Publisher: Cob Gallery
ISBN: 978-0-9933948-3-6
Dimensions: 330 x 235
Cob Gallery present a double book release by British Artist Nina Mae Fowler - Measuring Elvis + Ruined Finery.
Known for her combined drawing and sculptural practice, these two publications offers a survey of Nina Mae Fowler's works to date from 2008-2020. Measuring Elvis, a hardback, linen bound monograph- represents Fowler’s work from 2008-2015. Ruined Finery is a limited-edition zine, that catalogues the artist’s work from 2015-2020.
Both publications feature contributions from an international roster of curators, artists, film directors, actors and writers who share Nina Mae Fowler's fascination with the themes that underpin her work: glamour, stardom and its often murky underside, where fame and ruin poise on a knife’s edge.
Contributing writers
Measuring Elvis
David Anderson, literary scholar and musician
Cassie Beadle, curator
Anisha Burke, art historian and curator
Eloise Fornieles, performance artist
Charlotte Martin, contemporary art theorist
John Maybury, British film director
Barry Miles, counterculture historian
Sienna Miller, Actress
Sandy Nairne, former director of the National Portrait Gallery
Jessica Purefoy, director, producer and art historian
Dr Margherita Spiro, author and senior lecturer in film history and theory
Polly Stenham MBE, British playwright
Craig Wylie, artist
Hardcover, linen bound
Dimensions: 330 x 230 mm
Pages: 200
Design and typographical arrangment by Heather Whitbread
Typeset: Coco Gothic designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini / Iwan Stencil designed by Jan Tschichold and Klaus Sutter
Ruined Finery
Foreword by Dame Marina Warner and insert essay by Olivia Cole.
Alissa Bennett, curator, cultural historian, gallery director and writer
Olivia Cole, journalist and poet
Paul Greengrass, British film director
Ken Loach, British film director
Bertie Marshall, poet
Sam Mendes, British film director
Austin Mutti-Mewse, writer, illustrator and author
Nick Park, British film director
Sally Potter, British film director
Ridley Scott, British film director
Dame Marina Warner, cultural historian and novelist
Charlotte Martin, contemporary art theorist
Eva Wiseman, journalist and author
Amma Asante, British film director
Softcover
Dimensions: 315 x 244 mm
Pages:80
Design by Lily Alden
