Introduction by Paul Moorhouse, essays by Jane Neal and James Cahill
104pp + 4pp covers, hardback in hard slipcase, 292 x 245 mm, c. 49 images

‘Matters of Life and Death’ is a limited-edition publication documenting the accomplished and haunting recent paintings of celebrated Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b.1963). An engaging introduction by Paul Moorhouse, Senior Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London, discusses the dynamic and complex relationship between figuration and abstraction in Patterson’s oeuvre. In his essay, art historian James Cahill explores the subjects of portraiture and personae within the artist’s works, while curator and critic Jane Neal navigates ideas of gender and sexuality in Patterson’s practice, taking us into the realms of fetish and the male gaze. Featuring a selection of works executed between 2013 and 2016, many of which are published here for the first time, the cloth-covered book is presented in a printed hard slipcase and published in an edition of just 500 copies. Read more

Anomie Publishing’s autumn/winter 16–17 brochure is now out, featuring recent, new and forthcoming titles along with information about our backlist publications. Highlights include a brand new edition of British electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 1972 book ‘An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics’, co-published with the Daphne Oram Trust, and a stunning clothbound hardback limited edition publication of the recent paintings of celebrated British artist Richard Patterson. Read more

By Daphne Oram (first published in 1972), new introduction by Sarah Angliss
176pp + 4pp covers, hardback, 220 x 165 mm, c. 25 b/w images

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In 1972, she authored her only book, ‘An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics’. At a time when the world was just starting to engage with electronic music and the technology was still primarily in the hands of music studios, universities and corporations, her approach was both innovative and inspiring, encouraging anyone with an interest in music to think about the nature, capabilities and possibilities that the new sounds could bring. ‘An Individual Note’ is a playful yet compelling manifesto for the dawn of electronic music and for our individual capacity to use, experience and enjoy it. Read more

Essay by Martin Herbert, interview with Sina Najafi
288pp + 4pp covers, hardback, 305 x 220 mm, c. 135 colour and b/w images

This is the first major monograph on the British-born, New York-based artist Oliver Clegg. An eclectic, polyphonic and multidisciplinary artist, Clegg’s oeuvre stretches from painting, drawing and printmaking to sculpture, installation, site-specific art, participatory projects and beyond. Indeed, his practice is in many ways a shining example of ‘post-medium’ creativity today, pursuing the essence of art itself beyond any specific medium or artform. The irony is, he’s pretty damn good with each artform too. Read more

Anomie Publishing’s spring/summer 16 brochure is now out, featuring recent, new and forthcoming titles along with information about our backlist publications. Read more

Foreword by Richard Parry, essay by Dr. Luke Skrebowski
64pp + 4pp covers, softback, 305 x 235 mm, c. 30 colour and b/w images

Sensory Systems documents an engaging group exhibition presented at the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, in autumn 2015. The exhibition is the first in a new annual programme by the gallery each autumn that will revolve around the theme of light, and timed to coincide with the famous Blackpool Illuminations – a six-mile-long outdoor display of lights that has drawn many visitors to the town each year since it was first switched on in 1912. The selection of prominent figures working internationally today who feature in the exhibition and publication are: Angela Bulloch, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anthony McCall and Conrad Shawcross. Read more

Texts by David Cholmondeley, Peter Murray, and Hiram C. Butler
102pp + 4pp covers, Hardback, 260 x 300 mm, c. 60 colour and b/w images

James Turrell is widely acknowledged as one of the most important artists working today. From the mid 1960s onwards his principal concern has been the way we apprehend light and space. In summer/autumn 2015, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, hosted an ambitious and significant exhibition of James Turrell’s light pieces, many collected by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton, who has long been an admirer of his work. The publication has been produced to document the exhibition, and includes a foreword by David Cholmondeley, a text by Peter Murray, and interview with the artist by Hiram C. Butler. Designed by Peter B. Willberg and printed in Italy, this hardback, cloth-covered publication is essential reading for all admirers of Turrell’s oeuvre. Published by Houghton Hall in association with Anomie. Read more

Texts by Edward Lucie-Smith and Richard Dyer
236pp + 4pp covers, Hardback, 320 x 268 mm, c. 150 colour and b/w images

This is the first major monograph on the work of one of Britain’s most dynamic artists, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz. His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages, imagery, themes and motifs that he can appropriate, adapt, use and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods and styles in dialogues that are surprising, innovative, challenging and sometimes provocative. Read more

190pp + 4pp covers, Paperback, 220 x 148 mm, c. 60 colour and b/w images

This publication documents an engaging contemporary art project by celebrated Glasgow-based artist Nathan Coley about an extraordinary episode in the history of London’s social housing. At a time when housing and the property market are at the centre of much social, political, economic and cultural debate, Coley’s project is a pertinent and thought-provoking exploration of issues of housing, ownership, history and activism. Read more

Featuring an introduction by art critic, writer and curator Sacha Craddock, and essays by Ben Street and Gabor Gyory, ‘Breathless’ is the first monograph on the emerging British painter Benjamin Senior. His paintings conjure up a world that is delightful, curious and distinctly his own – a world in which bathers lounge around pools and swimmers limber up before diving in; where people work-out and where walkers take us into the countryside, or into the city with their dogs.

But Senior’s paintings are also carefully conceived studies of the human body, of shape, line and form, of tone, light and shadow. They are engaging explorations of composition and colour, pattern and geometry, textures and materials, the natural and the manmade. With his distinctive and stylised iconography and an overriding sense of both silence and the suspension of time, Senior’s oeuvre is preoccupied with repression and expression, freedom and conformity, motion and stasis, engagement and disengagement. Read more