Today sees the launch of ‘The Compulsive
Orgonists of West Bromwich’, the latest publication by Indigo Octagon, the
small collective of artists I work which with comprises of myself, Andrew
Smith, HR Smoke and Chris Cowdrill. This is our fourth publication now, with
two of the others: ‘Stolen Car’ and ‘Black Highway’, accompanying two of my
solo exhibitions, and the first one, ‘If A Picture Paints A Thousand Words Then
Why Can’t I Paint?’, accompanying our first (and to date only) collective
exhibition in 2012.
The general idea is that when we meet up we
all bring different ideas, bits of work etc to the table and try and develop
something from this. This new publication mainly belongs to Chris and Andrew
and grew out of some great drawings Chris had been doing based on Victorian era
beards and moustaches which seemed to fit well with some of Andrew’s recent
writing and poetry, which includes ‘The Compulsive Orgonists…’ of the title,
and some of his photographs. My own limited contribution was mainly working
with Chris later on in developing the concept of it looking like an old book
cover using one of Andrew’s photographs as inspiration.
Here is a link so you can view it online, and
over the course of this week we are sharing some extracts from it on the Indigo
Octagon Facebook page. We hope to sell it, alongside the other publications, at
some Art Book or Fanzine fairs or stockist’s and are currently looking into
opportunities for this. In the meantime, we are selling copies at just £3 each,
and if anyone would like to buy one you can contact me through my website, or
Indigo Octagon via the Facebook page. There
are only 30 copies, each one editioned, and each copy also comes with three
great portrait cards featuring fantastically bearded gentlemen created by
Chris.
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Following on from this we are currently
looking into venues and potential collaborators to organize ‘The Compulsive
Orgonists of West Bromwich’ exhibition….
