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PRINT! celebrates the power of the newsstand with a rendition of the Sloane Square kiosk

Jun 15th, 2018

//Visitors to the show browse Newsstand magazines this week. Photo: Somerset House Trust//

//The kiosk on which our Newsstand is based was built for the news vendor at Sloane Square station 30-odd years ago//

Traditional newsstands figure among my favourite examples of London street vernacular architecture (if indeed they qualify as architecture – I’m no expert).
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‘Commercial considerations are secondary to the expression of ideas’: The Drum takes a trip around PRINT!

Jun 14th, 2018

Katie Deighton and Jenny Cleeton from online media news outlet The Drum took a trip around PRINT! Tearing It Up last week.

Read their piece here – the accompanying film report is below.

PRINT! Tearing It Up is at the Terrace Rooms gallery, Somerset House, until August 22. Full details here.

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Fluoro DIY: PRINT! booklet with introduction by Claire Catterall, essay by me, design by Scott King + mind map fold-out poster designed by Rhys Atkinson

Jun 13th, 2018

The booklet we have produced to accompany new Somerset House exhibition PRINT! Tearing It Up is in keeping with the show’s fluoro punk aesthetic and DIY theme.

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PRINT! Tearing It Up opens at Somerset House

Jun 13th, 2018

//PRINT! is staged in Somerset House’s Terrace Rooms; the exhibition’s graphic identity was created by Scott King. His distinctive fluoro pink logo is on the lightbox at the far end of room 1. Photo: Doug Peters//

//With my wife and PRINT! contributor Caz Facey, rock legend Jimmy Page and poet Scarlett Sabet at the private view this week//

//Each room has wall grids divided into subjects – this, the main wall in room 1, presents magazines expressing dissent and protest. Photo: Doug Peters//

//In the courtyard at Somerset House; socks courtesy Pavement Licker//

//Private view attendees Duggie Fields and Jarvis Cocker. Photo: Martin Green//

PRINT! Tearing It Up – the exhibition at central London’s Somerset House I have organised with the SH Trust’s senior curator Claire Catterall – is now open.

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Print! Tearing It Up: My exhibition on the power of independent magazines at Somerset House this summer

Feb 12th, 2018

This summer I am staging PRINT! Tearing It Up, an exhibition at central London’s Somerset House which investigates and celebrates the power of independently produced British magazines and journals.

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