When Vincent van Gogh picked up his pencil and set out on his artistic career, it was not with the intention of becoming a leader of the avant-garde art world. Rather, his aims centred on earning a reasonable wage and living within the middle-class norms of his family. Van Gogh's hope was to become an illustrator of magazines and newspapers. From 1880 to 1885 van Gogh assembled a collection of over 2,000 black-and-white prints, predominately from English publications such as the Graphic and the Illustrated London News. These prints were produced in the thousands to accompany news stories or as stand-alone illustrations to be pinned up in the family home. Vincent Alessi reveals for the first time how van Gogh's collection acted for him as both inspiration and manual: a guide to the subject matter demanded by leading illustrated newspapers and magazines and a model of artistic style. These popular images are shown to have palpably shaped van Gogh's art throughout his career, and to open up rich new understandings of a life and body of work that continue to intrigue and inspire.
Three Degrees of Change' is a project that brings together three artists whose practice is concerned with issues of climate change, sustainability and the many challenges which humanity now faces. They have taken as their starting point the simple question, 'In the context of the debate surrounding climate change, how do we/humans relate and engage with the environment?'. These three very different artists have created three very different installations that give us three very different views. Ken and Julia Yonetani draw our attention to the precarious nature of coral reefs and the path of destruction that is now marching towards these fragile eco-systems. Laruen Berkowitz juxtaposes a myriad of indigenous and introduced plants. Drawing on the Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam - loosely translated as healing or repairing the shattered world - Berkowitz offers us simple and practical steps on how we might begin this process of healing. Ash Keating highlights the wasteful lives that many of us live. Intercepting waste as it makes its way to landfill, Keating temporarily places a glitch in the system, reusing the found material to create temporary sculptures and performances." -- Foreword.
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