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Onomatopoeia - Its People and Surroundings
Charles Avery
ISBN: 9789491727962
(HB - E)
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A portrait of the people and culture of Onomatopoeia, capital city, port and gateway to the Island. The town was once the stepping off point for pioneers and travellers. Pre-order your discounted copy before its release on 12 January 2016.
In 2005, Scottish Artist Charles Avery embarked on a long-term project entitled The Islanders, a detailed description of the topography, cosmology and inhabitants of a fictional island, realised in drawings, objects and texts.
This book is a portrait of the people and culture of Onomatopoeia, capital city, port and gateway to the Island. The town was once the stepping off point for pioneers and travellers. It grew from an outpost to a bustling boomtown, before entering a phase of decline into depression ravaged slum, and now - in the fictional present - finds itself reborn as a regenerated city of culture with its own Museum of Modern Art.
About Charles Avery
Charles Avery lives and works in London. His practice is dedicated to the description of a fictional Island which he continues to elaborate, with its own population, customs and cosmology, nature and architecture, expressed in the form of large-scale drawings, sculptures, installations, texts and moving images. This ongoing body of work created within a specific framework is rooted in Avery's own life and upbringing on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland.
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