Harbouring Doubt

Mon 20th Feb 2017

My harbouring doubt book has been in gestation for a while. I was finally galvanised into action by Leicester Print Workshop member Peter Rapp taking a table at BABE (Bristol’s Artist Book Event) on the weekend 1-2 April. Nothing like a deadline to finally get on and do.

This piece of work is about wrestling with ideas, means of making and explaining ones work as an artist, with all the doubts and confusion that entails.

One usually harbours doubt in secret because verbalising negative thoughts is disconcerting. But to harbour is also to give shelter which, in the domestic realm, is welcoming, warm and comforting. My book encompasses both.

Each copy comes with a glazed ceramic rock and a statement. You can read the statement here: /news/harbouring-doubt-statement

Medium: Printed on an Adana Press using lead type in Walbaum 24 & 30 pt. Caslon 24pt. and Gill Sans12pt. Based on the scale of a Beatrix Potter book - 148mm tall by 120mm wide and 12mm thick, covered in saffron book cloth. 

Edition: 10