ABIGAIL REYNOLDS & JOANNA KAVENNA IN-CONVERSATION

Beginning with Kavenna's essay about a visit to the artist’s studio and discussing the artworks from that experience, they will turn to a collaboration to make a game board for the fictional game of Seven, dreamed up by Kavenna as the structure for her new novel, Seven. Seven is an extraordinary journey through the Society of Lost Things: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. To this Reynolds brings her own exploration of Lost Libraries - a journey she made in 2016, traveling to lost libraries along the Silk Road, considering what it means to be lost, and the many ways of looking.

Walking A Cappella is co-published by Anomie and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and will be available to buy from the gallery and on the artist's website. Designed by Michael Kelly, a flow of images of Reynolds work is contextualised with commissioned texts from the novelist Joanna Kavenna and curator Hammad Nasar, as well as a dialogue with Sophie J. Williamson

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AUTHOR'S BIOS

Joanna Kavenna is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ice Museum, Inglorious, Come to the Edge, A Field Guide to Reality and - most recently - Zed. Her novel Inglorious won the Orange Award for New Writing, and The Birth of Love was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Joanna Kavenna’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The New York Times and many other publications. She was named as one of the Telegraph’s Best Writers under 40 in 2010 and as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.

joannakavenna.com

Abigail Reynolds lives in St Just, Cornwall, and has a studio at Porthmeor in St Ives. She received a BA in English Literature at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, and subsequently an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Over 2020–22 her work was featured in British Art Show 9, the landmark touring exhibition that defines new directions in contemporary art. In 2016 she was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize at Art Basel, to travel to lost libraries along the Silk Road. Her book Lost Libraries documenting this journey was published by Hatje Cantz in 2018. Her works are in collections including the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Government Art Collection and The Arts Council Collection UK.

abigailreynolds.com

@abigailreynoldsartist

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