Walk This Way: A Ramble

April 22, 2015March 6, 2017albanlow Tags: alban low, Map, On the map, robert good, Sunbury embroidery gallery Leave a comment

Walk This Way
A Ramble

Published April 2015
ISBN 978-1-910578-02-5
A3 fold out map
Author – Robert Good
Editor – Alban Low
SLB0010

BUY Walk This Way – £2 (+£1.20 P&P to UK address)

Walk This Way provides complete instructions for a ramble of your choosing, with map, legend and explanatory text to cover all reasonable circumstances. Suitable for all weathers and glovebox compatible, this is nothing short of a complete guide for your journey through life.

Robert Good

Robert Good is the founder of Art Language Location (ALL) an art festival taking place over two and a half weeks in October in locations throughout Cambridge, UK, featuring innovative and experimental contemporary artists from across the UK and beyond who use text in their work.

To find out more about Robert Good and his work visit –
http://robertgood.co.uk/

This map was first exhibited at the ‘On the map’ exhibition at the Sunbury Embroidery Gallery, Sunbury-on-Thames in 2015.

On The Map exhibition

March 25, 2015March 25, 2015albanlow Tags: alban low, Bill Mudge, Bryan Benge, Dean reddick, Glyn walton, jill hedges, Melanie Ezra, On the map, peter s smith, Phillip Cribb, robert good, rose davies, Stuart Simler, Sunbury embroidery gallery, Tahira Mandarino Leave a comment

Welcome to the On The Map exhibition from CollectConnect artists. Earlier this year publisher we commissioned 12 new maps from a group of exciting contemporary artists. Each map was designed to be printed as an A3 fold out sheet with 4 supporting pages on it’s reverse side.

There is an inherent beauty in maps, like the Dwell book that proceeded this exhibition maps are a 2 dimensional rendering of a 3 dimensional form. They are often interpretations of the real world in a graphic light with motifs and lines that help us find anything from roads to windmills.

Artists are natural observers and organisers who like categorise through visual means. This map exhibition gives us the chance to see the world around us through the eyes of 14 artists from around the UK.

The Sunbury dice game by Alban Low and Harvey Wells

The artists were asked to consider 3 criteria.

Their map should be set in the real world, somewhere in the UK.

That it should include a route which could be walked.

The walking of the map shouldn’t cost more than £10 (train fares, entrance to museums, lunch)

Sampson Low Ltd have printed them all in colour at an A5 (21×14.8cm) size with an A3 fold out map incorporated. They will be selling the maps at an affordable £2 (+ Postage and Packing) so that anyone can try one of these artist’s walks or frame them on their wall.

The artists are –

Bill Mudge
Melanie Ezra and Rose Davies
Bryan Benge
Robert Good
Peter S Smith
Dean Reddick
Tahira Mandarino
Alban Low and Harvey Wells
Phillip Cribb
Stuart Simler
Jill Hedges
Glyn Walton

The exhibition runs from 14th April to 10th May 2015
Private View – 23rd April, 6.30-8.30pm
at
The Sunbury Embroidery Gallery
The Walled Garden, Thames Street
Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 6AB
http://www.sunburyembroidery.co.uk/index.htm

All welcome. We hope you can find your way there.
If not, I’ll draw you a map!

AL.

We would especially like to thank Robert Shaw, Barbara Robertson, Tahira Mandarino at the Sunbury Embroidery Gallery. Also Spelthorne Borough Council for their support of the exhibition.

Cambridge Blue Plaque Walk

September 18, 2014March 6, 2017albanlow Tags: alban low, Art language location, artists walks, Blue Plaque, Blue Plaque Walk, Cambridge, Cambridge blue plaque, cambridge blue plaque walk, Map, robert good, walk 4 Comments

Fold out Cambridge Blue Plaque Map

Cambridge Blue Plaque Walk
Colour Map and Spotters Guide

Published September 2014
ISBN 978-0-9534712-8-7
A3 fold out map
Author – Alban Low, Harvey Wells, Robert Good
Editor – Natalie Low
SLB0007

BUY Cambridge Blue Plaque Walk – £2 (+£1.20 P&P to UK address)

The Cambridge Blue Plaque Walk is a two hour circular walk that visits 21 of Cambridge’s Blue Plaques celebrating famous names like John Maynard Keynes and Sir Jack Hobbs and notable achievements such as the discovery of DNA.

The full colour map highlights the route but allows you to wander off at any point and re-join the trail. There is also a spotter’s guide, to keep children and the eagle-eyed amongst you entertained throughout your journey.

This walk was originally created as part of the Art Language Location festival in 2014 by artist Alban Low. Alongside the 21 established Blue Plaques, Low invited nominations for everyday plaques that celebrated the unsung personalities and events of Cambridge. He printed these as magnetic plaques and placed them throughout the city with help from a keen group of walkers and art enthusiasts. You can see all 50 overleaf and maybe a few still remain on lampposts and railings along the route.

Art Language Location (ALL) is an art festival taking place over two and a half weeks in locations throughout Cambridge, featuring 50 innovative and experimental contemporary artists from across the UK and beyond who use text in their work.

Each artist must find an appropriate venue for their work: the resulting intervention creates a conversation between artist, artwork and location. This extended exhibition aims to punctuate the city with a series of visually exciting and unexpected encounters in which our everyday interactions with text can be explored and challenged.

BUY The Cambridge Blue Plaque Walk Map

Patternotion

March 8, 2014March 6, 2017albanlow Tags: alban low, Patternotion, robert good, Siobhan Tarr Leave a comment

This is the second book in Sampson Low’s Artist Series.

BUY Patternotion- £5 + £1.80 P&P to UK Address

60 artists and authors reveal the secret blueprints of their lives. Get inside the heads of these creative system makers, learn from their endeavours and be inspired to make a change in your life.

Patternotion is a 72 page softback book, There are 100 copies printed in each Edition. ISBN 978-0-9534712-3-2
Each book is individually numbered.

Sampson Low Ltd Catalogue Number SLB0002
Currently selling 2nd Edition

Find out more about the project on the Patternotion website.

Contents/Index

Page 1. Introduction and Sampson Low Ltd Legal information 2.   Contents
3. Siobhan Tarr 4. Eskild Beck 5. Mark Lomax 6. Sally   Cockburn 7. Ella Penn 8. Tim Cullingford 9. Gerry Evans and Veronika   Cerna 10. Citizen Skwith 11. Melanie Ezra 12. Sarah Beinart 13. Tom   Hosmer 14. Sara Lerota 15. Stephanie Wilkinson 16. Darren   Atkinson 17. Thomas Yocum 18. Robert Good 19. Jessamy and Alban   Low 20. Laurette Carroll 21. Renata Szur 22. Catherine Steele 23.   Bill Mudge 24. Wayne Sleeth 25. Julia Colquitt Roach 26. David W   Ryan 27. Paul Jerram 28. Alban Low 29. Stuart Simler 30. Francesca   Centioni 31. Peter S Smith 32. Holly Daniels 33. Alexandra   Constantine 34. Stella Tripp 35. Patten Smith 36. Steve DT 37.   CRITgroup 38. CRITgroup 39. CRITgroup 40. CRITgroup 41. Carole   Robinson 42. Shona Davies and Dave Monaghan 43. Malc Dow 44. Daniel   Leek 45. David M Carroll 46. Jess Goodyear 47. Mike Russell 48. Gwen   Black 49. Natalie Low 50. Harvey Wells 51. Janet Soutar 52. Monika   Fischbein 53. Dawes Gray 54. David Bushell 55. Anna Nilsen 56. Anne   Guest 57. Nini de la Vega 58. Ella Klenner 59. Caroline Halliday 60.   Sonia Jarema
Trying other artists’ systems. each page number will be   followed by another in brackets 63. (23). This indicates the system thats   being attempted. 63 (?) Stephanie Wilkinson 64 (?) Sonia Jarema 65 (?)   Stuart Simler 66 (?) Darren Atkinson 67 (?) Robert Good 68 (?) Peter S   Smith 69 (?) Melanie Ezra 70 (?) Daniel Leek 71 (?) Ella   Penn
72. Thank yous