PUBLICATIONS

Compiled and edited by Nicola Wild and Andy Wild, WOMEN (Inspiring quotes and artistic responses) contains the work of 98 female contemporary artists, whom each chose a quote from a famous woman and explained why and how it resonates with them.

Compiled and edited by Andy Wild and Mike Healey, Quotes (Inspirational Quotations | Creative Responses) contains the work of 68 contemporary artists, each of whom were asked to select a quote by someone famous, explain why that quote resonates with them and then select an example of their own work that best exemplifies their text.

Whether in painting, photography, sculpture or video, contemporary artists have drawn on a tradition ripe with metaphorical and moral significance to create works of conceptual vivacity and striking beauty.

Michael Petry has structured the book according to the classic categories of the still-life tradition – Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna and Death. Each chapter explores how the timeless symbol of the memento mori – a reminder of death, change and the passing of time – has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

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The Art of Not Making tackles these questions head on, exploring the concepts of authorship, artistic originality, skill, craftsmanship and the creative act, and highlighting the vital role that skills from craft and industrial production play in the creation of some of today’s most innovative and sought-after works of art.

Michael Petry presents the art of over 115 contemporary artists – including Takashi Murakami, Matthew Barney, Tony Cragg, Cornelia Parker, Grayson Perry, Ai Weiwei, Daniel Buren and Carsten Höller – all of whom have one thing in common: they do not always make their own work. Instead, they often either employ others to produce it on their behalf, or appropriate objects made by someone else. Original interviews with the artists and artisans offer insights into this creative collaboration, which often produces works breathtaking in their scope and ambition.

In Art & Outrage, John A. Walker covers the period from the late 1940s to the 1990s to provide the first detailed survey of the most prominent cases of art that has scandalised. The work of some of Britain’s leading, and less well known, painters and sculptors of the postwar period is considered, such as Richard Hamilton, Bryan Organ, Rachel Whiteread, Reg Butler, Damien Hirst, Jamie Wagg, Barry Flanagan and Antony Gormley. Included are works made famous by the media, such as Carl Andre’s Tate Gallery installation of 120 bricks, Rick Gibson’s foetus earrings, Anthony-Noel Kelly’s cast body-parts sculptures and Marcus Harvey’s portrait of Myra Hindley. Walker describes how each incident emerged, considers the arguments for and against, and examines how each was concluded. While broadly sympathetic to radical contemporary art, Walker has some residual sympathy for the layperson’s bafflement and antagonism. This is a scholarly yet accessible study of the interface between art, society and mass media which offers an alternative history of postwar British art and attitudes.

Further Publications

Golden Rain, On The Edge, exhibition catalogue, Stavanger, 2008

Abstract Eroticism, Art and Design, Academy Editions, London Paperback, 1996

Parallel Conjunction, Art and Design, 1995

British Art Defining The 90s, Mario Flecha, No 41, 1995

Works Perfectly, exhibition catalogue, text by Lynn Macritchie, 1994

Rebecca Scott at Mario Flecha, Mark Currah, Untitled, No6, 1994

Decoy, Andrea Schlieker, exhibition catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, May 1990

Selected Press

Cumbria Life magazine, ‘Freshly Minted’, profile of Rebecca Scott and Mark Woods as Co-Founders of Cross Lane Projects
Artlyst, Rebecca Scott, Beneath the Silk and Gloss, review by Jude Cowan Montague, January 2019
An Arty Life, Trouble begins with a capital F, Female, review by Jenny Drinkwater, June 2018
ABC newspaper, Lo Femenino y Rebecca Scott, Madrid, June 1992
Time Out, AC, review by Sarah Kent, October 1992
Juliet Art Magazine, review by Anna Richardson, March 1992
City Limits, Decoy, review by Mark Currah, May 1990
The Observer, Landscapes in a Video Age, review by William Fever, June 1990
Time Out, Lie of the Land, review by Sarah Kent, May 1990
AND, Construction of Male Identity, review by Kate Love & Kate Smith, February 1989
City Limits, review by Louisa Buck, February 1989
Time Out, Sarah Kent on Rebecca Scott, Sarah Kent, January 1989
City Limits, Great Scott, review by Mark Currah, January 1989
Time Out, Young Masters, review by Sarah Kent, August 1988