Unbidden Tongues #9: Potty Mouth is a collection of what could be described as concrete poetry, written over the past two years by our niece Violet Bartley, now aged five. Typed at a computer and sent exclusively via e-mail, the poems stand as clear evidence of a person in the beginnings of grasping (at) language. Throughout, characters are repeated uninterrupted until margins break them, keys pushed down by a finger not yet strong enough to lift itself up.

Over the years, as her written vocabulary grew and these attempts at communication slowly stacked up into the collection printed here, Violet delivered poem after poem within which different mutations of the word ‘poo’ were uttered in type: poo, poobum, bum poo, ipoo, poop. While simple, often illegible and definitely isolated utterances (she never replies when you send a poem back in turn), they are decipherable examples of someone learning defiance through language.

This exhibition catalogue presents twenty color illustrations of paintings by the British painter Prunella Clough. Published to commemorate the first German presentation of the artist’s work at June Gallery, Berlin, the book focuses on the artist’s late-career departure from the industrial figuration for which she was known into a wry, quietly influential approach to abstraction. Included are works dated between 1960–1993.

Designed by Dan Solbach.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Prunella Clough, Painting, Relief, Collage and Drawing at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 3 May–30 June, 2012, 2009.

Prunella Clough found her subjects by touring London’s industrial wastelands and bombsites – docks, power stations, factories and scrapyards – creating gritty, urban images. Her work – comprising paintings, collages, drawings, reliefs and graphics – increasingly centred on the components of the cityscape as her art, shifted away from representation through various influences including cubism and European abstraction.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Prunella Clough, 50 Years of Making Art at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 28 January–21 March, 2009.

Prunella Clough found her subjects by touring London’s industrial wastelands and bombsites – docks, power stations, factories and scrapyards – creating gritty, urban images. Her work – comprising paintings, collages, drawings, reliefs and graphics – increasingly centred on the components of the cityscape as her art, shifted away from representation through various influences including cubism and European abstraction.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Prunella Clough, Working Drawings 1946 – 1998 at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 24 September–24 October, 1998.

Prunella Clough found her subjects by touring London’s industrial wastelands and bombsites – docks, power stations, factories and scrapyards – creating gritty, urban images. Her work – comprising paintings, collages, drawings, reliefs and graphics – increasingly centred on the components of the cityscape as her art, shifted away from representation through various influences including cubism and European abstraction.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Prunella Clough, The Late Paintings and selected earlier works at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1 November–16 December, 2000.

Prunella Clough found her subjects by touring London’s industrial wastelands and bombsites – docks, power stations, factories and scrapyards – creating gritty, urban images. Her work – comprising paintings, collages, drawings, reliefs and graphics – increasingly centred on the components of the cityscape as her art, shifted away from representation through various influences including cubism and European abstraction.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and may have some traces of previous ownership.