Reading List Drawing Acts IV: Olivia Sterling, Artists’ Reading List Back Drawing Acts IV is a series of participatory projects that respond to Drawing Room’s exhibitions programme. Over the course of each show, a selected artist is commissioned to collaborate with a local community group, with the aim of the project being mutually beneficial for both. This list has been compiled by Olivia Sterling, and titles marked with an asterisk * are held in Outset Study. Title Author Selected by Delicious Metropolis: The Desserts and Urban Scenes of Wayne Thiebaud Wayne Thiebaud William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror Edited by Christopher Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger On Kawara: Silence Jeffrey Weiss Cy Twombly: Homes and Studios Nicola del Roscio and Florian Illies Artists’ Houses Gérard-Georges Lemaire Flags for countries that don’t exist but bodies that do Rene Matić Frances Bacon: The Logic of Sensation * Gilles Deleuze The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England Cindy McCreery Writing in Space, 1973-2019 Lorraine O'Grady The scallop: studies of a shell and its influences on humankind Edited by Ian Cox French Tarts Jo Gosling Darling Buds of May H.E. Bates Histoire de l'oeil Georges Bataille La Grande Bouffe [Film] 1973 Directed by Marco Ferreri Related Content Exhibition Vanessa Baird: If ever there were an end to a story that had no beginning 1 March 2021 – 9 May 2021 Event Vanessa Baird: In Conversation 15 March 2021 See more related content