frame 16 October 2021
Memoir writing with Curtis Brown Creative:
with Edit Spaudo interviewed by Maude Martel
Maude Martel: When did you start writing and what inspired you to tell your life story?
Edit Spaudo: I used to do a bit of spoken word and I always kept a diary growing up, but that's really it. The course is the first thing I've done properly. The idea for my memoir came about over lockdown. I'm a carer and I was living in with my client. We ended up telling each other's life stories and she said that I have to write a book about my life. She put me in touch with Clare Conville, which is how CHEERIO ended up sponsoring me to go on the course. I’m so thankful for that… MORE
frame 15 September 2021
An exclusive extract of Souvenir
by Micheal Bracewell
We are delighted to share an exclusive extract from Michael Bracewell’s latest book, Souvenir, published by White Rabbit Books last month.
Souvenir is an account of London during the last years prior to the rise of digital technology. As such it surveys the capital through its geography, post-punk, New Wave and Style culture between 1979 and 1986.
While punk’s battlefield is now well-trodden by writers, very little has been published about the stranger, twilight years of the late 1970s and early 1980s, when music became darker, moodier and melancholy and the city itself entered a kind of violet hour… MORE
frame 14 September 2021
Twenty Entities and the Romance of Bricks:
with Olivia O’Connor, Liz Finch and Nichola Bruce
Twenty Entities is a publication which showcases 25 sculptures created by Liz over a period of 40 years. Each sculpture - or ‘Boxman’, as Liz refers to them - is centred around a cardboard box ‘torso’ and hung by their arms of string, giving them distinct and sometimes unnerving personalities. Throughout the book the images are accompanied by a haunting, almost childlike, stream of recollections from Liz’s life.
The book release is accompanied by a poignant portrait of Liz by avant-garde British filmmaker and friend Nichola Bruce, entitled The Romance of Bricks. The film is a surreal and intimate account of Liz’s life, spanning her childhood in Lancashire, her time at art school, a life-changing accident and arriving on the London scene in the early 80s… MORE
frame 13 September 2021
Katie Kitamura: Intimacies
by Maria Alvarez
Why Intimacies in the plural as a title?
The original title was Terra Firma but when I read through the book at the end, I noticed so many instances of intimacies, many of which were undesirable - whether it was a closeness forced on someone who didn’t want it, physical harassment, or the unease of feeling closer to the state of mind of a perpetrator of war crimes… MORE
