Cally Trench: Books
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Cally Trench occasionally makes books, some of which are in limited editions.
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Eleven Views of Fiona's Washing Line is a zigzag book, based on a series of photographs taken at different times of the year. An Emotional Atlas of Friars Square is based on an emotional mapping project in Friars Square Shopping Centre, Aylesbury. For more information on the project, see Emotional Maps at Friars Square
Both books were exhibited with AM Bruno, organised by Mary Yacoob and Sophie Loss, at venues including the Manchester and Liverpool Artists' Book Fairs in 2008, and at the Bookartbookshop in Hoxton, London in 2009. Click here for AM Bruno website
Sideways On is a handmade version of a 1960s family photograph album, which presents 24 pairs of profile photographs of friends, family, statues and a dog, back to back with themselves. It was shown at the New York Artists' Book Fair in 2009 with AM Bruno.
Letter to Gran is an enlarged embroidered letter; it was shown in Wrapped and Encased in Liverpool 08 and in Parcel Fever in 2010.
Teatime is a handmade pop-up book with four scenes, showing an encounter at teatime. It was exhibited with AM Bruno in the London Art Book fair at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 2010 and the Leeds International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair in 2011.
Cally Trench asked the Remarkable and Curious Conversations artists in June 2010 what they were reading, and she made a zigzag book from photographs of one hundred of the book spines. The Remarkable Bookshelf was shown at the 2011 International Contemporary Artists' Book Fair in Leeds, where a copy was bought by the Tate.
Cally Trench, Judy Goldhill and Philip Lee collaborated to make a series of photographs of live body artist Philip Lee rotating as stripes of paint appear down his body. These photographs have been made into a timelapse film, and into flipbooks. In Measure for Measure Flipbook, the photographs have been inserted into the bottom right-hand corner of each page of a Folio edition copy of Measure for Measure. To see the timelapse film, click The Camouflage Flipbook Silent Movie. This film contains nudity.
Cally Trench's Feel Good Miniature Scrolls were presented as a lucky dip at Artsmart, Chelsea College of At and Design in July 2011.
Blue Home Grown by Cally Trench and Philip Lee is a friendly homage to Roy Hay's Home Grown, a gardening hit of 1956, based on a BBC programme. It was exhibited with AM BRuno at the 2011 London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, where AM Bruno showed a collection of books on the theme of blue - curated by Sophie Loss. The V & A bought a copy of every book in AM Bruno's Blue collection.