Writing: Making your Mark, edited by Ewan Clayton.
Exhibition catalogue for the British Library, 2019. 5000 years of the history of writing with essays by Andrew Robinson, Stan Knight, Angela Webb and Ewan Clayton. Interviews with David Levy and Brody Neuenschwander. Obtainable from the British Library. The Golden Thread: the story of writing is published in the UK by Atlantic Books, USA by Counterpoint. It is published as Il filo d'oro in Italian and La Historia de la Escritura in Spanish. Copies from Amazon.uk and Amazon.com and many high street book stores, or independent mail order specialists in books on lettering Calligraphity UK, John Neal USA, Lidy Schoonens Boeken EU. In Parenthesis by David Jones, illustrations by Ewan Clayton, published by The Folio Society. This extended poem on the First World War has cover design and eight lettered inscriptions by Ewan Clayton. The book was a finalist for the 2015 V&A Illustrations awards. See here for Youtube movie and here for a short essay by Ewan on the project. Embracing Change: Spirituality and the Lindisfarne Gospels, with photographs by Robert Cooper. This book is a short photo essay about the human achievement of the scribe Eadfrith, Cuthbert his teacher and the community of monks on Lindisfarne. It is the fruit of sixteen years of retreats on the island, written as a meditative reflection rather than a calligraphy book. Edward Johnston: Lettering and Life. This illustrated catalogue of an exhibition curated by Ewan Clayton can be obtained from Ditching Museum, Tel: 044 1273 844 744. £7 plus postage and packing.. It includes an essay by Ewan on Johnston David Jones in Ditchling. This illustrated book of three essays (one by Ewan), was designed by Ewan and printed by the Westerham Press to accompany an exhibition on David Jones that Ewan co-curated with Derek Sheil and Jenny KilBride. It can be obtained from Ditching Museum Tel: 044 1273 844 744. Reviews of The Golden Thread Book reviews in the FT, The Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, also see a review by Lorin Stein the Editor of The Paris Review and a starred review in the Publisher's Weekly. Other reviews appear in The Dallas Morning News and Italy's La Repubblica and La Stampa, Spain's El Pais and El Mundo. Interviews Four page feature in The Financial Times. Interview in El Pais Semanal Interview with La Repubblica Interview with Gulf News Audio An extended interview with Radio New Zealand, 'Handwriting's future'. Listen in to Midweek with Libby Purves BBC Radio 4 from Weds. 18th Sept. 2013. Ewan comes in the last ten minutes of the programme just after Fred Astaire's daughter Ava. |