EVENT TWO – RUTH BEALE

Friday 21 May 6-9pm

Ruth Beale’s New Sixpenny Pamphlets

For the Mulberry Tree Press’s Event #2, Ruth Beale will launch her ‘New Sixpenny Pamphlets’. These five newly printed works are responses to each of the Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets series, originally published in 1939. They “provide thinking people with the means to consider fundamental problems in art, literature, taste and morals”. The five new texts by contemporary writers revived arguments made in the original pamphlets by writers like E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Graham Bell. They consider issues around personal morality; art and politics; the heritage industry; the circulation and appreciation of art; and artists and capitalism.

There will be live readings of the New Sixpenny Pamphlets over the course of the evening.
The pamphlets are published in an edition of 75

Readings:
A Bibliography of Belief, Read by Ruth Beale.
In Praise of the Decrepit, by Gavin Morrison, read by Eleanor Vonne Brown.
Grenades and Gift Horses, read by Gemma Sharpe.
What will the next exhibition look like? Read by Karen Mirza, Brad Butler and Nabil Ahmed
Writing about art is like dancing about cookery, by Pauline Hanson, read by Fleur van Muiswinkel

photography: Christian Hagen

New Sixpenny Pamphlets

Ruth Beale reading ‘A Bibliography of Belief’.

Gemma Sharpe reading ‘Grenades and Gift Horses’.

Eleanor Vonne Brown reading ‘In Praise of the Decrepit’, by Gavin Morrison.

Fleur van Muiswinkel reading ‘Writing about art is like dancing about cookery’, by Pauline Hanson.

Karen Mirza, Brad Butler and Nabil Ahmed reading ‘What will the next exhibition look like?’