Peacock Visual Arts is the main contemporary visual arts organisation in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland and is supported by Aberdeen City Council and the Scottish Arts Council.
Books and magazines
Peacock Visual Arts has a selection of artist's books and magazines for sale in its shop. If you like to buy a publication but can't buy it in person, we can send it to you. Just let us know: info@peacockvisualarts.co.uk
New publications
ADAPTATION Redesigning the everyday
Catalogue presented by Peacock Visual Arts for Six Cities Design Festival, 5 May - 16 June 2007
Price: £12 In our shop or order online: www.abebook.com
ADAPTATION was a project about the impact of design in people's daily lives and the 'redesign' of public spaces by the people who use them. The catalogue features documentation of new work in Aberdeen by Adams, Akay, Kidpele and Made (APA Collective), Brett Bloom and Bonnie Fortune, Brad Downey and Dominic Hislop, as well as of other works in the exhibition by Marjolijn Dijkman, Ulrika Erdes and Leopold Kessler. Also included is an essay by Giles Bailey on notions of the everyday and potentials for intervention in contemporary art . read more about the exhibition
September 2007:
- Adaptations
- Concept: Marjolijn Dijkman and Julie Peeters
- Price: £5.50
Dutch artist Marjolijn Dijkman selected a series of images from her large archive 'Theatrum orbis Terrarum' and made a publication relating to the concept of Peacock's exhibition Adaptation. Redesign the everyday. The publication can also be downloaded on Marjolijn's website.
June 2007:
- Tillydrone
- Author: Eva Merz
- Price: £10
During her six months Partners artist esidency Eva Merz experienced the community of Tillydrone close-up. This book features nine women’s stories and visions, including many photographs. Read more
September 2006:
- Abergreen. A social Laboratory.
- Author(s): Steven Duval, Ken Neil, Terence Lee, Monika Vykoukal
- Price: £8
In 'Abergreen. A social laboratory' the reader captures artist Steven Duval’s project about public space and urban planning for his residency with us in April-June 2005. It offers a specific case study of collaborative socially engaged art in a wider critical context. Read more
April 2006:
- Get a fucking job. The truth about begging.
- Authors: New Social Art School/ Eva Merz, Bob Steadman.
- Price: £12
Get a fucking job. The truth about begging' addresses the contentious issue of begging in the city of Aberdeen. The street people interviewed in the book tell it like it is, who they are, how they survive and how they perceive themselves in the city. Read more
Magazines
- a-n magazine
- Price: £4,45
About a-n: "Exposing the diversity and complexity of artists' practice, we're providing an inspiring critical space to research, analyse and debate contexts for practice now and in the future."
- MAP magazine
- Price: £4,95
About MAP: "Launched spring 2005, Map is the new international art magazine from Scotland. Since the beginning of the 1990s, artists in Scotland have moved to the forefront of the international contemporary art scene. Map is dedicated to engaging with artists at all stages of their careers and aims to focus on ideas which influence current practice both in and internationally."
Price: £5.75
Printmaking Today comments on aesthetic, educational and theoretical matters as well as bringing the reader new developments in print technology and re-assessments of traditional methods. Artists' Prints - Books and multiples News - Reviews - Practical - Technical - Exhibitions - Opportunities.