Simon English: my big self decoy justin beiber ++++ A SUPERB SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING PAPERBACK - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ++++

Simon English

ISBN 10: 1911164775 / ISBN 13: 9781911164777

Published by Black Dog Publishing, UK, 2018

About this Item

A fine UK first edition & first printing large paperback original - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY SIMON ENGLISH - Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Simon English: my big self decoy justin beiber ++++ A SUPERB SIGNED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING PAPERBACK - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST ++++
• Publisher: Black Dog Publishing, UK
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911164775
• ISBN 13: 9781911164777
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Simon English: my big self decoy justin beiber brings together a significant new body of painted drawings by the artist that format themselves around the double page spread, with both image and text on the page to invite and resist quiet contemplation. These exquisitely delicate and brutal drawings tussle with one another for space, pulling the viewer into the energetic and colourful vortex
of the artist’s psyche. Diaries jostle with devotions, desires and disputes―a confabulation of friction and fiction in a place where fetish and fact collide.


Simon English draws across the blank page with the instincts of one entering cyberspace. His surfing history is left only too clear on the surface of the page, or buried beneath heavy black deletions and overpainting. His are the ‘old’ gremlins, the monsters within that say one is too much and more is never enough. In 2004, Bill Arning wrote that “for picture addicts like myself, English is the equivalent of a crack dealer”.
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The work within the book is brought together with written contributions from Laurence Scott, who will contribute a text emanating from English’s imaginary drawing database, and Sally O’Reilly, who will construct a voice for the work somewhere between art, theory, fiction and fantasy.

About the Authors

Laurence Scott is a writer and author of the book The Four-Dimensional Human.

Sally O'Reilly is a writer and critic who recently published her first novel, Crude.

Simon English is a Berlin-born British artist based in London who made his debut in Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery in 1994. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions worldwide.

Simon English is a Berlin-born British artist based in London who made his debut in Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery in 1994. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions worldwide.. Simon English is a Berlin-born British artist based in London who made his debut in Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery in 1994. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions worldwide.