Exhibition Premise

The writing is going well - I'm almost finished with all ten books.  Until now I've been a little coy about the form the actual show will take.

The work will comprise ten books made in response to ten books from Peckham library's collection.  The work is designed to ultimately live in Peckham library and will tell a lose story set in the library, using each book as a stop off point on a larger journey.

For the exhibition catalogue I produced a short text, which acts as a loose introduction to the project.

Work in Progress: Lists of Books

Well, asside from watching the Olympic torch relay on Peckham Road (which made me feel slightly patriotic and want to buy cola) and an excellent tutorial with Clare Bryan, I made some headway with the text for my books.  The first draft of several books is now finished (orange), other are cose (yellow) and the remainder are no where near.

Text for Books

Well, it's hard to believe a whole week has gone by - I was hoping to do more regular updates than this!

For the past few days I have been working on the text for each of the ten books.  So far I have eight rough drafts, but I am not 100% confident about the choice of a couple of books.

The text below is potentially for Brideshead Revisited - a book that wasn't on my list this time last week.

On the Road

The Shortlist - 10 books, to be reduced to 9.

So, the idea for the final show has been floating around since the beginning of the year and has threaded through The Dalloway Archive and The Shadow Library.

In theory the show (which runs 6th - 13th September 2012 at Camberwell College) will consist of nine of the ten books above in some configuration.  The above books are from Peckham Library.  The library will also feature in the work in some shape or form.