A costume for a cover.

{In the borrowed costume of a Military Musician from Jardin Public, designed by Jean Lurçat, c. 1935. (And, earlier, a quick scene change.)}


{In the borrowed costume of a guest from Le Bal, designed by Giorgio de Chirico, c. 1929.}


{In the borrowed costume of the Chief Eunich from Schéhérazade, designed by Léon Bakst, c. 1910.}


{In the borrowed costume for Petrouchka, designed by Alexandre Benois, c. 1913, with a Barn Swallow.}

To our great delight, Louise and I were invited to create a work for the cover of the Centre for Fine Print Research's Book Arts Newsletter November issue. (Thank-you Sarah Bodman X.) We took pleasure in making a collaborative quartet of Salvaged Relatives, drawing on recent works created for the group exhibition Good Mail Day (coming up at artsteam) and Fjord Review (inadvertently, in the form of a requested mugshot to accompany a bio).

Those of you who have been reading High Up in the Trees and Elsewhere for a while now and who know our work may recognise the hand-coloured backgrounds with their lime-hued fronds and dusky-pink gums from a series of works by Louise created for Karin Krammer's Could be, Kunstkantine No. 4 exhibition held in her home in Germany, 2012.

Blogging may have changed a terrific deal since when I began in 2006, becoming a quieter and near obsolete platform, but without it it is unlikely I'd be taking part in Lisa Solomon and Susan Schwake's Good Mail Day and creating collaborative artworks with Louise featuring landscapes that have travelled to Germany and back again. This perhaps serves as something of a timely reminder to keep posting here.

Download and read the current issue of BAN, issue No. 93 (45-page, free download pdf via CFPR Book Arts UWE, Bristol, UK)



Good Mail Day
4" X 6" artworks by 60 artists in an exhibition curated by Lisa Solomon and Susan Schwake
From the 7th of November 2014
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