Flashes From The Archives Of Oblivion: Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastair MacLennan and Tatsumi Orimoto

2007, paperback, 52pp, colour, £6.95. ISBN 1-900029-27-8

 A new catalogue has been produced to accompany this significant exhibition and features texts by the exhibition curator André Stitt and by Heike Roms, Lecturer in Performance Studies at University of Aberystwyth. The catalogue is available from The Shop in the Gallery, priced at £6.95.

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Anthony Shapland: Suddenly After A Long Silence

2007, paperback, 52pp, colour, £6.95. ISBN 1-900029-26-X

Suddenly After a Long Silence explores the moments of change and temporal shifts that occur between two defined states. Anthony Shapland’s exhibition featured a series of documentary-style films that not only observe the ‘real’ or the ‘actual’ but also reference notions of staging, scripting and artifice.

This beatiful new publication was produced to accompany the exhibtion at Chapter, Anthony Shapland's first solo show in the UK. The catalogue features over 30 images, an essay by Cherry Smyth and an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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Pat Flynn: Draw Me A Castle

2007, paperback, 32pp, colour, £5.00. ISBN 1-900029-25-1

The seductive worlds created by Pat Flynn explore modern landscapes, historical architecture and fiction. They are hauntingly familiar, filled with hope and aspiration. From a British retail shopping mall, with its uniform Americanisation, to a reflection of a shoe shop in a shiny marble floor, he takes you into recognisable spaces that feel at first glance comfortable and safe.

This new publication accompanies the exhibition at Chapter and features texts by Graham Parker and Martin Vincent.

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Fable: Nadia Hebson, Zoë Mendelson and Joel Tomlin

2007, paperback, 24pp, colour, £5.00. ISBN 1-900029-22-7

This stunning publication, produced to commemorate the exhibition at Chapter in 2006, features texts by Gordon Dalton and Angela Kingston, with an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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James Aldridge: Seasons in the Abyss

2005, paperback, 24pp, colour, £5.00. ISBN 1-900029-21-9

Aldridge’s paintings are full of moths, birds, flowers, skulls and mountain ranges, and embrace opposites. They use pictorial clichés to create new places that engulf the viewer, inviting them into a world that is both personal and universal, mundane and fantastical, contrived and emotional.

This publication explores in detail the artist’s work to date, and features an interview between Gordon Dalton and James Aldridge, and an essay by Alex Coles.

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‘They Live’, the catalogue produced to accompany Breuning’s first solo show in the UK, captures the artist’s ability to pitch the disturbing against the hilarious, the unnatural and exaggerated against the pathetically mundane, and showcases a number of Breuning’s acclaimed photographic works produced between 1997 and 2005. Also explored is HOME, his film made in settings ranging from Machu Picchu to Las Vegas depicting a relentless and unpredictable parade of absurd scenarios that veer from location to location.

The publication also looks at Breuning’s exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London in 2005. Features texts by Adam Sutherland and Martin Herbert with an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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André Stitt is one of Europe's foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists, and ‘Reclamation’, was his first major solo exhibition in Wales. The exhibition took the form of two newly commissioned installations that investigated memory and the interrogation of space.

The accompanying catalogue, produced in 2005 features texts by Stewart Home and Dr Jonathan Charley.

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Bedwyr Williams’ practice incorporates performance (including stand-up comedy), video, writing, photography & drawing. Humour plays a great part in all his works, which often contributes to a cutting critique or satire on his chosen subject.

‘Tyranny of the Meek’ is a fantasy where model railways take over a snooker world and features texts by John Beagles and Bedwyr Williams.

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The work of Andrew McDonald explores a world where seemingly innocuous empty rooms and landscapes become the scenes of unimaginable terror through his scratchy animations.

The stunning publication, produced to coincide with the exhibition at Chapter in 2004, features text by Neil Mulholland and Gordon Dalton, with an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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Produced to accompany the exhibition of the same name, this catalogue explores the routines, preoccupations and habits of Lithuania’s younger generation – those most profoundly affected and influenced by the country’s independence since 1990.

Artists include Laura Stasiulyte, Kristina Inciuraite, Arunas Gudaitis, G-Lab, Gintaras Makarevicius and Alma Skersyte.

This publication features texts by Hannah Firth, Anthony Packer, Bruce Haines and Raimundas Malasauskas.

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2004, paperback, 24pp, colour, £5.00. ISBN 1-900029-12-X

Beagles & Ramsay are best known for their elaborate and theatrical installations that involve video, sculpture, photography and performance. Over the past seven years these installations have often centred on a number of adopted alter egos and mutated self-portraits, and ‘New Meat’ documents these works.

Features texts by Patricia Ellis and Catherine Austin, with an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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Anna Bjerger’s paintings are oddly familiar looking, as if they occupy some collective memory or emotional bank from which we can all draw when needed. They are sourced from hundreds of found pictures – recognisable images of holiday snapshots, of people at parties, pictures from discarded books; family groups, proud winners, and of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The catalogue, produced to coincide with the touring exhibition of the same name, features an illuminating text by critic Martin Herbert and an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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2004, paperback, 36pp, colour, £10.00. ISBN 0-9542964-1-9

Produced to coincide with her solo exhibition of the same name, this publication explores Yokomizo’s portrait series in which she wrote to strangers asking them to appear at their window so that she could photograph them.

The terms of the encounter between the artist and her participant were meticulously constructed, and it is the nature of this relationship that defined the resulting images.

This publication, featuring texts by Claire Doherty and Tom Trevor, and was produced by Spacex Gallery, Exeter in partnership with Chapter.

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2003, paperback, 16pp, colour, £5.00. ISBN 1-900029-10-3

As a British artist, born in Bristol and brought up in Cardiff by her Mauritian mother and uncle, Rachelle Viader Knowles’, who is now based in Canada, is acutely aware of the sense of transience, longing and loss that accompanies the freedom to move. In ‘Home and Other Fictions’, Knowles explored that blurred space between ‘here’ and the fictional/metaphorical ‘there’.

Features text by Nicola King, with an introduction by curator Hannah Firth.

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The major touring exhibition ‘Art for Networks’ focused on some of the most exciting international artists producing or using networks through their practice including Rachel Baker, Anna Best, Heath Bunting, Adam Chodzko, Jeremy Deller, radioqualia, Jodi, Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie, James Stevens, Technologies to the People and Stephen Willats.

Text contributions from Matthew Fuller (in conversation with curator Simon Pope) and Armin Medosch, and artists’ profiles by Gordon Dalton.

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2002, paperback, 36pp, colour, £8.95

The essence of Neudecker's work is her exploration of the territory between reality and imagination, experience and memory, representation and perception. Central to her practice is her interest in and investigation of the social, historical, physical and psychological spaces we inhabit as viewers.

Produced to coincide with the major Chapter Touring show, this publication features texts by Emma Posey and curator and writer Angela Kingston.

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Paul Becker’s paintings are influenced by our affinity with the animal world. Characters such as Bambi, Bagpuss and Mickey Mouse have entertained children for decades but here Becker draws upon cultures’ use of the animal in adulthood. Still present are recognisable symbols of innocence, yet Becker draws the viewer into a darker and more mysterious world.

The catalogue, Paul Becker’s Paintings, was produced to coincide with his exhibition at Chapter in 2003 and features a text by Bill Becker.

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'Masters of the Universe', a group exhibition curated by Gordon Dalton and shown at Chapter in 2003, was inspired by various ideas surrounding hero worship, hopes and dreams, and the inevitable failure in trying to live up to an idealistic way of life. The artists included Gordon Dalton, Chris Yeats, Paul Housley, Paul Stone and Sara MacKillop.

The catalogue features texts by film writer Daniel Etherington and architect Adam Caruso (Caruso St John).

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Paperback, 82pp, colour, £18.

Cornelia Parker is concerned with the relation between ideas and the ambiguities contained therein. The gaps in our thinking are as interesting as the substance, for without gaps we might be incapable of making leaps. Deftly, she transforms the material and contextual state of an object, simultaneously eroding its identity and compounding the potency of its ‘symbolic representation’.

This sought-after publication was produced to accompany the exhibition at Chapter in 1996 and features texts by Guy Brett, Antonia Payne and Jonathan Watkins.

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Paperback, 16pp, colour, £5.

Lucy Gunning is primarily known for her film and video works which often focus on the performance of acting out strange physical acts. Whether it is this aspect of her practice or her continued interest in the voice, her work disturbs culturally constructed notions of subjectivity.

The catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition at Chapter in 1998, features a text by writer and curator Denise Robinson.