Abigail Reynolds – Walking A Cappella
Anomie Publishing (Verlag)
9781910221693 (ISBN)
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Abigail Reynolds writes the introduction to this book of her creative endeavours from her studio at Porthmeor in St Ives, where a strong Atlantic wind drives sand against salt-crusted windows and the sound of the surf fills the room. This elemental, shifting environment frames the making of Walking A Cappella, a book that reflects the looping and discursive nature of her artistic practice.
The publication presents a flow of images, sequencing works without regard to chronology or technique but allowing them to speak to one another formally. Recurring ideas and forms emerge intuitively, mirroring the way Reynolds returns to her core concerns from different directions. A dialogue with curator and writer Sophie J. Williamson threads through the sequence, alongside an essay by novelist Joanna Kavenna and a preface from Hammad Nasar.
Reynolds’ work continually explores what lies beneath or behind: the unseen, the folded, the implied. She is interested in how much information can be held in tension, and how underlying structures shape experience. Her materials are often drawn from a personal library of books arranged in chronological order, beginning around 1890 when photography entered the public domain. The changing textures of paper and design across the decades of her book collection are echoed in the array of papers and typography arranged in signatures within Walking A Cappella. Earlier in her career, working for the Oxford English Dictionary in Duke Humphrey’s Library, Reynolds honed a sensitivity to material history that remains central to her practice.
Reynolds works across sculpture, collage, print and live events. Using techniques such as overlay and folding, she reconfigures fragments of the past to sharpen our awareness of time. She is interested in disciplines from geology to palaeobiology, and collaborates with brass bands, choirs and DJs. Her work frequently explores the contested histories of her home in far west Cornwall.
Reynolds studied English Literature at St Catherine’s College Oxford University before receiving an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London. In 2016 she was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel to travel to lost libraries along the Silk Road. Her book Lost Libraries documenting this journey was published by Hatje Cantz in 2018. Over 2020–22 her work was featured in British Art Show 9, the landmark touring exhibition that defines new directions in contemporary art. In 2019 she transformed the sand and seaweed of a local beach into perfect mouth-blown glass. Her work is well represented in public collections including New York Public Library, the Government Arts Collection and the Arts Council Collection. Her sculpture Anthronauts: Trilobite commissioned by Chatsworth House is now on view at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Abigail Reynolds is a Cornwall-based artist. She holds a BA in Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London and works across many media. She has travelled the Silk Road in search of Lost Libraries courtesy of a prize from Art Basel, and transformed the sand and seaweed of a beach into glass. Joanna Kavenna is a prize-winning British novelist and travel writer. She has authored several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ice Museum, Inglorious, Come to the Edge, A Field Guide to Reality and Zed. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, London Review of Books and The New York Times. Sophie J Williamson is a UK-based curator and writer. From 2013–21 she was curator at Camden Art Centre. From 2009–13 she was on the inaugural team at Raven Row. Her writing appears in frieze, Art Monthly and Aesthetica. In 2021 she initiated independent curatorial practice Undead Matter, focusing on the intersections of art, geology and ecology. Hammad Nasar is a curator, writer and Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre, London. Recent projects include: Divided Selves: Histories, Legacies, Belonging (2023); British Art Show 9 (2021–22); Turner Prize (2021); and Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition (2018–19). He was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in 2023.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Einführung | Hammad Nasar |
| Zusatzinfo | 105 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 240 x 295 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781910221693 / 9781910221693 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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