OAKS SOAK KAOS 

An Artists's Book project with writer nicky melville.  

Exploring Dalketh and Newbattle woods, looking at oak trees, barks and ardent carvings.  

5 colour offset-lithoed images with screen-printed texts. Ed: 150  Published by Semper Fidelis, ISBN 978-1-900599-37-5  

Copies abvailable from DF, POA. (email: d****@davidfaithfull.co.uk) 

A68 is a collaboration between artists Jane Hyslop, David Faithfull and poet Nicky Melville. The three artists created independent and collaborative work housed in a boxed multiple, first was exhibited at IMPACT 8, the International Print Conference  in Dundee in August 2013.

Exhibitied at:
VAS Annual Show 2024, Dalkeith Palace.PAGES: NEW VOICES, Artists Books Travelling Exhibition, Supported by Arts Council England 2019EDGE OF WORDS, SNGOMA 'Edge of Words ' 2014.
IMPACT 8, International Print Conference, Dundee, 2013

David, nicky and Jane presented A68 at the 'Edge of Words ' Artists’ Book Study Day/Seminar at the Scottish Modern Art Gallery Two, Friday, 5th December 2014.
Other speakers included:
Kathryn Brown, ‘Henri Matisse’s Jazz on the Edge’
Peter Dayan, ‘Tristan Tzara's artist's books, or the birth of poetry at the edge of words’
Alice Tarbuck, 'Thomas A Clark'
Greg Thomas, "Are Happenings Sometimes Wearisome?" Civilising Dada in Ian Hamilton Finlay's 1960s Booklet Poems'
Lila Matsumoto, 'Dick Higgins and Ulises Carrion, Poetic Experimentation in Artists Books 1960-1980'
Julie Johnstone, 'Essence Press'
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/edge-of-words/project