetham Tower into a giant sundial, and the author of Song by Toad tells us how he accidentally made a blog. Peter Day is our featured poet this month; we've been given an exclusive excerpt from his poetry and photography collection, Perambulist Somnambulist. This month's Spotlight shines on Creaturemag and their fantastic new book, The Creature Alphabet, exhibiting 26 beautiful illustrations of endangered animals; take a look inside for a sneaky peak. Fiction this month comes from Miriam Foley and her heart wrenching short story, The Summer O'Toole had Pups. And finally... Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's the bird-like Beaky Sue flitting in last but not least with her brand new solo EP, Jars.
Issue 39 Featured Artists
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Karen Ay
London-based artist Karen Ay creates installations using a variety of media, most often incorporating some form of text. Using words, fragments, data, printed matter, maps and objects, she re-presents these elements in different contexts and mediums as a means of reconstructing and sometimes subverting their original message or intent.
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Nick Malyon
Neon Neon, established in 1993 by Nick Malyon, is a small, independent neon studio specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of neon and cold cathode lighting. Working with artists, curators, galleries and museums in the manufacture and installation of neon art and sculpture across the U.K. and Europe.
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Tern Collective
Tern: set of 3, especially three lottery numbers that when drawn together win a large prize. Tern Collective are Annie Harrison, Jude Macpherson and Jacqueline Wylie, three Manchester based artists who share an interest in the urban landscape. They have been working together as Tern Collective since 2010.
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Peter Day
Peter Day's images are “subjective measurings or realistic musings” detailing subverted autobiographies that mark out his local environments, personal spaces and journeys. His work centres on the familiar and the banal, focussing primarily in that which is so familiar it is often looked over. Peter is currently working on several projects concerning the ‘therapeutic’ and emotional expression in image making through a project with patients suffering from early memory loss with Wolverhampton Healthcare Trust, and also in his work about the death of his father, Pictures of My Father 2012.
Peter is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Wolverhampton University, and has exhibited and been published in both the UK and in Europe. -
Miriam Foley
A graduate of English Literature, Miriam is currently taking a year out to work on her first novel. Having spent much of her childhood in Ireland, she discovered that the same stories are told in different ways, in different places. Since then she has been fascinated with the art of story telling. She has lived in Ireland, Mexico, the south of Spain and now lives between Barcelona and London.
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Beaky Sue
Beaky Sue has been a part of the Manchester music scene for a few years in a previous incarnation by the name of Gnu & The Shrew. Her new project provides a more focused expression of all her own influences taking in Shirley Bassey to Jan Svankmejer. She is just about to release her first album as Beaky Sue, scheduled for release by the end of the year.
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Creaturemag
The Endangered Creature Alphabet - E-book is an illustrated collection of 26 threatened species, one for each letter of the alphabet, by 26 different artists. It's the latest collaborative project from www.creaturemag.com, involving some of the most talented and pro-active illustrators around.
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Song By Toad
Matthew Young is the voice behind the music blog Song, by Toad. He is an increasingly cynical thirty-five year old former design engineer, and lives in Scotland with his infinitely tolerant wife, in a ridiculous house full of Russian propaganda posters and with a disco ball in the living room. And yes, he does drink a lot of gin. And swears. So what?
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