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Locus+ Publications

All Locus+ publications are available from the Locus+ office. Unless otherwise stated.
Contact: Jonty Tarbuck locusplus@newart.demon.co.uk tel: +44 [0] 191 233 1450 fax: +44 [0] 233 1451
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Chris Burden Chris Burden is the definitive book on one of the most influential and controversial artists of recent decades.

Chris Burden is a seminal figure in contemporary art. His performances in the 1970s redefined the possibilities of the medium; his subsequent sculpture and installations have extended the limits of the physical in art.

This book, the first substantial monograph on the artist in twenty years, gives a complete overview of his practice, illustrated with many previously unseen images, illuminated by texts from some of the most important curators and writers on art today and supported by a complete catalogue

With texts by Fred Hoffman, Lisa Le Feuvre, Paul Schimmel, Kristine Stiles and Robert Storr

Designed by Mark Thomson / IDUK
416 pages Hardback
377 images, 244 in colour

ISBN
Thames & Hudson 978-0-500-97668-5
DAP 978-1-899377-18-3
£45
This Will Not Happen Without You / From the Collective Archive of The Basement Group, Projects UK and Locus+ (1977-2007)
 This Will Not Happen Without You is a comprehensive overview of significant and controversial artistic activity coming out of the north east of England since the mid 1970s.

Taken from the Locus+ archive it extensively documents the artistic practice carried out by the organisation and it’s previous incarnations; The Basement Group and Projects UK.

Highlighting performances by artists such as Bruce McLean, Stuart Brisley, Mona Hatoum, Alastair MacLennan and Andre Stitt, as well as projects by Richard Wilson, Stefan Gec, Chris Burden, Cornelia Hesse Honegger, Anya Gallaccio, Mark Wallinger, Simon Patterson, Nathan Coley and Layla Curtis.

This lavishly illustrated publication has the critical underpinning of some of the best writers on contemporary art today, accompanied by anecdotal texts by artists commissioned by the three organisations.

This Will Not Happen Without You is an extraordinary documentation of the changing artistic, social and political landscape in contemporary art over the last three decades.

Designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio
256 pages Softback
382 images, 256 in colour

ISBN 978-1-899377-25-1
£20 +p&p
Simon Patterson Simon Patterson is one of the new generation of contemporary artists in Britain. He studied at Goldsmiths' in London, and took part in the seminal 'Freeze' exhibition in 1988.

In 1992 he made his best known work to date, 'The Great Bear', a reworking of Harry Beck's classic london Underground map. He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996.

He has made numerous temporary works and installations and has exhibited in major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthalle Zurich; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; the Hayward Gallery, and Tate Modern, London

This Locus+ book is the first comprehensive study of Simon Patterson's work, with illuminating essays by Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Dr. Bernard Fibicher, Director of Kunsthalle Bern.

Designed by Mark Thomson / IDUK
192 pages Hardback
109 images, 92 in colour

ISBN 1 899 377 166
UK £ 30 +p&p
Sonia Boyce / For You Only You For You, Only You comprises the fusion of a musical masterpiece of the 16th century - Tu solus qui facis mirabilia (You alone can do wonders) by Josquin Desprez - and contemporary sound art by Mikhail Karikis.

Josquin is one of the most influential composers in the history of Western music, representing the pinnacle of compositional development in the early Renaissance period. This project is a 21st century response to Josquin's seminal polyphonic inventions.
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This publication features backgroud details to the project, including the thoughts of Sonia Boyce, Mikhail Karikis and Alamire conductor David Skinner as well as texts by Paul Bonaventura and Jean Fisher.

Includes a CD of the performance by Alamire and Mikhail Karikis

Designed by Martin Brown
58 pages Hardback
33 images, 10 in colour

ISBN 978-0-9538525-8-1
£10+ p&p
Layla Curtis The first comprehensive publication on the work of Layla Curtis has been co-published by Locus+ and The New Art Gallery Walsall. With the support of the Henry Moore Foundation.

This publication features many of the artists new works as a result of her residency in the Antartic, along with texts by Matthew Hart and Sally O Reilly.


Designed by James Goggin / Practise
96 pages Softback
60 images, 47 in colour

ISBN 1 899 37723 9
£15.00 +p+p
Nathan Coley / There Will be No Miracles Here Nathan Coley’s work focuses on the way in which the values of a society are reflected in and determined by its built environment. In a practice that includes sculpture, photography, drawing, video and installation, the artist works to reveal the often conflicting systems of personal, social, religious and political belief through which we structure our towns and cities, and thereby ourselves.

This monograph covers the breadth of the artist’s practice over the last ten years. It documents the artist’s major projects, discussing them both in the context of their original making, and in the light of newly commissioned essays by Fiona Bradley and Susanne Gaensheimer.

Bursting with images and ideas, the book offers the first opportunity properly to assess Coley’s intriguing work.

Published by Locus+ publishing Ltd and the Fruitmarket Gallery.

Designed by Elizabeth McLean
128 Pages Hardback
85 images, 74 in colour

ISBN 1 899377 21 2
£25.00 + p&p
Out of Print
Janice Kerbel / Deadstar: A Ghost Town A Limited Edition publication to accompany Deadstar a commissioned copperplate photogravure etching by the artist.

The 89 constellations that combine to create the hidden structure of Deadstar are illustrated individually in the publication Deadstar: A Ghost town, alongside essays by Mark Godfrey, Susan Morgan and Ghosts, an extract from Lyall Watson’s Supernature.

This is an artist’s book in a signed and numbered limited edition of 250.

Designed by A2/SW/HK
104 pages Hardback

ISBN 978-1-899377-24-4
£25 + p&p
Richard Wright Comprehensive overview of the 'action painting' and site-specific work of this Glasgow based artist.

Wrights sole artistic goal is that of "making sure his work does not look like painting". The self-imposed rules followed by the artist include never repeating an image, and working directly onto walls.

All of Wright's paintings last for a limited period of time only. The iconography he employs ranges from Renaissance and Baroque through to that of Contempory main stream culture.

Texts by Mark Hamilton, and Thomas Lawson in conversation with the artist.

Designed by B&Q
96pp paperback

ISBN 1 899 377 115
£ 30.00 + p&p


Anya Gallaccio / Chasing Rainbows Anya Gallaccio is one of the most prominent of the new generation of British artists. Her installations, which compromise a sensuous and elegiac use of materials, such as ice, flowers and chocolate, resemble wonderfully unreliable experiments - of materials melting, decaying or otherwise changing.

Chasing Rainbows provides the first major survey of Gallaccio's work of the last ten years, covering exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the world.

Text by Ralph Rugoff

64pp paperback

ISBN 1 899 511 158
£ 20.00 + p&p
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