This publication aims to expose Melissa Jordan’s collages as a central part of her practice.
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Duplicitous, by Melissa Jordan
Initially cinematic moments, these images are reformed. It is always a moment, unexpected, never a planned portrait. The captured image, akin to the original film stills, suggest a narrative but offers no certainties.
Although frozen, the figures appear to be shape-shifting, playing with friction. Their inability to fully reveal themselves reflects on the duplicitous nature of their narratives.
Often exhibited at a larger than human scale, in this publication, these prints are now returned to their original format.
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Dimensions: 21 x 29.7 cm, 32p
Numbered editions of 50. Buy here

Karen Lacroix of Uncanny Editions hosted a workshop at X Marks the Bökship exploring the illustration/ design process archived in Uncanny Magazine 3.

The workshop was a platform for experimenting with the medium of publication, reproduction and manipulation as a form of enriching and challenging the illustration process. Inviting illustrators, designers and artists with work in progress, the goal was to positively interfere with the work being produced, while generating a forum for discussion through the act of publishing.

Uncanny Editions held the launch of issue 3 of Uncanny Magazine – Publication as Process and a talk by Karen Lacroix, on the 30th September 2011.

The event took place at X Marks the Bökship in Bethnal Green, London. During the month of October (2011), Uncanny Editions was ‘Publisher of the Month’, with all its edited publications on display, including sold out Ugly 0 and Uncanny 1 and 2, and unique/ original publications produced during several commissions. A workshop on ‘publication as process’ was held on the 5th November 2011 at X Marks the Bökship.

The aim of this issue is to document and archive an essentially visual account of ‘publication as process’. The idea of making several publications during the illustration/ design process is a way of creating a platform for critical awareness. Not only does it generate space for discussion with other people, but promotes a big variety of solutions and alternatives to the work being produced, thus increasing the possibility of making a more considered and reflected decision through the act of publishing.

Issue 3 of Uncanny Magazine is divided into two sections: 1) a reproduction of a publication produced as part of the image-making process for an illustration project for the English Touring Opera, in its original size and form; 2) a selection of 11 of the 23 publications produced whilst making illustrations for the aforementioned design project.

Dimensions: 29.7 x 21 cm, 52pp.
Numbered edition of 100. Sold Out

Illustration and design of the Autumn 2011 booklet for English Touring Opera. A5, 16pp. Uncanny Magazine no. 3 investigates how publication was used as a process during the design of the illustrations for this booklet. For more information or to buy Uncanny 3, click here.

The making of publications and the exploration of different printing processes are used in order to inform the process of designing an illustration.

Publication forces a confrontation of the imagery collected during the research process and can have an important impact during the process of ‘illustrating’. Control is often lost while using different printing methods (offset, digital, photocopy). By using, obliterating and composing different paper sizes and paper stocks, the images collected for an ongoing illustration commission, reveal new contexts and relations, creating space for an enriched design process.

A selection of spreads shown here will also be published in issue 3 of Uncanny Magazine.

The publications presented here are the result of an exploration of ‘publication as process’.
Uncanny no. 3 will trace these processes used in ongoing illustration commissions. More news soon.

Uncanny Editions launched the 2nd issue of Uncanny Magazine and hosted a one-day group exhibition on the 20th January 2011.
The exhibition included work by Karen Lacroix and guest artists Page Tsou, Therese Vandling & Luke Frost and Tom Owen. The event took place at Four Corners Gallery (Bethnal Green, London, UK).

This issue explores the relationship the Surrealist authors André Breton and Paul Eluard had with religion, particularly with Catholicism. It approaches the subject using the book The Immaculate Conception (1930), questioning the authors’ anti-religious orientation through a new series of handmade collages.

Uncanny Magazine is the visual output of Karen Lacroix’s ongoing research on Surrealism.

Dimensions: 29.7 x 21 cm, 24p.
Numbered edition of 100. Sold Out.

Series of 3 workshops held at the National Portrait Gallery. The workshops questioned established notions of portraiture using the “Exquisite Corpse” method of production.
To book a workshop or request more information, please get in touch with us.

Limited Edition of 15 risograph prints by Karen Lacroix, 2 colors, 200 gsm cream paper stock, 29.7 x 42 cm, 2010.
Individually signed and numbered by the artist, printed by Ditto Press. Buy here

Uncanny Magazine is the visual output of Karen Lacroix’s ongoing research on Surrealism and its methods of production. All illustrations are hand-made collages.

Dimensions: 29.5 x 20.5 cm, 20pp.
Numbered edition of 60. Sold Out.

Correct, correct yourself, be corrected, polish, tell off, find fault, never plunge blindly into the subjective treasury purely for the temptation to fling here and there on the sand a handful of frothy seaweed and emeralds; that is the order we have for centuries been forced to comply with in art as in other spheres, by this ill-digested rigour and slavish prudence. It is also the order which historically has been broken in exceptional, fundamental circumstances. It is from there that Surrealism sets out.

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Breton, A. (1997) The Automatic Message. (A. Melville, Trans.) London: Atlas Press. (Original  publication 1934). p. 12