Nightsong 

Art Editions North

ISBN 978-1-906832-07-0

Price: £20

96 Pages, Hardback, full colour illustrations,  linen cover.

185mm x 235mm

Text By Michael Petry

Essay by Mattthew Hearn

Interview with Grainne Sweeney & Nick Fox

Edited by Matthew Hearn

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South African Born artist Nick Fox is most well known for his seductive tondo’s, delicate drawings and intricate objet d’art.  Informed by eclectic high and low art reference points, Fox explores personal symbol and cultural meaning of longing, seduction, desire and loss.

This comprehensive volume is dedicated to Fox’s new and highly personal body of work Nightsong, produced between 2009 and 2012. Musing upon the spiritual panacea of moonlight, Nightsong explores the physical and emotional instability and the bittersweet intensification of longing that comes as a result of rejection and loss. Glass sculptures, video installations, photography, and sound work are presented alongside new paintings, drawings and cyanotype prints, revealing Fox’s visual musing’s on intimate revelations; the collective longing that connects humanity.  

Extensively illustrated and elegantly echoed through the book design, this volume is Published following the touring exhibition of this series at Hå gamle prestegard, Norway (2011) and Vane, Newcastle (2012/13).

Phantasieblume

A survey of the work of Nick Fox

Phantasieblume is Jointly published by the Centre for Recent Drawing and Art Editions North, the publication contains essays by Philip Auslander and Stephanie Brown, introductions by Andrew Hewish and Paul Stone, with contributions from Clive Jennings, George Chakravarthi and Matthew Hearn and full-colour images of work.

Phantasieblume is 25x20cm in size, has 68 pages, a hard cover bound in red book-cloth and is Co-Published by C4RD and  Art Editions North in an edition of 650, distributed by Cornerhouse, Manchester.

Phantasieblume is available from CornerHouse Books to purchase a copy click HERE

A signed limited edition of Phantasieblume containing a laser cut digital print (below), reverse hand-printed and signed by the artist is also available, bound in navy blue book-cloth. Co-Published by C4RD and Art Editions North in an edition of 50, it is exclusively distributed by C4RD and available at £75.

The publications, priced at £17 and £75 respectively  along with a selection of limited edition prints, catalogues and work by other artists is available to buy online at www.vane.org.uk/shop ,  www.C4RD.org.uk  or www.

London Launch: Phantasieblume will receive its London launch at the Centre for Recent Drawing on Wednesday 19 May, 6-8pm. For details see www.c4rd.org.uk

Phantasieblume is supported by Arts Council England and Newcastle University

TEXTS: 

Click to read exterpts or the following critical text from Phantasieblume: A Survey of the work of Nick Fox

All texts copyright of C4RD.

Andrew Hewishi ntroduction: The First Time

Paul Stone In his own image

Matthew Hearn Alas, farewell I have loved you in vain (after Echo and Narcissus)

Phil Auslander 21st Century Dandy

Dr Stephanie Brown The Tuberose, the Incubus and Endymion