Lines
Shantell Martin
£35.00
The first monograph on the up-and-coming contemporary British artist Shantell Martin, published with a Limited Edition printed in a limited run of 200.
Shantell Martin’s work has, for more than a decade, entranced audiences around the world – from the USA to Japan – in its intuitive energy, skill and bravura. With her highly personalised language of characters, faces, creatures and messages, Martin invites viewers to actively engage in the creative process. Using drawing as a physical stream-of-consciousness, her work is characterised by a unique freedom, expressed through the possibilities of her chosen ‘canvas’ – whether a piece of paper or textile, a sculptural surface, wall or screen.
Her recurring motif, ‘WHO ARE YOU’, appears time and again in her work, vocalising her vision to interrogate “who we are at the core, as people”. Bridging the fine art and commercial worlds, she has – since her beginnings with live performance drawing in the mega clubs of Tokyo – navigated creative worlds to interrogate and play with the role of artist and viewer.
This monograph charts – for the first time – the career of this prolific and popular artist, including early pieces such as ‘Dear Grandmother’ (a collaboration with Martin’s grandmother on over 70 pieces of embroidery), large-scale murals and commissions, and collaborations with museums, technical institutes, musicians and fashion brands.
A special edition is available in a limited run of 200 copies, each hand drawn with a unique and spontaneous line drawing by Shantell Martin on the front and back cover.
Publication:
March 2020
Illustrations:
300
Dimensions:
203 x 254 mm
Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
978-1-912122-27-1
No. of pages:
240
Shantell Martin is a British visual artist best known for her signature black and white small and large-scale drawings. She has had solo shows at The New Britain Museum of Art, 92Y Gallery, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, New York. Martin has collaborated with iconic brands such as Nike, Max Mara, Tiffany & Co. as well as with New York City Ballet and Kendrick Lamar for Miami Art Basel. Martin is an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch ITP and a visiting scholar at MIT Media Lab. She lives and works in Jersey City and Los Angeles.
Katharine Stout is Deputy Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. She is the Co-Founder and Associate Director of Drawing Room, London.
Hans Ulrich Obrist is Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London.
FAD Magazine – Shantell Martin: Lines
