🔸🔹🔸 COLLAGE & ILLUSTRATION: FRANKENSTEIN RESIDENCY - AUGUST - OCTOBER 2023🔸🔹🔸
I am absolutely delighted to have been accepted to take part in the Kolaj Intitute's Collage & Illustration Residency which is focused on Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and hosted by the illustrious Kolaj Institute over the course of August - October 2023.
If you follow my work you may have had the dire misfortune of witnessing the frightening annual Rare Monster Sighting reports posted every October, and will know that I am very interested in the intersection between visual art, poetry and literature, and how these different creative practices can act as engines to spur each other on. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been a joy to research and is so much more than a gothic horror novel. The novel itself is a poigniant reflection on the danger of humanities efforts to subjugate nature through science and technology; but also on loss, abandonment, alienation, loneliness and at times the restorative power of relationship. Its a novel of great depth and as we have started to share our ideas on the residency new perspectives and nuances arise.
⚡️!!! IT’S ALIVE !!!⚡️
The organisers have this to say:
"During the Collage & Illustration Residency – Frankenstein, artists will work to visually interpret Mary Shelley’s 1818 proto-science fiction novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. As part of Kolaj Institute’s ongoing Collage & Illustration project, this virtual residency aims to explore the themes of creation, identity, and the boundaries of human imagination through the captivating mediums of collage and illustration. Kolaj Institute will publish Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus using the illustrations made during the residency as a way of bringing this important, historical book and the themes it raises to 21st century readers. A selection of artwork will be exhibited at Kolaj Institute in New Orleans. "
To find out more about the Kolaj Institute and their residency programmes visit: https://kolajmagazine.com/content/institute/collage-illustration-frankenstein/
The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Fearful Facts of Year Five
😈👹👺🤖!!!!!MONSTER SEASON COMMENCES!!!!!!👾👽👻🎃
Hail Horror!!!
The much dreaded month of October has arrived again like shrieking nails on the chalkboard of my very soul!!! Dark formations of forboding cumulomalicious clouds gather on the near horizon promising a relentless maelstrom of monstrosity.
What weirdness shall we witness? What lurching creatures of the decrepid swamps of the human psyche are threatening to spill forth now? Do we really want to know?
We have a sickeningly rich assortment amongst the reports that are flung across my desk. These materials within have been carefully obtained by our world class agents through sneakery, snakery, covert maneuvering, safe-cracking, breaking and entering, trickery, misdirection, cajolery, roguery, conspiracy and outright armed robbery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to ancient ruins, undersea laboratories, classified astronomical charts, underground military bases, forbidden libraries, lunar outposts and all manner of confidential records.
As always kudos to our inrepid research team, I dread to peer inside these dossiers of disaster for fear of what I may behold!
The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for nature to realize.”
So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.
Or if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous four years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.
The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Calamitous Compendium of Year Four
😈👹👺🤖!!!!!MONSTER SEASON COMMENCES!!!!!!👾👽👻🎃
Woe betide us!
The slimy, scaly, unscrupulous claw of October has arrived once again to clasp at our wavering hearts and instill a dread so deep, so grievous, and so dark, that no light can ever hope to reach within it.
It is with the greatest of fear and trepidation that I must once more pry open the jaws of the Rare Monster Archives to reveal the ill-contents of this, The Calamitous Compendium of Year Four.
What array of monstrosities awaits us within? Who could possibly say? Who would want to? Anyone with an ounce of sense would have fled to the hills long ago. . . If you remain, I can only thank you for accompanying me on this, most perilous of journeys.
What a haul this year! We have a rich assortment amongst these findings and profiles, the materials within have been carefully obtained by our world class agents through sneakery, snakery, covert maneuvering, safe-cracking, breaking and entering, trickery, misdirection, cajolery, roguery, conspiracy and outright armed robbery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to ancient ruins, undersea laboratories, classified astronomical charts, underground military bases, forbidden libraries, lunar outposts and all manner of confidential records.
The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for nature to realize.”
So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.
Or if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous three years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.
The Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives - The Terrible Telegraphs From Year Three
😈👹👺🤖MONSTER SEASON👾👽👻🎃
The frightful month of October has slithered around again, bringing with it the latest in monster research from the world class agents of the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives Team. Join us for the rest of this month as we peel back the pernickety pages of these dastardly dossiers of devilish denizens. Who knows what kind of hellish and haunting creatures we may encounter? Can we possibly imagine? Do we dare?
All I know is that there is a rich assortment amongst these findings and profiles, the materials for which have been gleaned by our agents through subterfuge, thievery, ransacking, piracy, diplomacy, trickery, burglary and outright tom-foolery. Through these skills and others our daring team have gained exclusive access to hidden government vaults, sunken shipwrecks, secret military bases, forgotten libraries and confidential records.
The stupendous scope of our scintillating specimens is summed up by this quote from the eminent Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist Louis Agassiz:
“The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception to extraordinary for nature to realize.”
So brave with us if you will in the coming days and weeks as we reveal the results of this year’s intrepid investigations.
And if you are feeling particularly courageous you can explore the riveting results from the previous two years over at the Freeform Trouble Rare Monster Archives.
