Book Works - Falling Into Place by Heather and Ivan Morison

Falling Into Place is published by Book Works in partnership with Situations in Bristol. It is the is the seventh in the series of co-publishing partnerships initiated by Book Works, entitled Fabrications, edited by Gerrie van Noord. Printed offset in an edition of 1,500 copies, colour and b/w throughout, 144 pages, soft cover, with dust jacket with gold blocking. Designed by A Practice for Everyday Life, 216 x 157mm.

Falling Into Place
by Heather & Ivan Morison (2009)

In recent works, Heather and Ivan Morison have explored the currency of shelter and the escape vehicle – things that can either transport you physically or mentally away from the here and now and help avoid, or offer refuge, from future disaster. The film 'Dark Star' (2006), and the timber structures 'Pleasure Island' and 'Fantasy Island' (2007), took their starting points from the American house-truck movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the hand-built-shelters associated with the ‘back-to-the-land’ movements of the same period. These interests are continued in a series of newly commissioned sculptures and shelters.

Continuing their explorations and investigations into cultures of self-sufficiency, this publication brings many elements of the artist’s research together with sketches and drawings, through a narrative which is part-science fiction, part-history, part-auto-biography and part-fairytale.

This publication has been generously supported by Arts Council England, the University of the West of England, and The Henry Moore Foundation.

ISBN 978 1 906012 09 0—Price £12.95