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Anomie Publishing is an international publishing house for the arts based in the UK and dedicated to enabling quality arts books – especially small and medium print-run titles – to reach the book trade.

Anomie works in partnership with public, independent and commercial galleries, museums, academic institutions, agencies, arts organisations, charities, collectors, artist studios and private clients to publish and co-publish books.

Anomie was established in summer 2013 by publisher and editor Matt Price, who has worked in arts publishing since the turn of the millennium, collaborating with publishers including Frieze, Hatje Cantz, Koenig Books, Phaidon, Rizzoli, and Thames & Hudson.

At the end of 2015 a second imprint, Anomie Academic, was created as an additional platform for scholarly titles, and in 2019 a third was added, Anomie Special Projects.

Working alongside its international distribution partners, Casemate Art, Anomie’s titles are available in the UK, Europe and the USA, with worldwide distribution for selected publications.

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Gareth NyandoroPajoji Electricals, 2019 (detail)Ink and mixed media on paper,mounted on canvas181 x 266 cm / 71 1/4 x 104 3/4 in.Courtesy Tiwani Contemporary, LondonPhoto: Deniz Güzel

Gareth Nyandoro (b.1982, Bikita, Zimbabwe) is noted for his large works on paper, which often spill out of their two-dimensional format into installations that include paper scraps and objects found in the street markets of Harare, where he lives and works. The artist’s primary source of inspiration is the rapidly changing urban and cultural panorama of Zimbabwe. This, the artist’s first monograph, documents selected work created since 2014 presented in exhibitions at venues including the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Quetzal Art Centre, Portugal, Tiwani Contemporary, London, Modern Art Oxford and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Launched alongside a solo presentation of the artist’s work at Art Basel Miami Beach, it features an introduction by curator Adélaïde Blanc, who curated Nyandoro’s 2017 solo exhibition Stall(s) of Fame at the Palais de Tokyo, and an essay from Cape Town-based writer, critic and editor Sean O’Toole.

Gareth Nyandoro

Introduction by:Adélaïde Blanc

Essay by:Sean O’Toole

96pp Softback230 x 190 mm (p)c. 50 imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-22-8RRP: £24 / €30 / $35UK Release: 16 January 2020US Release: 6 February 2020Edited by Maria Varnava and Eva LangretDesigned by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted in England by PressisionDistributed by Casemate ArtCo-published by Anomie and Tiwani Contemporary, London, with support from the A.G. Leventis Foundation

Summer in Paris. British art student Adam King undertakes an internship at a museum of contemporary art. An encounter with an unusual collective of young people looking to change the world, along with a strange revelation in front of The Mona Lisa, sees him facing much more than his own coming-of-age. Against a backdrop of late capitalism, media and surveillance, this curious, gently mind-blowing story not only considers how people’s images and lives are enacted and exploited in the digital era, but also invites questions about the very nature of what we perceive. Leonardo, of course, is still ahead of the game, more than five hundred years after his death... You won’t believe your mind’s eye.

The Eleven Associates of Alma-Marceau is the debut novel by The Old School Writers Circle – a group of friends who periodically meet to discuss art, writing and books.

The Eleven Associates ofAlma-Marceau

A novel by

The Old School Writers Circle

256ppHardback, 220 x 165 mm (p) ISBN: 978-1-910221-19-8RRP: £20 / €25 / $30UK Release: 13 February 2020US Release: 5 March 2020Designed by Modern Activity, LondonWritten and edited by The Old School Writers CirclePrinted by EBS, VeronaDistributed by Casemate ArtPublished by Anomie Special Projects

Jonathan Wateridge was born in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1972. Today he lives and works in Norfolk, UK. This, the artist’s first trade mono-graph, presents two significant bodies of work, ‘Enclave’ and ‘Expatria’. In these series, Wateridge returns to his childhood memories of growing up within the privileged white ex-pat communities of Zambia in the 1970s and 1980s, during the early years of the country’s independence from British rule. ‘Having grown up in an apparent world of sunshine and sub-urban pools, I sought to overlap those aspects of my formative experiences with the wider issues of the West’s post-colonial role’, Wa-teridge has stated. His recent paintings, with the artist’s characteristic virtuosity and based on elaborate studio stage sets replete with a cast of actors, also seek to explore more lyrical figurative languages offered by the medium, adding to the uneasy dynamics that haunt these memorable and accomplished works.

Jonathan WateridgeEnclave / Expatria

Texts by:Mark SandersDr. Gilda Williams

200pp Hardback, clothbound with dust jacket290 x 245 mm (p)c. 130 imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-21-1RRP: £40 / €50 / $55UK Release: 25 June 2019US Release: 8 August 2019Edited by Mark SandersDesigned by Peter B. WillbergPrinted in Italy by SiZDistributed by Casemate ArtPublished by Anomie

Celebrated for her striking, playful yet often challenging paintings of women in diverse environments and architectural settings, Caroline Walker explores myriad social, cultural, economic and political factors in her practice that affect women’s lives today. Her works take us from the luxurious hotels of Los Angeles and Palm Springs to the temporary housing of female asylum seekers arriving in Europe, from the nail bars, restaurant kitchens and offices of London to the private pools and nighttime parties of the European elite. Walker deftly broaches everyday and more provocative subjects ranging from the pay gap to migrant workforces, the beauty industry to domestic roles, gender stereotypes to ageism. ‘Picture Window’ is the most comprehensive publication to date on London-based Scottish artist Caroline Walker. Noted for her painterly virtuosity, Walker is rapidly establishing herself as a leading British painter of her generation.

Caroline WalkerPicture Window

Essay and interview by:Marco LivingstoneTexts by:Dr. Rina AryaDr. Lauren ElkinAndrew Nairne

312pp + 6pp coversSoftback, 290 x 232 mm (p)c. 170 imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-18-1RRP: £35 / €40 / $45UK Release: 04 October 2018US Release: 15 November 2018Designed by GRIMM (Sebastiaan Brandsen & Tamara van Latum)Printed by Aeroprint, Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, AmsterdamDistributed by Casemate ArtPublished by GRIMM, Amsterdam/ New York, and Anomie, UK[Out of Print]

The practice of Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths College graduate Greg Rook (b.1971, London) explores the rich visual history, curious cultural politics and often complex ideologies of those who seek to start a new life or wish to lead alternative lifestyles. From pioneers travelling to new continents to those wanting to live self-sufficiently, Rook invites us to join him on his own aesthetic and critical journey through a world of colonies, commu-nities, communes and cults. This hardback publication, the first monograph devoted to the work of Greg Rook, has been published to coincide with a substantial mid-career survey exhibition of the artist’s work being staged by Vento & Associati at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. Featuring c.50 illustrations of paintings and works on paper made by Rook since 2006, the publication offers an engaging commentary on Rook’s long-standing painterly investigation into how people choose to live their lives.

Greg RookHonyocker

Foreword by: Andrea VentoIntroduction by: Michele RobecchiEssay by: Matt Price

64pp + 4pp coversHardback, 255 x 195 mm (p) c. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-20-4RRP: £25 / €30 / $35UK Release: 23 May 2019US Release: 27 June 2019Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikEdited by Vento & Associati and AnomiePrinted by Tempo Libro Srl, MilanDistributed by Casemate ArtCo-published by Vento & Associati, Milan, and Anomie, UK

The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting celebrates the work of forty artists whose practices have been defining Britain’s contribution to current painting. The anthology documents solo exhibitions by the artists in public museums and galleries, as well as in independent, commercial, artist-led and uni-versity spaces, both in Britain and abroad. The artists are at various stages in their careers, from high-profile, internationally renowned artists to up-and-coming names. Featured artists and exhibitions include: Peter Doig at Michael Werner, London; Kaye Donachie at Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris; Lubaina Himid at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Chris Ofili at Victoria Miro Venice; Raqib Shaw at The Whitworth, Manchester; Rose Wylie at Serpentine Galleries, London; and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the New Museum, New York. This number 1 bestseller in the Amazon UK con-temporary art charts is in its second print run.

The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting

Compiled and written by Matt Price

160ppPaperback, 280 x 210 mm (p)c. 160 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-16-7RRP: £30 / €35 / $40UK Release: 20 September 2018US Release: 25 October 2018Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by S&G, Merthyr TydfilDistributed by Casemate ArtPublished by Anomie

Emily Andersen has been making photographic portraits of the international avant-garde since graduating from the Royal College of Art in the early 1980s. Having started out by finding her way into some pretty cool-sounding private parties in London and New York, she began convincing artists and musicians to pose for her – from Nan Goldin to Nico. Over the past thirty-five years, she has built up a remarkable and beautiful portfolio that includes many high-profile writers, poets, film directors, actors and architects, with Peter Blake, Michael Caine, Derek Jarman, Zaha Hadid, Arthur Miller, Helen Mirren, Michael Nyman and Eduardo Paolozzi among those featured in this new publication devoted to her black-and-white portraits. Emily Andersen – Portraits: Black & White has been released in both a trade edition published by Anomie and as an artist’s limited edition of fifty signed and numbered copies, accompanied by an original print.

Emily AndersenPortraits: Black & White

Texts by Emily Andersen and Jonathan P. Watts

120ppHardback, 230 x 180 mm (p)c. 70 black and white imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-17-4RRP: £30 / €35 / $40 (trade edition)UK Release: 18 October 2018US Release: 29 November 2018Designed by: Melanie Mues / Mues DesignPrinted by EBS, VeronaDistributed by Casemate ArtPublished by Anomie

Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was a central figure in the development of British experimental electronic music who was co-founder and first director of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In 1972, she authored her only book, An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics. At a time when the world was just starting to engage with electronic music and the technology nascent, her approach was both innovative and inspiring, encour-aging anyone with an interest in music to think about the possibilities the new sounds could bring. This new edition has been produced by Anomie in asso-ciation with the Daphne Oram Trust.

Daphne OramAn Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics

Introduction by: Sarah Angliss

176ppHardback, 220 x 165 mm; c. 20 b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-11-2RRP: £20 / €30 / $35UK Release: 23 November 2016Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikEdited by Matt PricePrinted by EBS, VeronaPublished by The Daphne Oram Trust and Anomie Academic

Richard PattersonMatters of Life and Death

Introduction by: Paul MoorhouseEssays by: Jane Neal, James Cahill

104ppHardback in slipcase, 292 x 245 mmc. 60 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-12-9RRP: £75 / €90 / $100UK Release: 23 February 2017Designed by Modern ActivityEdited by Matt Price and Kat SaperaPrinted by EBS, VeronaPublished by Anomie; edition of 500 copies

Matters of Life and Death is a limited- edition publication documenting the accomplished and haunting recent paintings of celebrated Dallas-based British artist Richard Patterson (b.1963). An introduction by Paul Moorhouse, Senior Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, London, discusses the dynamic relationship between figuration and abstraction in Patterson’s oeuvre, while art historian James Cahill explores the subjects of portraiture and personae within the artist’s works. Curator and critic Jane Neal navigates ideas of gender and sexuality in his practice, taking us into the realms of fetish and the male gaze.

In this publication, Anna Freeman Bentley presents paintings and works on paper documenting her journey into the exclusive realm of private members clubs. Her research took her to California and to some of the most desirable clubs of Los Angeles. Released to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, California, in spring 2018, the publication showcases images of around twenty paintings and as many works on paper, alongside a fore-word from patron Roberta Ahmanson, an introduction by the exhibition curator John Silvis, and a specially commis-sioned essay from critic Jane Neal.

Anna Freeman Bentley: Exclusive – Paintings of Private Members Clubs

Texts by: Roberta Ahmanson, John Silvis and Jane Neal

64ppHardback, 315 x 250 mmc. 40 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-15-0RRP: £30 / €35 / $40UK Release: 10 May 2018Designed by Reynolds Wulf Inc.Edited by Ann HirouPrinted by Bridgetown PrintingPublished by Pinatubo Press Inc. and Anomie

Published to coincide with a solo presen-tation of the ‘Hoax Suite’ by British artist Justin Mortimer at The Armory Show in New York in spring 2018 with London gallery Parafin, the publication presents the thirty works that comprise this excep-tional series of paintings depicting dead and dying flowers, offering an intense exposition of still life, or perhaps more aptly, nature morte. With his characteris-tic combination of darkness and beauty, melancholy and metaphysics, the Hoax series is not only a significant body of work within the artist’s oeuvre, but perhaps also one of the most significant series of paintings of flowers in our time.

Justin MortimerHoax

Essay by: Freya Cooper Kiddie

88ppHardback, 255 x 195 mmc. 45 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-14-3RRP: £30 / €35 / $40UK Release: 15 March 2018Designed by Modern ActivityEdited by Matt PricePrinted by EBS, VeronaPublished by Anomie [Out of Print]

James Turrell is widely acknowledged as one of the most important artists working today. Since the mid 1960s his principal concern has been the way we apprehend light and space. In summer 2015, Houghton Hall in Norfolk hosted an ambitious exhibition of Turrell’s light pieces. This publication was produced to document the exhibition, which was centred around works from the Houghton collection, complemented by additional loans. A highlight was The Illumination – a unique, site-specific installation created especially for Hough-ton Hall lighting the whole west façade of the house each evening.

LightScapeJames Turrell at Houghton Hall

Texts by: David Cholmondeley, Peter MurrayInterview by: Hiram C. Butler

102pp + 4pp coversHardback, clothbound with dustjacket260 x 300 mm; c. 60 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9932882-0-3RRP: £35 / €50 / $55UK Release: 10 December 2015Designed by Peter B. WillbergEdited by David CholmondeleyPublished by Houghton Hall in association with Anomie Academic

Sensory Systems documents a show at Grundy Art Gallery in autumn 2015 to coincide with the Blackpool Illumina-tions – a six-mile-long outdoor display of lights that has drawn visitors to the town each year since 1912. The exhibi-tion featured works by internationally acclaimed artists interested in the tech-nology and science of light, and how this can be used to affect experiences of space. The featured artists were: Angela Bulloch, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anthony McCall and Conrad Shawcross. The publication was supported by Blackpool Council, Coastal Communities Fund, and ACE.

Sensory Systems

Foreword by: Richard ParryEssay by: Luke Skrebowski

64pp + 4pp coversPaperback, 305 x 235 mmc. 30 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-10-5RRP: £18 / €23 / $26UK Release: 31 March 2016Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikEdited by Richard ParryPrinted by Team Impression, LeedsPublished by Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, and Anomie

This is the first monograph on British- born, New York-based artist Oliver Clegg. His oeuvre stretches from painting, drawing and printmaking to sculpture, installation, site-specific art, participatory projects and beyond. With his erudite repertoire, diverse materials and meth-ods, Clegg offers the viewer a complex, sometimes playful, sometimes moving journey into notions of objecthood and matter, images and signs, language, creation and being. From gallery walls to the streets of New York, from Freud’s house to the Joshua Tree National Park, Clegg turns up to do remarkable things with the fabric of spacetime.

Oliver Clegg

Introduction by: Matt PriceEssay by: Martin HerbertInterview by: Sina Najafi

288pp + 4pp coversHardback, 305 x 220 mmc. 135 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-07-5RRP: £30 / €40 / $45UK Release: 23 September 2016Designed by Dominique ClausenEdited by Matt PricePrinted by Asia Pacific Offset, ChinaPublished by Anomie

Louise Giovanelli (b.1993, London) is one of Britain’s most promising young painters. This, the artist’s first monograph, documents her first three solo exhibi-tions, staged at The International 3, Sal-ford, the Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, and Touchstones Rochdale. Paintings, both contemporary and from art history are Giovanelli’s subjects. Considering the position of the viewer as much as the painter, Giovanelli explores the history of painting as object, the context of its dis-play and reception, and the mechanics of painting itself to investigate languages of painting, resulting in works that are cryptic and strangely enchanting.

Louise GiovanelliIn Conversation

Foreword by: Paulette Terry BrienEssay by: Charlotte Keenan McDonald

78pp +8pp coversPaperback, 245 x 171.5 mm c. 35 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-13-6RRP: £18 / €23 / $25UK Release: 23 March 2017Designed by Textbook StudioEdited by Linda Pittwood and Guy TindalePrinted by Pressision, LeedsPublished by Anomie

Caroline Walker (b.1982, Dunfermline) has established herself as one of the UK’s most exciting figurative painters of her generation working internationally today. By means of a seductive yet forthright use of paint, Walker makes paintings that explore ideas of femininity and wom-anhood in relation to architecture and interiors, addressing women’s physical, psychological, economic and social rela-tionships with the buildings in which they spend time. While the paintings are often charming and appealing, there is regularly something odd, unexpected or vaguely threatening underlying them. Sometimes dream homes can be anything but…

Caroline WalkerIn Every Dream Home

Texts by: Marco Livingstone and Jane NealInterview by: Matt Price

80pp + 4pp coversHardback, 190 x 220 mmc. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-0-9RRP: £20 / €25 / $30 UK Release: 1 August 2013Edited by Matt PriceDesigned by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Pressision, LeedsPublished by Anomie [Out of Print]

Anna Freeman Bentley (b.1982) is a painter based in East London whose practice explores the built environment, architecture and interiors. With an intense, regularly dark palette and energetic, intri-cate brushwork, her paintings depict plac-es from derelict factories and warehouses to baroque buildings, shops, cafes and modern architecture. With a focus on the changing use of buildings over time, and how streets, communities and cities decline, regenerate and gentrify, Freeman Bentley’s practice documents the changing vocabulary of architecture and captures some of the complex dynamics and feelings that these places engender.

Anna Freeman BentleyMobility and Grandeur

Texts by: Michele Robecchi,Marina Cashdan and Ben Quash

96pp + 4pp coversHardback, 220 x 190 mmc. 40 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-03-7RRP: £24 / €30 / $40UK Release: 12 Feb 2015Edited by Matt PriceDesigned by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Pressision, LeedsPublished by Anomie

This is the first major monograph of Brit-ish artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (b.1966, Dartmoor). His striking paintings and drawings mine the hallowed halls of art history and popular culture in search of visual languages that he can appropriate, adapt, use and abuse, bringing together different movements, genres, periods and styles in dialogues that are surpris-ing, innovative and sometimes provoca-tive. These painterly chimerae are often irreverent and witty, at other times simply beautiful, odd and arresting, but are always thought-provoking, inviting us to think across cultures, countries and ide-ologies about the many languages of art.

Wolfe von Lenkiewicz

Foreword by: Edward Lucie-SmithText by: Richard Dyer

236pp + 4pp coversHardback, clothbound with dustjacket320 x 268 mmc. 150 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-09-9RRP: £45 / €60 / $70UK Release: 21 January 2016Designed by Peter B. Willberg / James SuttonEdited by Mark SandersPrinted by Castelli Bolis, ItalyPublished by Anomie

Breathless is the first monograph on the emerging British painter Benjamin Senior. His paintings conjure up a world that is delightful, curious and distinctly his own. It is a world in which bathers lounge around pools and swimmers limber up; where we find people doing yoga and various exer-cise routines; where walkers and joggers take us out to the countryside, or into the city with their dogs. But despite their endorphin-rousing semiotics, Senior’s paintings are no mere campaign to keep art lovers fit. For they are also carefully conceived and meticulously executed studies of the human body, of shape, line and form, tone, light and shadow.

Benjamin SeniorBreathless

Introduction by: Sacha CraddockTexts by: Ben Street, Gabor Gyory

100pp + 4pp coversHardback, 225 x 195 mmc. 60 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-06-8RRP: £25 / €35 / $40UK Release: 9 July 2015Designed by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Pressision, LeedsPublished by Anomie

Rachel Kneebone (b.1973, Oxford-shire) is a London-based artist inter-nationally renowned for her porcelain sculptures that intricately fuse human, natural and abstract forms in ways that are simultaneously serene and cacophonous, beautiful yet grotesque, otherworldly yet full of humanity. Exploring themes such as sexual desire, mortality, anguish and despair, Knee-bone’s sculptures are contemporary visions of eternal truths, conveyed with endless imagination and impressive artistry. The publication features works from her acclaimed solo exhibition at Brooklyn Museum in 2012.

Rachel KneeboneRegarding Rodin

Foreword by: Catherine MorrisText by: Ali Smith

88pp + 4pp coversHardback, 170 x 235 mmc. 50 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-01-3RRP: £24 / €30 / $40UK Release: 21 August 2014Designed by Herman Lelie and Stefania BonelliProduced by fandg.co.ukPublished by Anomie

Nathan Coleyto the Bramley Family of Frestonia

Text by:Nathan Coley

190pp + 4pp coversPaperback, 210 x 148 mmc. 60 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-05-1RRP: £24 / €35 / $45UK Release: 30 July 2015Designed by Hector PottieEdited by Moira JeffreyPrinted by Identity Print, UKPublished by Anomie

to the Bramley Family of Frestonia is a publication documenting a public art project by Glasgow-based contempo-rary artist Nathan Coley (b.1967). In the 1970s a group of squatters moved into derelict Victorian houses in the Freston Road area of Kensington and Chelsea. In summer 2015, the first phase of apart-ments designed by Haworth Tompkins Architects was completed. This publi-cation presents the sculptures created by Coley for the site and residents, as well as recording the history of the Frestonians through a variety of documentation and the photography of former resident Tony Sleep.

Tamara TraczThree Books

Text by: Tamara Tracz

3 volumes, 72pp + 4pp covers eachHardback/slipcase, 135 x 210 mmc. 15 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-04-4RRP: £35 / €48 / $55UK Release: 18 June 2015Designed by Tamara Tracz with Herman LeliePrinted by EBS, Verona, ItalyCo-published by Parkholme Press, London and Anomie [Out of Print]

Three Books is a special three-volume slipcased publication. It is a story that follows several generations of a Jewish family as their lives unfold in various cities and countries during the twen-tieth century. It is a story of births and deaths, of lives led and of the forces that shape them. But Three Books is not written in the form of family biography, and is not only the story of this family’s history. It is also a story about stories, about the passing on of information between generations. Every word has been handwritten and reproduced as she drew it, in all manner of configurations and patterns.

Paul SimononWot No Bike

Text by: David LancasterInterview by: Tim Marlow

64pp + 4pp coversHardback, 285 x 200 mmc. 22 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-02-0RRP: £30 / €40 / $50UK Release: 22 Jan 2015Edited by Bruce Cameron & Serena ReesDesigned by Martin Bell / FruitmachinePrinted by Grafiche Antiga, ItalyPublished by Anomie [Out of Print]

Wot No Bike is a limited print-run book of the work of Paul Simonon (b.1955). Growing up in London in the 1960s and 70s he found himself part of the community of Bikers and Rockers that emerged from post-war austerity and lit the touch paper for the punk revolution within which Simonon came to prominence as bassist with legend-ary punk band The Clash. Since the band split in the 1980s, Simonon has divided his time between music and art projects. Wot No Bike features 22 paintings depicting the stock-in-trade of his life as a Biker – poised between still life and autobiography.

This monograph on Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based painter Kamrooz Aram (b.1978) presents the series Palimpsest, partly inspired by the painting-over of graffiti on the streets of New York by the authori-ties. The ongoing cycle of painting, covering-up and repainting connects with Aram’s longstanding fascination with modernism and the legacies of abstract painting. The ‘Palimpsest’ series raises many questions about contemporary abstract painting, exploring how far the process of image-making can be central to the meaning of a painting.

Kamrooz AramUnstable Paintings for Anxious Interiors

Texts by: Eva Díaz; Media Farzin; Murtaza Vali; Kamrooz Aram

80pp + 4pp covers; hardback, 318 × 248 mm c. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-6-1RRP: £30 / €35 / $45UK Release: 1 May 2014Edited by Yasmin AtassiDesigned by Joe Gilmore / QubikPrinted by Die Keure, BrugesCo-published by Green Art Gallery, Dubai and Anomie

Sarah MedwayVoyage

Texts by: Andrew Lambirth; Sue Hubbard

112pp + 4pp coversFlexibound, 260 x 225 mmc. 75 colour imagesISBN: 978-1-910221-08-2RRP: £20 / €28 / $30UK Release: 11 June 2015Designed by Peter B. Willberg with James SuttonPrinted by Castelli Bolis, ItalyPublished by Anomie

Sarah Medway’s abstract paintings are a delicate and evocative investigation into the nature of light as it manifests itself through the myriad enviroments that surround us. She navigates us through different seasons – from her canal-side studio in central London to the Mediterranean and Scandinavia and beyond. With her distinctive vocabulary of abstract marks and shimmering palettes, her works build into complex webs that capture the experience of perceiving light, colour and shapes as they filter through the atmosphere into our eyes, minds, memories and subconscious.

The paintings of Robert Fry (b.1980, London) confront viewers with an engaging exploration of the human form that asks profound questions about people’s physical presence in the universe and the psychological, emotional and spiritual engagement we have with the world through our bodies. With a deep sense of civiliza-tions past, from the prehistoric to the ancient Egyptian, Medieval and Renaissance to the Enlightenment and beyond, Fry bridges the figura-tive and the abstract in a way that is evocative of body and mind, matter and spirit, life and death.

Robert Fry

Texts by: Mamuka Bliadze; Jane Neal; Dr. Anthony Fry

88pp + 4pp coversHardback, 280 × 220 mmc. 60 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-4-7RRP: £30 / €35 / $45UK Release: 17 October 2013Designed by Joanna DeansPrinted by Die Keure, BrugesCo-published by Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin and Anomie

Meekyoung Shin

Texts by: Jonathan Watkins; Ben Tufnell; Kyung An; Jade Keunhye Lim

108pp + 4pp coversPaperback, 280 × 220 mmc. 50 colour and b/w imagesISBN: 978-0-9576936-5-4RRP: £18 / €22 / $30UK Release: 5 December 2013Edited by Anne BloodDesigned by Matt WatkinsPrinted by Lecturis, EindhovenPublished by Anomie in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre UK, London

London and Seoul-based Korean artist Meekyoung Shin (b.1967) is re-nowned for her sculptures that probe the mis- and re-translations that often emerge when cultural objects are uprooted from their original context. Made from soap, her works replicate artefacts and canonical works of art, from Asian porcelain vases to Greek and Roman scultures, translating between continents, cultures and centuries in the process. The publica-tion presents works from a variety of ongoing series produced by the artist over the past fifteen years, including Written in Soap: A Plinth Project.