Things I have written
The Influencing Machine – The Reader
Get yourself an early Christmas present and enjoy this exceptional reader which supports and develops themes of group show The Influencing Machine (nGbK, Berlin). In fact, get yourself six copies, as images from my website are wrapping the inside covers in six different ways. I’ve seen a couple of preview copies, and it looks like…
Read MorePeter & nou – new images
Shot by designer Matthew Walkerdine for his website, I’ve half inched these gorgeous new images of Peter & nou. All those ‘corrections’ in Peter – the scoring out, line by line – were drawn by me and then scanned and overlaid on the original text by Matt, and he didn’t bat an eye. Matt is,…
Read MoreScraps
Oh, the thinking really came together last night… Carlsberg.
Read MorePeter & nou – The book(s)
Here’s my new publication, Peter & nou. Matt and Jess at Good Press organised this and Matthew Walkerdine designed it too. It’s element heavy, with a sticker of a lab rat in a kaleidoscopic space/time traveling tunnel included for you, gratis. You’re welcome. It comprises a book called Peter (like the film Peter, 2014), a book…
Read MoreTransit #3 and everything crooked will become straight
Published on the occasion of TRANSIT #3 and everything crooked will become straight, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016, curated by Transit Arts, March 2016. Including contributions from Marcus Jack, Denise Bonetti, Jane Topping, and Stephen Nelson. Black risograph print with red card cover, designed by Marcus Jack.137 x 194mm, 36pp Edition of 120Signed and numbered As I’m not going…
Read MoreScreen Used Development Notebook
Screen Used Development Notes PDF
Read MoreThe Ugly Construction of Beauty
Here’s a paper that I delivered (remotely) at: MOD ART 13 MODERN ART CONFERENCE on Beauty and Ugliness, 25th to 27th November 2013, Istanbul, Turkey The Ugly Construction of Beauty Jane Topping, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Cumbria, U.K. Keywords: Fine Art, Gender identity, Performance, Appropriation Abstract In film, a woman’s desire…
Read MoreThe Luck of Edenhall
My contribution to this group exhibition’s publication, 2014. Curated by Linda Fitzgerald. In 1989, when we were both 17 and I had learnt to drive, Ross (my best friend and boyfriend) and I took a trip north. At a seaside village on the west coast of Scotland, we visited a jumble sale in the church…
Read MoreThe Nabokov Paper
My contribution to The Nabokov Paper book, by Kate Briggs and Lucrezia Russo. Published by information as material. 36Q (6)BLEAK HOUSE Give the structural scheme of Bleak House in terms of its main thematic centers and their interconnecting lines. Outside Bleak House: A Transcript of Sorts (Red on black) London. Westminster Bridge, policeman in the…
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