The National Grid #8

ISSN 1177–2468

©The National Grid/authors, September 2012
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Edited and designed by
Luke Wood & Jonty Valentine

Published by
The National Grid & RAMP Gallery

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Edition of 500

Issue
#8

Introduction

Kim Paton

List of works

Works are listed anti-clockwise from point of entry

Colour Plates

Installation photographs

Ideological object

Christopher Thompson

Crummer Rd.

Hamish Win

Curb your surrealism

Steve Kerr

Dear valued guest

Jonty Valentine

Only parts of a never-whole

David Bennewith

Tape Man explodes

Can Robert

Profiler

Aaron Kreisler

6 X 3

Amy Yalland

Photography in the age of mechanical reproduction

Neil Pardington

Hermes

Richard Francis

Reasonable precedents

Luke Wood

Wedge

Julia Gatley

Mis-direction/way-losing

Matthew Galloway

A dry cough

Lara Strongman

The Sub-textual

Mary-Louise Browne

The postcard from #1

Max Lozach

An extraordinary denial of history

Noel Waite

So it goes

Lisa Grocott

Our best students being unemployable

Luke Wood

What is Design?

Jonty Valentine