pre-orders open for the Special Edition! Enid Marx, Brick Dust & Flowers. A Remarkable Life in 12 Objects. by Emma Cunningham
pre-orders open for the Special Edition! Enid Marx, Brick Dust & Flowers. A Remarkable Life in 12 Objects. by Emma Cunningham
The Special Edition! 100 signed and numbered copies, with an additional giclee print of Sam & Arry, and bookmark. Available to pre-order in advance of publication on 3rd September.
Inspired by Enid Marx and Margaret Lambert’s collection of Folk Art and popular culture at Compton Verney, this is a guidebook to an imagined collection that tells the story of Enid Marx and her achievements through 12 objects..
The book is illustrated and written by Emma Cunningham, who has used the craft technique of pochoir in her illustrations. This is a hardback book, 28pp, 225 × 185mm, quarter bound with Brillianta cloth, printed on 170gsm Magno Volume paper at Graphius.
This is a celebration of the life and achievements of Enid Marx, told through 12 objects. Enid Marx (1902–1998) was a leading artist and designer, collector and writer, who played an important role in British cultural life in the mid-20th century.
Associated with Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden in the ‘outbreak of talent’ at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s, Marx excelled as a designer and printer of hand-blocked fabrics before branching into industrial woven patterns for London Underground and the wartime Utility Furniture Scheme. After making a significant contribution to book illustration, she went on to design postage stamps and patterns for laminates, becoming a Royal Designer for Industry and an advocate for better design training and industrial patronage. In parallel, with her life partner the historian Margaret Lambert, she formed a collection of ‘Popular Art’, which was bequeathed to Compton Verney in Warwickshire, where it is an increasingly popular attraction.
Emma Cunningham is a graduate of the B.A. (Hons) Illustration degree course at Hereford College of Arts (HCA) and was also the recipient of the Elmley Foundation Prize for Outstanding Achievement and the Friends of Herefordshire Museums Printmaker Award.
Her visual language and subjects represent a keen interest in social history, popular culture and folk art, particularly of the mid-20th century.
