Old Iron Alfred Wallis
With Dr. Roger Slack and Peter Mates. Very limited edition of 200. Hardback hand set in letterpress on mould-made paper wit htipped-in colour plates.

‘Lanyon, very gently and with great charm and sensibility, explores the impediments to establishing the truths of Wallis’ history and art and indeed to any historical truth. At the same time ‘Old Iron’ gives us a series of unforgettable visual and verbal glimpses of the St. Ives artist. Included are long quotes from the recollections of Wallis’ contemporaries, compiled by Dr. Roger Slack and a series of model steamers based on Wallis’ paintings made by Peter Mates. With Proustian finesse, Lanyon deconstructs and recreates the remembered past, thus perpetuating Alfred Wallis as a permanent enigma’. Jane Addams Allen and Derek Guthrie

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