NUMBERSTREAM tunnel audio diffusion at the LUMEN festival | Saturday 20 June 2015 | 7 pm – midnight Venue : Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301 United States. Staten Island Arts is proud to present the 6th Annual International LUMEN Festival. The June 20, 2015 event will take place at the historic Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden from 7:00 PM – midnight. LUMEN Festival is an authentic contemporary art experience in New York City featuring ...

The Wallpaper Series of limited edition large-scale prints are now being mounted on canvas and stretched onto lightweight aluminium frames. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, is first to offer these massive black & white prints mounted using this method, as an alternative to wall pasting.  The choice: the image either directly mounted flat onto your wall – for a continuous image-wall surface in your room, or onto a stretcher for the option to rehang the work ...

The book: documenting Sarah Lucas in the making and installation of the exhibition I SCREAM DADDIO at the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015.  Photography, design & layout, Julian Simmons. PUBLICATION now available, see more : I SCREAM DADDIO   The film: Sarah Lucas talking about her latest works and having a SPAM picnic, in and around the British Pavilion, Giardini, Venice.  Camera and editing, Julian Simmons. FILM, British Pavilion, Venice : Sarah Lucas talking to Don Brown

24 central yellow pages provide what is a precise egg or cheese sandwich! very Caffè Florian. SARAH LUCAS at the BRITISH PAVILION, VENICE, 9 May – 22 November 2015.  56TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. The exhibition of 18 sculptures, 2 photographs and an 11 x 5 spot painting, is accompanied by a 152 page publication, I SCREAM DADDIO.  Story-book and catalogue, with extensive texts by Sarah Lucas, poems by D.H.Lawrence and profusely illustrated with ...

  Sarah Lucas talks to friend and artist Don Brown about her new works, installed in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015; with subjects ranging between toilets as a human portrait, palpable casting techniques, toplessness – top-off and top-on, a bum or a vagina is a face, the subliminal use of eggs – including the dessert floating-islands, nude sculptures are close friends; and she has a few slices of SPAM with a glass of Aspall ...

Designed to stylishly carry the I SCREAM DADDIO exhibition catalogue, premium textile manufacturer Kvadrat sponsored SARAH LUCAS at the Venice Biennale with the production of a limited-edition, bespoke bag in their luxurious Kvadrat ‘Waterborn’ material.  This synthetic suede does not fray, it has no need to be hemmed: just cut it to shape. The design is composed of just two pieces of material, that folded for the bag, and that for the strap. The single strap ...

Available in Venice from the British Pavilion, Giardini Di Castello, Venice | 9 May – 22 November 2015 | €10 / Euros The brief was to design a bag to contain the I SCREAM DADDIO exhibition catalogue – a book in a bag.  We had some fun with this: ‘a bag’ is a certain kind of woman, and well ‘a book in a bag’ has a good measure of sexual innuendo.  In fact if you ...

10 page concertina : bilingual English and Italian.  Available in Venice, 9 May – 22 November 2015 from the British Pavilion, Giardini Di Castello, Venice.   Plan of the British Pavilion, inc. position and titles of works. Sculptures : Sarah Lucas Text 750 words : Sarah Lucas Photographs : Julian Simmons Design, Layout : Julian Simmons Size overall : 21 x 60cm  |  Size folded : 21  x 12cm  |  150gsm Olin uncoated  |  Yellow spot-colour : Pantone 108U Publisher : The British Council ...

‘Hi James, two of the images are of Sarah doing the plastering, the other two are of Sarah getting plastered! …not suggesting final titles but ‘Getting Plastered’ would be a rather nice inclusion. Very best, Julian!’     ‘The artist Julian Simmons, talks about photographing Sarah Lucas as she works on a new piece for the Venice Biennale, casting 10 human figures – including herself’, Financial Times, 25 April 2015, FT Weekend Magazine; pages 22-23 & 24-25 ...

Featured by ARTSY: A Journey to Mexico with Sarah Lucas, Through the Eyes of Collaborator and Partner Julian Simmons. ‘…we asked the photographer to share insights around the images, the trip to Mexico, and his multivalent relationship with Lucas’… ARTSY EDITORIAL The unedited Q&A here…     How did you first meet Sarah Lucas? Legal squatting. ICH …Islington Community Housing – a co-op of near-derelict houses waiting for an uncertain period before improvement.  The deal was we paid a low rent ...

Until 7 February 2015: Julian Simmons at Paul Stolper, 31 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH. ‘Sarah Lucas describes her partner and frequent collaborator Julian Simmons as “a Star-man with a pair of binoculars”, but this show also confirms that he is a highly skilled print-maker and significant artist in his own right. For while the evident subject of these arresting and exquisitely produced prints is a series of Lucas’s soft, fleshy “Nud” ...

TITTIPUSSIDAD prints of texts, portraits and Sarah Lucas sculptures. Photographs and printing by Julian Simmons. Each in an edition of 6. Giclee inkjet, archival full-strength carbon-black pigment. Order Enquiries & Availability: PAUL STOLPER, 31 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH. 15 framed prints, on Velin BFK Rives fine-art printmaking paper, mould-made, 100% cotton rag, no optical brighteners, 280gsm, signed and numbered on verso. Sheet size: 112.5 x 76.5 cm, framed size: 119 x 83 cm. SHEELA-NA-GIG II 1 OAXACA NUD 1 OAXACA NUD ...

Exhibition: 16 January – 7 February 2015, Paul Stolper, 31 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH. 15 prints each in an edition of 6, signed and numbered on verso. Sheet size: 112.5 x 76.5 cm. Giclee inkjet, archival full-strength carbon-black pigment on Velin BFK Rives, traditional fine-art printmaking paper, mould-made, uncoated, buffered, no optical brighteners, 100% cotton rag, 280gsm. Photographs and printing by Julian Simmons. “The thing about Julian is that he sees ...

4 – 7 December 2014, Miami Beach. Paul Stolper Gallery, Stand B22. Four TITTIPUSSIDAD prints on Velin BFK Rives, a traditional fine-art printmaking paper, mould-made, 100% cotton rag, 280gsm. Giclee inkjet, archival full-strength carbon-black pigment. Sheet size: 112.5 x 76.5 cm. Photographs & printing by Julian Simmons. Edition of 6, signed and numbered on verso. LUPE SARAH SMOKING OBSIDIAN OAXACA NUD (1)     Miami Art Basel / highlight : VIEW PRINTS …

“Wet sacks, misfit carrots, mis-shaped potatoes, crafty otters, bastard magpies, and yellowhammer chicks shouting for grub…” “I might go and grab an oil drum…” Blustering wind and railing sun, the flatlands, a spring day, 23 April 2014. Carting-in 480 bundles of water-reed on the Norfolk Broads – one of the mad and beautiful preliminary stages of the thatching process. A film by : Julian Simmons – camera / editing / incidental music. Featuring : Wally Mason ...

NUZ Jet Lag, is part of the Pure-Data Vimeo Group.  All instruments & sounds built by Julian Simmons employing ‘PD Vanilla philosophy’ > no external instrument libraries – have a listen / take a look on Vimeo…

  Set yourself up with a glass, or a tube, of your joy, press play – enter full-screen, and do the whole trip!  Yep, it’ll explode… …effulgently. I built the Pure-Data instruments there and then, on New Zealand’s south island, corresponding to the overriding sounds : the undulating whistle of bellbirds and from first light until last, the hissing of cicadas .   ‘The rumbles and tweetie/noises made me think of David Lynch’s Eraserhead!’  Rob Gold, ...

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‘Wall-filling black-and-white photos of archaic masks and commercial toilets, densely covered with layers of cigarettes. The photographs and sculptures are in fact not an exhibition, but the protagonist from a encyclopaedic giant book with the very fresh title “Tittipussidad”, which describes the journey through Mexico a year ago – published and designed by Julian Simmons. A travel diary with recordings of spontaneous thoughts that accompanied the way from arrival, to the Anahuacalli ...

CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS GALERIE GMBH, Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin. 13 June – 31 July 2014, opening 12 June 2014 / invite card New series of 12 limited-edition prints by Julian Simmons from the book TITTIPUSSIDAD, 252 x 161 cm (vertical images), 231 x 330 cm (horizontal images), 520 x 110 cm (the ‘DAD’ list). REALIDAD  p.110-111 REALIDAD  p.121 REALIDAD  p.120 SHEELA-NA-GIG-I  p.307 SHEELA-NA-GIG-II  p.191 SHEELA-NA-GIG-II  p.4-5 BRICK FACTORY  p.58-59 CIGARETTE CHRIST  p.433 BENITO  p.517 DAD-LIST  p.13 COMMUNISTA  p.225 OBSIDIAN  p.201 Edition of 6. Printed by myself on ...

Limited-edition of 17 | 124 x 84 cm | Signed & numbered | Framed c-type colour photographic print EXCUSADO REVISITADO, (‘Toilet Revisited’), portrait of Sarah Lucas, photograph by Julian Simmons, Mexico, 2014. Photographed in Oaxaca, while Sarah Lucas was making new works to be shown in Anahuacalli, Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico City (publication TITTIPUSSIDAD).   Order Enquiries / Availability: Sadie Coles HQ, UK Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin     Rock-and-roll and very vicar… “yes I’m a preacher!” As installed in Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2014; ...

TITTIPUSSIDAD at CFA Berlin 13 June – 31 July 2014, CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS GALERIE GMBH, Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin.   TITTIPUSSIDAD – Mexico Book, main source in Germany, get your copy here. TITTIPUSSIDAD – Mexico Wallpaper Prints / installation photos, large-scale limited-edition b&w prints from TITTIPUSSIDAD, sizes to 2.3 x 3.2 metres. EXCUSADO REVISITADO – Portrait of Sarah Lucas knickers down, Oaxaca, Mexico, from the book p.384; framed limited-edition colour photographic print. NEW SCULPTURES – ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’, and ‘Diego’, by ...

“I got to know these people – Diego Riviera, Alejandro Jodorowsky – I got so clear with them by being there, as well as some of the old Gods.  It was a brilliant trip, how do you do that again?  I don’t know. But things as good as that?  Yes please. It can be fantastic, when the circumstances are very inspiring, which is what Oaxaca in Mexico is.  I didn’t run ...

Why TITTIPUSSIDAD is this Season’s Mother Lode of Art Books ‘Arriving just after an earthquake had shaken the Zapotec region of south-western Mexico, rekindling the local volcano, Simmons said, “..this place was one hell of a hub of weird energy, intention ..it rubbed off, conducted, got in the veins, as did the chilli ..and the grasshoppers” “Objects surviving from ancient times have lost much of their sense, but none of their power. What ...

15 May – 21 June 2014, part of the Darren Bader exhibition Photographs I Like / To Have and to Hold ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, 537 W. 22nd St. New York, NY 10011 Order enquiries: USA Andrew Kreps Gallery, UK / Europe Sadie Coles HQ

Part of the exposition of Sarah Lucas Furniture, Sadie Coles HQ, Via San Gregorio 43 / Via Casati 32, Milan. 8 – 12th April 2014. Limited number of TITTIPUSSIDADs and noBs in Italy.

Series of 12 photographs by Julian Simmons from the book TITTIPUSSIDAD, each approx 240 x 160 cm. Printed by myself on off-white heavyweight paper, dead-matt finish, with full-strength carbon-black pigment. Supplied as rolled wallpaper in 3 vertical strips for direct pasting onto a wall, or mounted for hanging. Order Enquiries / Availability: USA KARMA,  UK Sadie Coles TITTIPUSSIDAD prints: p583, p380, p624 TITTIPUSSIDAD prints: p551, p185, p501-x2 TITTIPUSSIDAD prints: p163, p394, p246 TITTIPUSSIDAD prints: p199, p256, p368-x2 Order Enquiries ...

Photograph / Design / Layout : Julian Simmons Advert : ARTFORUM, March 2014 Exhibition : NUD NOB – Sarah Lucas, 5 March – 11 April 2014 Gallery : Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24 Street, New York

BOOK-SIGNING Wednesday 5th March 2014 – New York book & print launch at KARMA, 39 Great Jones Street, New York, NY 10012 Limited number of signed TITTIPUSSIDADS – get your copy here, main source in the USA. RUNNING FOR 2 WEEKS from 5th March at KARMA, installation of 12 large-scale black-&-white Wallpaper Prints from the book + evening projection of the Oaxaca adobe block-making film TITTIPUSSIDAD Sarah Lucas in Mexico | A book by ...

London Short Film Festival, 16 Jan 2014, Horniman Museum. 7:30 – 8:30pm, backdrop to the live harp music of Serafina Steer. More info on: SLUG SEX