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A Brian Catling fan page @vexcavator@mstdn.social twitter.com/vexcavator Where Does it All Come From? vimeo.com/842441405 Avoiding Blake: y2u.be/4KmsX7-O7Yg Cast Squid: y2u.be/28A2u0IMF6E
Two pieces by Allan Wexler:
Adam's House in Paradise and Shelter (2014)
"With thin plywood and white museum board I’ve solidified the spaces between branches creating architectural forms reminiscent of man’s first structures in Paradise as well as the groin-vaulted ceiling of a gothic cathedral."
Adam's House in Paradise
Laser-engraved paper with ink
(Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2021)
Brian Catling RA
Adam's House in Paradise (2021)
Brian Catling RA
Sometimes I see a painting and wonder if Brian Catling might've done it.
(Figures in a Garden, c.1936, by Francis Bacon)
Some days, the only tenable position you can take up is Brian Catling decrying “I FLOOD THE LAND!” over melancholy piano music. catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
Dome Rain Falling Stones
Brian Catling RA
I was never a massive Vorrh fan, but everything else I've read by Brian Catling has been utterly majestic. Only one small written piece in this by him (the rest are photographs), but it's beautiful. Surely the most underappreciated British writer there is / was
"Hammerhead was placed in Canterbury Cathedral very near the place that Thomas Becket was martyred. Hammerhead was made of forged and welded steel and then sandblasted to give it an overall greyness."
The original from 1984
📸 Robert Tegg
Hammerhead Remade
Brian Catling RA
#ThomasBecket
Thanks to the Royal Society of Sculptors for welcoming me as a member - pictures on my shiny new page! sculptors.org.uk/artists/elea...
Congratulations! Well deserved!
Hello, Loverboy!
Best advice
Candleye
Brian Catling & David Tolley
Happy Christmas folks!
Produced by Dylan Gwalia, it was up a few months before but I could make nothing of it until this turn around; the notes supply the context. It deserves an installation, or what informed circles might call an 'official' release–I would just play it up. catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
Gloom settled over here three years ago and with good reason. It seemed insoluble until I FLOOD THE LAND by James Young and the late Brian Catling. The record is nothing short of cathartic and embodies the best way I would like to remember Brian: a surprise at every turn.
Sometimes I see a drawing and wonder if Brian might've done it.
This is one of the best things ever
@matthewmshaw.bsky.social @eleanorcrook.bsky.social
"Some unseen energy gathered itself in the room and around Brian as he became more and more immersed in his reading, projecting his voice as he had never done before, banishing his stammer, inhabiting personae, the mask freeing the tongue."
Read the rest at the page!
"He would read and I would utilise whatever instruments I had to hand.… piano, Telecaster guitar, harmonium, melodica... and it would go down onto cassette tape. No studio, no digital mixing, just click on/off, responding instantly to the moment.
James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.
catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...
Autumnal oneiric bangers!
Lucile Hadzihalilovic's mysterious and hypnotic EARWIG (2021). A neat adaptation of the bizzaro B. Catling source novella, and very much at one with the director's previous uncanny masterpieces. Big fan! All that gloom and disquiet, mmm...
Late announcements are rarely useful, but CABARET MELANCHOLIQUE will be in LIVE ART ZINE, December 6th at 7:30 PM Nørrebrogade 5C, basement, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Finally found copies of The Vorrh and The Erstwhile by B Catling at a used bookstore yesterday, and I look forward to have a very psychedelic Christmas vacation.
Hi there, I second emailing Etruscan Books, or Nicholas Johnson the publisher, as the website's on hold and the press didn't appear in the Small Publishers Fair list.
