WE ARE ALL ADRIFT
New publication available November 2025
Text/Image: David Banning – Drawings: Iain Sharpe – Introduction by Philip Hoare
- Weaving together fragments of artists’ stories across time and place, David Banning embarks on a Sebaldian exploration of the enduring legacy of harbours and the sea. In a post-truth world, rising water levels are mapped into micro-conflict zones of resistance, with borders, loopholes and quotas absorbed into the bed of the English Channel. While elements of the current political hostility toward migration are underlined, a connection is established between the intertidal mudflats of Morecambe Bay and the chalky downlands surrounding Newhaven Harbour. Mixing, biography, fiction and history, a poetic odyssey probes the work of English Neo Romantic artist Eric Ravilious, and uncovers the ‘unknowing strangeness’ of Harold Mockford, a fine lyrical artist based in East Sussex.
- Introduction by Philip Hoare, award winning author of Leviathan and Albert and the Whale. Abundantly illustrated with a stunning collection of drawings by Glasgow based artist Iain Sharpe.
- ISBN: 9781838091576 – Size: 216mm x 216mm, 50 pages, printed in premium colour.
All profits go to The UN Refugee Agency
Vigilantia: what happens when artists and writers pay attention to Mogwai
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- 33 artists and writers respond to the music of Mogwai with a vivid collection of texts and mixed media combining essays, poems, painting, drawing, photos, assemblage, installation and graphic illustration. The result is a fascinating portrait as playful and mischievous as the band itself.
- **Now includes exclusive set of 5 postcards (A6 size printed on 350gsm uncoated card) featuring the following artworks: Vigilantia cover image by Brian McHenry, Stop Coming To My House by Martin Jones, Like Herod by Matt Healy, Precipice by Josef Minta and Halftime by David Banning**
- Any profits will be donated to the Glasgow community-led charity: Refuweegee
Published September 2023 as a LIMITED EDITION of 250
LARGE FORMAT A4 size, 76 pages, paperback, full colour, isbn: 978-1838091569
special thanks to clare archibald for bringing together the bulk of the contributors
and for choosing the title ‘vigilantia‘
- Contributors include: Paul Youdell, Clare Archibald, Matt Healy, Darragh McCausland, John McDougall, Sapphire Goss, Martin MacInnes, Richard Milward, Colm O’Shea, Arun Sood, Isabella Streffen, Pat Barrett, Shelley Hastings, Martin Jones, Iain Sharpe, Lee Ashworth, Rik Rawling, David Banning, Rico Craig, Josef Minta, Rose Ruane, Brian McHenry, Wendy Erskine, Duncan Harman, Maria Sledmere, Susan Tomaselli, Noel Hannan, Dana Tommasino, Alister Black & Jonny Cannon, Joanna Kirk, Andrea Caro, Naomi Frisby.
Foreword by Darran Anderson
Looking for Derek…
A haunting trip into otherness – part Great Expectations, part surrealist installation
PHILIP HOARE
- A journey to Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage
- Published 5th October 2023
- Size: 21.6cm x 14cm - 22 pages
- Black & White with 8 photographs
- ISBN: 978-1838091583
Falling Away…
It has a mix of nature and psychogeography and it floats along like a feather being buffeted by the breeze and that was part of its charm to me. It had echoes of All The Devils Are Here by David Seabrook. It felt slightly surreal at times and occasionally dreamlike as you lived some of the main character’s life.
Paul Cheney – Halfman, Halfbook
Novella published March 30th 2023
cover design by Iain Sharpe
ISBN: 978-1-8380915-5-2
West Cumbria Mining: The Silence between Shadows…
The politics of fuel laid bare…
Follow David Banning into the fractured terrain of Whitehaven via the Fylde coast and the chalky cliffs of East Sussex as he absorbs the mining history and industrial grandeur once associated with West Cumbria. Nearly 15 years ago a list scribbled down on the back of an old bingo flyer – given to him by his late father – highlighted the names of five coal miners from former West Cumberland towns. A family history that once pointed to a final adventure before the development of the Cumbrian Metallurgical Coal Project brought the empty hyperbole of modern day taglines and slogans more sharply into focus. Coal for Steel. Indigenous versus imported. A plan for jobs. Growing the economy and the much-trailed ‘levelling up’. The gradual dissolution of life drifts down into the silence between shadows…
Paperback: 40 pages (includes cover drawing by Iain Sharpe & x 17 b&w images) Dimensions: 140mm x 2.5mm x 216mm
ISBN: 978-1-8380915-4-5 – Out: 15th September 2022 – Price: £6.50
POST-NEARLY PRESS CONVERSATION SERIES EDITIONS 1-5 / 2014-2019
OUT: NOVEMBER 25th 2021
COLOUR PAPERBACK – 262 PAGES
ISBN: 9781838091538
FEATURING: IAIN SINCLAIR, CHRIS PETIT, ANDREW KÖTTING, ALAN MOORE AND STEWART LEE.
- All five of the Post-Nearly Press Conversation Series of books compiled together for the first time and made available in colour paperback format, with original artwork and a brand new cover design by Craig Turnbull.
- Featuring live face-to-face conversations, unprecedented in length, with five of the UK’s most visionary authors/artists, including: Iain Sinclair, Chris Petit, Andrew Kötting, Alan Moore and Stewart Lee.
- The book has a substantial and completely exclusive foreword from Iain Sinclair – a bristling and brilliant piece of writing titled, Pre-Posthumous Words for Post-Nearly Press.
Perfect for fans, collectors and newcomers alike, the Post-Nearly Press Conversation Series traverse the compelling methods, inspirations and creative outlooks from five of the UK’s most visionary authors/artists. Iain Sinclair kicks it all off with a fascinating ride through the navigation of territory and the enduring influence of J.G. Ballard. Chris Petit discusses The Museum of Loneliness and relationships with screens. Andrew Kötting penetrates the London Olympic site and the post-punk era of music, while the illustrious Alan Moore performs an impromptu Mandrill rap in a unique Northampton studio. Lastly, comedian Stewart Lee recalls the late Vorticist poet bloke – Mark E Smith from The Fall.
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From Tarmac to Towpath: Excursions into Lockdown is a collection of works created on the streets of London, Lancashire, Cumbria, Newcastle, Glasgow and the Firth of Forth when the UK was in Lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Featuring text and images from 13 artists across the UK, a document of traces emerges formed of spectral walks, psychogeographical encounters, eerie geometries, deserted towpaths, former railway lines, discarded masks, ghostly enclaves and sudden verdures. While boundaries dissolve, everything is muffled and haunted, desperate for re-connection. Dust, rust and peeling paint triggers acknowledgement of hyperawareness. Stunned side streets and somnolent houses (evoked by Graham Greene as, the unfamiliar shadows of half-things, broken things, former things) are amongst many captured moments that remind us of the unprecedented emotions and events of life in lockdown.
- Hardback
- ISBN: 978-1838091521
- 112 pages (in full colour)
- Price: £15.99 (All royalties will be donated to designated foodbanks)
- Dimensions : 20.32 x 1.12 x 20.32 cm
Boundary Songs: Notes from the edge of the Lake District National Park
DAVID BANNING with drawings by IAIN SHARPE
PUBLISHED 15 SEPTEMBER 2020 £8.99
In a series of excursions worthy of Iain Sinclair, David delves into the uncanny past and present of the Lake District National Park boundary…
WILL SMITH: CUMBRIA LIFE OCTOBER 2020 issue
– for London Orbital think Cumbrian Orbital –
Discover. Explore. Inspire. On the fringes of England’s largest national park, now a World Heritage Site, an alternative vision emerges. In late 2017, a walk around the boundary of the Lake District uncovers a hidden landscape consumed by ghosts of nostalgia. Roughly 160 miles where it’s never quite clear where the muddy paths and coastal ridges will lead. Stumbling upon industry as theme park on the border between urban and rural. A hallucinatory journey reimagining the in-between lands of cinematic markers, a sixteenth century noblewoman, artists such as Graham Sutherland and a constant stream of found debris. From a meeting with Silecroft’s mafia at Valley End to the gates of Sellafield, the edge of darkness is revealed.
Welcome to a different ‘place to be’, where the pastoral and sublime rub shoulders with nuclear and second home syndrome – on the edges of Brexit…
PAPERBACK 246 PAGES ISBN 9781838091507 PUBLISHED 15 SEPTEMBER 2020 COVER DESIGN: FULL POINT
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