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Aye-Aye is a publisher and a space for artists' books. The publishing house is an evolution of i3 publications from Manchester, and is now based at Islington Mill.
Aye-Aye Book Depot, in Glasgow, Scotland, is a retail outlet for artists' books, art books, theory books and art magazines.
Look out for Aye-Aye events and activities relating to artists' books and art books in Glasgow and Salford.
Aye-Aye online Book Depot is now open for business with a small selection of books. Many more will be added in the near future.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS FROM AYE-AYE OUT NOW
Rachel Goodyear
Cats, cold, hunger and the hostility of birds
A collection of new drawings by Rachel Goodyear, presenting captured moments in a world where social etiquette and boundaries no longer, or maybe never applied. Goodyear's drawings are suffused with a gentle menace, displaying a mass of ambiguous truths and blatant invention. They walk the line between playful curiosity and sadistic torment, revealing a place where the mundane and the spectacular, the blessed and the cursed, dwell in uneasy accord.
Price:£10.00 * ISBN:9780955654015 * 48 pages * Hardback
David Mackintosh
Imagine you are in a room full of blind fools desperately grasping at nothing
Edited and with an essay by Simon Morrissey.
The first major publication of the mordantly compelling work of David Mackintosh. Editor Simon Morrissey's insightful essay begins: "By turns mundane then macabre, surreal then salacious, David Mackintosh’s drawings are always disarmingly simple. Whether depicting a pile of shit or parts of a dismembered corpse, the outline of a head with what appears to be a bite taken out of it or starkly rendering a pair of bare breasts, his drawings appear to have borrowed much of their graphic presence from cartoons or some kind of illustration ... It is as if Mackintosh is dallying with the easy readability of these forms of drawing, and finding a comfort in their lack of discursive complexity. And with their graphic outlines, their swathes of opaque wash quickly filling shapes or dry drags of the brush scribbling a rough approximation to form, the drawings appear to convey immediacy and spontaneity...
Price:£17.00 * ISBN:9780955654008 * 80 pages * Hardback
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