Piece of Paper Press Publication Launch, Katharine Meynell, SOIL (POPP.044)

Join us for the launch of SOIL by Katharine Meynell, a publication released in a numbered limited edition of 150 copies by Piece of Paper Press. Up to half of the print run will be given away free during the evening.

SOIL is a text work distilled from images, events and performances created during a residency at Live Art Ireland, Tipperary in 2023 – a period of time that Meynell dedicated to thinking and reading about and working with soil. A video work of the same name was recently screened on MattFlix.

The text reproduced in SOIL was first performed at Live Art Ireland, and documented in the video; part love poem, part spell, and threaded through with acrostics and word games, this edition strips away that larger work to reveal a joyful and productive residue, rich in life, ‘where matter meets in past and future . . .composing becoming’.

The hand-made and ephemeral character of the Piece of Paper Press format addresses itself to the way that Meynell ‘domesticates the tools of her trade . . . It becomes simply that medium which is at hand when a certain moment occurs or a certain event takes place.’ (Andrea Phillips, Lux Online)

Katharine Meynell is an artist, scholar and authorworking in moving image, performance, drawing, and artists’ books. Her interests concern the personal & the political, the absurd, and slippery lines between document and fiction. She has an MA (Environmental Media) and PhD (Painting School) from the RCA. She has been Abbey Fellow at the British School at Rome, Artist in Residence at The Nordic Artists' Centre, Live Art Ireland, and at Guest Projects with GraceGraceGrace. Her publishing arm is the Boundary Street Press, nominated with the Gefn Press for the Prix Bob Calle in 2023. Meynell's videos are distributed by LUX. Her artists books are in collections at the V&A, Welcome Trust, Poetry Library, Tate Gallery, British Council, Live Art Development Agency; Museum Van Het Boek, Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Library of Congress; Walker Art Center; Yale College; The Ampersand Foundation; Fondation Jan Michalski; etc. Her video work Soil (2024) screened online as part of MattFlix from21 June – 23 August 2024 and is available to view in the MattFlix archive.

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Piece of Paper Press is an artists’ book series created by author Tony White in 1994.It was designed as a low-tech, sustainable format to commission and publish new writings, visual and graphic works by artists and writers. Each miniature copy is made from a single A4 sheet that is printed on both sides and then folded, stapled and trimmed by hand to create the book. There is no schedule; titles are published when they are ready. Piece of Paper Press titles are always distributed free, usually in a limited edition of 150. Fifty copies are distributed by the contributor, and around a hundred to the press’s slowly evolving mailing list, which is gradually displaced by past contributors. Remaining copies are added to the project’s archive.

Tony White is the critically-acclaimed author of novels including The Fountain in the Forest and Foxy-T. A former writer in residence at the Science Museum, he is currently a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and Associate Lecturer on the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck.

Piece of Paper Presstitles, 1994–present

POPP.001—Tony White, Title Track
POPP.002—Stephanie Fawbert, Glancing
POPP.003—Jane Gifford, Dream Journal
POPP.004—Tim Etchells, About Lisa: a small bad story in twelve good parts
POPP.005—Penny McCarthy, Bedrooms
POPP.006—Peter Bunting, Seven Views of Geneva
POPP.007—Mikey Cuddihy, untitled
POPP.008—Gordana Stanišić, On Moles
POPP.009—Artist/Writer, Default 1
POPP.010—Rose Frain, Between 12 Noon and 2 PM
POPP.011—James Pyman, The Adventures of Lionel Through the Moon
POPP.012—Tony White, A0
POPP.013—Suzanne Treister, Vibrators from the House of Brodsky
POPP.014—Pavel Büchler, Good Guys
POPP.015—Elizabeth Magill
POPP.016—Christopher Hewitt, Hollywood Leather
POPP.017—Borivoj Radaković, Posjetiteljeva Knjiga (Visitor’s Book)
POPP.018—Bruce Gilchrist, Drawing from Perplexity
POPP.019—Alison Turnbull, Black Borders 1994-2006
POPP.020—James Pyman, The Adventures of Lionel: The Book of Hours
POPP.021—Stevie Deas, Cleanskins
POPP.022—Halford + Beard, Czar 52 Crash
POPP.023—Tony White, London Palm
POPP.024—Barbara Campbell, News Haiku
POPP.025—Liliane Lijn, ATOMANOTES
POPP.026—Tony White, A Porky Prime Cut
POPP.027—Michael Moorcock, A Twist in the Lines
POPP.028—Tony White, The Holborn Cenotaph
POPP.029—Joanna Walsh, Shklovsky’s Zoo
POPP.030—Steven Hull, CARNEVIL
POPP.031—Ian Bourn, Subjective Interfaces
POPP.032—Susana Medina, The Bowie Neurotransmitter
POPP.033—Sheena Rose, HOME IS ON MY MIND…
POPP.034—Joolz Denby, Dandelion
POPP.035—M John Harrison, Real Dreams
POPP.036—Courttia Newland, That Small Death
POPP.037—Selina Thompson, 12 Race Card Answers
POPP.038—Leaving Present Prototype (for Jane Rolo). (NB edition limited to a single unmade book)
POPP.039—Vanishing History Dub
POPP.040—David Hayden, Good Pizza
POPP.041—Sharon Kivland, THE INCORRUPTIBLE
POPP.042—Andrea Mason, BOOK DRAWINGS #1–12
POPP.043—Tim Etchells, Coronation Day
POPP.044—Katharine Meynell, SOIL