Image by Helen Marten
Dear writers, readers and friends,
It’s always important that we break new ground on our site and this month is no different. For the first time we are very proud to bring you an image and a lead piece by the same person: 2016 Turner Prize winning artist Helen Marten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Marten) , whose debut novel The Boiled in Between is out this month from Prototype (https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/) .
Helen studied at the University of Oxford and Central St. Martins, London. She has presented solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London; Fridericianum, Kassel; CCS Bard, Hessel Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Zürich and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, among others. She was included in the 55th and 56th International Venice Biennales and in 2016 won both the Turner Prize and the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. Her work can be found in public collections including Tate Collection, London; Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; and Sadie Coles HQ, London – and we loved The Boiled in Between (https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/the-boiled-in-between/) .
On page two we delightedly bring you the work of April Yee (https://twitter.com/aprilyee) . April writes about colonialism, climate change, and other effects of power. Her work is in The Boston Globe, has been longlisted by Live Canon, and is a winner of the Ware Sonnet Prize. She translates from French and Spanish and has reported in more than a dozen countries before moving to London.
And our final lead writer this month is Yasmine Seale (https://twitter.com/yasmineseale) , a writer and translator living in Istanbul. Her essays, poetry, visual art, and translations from Arabic and French have appeared widely. She is currently working on a new translation of The Thousand and One Nights for W. W. Norton.
So, dear writers and readers, at the turn of this most extreme and extraordinary year of 2020, we hope you’ll take heart with us this September. Remember: the image is the starting point, the text is up to you.
Preti, Kristen, Lucie and Luke
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