The Stuart Brisley Interviews

This series of interviews is focussed entirely on Stuart Brisley’s practice and directed by him. The artist’s narration of his practice demonstrates an unswerving resistance to controlling the narrative or fixing the meaning of his works. The enduring resonance of Brisley’s work lies in its formless and slippery characteristics that resonate so poignantly with our shared human condition.

ISBN: 978-1-912570-0-96

128 pp, softback, 170 x 220 mm, illustrations.

Book works and DACS, 2020.

The New Economy of Art

The New Economy of Art is a collection of new writings on value, patronage and emerging business models in contemporary visual art, with contributions from experts across the art world as well as interventions by artists Sonia Boyce, Jeremy Deller and Barbara Steveni. Bringing together a range of perspectives. It explores the current economic infrastructure supporting visual arts in the UK and its impact on individual artists and their capacity to make art.

ISBN: 978-0-9559029-9-4

191pp, softback, 200mm x 250mm, includes illustrations by Sonia Boyce and Barbara Steveni.

DACS and Artquest, 2014

Transmission Interrupted

This publication looks at how contemporary artists disrupt prevailing forms of registering and representing the world.

Highlighting the persistence of certain values and beliefs and the seeping obsolescence of others, it compels us to consider what remains unseen, unspoken and unrepresented at a time when freedom of speech and democracy are invoked as universal values to which we can all subscribe.

ISBN: 9781901352399

128pp, hardback, 433 x 300mm, 50 illustrations.

Modern Art Oxford, 2009.

Life is More Important Than Art

Alien Nation

Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation

'Life is more important than art', wrote James Baldwin, 'that's why art is important.' What is the relationship between art and the everyday world? What does it mean to be an artist at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Based on a series of interviews with artists spanning three generations, this book investigates the current conditions for making and presenting contemporary art.

ISBN: 0955568706/ 978-0955568701

128pp, softback, 170 x 240mm, 40 illustrations.

Ostrich, 2007.

In recent years artists from around the world have again taken up elements of science fiction and the figure of the alien to explore the fear of difference and the perceived threat of the outsider.

Featuring the work of twelve contemporary artists alongside original film posters, film stills and archival photographs from the Cold War era, this lavishly illustrated book offers another chapter in this all too real fiction.

ISBN: 1-899846-47-6 / 978-1-899846-47-4
120pp, hardback, 272 x 192mm, 92 illustrations.
inIVA, ICA and Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2006.

Featuring the work of over 100 artists and writers, this unique anthology maps the changing landscape of contemporary art and culture over the past decade in the context of global economics and local politics. Seen through the prism of a decade of artistic programming by Iniva, the book examines the most pressing issues that have driven international contemporary art at the turn of the millennium.

ISBN: 1-899846-40-9
336pp, softback with flaps, 224 x 239mm, 226 illustrations.
Iniva, 2004.

Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art

Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes

The first publication to explore the representation of the veil, this anthology provides social and historical contexts to the veil’s multi-layered symbolism.

ISBN: 1-899846-35-2
192pp, softback, 220 x 220mm, 92 illustrations.
Iniva in association with Modern Art Oxford, 2003.

This volume brings together contemporary artists and writers from Africa and the African diaspora whose works trace the outlines of fault lines that are shaping contemporary experience locally and globally.

ISBN: 9781899846382 272pp, softback, 220 x 168mm, 178 illustrations. Iniva in collaboration with the Forum for African Arts and the Prince Claus Fund, 2003.

The work of Sonia Boyce occupies a special place within the recent history of British art. This monograph traces the artist’s trajectory from early graphic work to the later mixed-media work which addresses society’s positioning of individuals in terms of race, class and gender.

ISBN 0 947753 09 5
96pp, softback, 210 x 255mm, 75 illustrations Kala Press, 1997.