Two New Books from Tate Publishing!

I contributed to two amazing new projects with Tate being released in May. First, I was asked to write the introduction to Bonsoir, an unusual collage text that Ithell Colquhoun compiled in 1939 as a storyboard for a Surrealist film. The images are simple, but the queer storyline is, to me, simply delicious. As the copy says: “ ‘Bonsoir’ invites you on a surrealist journey where convention and ambiguity collide in the exploration of female desire.” Released on May 5, but is available on preorder now from the Tate Shop.

The second publication accompanies the Radical Landscapes exhibition at Tate Liverpool, which is a radical rethink of the ways in which the British landscape has been portrayed, loved, and fetishized. The book contains a variety of essays designed to reimagine landscape art not as an idyllic portrait of an ideal past, but as a progressive and inclusive project where everyone feels welcomed. My essay looks at the imaginings of the Goddess in the landscape and the role of ritual as an inspiration for some 20th century British based artists.

Available from Tate Bookshop.