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Handmade: the New Labour

Handmade: the New Labour

Vol 25 no 1


What place remains in a fast, digital world for the slow, painstaking work of making things? Many artists still spend long hours working by hand on unique objects whether sculpture, furniture, drawing, fibre, even photography. In the light of increasing use of hands-off production the work of Ricky Swallow, Patrick Hall, Jan Nelson, David Trubridge, Christian Capurro, Bernhard Sachs, Robert Foster, Rosemary O'Rourke and many others take on a special significance. Writers Robert Cook and Mark Thomson give us their take on the consumer heaven of ever-newer digital and power tools and the purgatory of obsolete junk. Exhibition reviews, columns and obituaries. Guest Editor Kevin Murray.


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It's Not You, It's Me - I Just Don't, You Know, Think We're Compatible

Author: Mr Robert Cook, feature

"It should go without saying that our responses to the handmade, the mass-produced and techno gadgetry are principally structured within and by fantasy worlds". Cook explores people's relationships to objects in a world that is perpetually developing and enhancing itself materially, or so it seems.



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