Simon Manfield in conversation with Joanne Tatham
and Tom O'Sullivan
listen to audio recording
How does an illustrator collaborate with contemporary artists?
This event is linked to the GSA Exhibitions Atrium Gallery
exhibition of Simon Manfield's work 'Lines of Memory,' and Tatham
and O'Sullivan's current solo CCA exhibition Direct serious action
is therefore necessary. Tatham and O'Sullivan have collaborated
with Manfield over the last 7 years, on a series of drawings which
form an element in their installations.
Simon Manfield is an illustrator based in
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. His current exhibition at The GSA
includes drawings documenting an excavation of a Spanish Civil War
era communal grave in northern Spain, and new works illustrating a
poem by George Mackay Brown. The 'Memoria Historica' series has
been exhibited at Imperial War Museum North, 2004; Casa de Cultura,
Villaviciosa and Libreria Cervantes, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, 2005;
ArtsMill, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, 2005; University of
Bradford, West Yorkshire, 2006; Eden Project, Cornwall, 2007.
Joanne Tatham & Tom O'Sullivan live and
work in Glasgow. Previous solo exhibitions include You can take is
as a thing or you can take it as a thing, La Salle de Bains, Lyon
2009; Are you feeling our meaning? Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich,
2008; A fee to avoid our expenses, The Modern Institute/Toby
Webster Ltd, Glasgow, 2007; The This & The That of a Category
Error, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, 2007; Oh We Will, We Will,
Will We, Studio Voltaire, London 2005; and Think Thingamajig and
Other Things, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland, 2003.
Works by Sarah Tripp include I borrow (Decalcomania), On hearing
my name (Dancehall), Being a character (Glasgow Project Room), The
equivalent of snow is blossom (Transmission Gallery), Aide-mémoires
(The Happy Hypocrite), Sim-po-zeum (The Glasgow Festival of Visual
Art), Why I disappeared (Cove Park), Why I can't eat at Asia Style
(2HB), The labour you love (Notre Dame Centre), The Best Mistake
(Generator Projects), The inside of an ambulance (Fruitmarket
Gallery), Why work? (Camden Arts Centre) and Anti-prophet (CCA,
Glasgow). Sarah also co-edits the journal gnommero with Eona
McCallum and tutors on the MA Art and Writing MA course at
Goldsmiths.
