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  Tannery Arts is a small, independent charity concerned with supporting the professional development of emerging and established artists through the provision of affordable studios, promoting their practice through opportunities to exhibit work, develop projects, generate partnerships with local authorities, private property owners and social housing organisations as well as engage in learning activities.

Reading List

Amelia Barratt Artist’s Reading List

Artist and writer Amelia Barratt was invited by Annotations 5 artist Devlin Shea to devise a new, live work in response to her installation Getting Closer, for its launch on 29 November 2018. Amelia Barratt’s reading list informs and expands the themes explored in her work. Titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study.

Title	Author	Selected by
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	Betty Smith
Uses of the Erotic	Audre Lorde
Lanark: A Life in Four Books	Alasdair Gray
Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting *	Norman Bryson
Hayley Tompkins *	Daniel Baumann
Long hand: Sue Tompkins *	Sue Tompkins
Matt Mullican: Subject, Element, Sign, Frame, World	Lynne Cook
Gloria: selected poems	Selima Hill
Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman	Shelley Rice
Carol Rhodes *	Andrew Mummery
In The Night Kitchen	Maurice Sendak
Instant-flex 718 *	Heather Phillipson
Bliss & Other Stories	Katherine Mansfield
Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century: Live Art in the Twenty- First Century	Roselee Goldberg
The Flounder	Günter Grass

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