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Publication Year: 2014
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Gail Hastings: Sculptuations
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Foreword
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Afterword
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Review
When Charles Saatchi’s gallery opened in South Bank, with its notorious list of headliners (chunks of frozen human blood, sump oil lagoons and rooms full of chopped-up cattle), one small corner was devoted to a collection of newspaper cartoons lampooning the works. My favourite was one in which an Eskimo, gazing at Damien Hirst’s pickled…
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The pure potential of a page
Gail Hastings’ e-book, Missing, is not a catalogue or a monograph. It isn’t even really that comfortable with the moniker ‘artist book’. It stakes out an entirely different territory altogether, challenging the very limits of the ‘page’. The book is not a collection of reproduced images that serve as impoverished reiterations of pre-existing artworks. It is a…
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Gail Hastings – Exhibition: To Do
Gail Hastings has a solution for creating work that might return to her studio (rather than to a museum or private collection). Gail Hastings’ major new work Exhibition: To Do is anchored around a large square plywood structure that sits on the earth’s axis – the walls respectively facing north, south, east and west. The visitor is…