Issue 3: ‘This Used To Be The Future’
Details tbc.
Issue 2: ‘I Started A Joke’
Here it is, Issue 2! This time, we’re exploring the theme of humour.
With prose from Amelia Abraham, Donna Marcus Duke, Jordan/Marin HelL, Kasra Jalilipour, Chris Kraus and Susan Cooper, Laura Lynes, and Michelle Tea; poetry by Biogal, Kim Hyun (tr. Archana Madhavan) and Maz Murray; a conversation between David Hoyle and Amrou Al-Kadhi, as well as interviews with John Booth, Daniel M. Lavery and Bárbara Sánchez-Kane; and art from Dynasty Handbag, Cash Frances, and Francis Whorrall-Campbell, and archival photography by Greer Lankton.
Cover image by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, in collaboration with Dorian Ulises Lopez, the photograph From the Series Amor Entre Cucas (2019).
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Issue 1: ‘Let’s Get Physical’
Our inaugural issue: Let’s Get Physical!
Includes essays by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Emma Gomis, and Vicky Spratt; poems from D Mortimer, mandisa apena, Tarek Lakhrissi, Adrian Bridget, Chantal T. Spitz (tr. Jeffrrey Zuckerman), and Donald W. Woods; interviews with Isabel Waidner, Grace Lavery, and Gray Wielebinski; and original art by Spyros Rennt and Jamiu Agboke.
Out of stock on our shop — but still available from our stockist, Antenne Books.
Droopy Tulip, John Booth
In anticipation of our second issue, on humour, artist and illustrator John Booth has created a limited edition print for the BitterSweet Review, Droopy Tulip. Each of the 50 risographs is hand finished by the artist.
Born in Scotland in 1984 and raised in Cumbria, Booth moved to London in 2004, where he graduated with a BA in fashion print design at Central Saint Martins in. He has since taught as a lecturer both at Central Saint Martins as well as at the University of Westminster. Booth has worked for several fashion brands including Zandra Rhodes, John Galliano, Ashish, Christopher Shannon and most recently, Globetrotter, Fendi and Paul Smith.
From Amor Entre Cucas, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane
Our third limited edition is by Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, in collaboration with Dorian Ulises Lopez, a photograph From the Series Amor Entre Cucas (2019), 254mm x 204mm. Glicée on Photorag, Matte, 308 gsm. Edition of 50.“Under the figure of the macho sentimental, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane resists the traditional notions of mexicanidad and its relationship with the feminine and masculine. Whether through fashion, performance, painting, or installation, all of her works present the anxieties and fears of daily life to question pleasure and domination within a hegemonic masculine society.”
Untitled, Gray Wielebinski
Our inaugural limited edition is a signed and numbered print (edition of 100) by London-based, American artist Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991 Dallas, TX, USA). It is part of a new series of ink drawings exploring themes of masculinity, animality, punishment, and submission through a pastiche of iconography.
Gray’s recent exhibitions include Oil and Water, a solo show at Hales Gallery in London, By Any Means, his first curated show at VO Curations in London, UK, Testament, a group show at Goldsmiths CCA in London, Two Snakes, a solo show at 12.26 Gallery in Dallas, Texas, Repurposed Textiles at Krefelder Kunstverein in Krefeld, DE and at Frieze London with Hales Gallery, London in 2020. Gray’s work is in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Library & Archives, CA, USA.