JOHN MCDOWALL



ATLAS consists of a stack of 365 hand numbered sheets, a notice/label will invite people to take one. As these are dispersed a conceptual and yet physically actual geography will be created in the space between the pages. When one stack runs out, a new set will replace it. One of these will be in an exhibition in Bradford, England at the same time. These spaces will shift as pages move around, even if thrown away.



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ABOUT THE ARTIST

John McDowall is a printmaker based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, whose work is produced mainly in book form, reflecting the influence of film and aspects of contemporary writing and exploring some of their shared characteristics with visual books, encompassing the potential for contribution and participation by the viewer/reader. Books where subject and medium are combined, employing the format as carrier of text/image and using the sequential structure as a primary conceptual mechanism, where time is an essential productive element in the visualising of the absent.

Initiator and co-organiser of the annual Contemporary Artists'Book Fair, held in Halifax, England since 1998.