BlankPages: Issue 44
It feels like a long time since we gave you a new digital issue, so here it is, no April Fool, honestly, it's a new issue of blankpages.
This month Sarah has been tasting the tarty side of culture and provoking thoughts, looking at tart cards and the recent Type Tarts exhibition from Salford's School of Art and Design. We have cover art from Michael Barrow and a story that most definitely leaves you wanting more (and probably feeling guilty for it too) by Jack Wittels.
Is there such a things as amusing paranoia? See what you think in this month's spotlight on irreverent illustrator Thomas Key, and don't miss this month's mp3 from Last Harbour, alongside which our new Music Editor, Anne Louise Kershaw reviews their latest album, 'Your heart, it carries the sound'. As usual there's an excellent poetry showcase, this month from Geoffrey Heptonstall, and our April blog pick comes from Louis Barabbas, Creative Director of Debt Records.
Once again we're packing it in, and who knows where we'll all be in 2 months time. Tune in in June to find out...
Issue 44 Featured Artists
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Michael Barrow
Michael Barrow (b.1987) is a Photographer and Artist hailing from the North West of England. After graduating in 2010, with Honours, from the University College Falmouth, Michael has continued to work with a range of film and digital, photographic and lens based media in addition to drawing and painting.
Gaining a recognised Associateship Distinction from the Royal Photographic Society (www.rps.org) in February 2011, Michael continues to work spontaneously and candidly, taking inspiration and influence from the photojournalist, reportage styles of Magnum Photographers, forever intrigued with the lives and contexts within his Greater Manchester home.
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Thomas Key
Thomas Key is a talented 23-year-old British illustrator based in London. Thomas’ work is deeply rooted in his own unique brand of surrealism.
Always colourful and mostly humorous, his intricate hand-drawn pieces are a constant reflection of his internal moods and thoughts, as well as some external influences such as music, nature and daily life.
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Geoffrey Heptonstall
A Contributing Writer at Contemporary Review, recently Geoffrey has had published stories in Cerise Press, Litro and Sunk Island Review. He has had poetry publisged in Adirondack Review, The Bow Wow Shop, Caught in the Net, Decanto, Enigma, Incandescent, Inclement, International Literary Quarterly, Living Poets, London Grip, The London Magazine, The PEN, Poetry and Audience, 10x10, Turbulence, The Third Way and The Write Place at the Write Time. Essays and reviews appeared in The Bow Wow Shop, Cerise Press, The London Magazine, Prole, The Tablet and The TLS.
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Jack Wittels
A few facts about Jack Wittels: he is on the Creative Writing MA in Manchester where he writes fiction and poetry, both of which he has had published in a few magazines. His work is intended to be startling and thought provoking, though he doesn’t take himself anywhere near as seriously as this makes him sound. If you read one of his stories and bump into him on the street, he will buy you a drink. Maybe two. He is also on the lookout for fiction editing work/internships and already has a fair bit of (some paid) experience.
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Last Harbour
Last Harbour are a Manchester based music collective. When asked how they formed, Kevin Craig, lead singer explains “I'd like to say that we all met through the Lonely-Heart columns. --Miserabilist seeks similar- for long walks and album recording. Must have GSOH--. But the truth is more prosaic than that. We just slowly all came together over a period of time, then refused to leave.”
Their new album, Your heart, it carries the sound, is released via Little Red Rabbit Records.
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Louis Barabbas
Louis Barabbas is the Creative Director of Manchester label Debt Records. He is best known as the composer and frontman for Dirt-Swing band Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six. He is also on the UK Board for Un-Convention, a global grassroots and independent creative membership organisation. Other notable work includes being Miss June in the Beards Of Manchester calendar 2011 – he still has to subsidize his calendar modelling, however, with an altogether less glamorous music career.
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