ON THE FRACTURED STAGE OF THE BOOK
15 January – 21 February 2009

Dale Devereux Barker, Basil Beattie, Andrew Bick, Mandy Bonnell, Tracey Bush, Ken Campbell, Julie Cockburn, Paul Coldwell, Tracey Emin, Julia Farrer, Derek Jarman, Jane Joseph, Ron King, Knife Edge Press, Lisa Rahman, Simon Redington, Terry Smith, Ian Tyson

The Eagle Gallery has been involved for almost 18 years in exhibiting individual artists books and publishing collaborations between artists and writers, under its imprint EMH Arts.
On the Fractured Stage of the Book is a survey exhibition of printed books, which includes early EMH Arts publications, recent books by artists including
Andrew Bick, Paul Coldwell, Julia Farrer, Simon Redington and Ian Tyson, who have shown regularly with the Gallery and a selection of rare books by Tracey Emin, Derek Jarman, Morning Star Editions and the Tetrad Press, amongst others.
The exhibition launches a new letterpress book of short stories: ‘The Travelling Barmaid’ by Lisa Rahman, published by the New North Press, London.

The show runs concurrently with an Eagle Gallery exhibition at the British Library:

Unseen: A Collaboration
Jane Bustin, Tracy Chevalier, John Hull
12 January – 14 March 2009

Unseen is an exhibition of paintings and texts, which are the result of a two year collaborative exchange between the artists Jane Bustin, the writer Tracy Chevalier and the theologian John Hull, author of Touching the Rock.

John Hull’s account of the onset of total blindness and its impact on his sensory perceptions and spiritual beliefs, prompted Bustin to explore ways of making
paintings that might involve an ‘unseeing’ of an original visual image. In 2006 she invited Tracy
Chevalier to translate the effects of a series of minimal abstract paintings into words, as a
means of making the works ‘visible’ to Hull. Chevalier’s texts acted as a conduit for Hull to
respond to the original paintings and Bustin has conceptualised his responses as related ensembles of paintings, where the scale, colour, materiality and interval of each element are determined by Hull’s
perceptions.

The British Library
2nd and 3rd Floor Landings
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB

For further details of both exhibitions please contact The Eagle Galleryon 020 7833 2674 or email: emmahilleagle@aol.com