Editor: Fiona Slater | Reference: P3623 | ISBN: 9781527220454

Celebrates the ten year anniversary of Shape Arts’ award, set up in memory of the sculptor.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).

 

Artist/Author: Francesca Martinez | Reference: P3569 | ISBN: 978-0753555354 | Type: Publication

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … disabled? 

Artist/Author: Nabil Shaban | Reference: A0824 | Type: Article

Creativity should nourish us all, not just the privileged few.

Editor: Martin O'Brien and David MacDiarmid | Reference: P3518 | ISBN: 978-0-9935611-2-2 | Type: Publication

The first book bringing together writing and documentation on Martin O’Brien and marking ten years of his work.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Editor: Marsha Meskimmon,‎ Dorothy C. Rowe | Reference: P3532 | ISBN: 978-0719096716 | Type: Publication

The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women’s art practices provide a fascinating instance of women’s eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization.

Artist/Author: Petra Kuppers | Reference: P3527 | ISBN: 978-1137319920 | Type: Publication

Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book presents a senior practitioner/critic’s exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade -a subtle engagement with disability culture.

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).

Artist/Author: Aaron Williamson | Digital Reference: EF5261 | Type: Digital File

Short video made for the DIY 13 project, a briefly-lived modelling agency set upon depicting the fantasy-fiction average lifestyle that is celebrated in corporate imagery

Artist/Author: Katherine Araniello | Digital Reference: EF5282 | Type: Digital File

Short video artist profile. Includes clips from different video and performance pieces.

Editor: Simon Murphy and Charlotte Cooper | Reference: P3419 | Type: Publication

Autism zine.

Artist/Author: Mary Paterson | Reference: P3417 | ISBN: 978-0-9935611-4-6 | Type: Publication

Explores the proposition presented by the incredible task of suspending a body from helium balloons, the relationship between the performer and the space, the object and the viewer, the possible and the impossible.