Scrapbook

Compiled by:   Ishmael Fiifi Annobil, Linda Karshan
Imprint:   Totem Books
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 189mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   617g
ISBN:   9781899151134
ISBN 10:   1899151133
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   16 November 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

ISHMAEL ANNOBIL is a Ghanaian poet & writer, award-winning filmmaker, journalist, photographer, digital composer and emblemist, and the collaborator with Linda Karshan on all her walked drawings. Born in Accra, Ghana, in 1958, Annobil started writing poetry at the age of 11, and entered journalism soon after finishing high school. He has directed several keynote art documentaries, including the multi-award-winning Linda Karshan: Covid-19 Conversation; Kenji Yoshida: Artist of the Soul; Hornsleth: Product of Love; In the Presence of Awe: The Transvangarde; Choreographing the Page, a comprehensive documentary on Linda Karshan's life and practice; and Salamander Walks, a surreal feature. He was the director, cinematographer and editor of Two Feet Walking.He has lived in Wales, where he founded the Welsh poetry festival, Iolo's Children, and Wales' first serious arts journal, Circa21 Newspaper. A master photographer and pioneer of important low-light techniques, Ishmael's photography has been published in prominent publications, including The Independent Newspaper, and prestigious French magazine M3. Anthologised in Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (The Poetry Foundation, America, 2014), Annobil has published two books of poetry, namely, Seven Horn Elegy and Ethiop; a monograph of his original philosophical emblems, Abetei, he coined to replace the lost canon of Gadangme ideography; a photographic monograph, Insomnia, and one music album, Zingliwu. He is the founder/editor of online art and design publication Chiaroscuro Magazine; and founder/Producer of London-based film collective Stonedog Productions.His film awards and laurels include, Best Short Documentary, Cambio International Film Festival; Best Short Documentary, Mykonos International Film Festival; Best Covid-19 Special Film, Luleå International Film Festival; Best Documentary Film, Nawada International Film Festival 3rd Season; and Best Documentary Film, Gully International Film Festival. LINDA KARSHAN, American, b. 1947, was educated at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (1965-67); the Sorbonne, Paris (1967-68); and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1969). In 1983, she earned a Masters in Humanistic Psychology from Antioch Centre for British Studies, London. Her MA thesis, entitled Play, Creativity and the Birth of the Self, focused on D.W. Winnicott's theories of transitional space and creativity, which are central to Karshan's artistic practice. She draws with a method, but no plan, using her inner choreography and balletic norms for kinesis. She is noted for an irrepressible inventiveness that disregards boundaries (or edges), leading to such groundbreaking outcomes as her 'walked drawing' genre, which entails her employing her feet as drawing points to enact walked lines and movements that reflect her internal rhythm. Her solo museum exhibitions include, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiori, Venice, (2018), Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany (2013); Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (2003); Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK (2002); Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (2002). Group exhibitions include: The Courtauld, London, UK (2014, 2012), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (2013, 2010), Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany (2013), British Museum, London, UK (2010), Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany (2009), and Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (2008). She regularly exhibits with several galleries in Europe, and with ART 3 in Brooklyn, NY. Karshan's drawings, prints and artist's books are held in public and private collections, including, in the UK: The British Library, The British Museum, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Sir John Soane's Museum, Tate Modern, The Arts Council Collection, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, England; in the US: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY. A suite of thirteen prints have been recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.