Francis Upritchard - Publications

Publications

In 2004, Nieves published a small artist book of Upritchards Heads Of Yesteryear which consisted of 19 drawings of Pakeha severed heads in black and white photocopy, which had a British flag as a cover. The edition was 100 copies.

Human Problems, designed by James Goggin (Practice) was co-published by Kate Macgarry and Veenmen. It included a short piece of commissioned fiction by Hari Kunzru about an anthropologist who becomes increasingly deranged in an unspecified village.

Doomed Doomed All Doomed was designed by James Goggin (Practice) and was published by Artspace. The booklet includes an essay ‘Seventeen reduced Propositions For Francis Upritchard’ by JJ King and Mathew Hyland and accompanied Upritchards solo show at Artspace, Auckland in 2005.

Dent-de-Leone is a publishing hut based in London which Upritchard joined in 2008 when she collaborated with Abake on the artist book Every Colour By Itself. ' After editing the book Bart Wells Institute with Luke Gottelier she joined the publishers as a member.

In 2010, the 70 copy first edition of the In die Höhle (into the Cave) which was co-published with Secession. This artist's edition includes images of Upritchards sculptures from solo show at the Vienna Secession, a specially commissioned short story of a man who journeys to a strange island by the author David Mitchell. The second edition was co-published between Secession and Koenig Books and included a reworked version of the first edition with additional photos of the Secession Installation.

The book Save Yourself was published in 2009 to coincide with Upritchard's participation in the Venice Biennele. It includes essays by Heather Galbraith, Francesco Manacorda and Melanie Oliver. It was designed by Kalee Jackson and published by the Govett Brewster.