Publications
How to order:
To order any of the listed publications please send your name and address, together with a cheque made payable to ‘University of Cumbria’ for the full amount (which includes postage & packaging) to Karen Graham|, Research and Creative Enterprise Services (RACES) at University of Cumbria, Milbourne Building, Milbourne Street, Carlisle, CA2 5XB
Please note that these prices are for UK posting only and there will be additional costing for overseas posting.
A Guide to the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire
Last printed in 1821 this book of the original text by Thomas West, aquatints by J. Smith and J. Emes and addenda features an essay by Dr Mark Haywood and images by Dr John Darwell of the Faculty of the Arts together with images by Niki Thomas, edited by Gerard M F Hill.
Unspoilt. Unvisited. Until Thomas West wrote his guidebook, the Lake District was unknown and unloved. No poets came, no tourists toured and the average nymph or shepherd saw nothing worth a second look. Yet before Wordsworth was even born, one man was showing people the beauty of this wilderness – through a camera, too.
Thomas West was a scholar who loved the Lakes and made the world see what he saw. In this new edition of his guidebook, photographs match the original views and the ‘viewing stations’. West sketches the scene and highlights the special features, ‘ verified by his own repeated observations’ – a scholarly introduction and notes fill in the background.
Why visit the Lakes? What will you see that the camera doesn’t? Suitable for ‘the curious of all ranks’, this is the guidebook that began it all. Use it to look at the Lakes with fresh eyes.
Publisher: Unipress Cumbria. Softback. ISBN 978 1 8699 7925 6. Price £23.30 (inc p&p / UK only)
‘A Passion for Painting Pattern …..the textile designs of Raymond Honeyman’, by Raymond Honeyman
This is a book which takes you on a journey through the life, inspiration and the design techniques of the artist, beautifully portrayed through a series of painted designs and photographs.
Raymond Honeyman’s innate love of painting, colour and pattern led to a career in designing textiles and he has been one of the leading designers for Ehrman Tapestries for the last decade.
“Raymond Honeyman’s preoccupation with hand painted pattern stands out as a testament to the enduring significance of meticulous craft-based skill. A designer of printed textiles, and also over the past decade focussing on the design of needlepoint kits, Honeyman’s refusal to surrender to computer-aided design coincides with a global resurgence of interest in artisan values. This book shows his original artworks and offers an insight into the mind of a master colourist. From paisley to tartan, the Mikado to Ming, his playful use of design and sophisticated blending of colour bring familiar images into unusual juxtaposition. Pushing the boundaries, his meticulous detail produces a depth and richness in pattern with a resulting complexity that puts his work in a category of its own.
Anyone who appreciates colour and seeks inspiration in its manipulation will enjoy this book.” Mary Schoeser, 2007
Publisher: Unipress Cumbria. 2007. Softback. ISBN978-1869979232. 108 pages. 21.8 x 21.8 x 1 cm. Price £13.00 (inc p+p / UK only)
'Sequences: The Call of the Running Tide', by Roger Polley and John Woodman
The content of the book ‘Sequences’ further extends the authors investigation in landscape and environmental arts research. The book presents through public distribution a body of photographic work which is a visual investigation of the concept of sequence.
This work completes a study undertaken over a period of several years working with photographic medium to instigate a series of controlled visual experiments in which to investigate ‘sequence’ through the ‘constructed’ photographic image. It explores photographic representation and photography’s intrinsic quality as a time based medium. One of the intended outcomes of the work is to engage and challenge the reader in the observation of change and difference, both within and between the sets of photographs and through experimentation with the book format. Contrasting beach surfaces along the Dorset Coastline were selected for the work.
Publisher: Unipress Cumbria. 2007. Softback. ISBN 978-1-869979-20-1. 56 pages. 21 x 14.8 cm. Price £11.99 (inc p+p / UK only)
'(a)fly - between nature and culture', by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson
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'a fly in my soup', is a project extending the artists cycle of projects examining human relationships to landscape and environment by way of observing the human/animal interface. In this instance they are concentrating on domestic animals and animals within an urban environment. The title makes reference to an often awkward and sometimes problematic collision between culture and nature. By taking the city and even the domestic environment as the coalface of this exchange it seeks to stake out new ground for a reappraisal of the way we relate to the wider environment as revealed through this particular set of relationships.
Publisher: National Museum of Iceland. Price £13.00 (inc p+p / UK only)
'Thesaurus Scienta Lancastriae', by Robert Williams and Jack Aylward-Williams
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This is a collaborative art project between Jack Aylward-Williams and his father, the artist Robert Williams. The first collecting phase of the project took place within Lancaster's historically significant Williamson Park, a setting that contains a wide range of collecting contexts that reflect 19th century obsessions within science & culture. In celebration of the bicentenary of eminent Victorian scientist Sir Richard Owen, the two explorers engaged in the activities of observing, collecting, measuring, sampling & testing, between July 20th 2004 and July 20th 2005.
Publisher: UniPress Cumbria. 2006. Softback. ISBN 1-869979-19-2 112 pages. 120 colour images. 210mm x 245mm. Price £16.65 (inc p+p / UK only)
'The Wide Blue Wonder', by Mark Haywood
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Two essays on the colour blue - a history of its use and meaning from mediaeval stained glass to Komar and Melamid; historical and metaphysical links between John Ruskin’s fondness for the colour and the record-breaking Bluebirds of Sir Malcolm and Donald Campbell. Published to mark the artist’s site-specific installation at Brantwood, Coniston.
Publisher: Unipress Cumbria. 2005. Softback. ISBN 1-869979-17-6. 28 pages. 200mm x 220mm. Price £5.00 (inc p+p / UK only)
'Big Mouth', by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson
essays by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, Juan Cruz, Nikos Papastergiadis and Francis McKee.
In the first publication of their collaborative work the artists bring together research material and documentation from research residencies in Greenland (2001) and Australia (2002) and from exhibitions in Iceland, Sweden and Glasgow (2003-2004).
‘We are involved in a deconstructive process where notions of wilderness are called into question. The issues of psychological and physical displacement or realignment and the effect that these can have on cultural perceptions underpin our interests. We are working with the relationships that exist between individual people, societies and cultures on the one hand, and animals on the other. We are also looking at uses past and present for animals, both domestic and wild, and at different levels of 'domestication' - from self-domesticated through pet, livestock, game, feral to wild animal’
The book features a set of eight interviews with enthusiasts and specialists from disparate professional and amateur fields, whose lives have been caught up with the history, facts and mythology of an animal believed by many to have been hunted to extinction.
Publishers: Cumbria Institute of the Arts & Tramway. 2005. ISBN 1869979168. 83 pages, 40 colour illustrations. 245mm x 210mm. Price £13.00 (inc p+p / UK only)
'In Search of the Sacred', by Roger Polley and John Woodman
A survey resulting from over twenty years collaboration that takes us beyond photography, art and nature, and raises interesting questions about our human relationships with the places that are most important to the communities that inhabit and use them. We learn from these artists that achieving a relationship with nature is both a science and an art, beyond mere feeling or knowledge. Nature continuously reformulates itself and the photograph taken in five minutes time will be differ from one taken now. The artists use devices that capture this organic process in a way that gives the viewer many more moments in time than we expect from a conventional photograph.
Publisher: Cumbria Publishing. 2003. 62 pages, 64 colour reproductions. Softback ISBN 1-869979-12-5. £18.00 (inc p+p / UK only)
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