John Bevis – The Keartons. Inventing nature photography

John Bevis – The Keartons. Inventing nature photography
a book published in May 2016 by Uniformbooks
paperback with flaps
192 pp, 234 x 142 mm
designed by Colin Sackett
isbn 978 1 910010 09 9
price £ 14
available at
Uniformbooks
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Axminster, Devon
EX13 5JL England, UK
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a new and definitive study about the lives and partnership of the Keartons, the brothers and British pioneers of wildlife photography Richard (1862-1928) and Cherry Kearton (1871-1940).
John Bevis is an artist, poet and writer. Among other essays and  books he published An A-Z of bird song (Coracle, 1995) and Direct from Nature (Coracle, 1991 and an extended edition by Colin Sackett, 2007)

Artists' Postcards – Jeremy Cooper

The Artists' Postcard Show

6 April – 17 June 2012

Spike Island

133 Cumberland Road

Bristol BS1 6UX

England, UK

www.spikeisland.org.uk

The Artists' Postcard Show is a selective survey of the postcard as a distinctive artistic medium from the mid-twentieth century to present day, from the collection of writer and novelist Jeremy Cooper, author of the recent published Artists' Postcards: A Compendium (Reaktion Books, London) and the forthcoming Growing Up: The Young British Artists at 50 (April 2012, Prestel Books).

The exhibition presents postcards of more than 200 artists, a.o.

On Kawara, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Sara MacKillop, Jan Dibbets, Bas Jan Ader, Tacita Dean, Hamish Fulton, Lawrence Weiner, Carl Andre, Richard Long, Fiona Banner, Robert Barry, John Bevis, John Cage, Les Coleman, Simon Cutts, Alec Finlay, Ryan Gander, Douglas Gordon, Jenny Holzer, Sol LeWitt, Peter Liversidge, Erica Van Horn

The publication Jeremy Cooper – Artists' Postcards: A Compendium will be launched at Postcard Teas, 9 Dering Street, London on Thursday 26 April 2012 from 6.30-8pm

Jeremy Cooper – Artists' Postcards: A Compendium is available at Reaktion Books

437 images, 344 pages, ISBN 978-1-86189-852-4

www.reaktionbooks.co.uk

Website John Bevis

At the end of July the new website was launched of the London based writer, poet, performer and artist John Bevis:

www.johnbevis.com

image: John Bevis – Substance, shadow and reflection, after Richard Keaton, 1984 (installed at the exhibition Certain Trees, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007-2008)

Certain Trees

From the exhibition Certain Trees, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2007 – 2008

John Bevis – Substance, shadow and reflection, after Richard Keaton, pins and wool, 1984
Ian Hamilton Finlay – Spiral Binding, artist's book, 1972
Simon Cutts – No ideas but in things, neon, 2002