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<strong>By Cathy Ward and Eric Wright
£19.99, full colour, PB, 120pp
</strong><strong>ISBN 9781907222047</strong>

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</form><a href="http://www.galerietoxic.com/" target="_blank">Galerie Toxic</a>, Luxembourg, and Strange Attractor Press present <em>Tender Vessels</em>, a book of new mixed-media work by Cathy Ward and Eric Wright; with text by Doug Harvey and Mark Pilkington.

<em>With their honoring of folkloric aesthetic vocabularies, their non-oppositional encompassing of complex, verbally-based literary and philosophical realms and love of shiny things, their history of collaborative social experiment and advocacy for the viability of small-scale group politics (both in their own work and within their communities), and their productive model of sensory-grounded human intellect that recognizes its continuity with the rest of nature, Catharyne Ward and Eric Wright have, in Tender Vessels offered a walk-through manifesto for the future of art, and the components for a makeshift coffin-raft to carry us to the next shore. </em>From the accompanying essay by Doug Harvey

More info at <a href="http://ward-wright.com" target="_blank">Ward-Wright.com</a>

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<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><strong>ABOUT THE ARTISTS</strong>
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<strong>Cathy Ward</strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;"> was born in Ashford, Kent, England. She was a student of Eduardo Paolozzi in the department of Ceramics &amp; Glass at the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1988.</span></span>

Ward’s work has been selected for: Talespinning: Selections Fall, The Drawing Centre, New York;  John Moore’s Contemporary Painting Prize, The Walker, Liverpool; The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London and The Whitechapel, London, among others. She has exhibited extensively world-wide, including the solo exhibitions Metamorphosis, Altered States, Herworld, Joy Rider and Teen Age.

Commissions have included a large scale Landform sculpture for Gateways to Europe; Monoliths &amp; Dimensions, SUNN 0))); Go Now, Richard Hell; Hey Luciani, The Fall; Last Beat of my Heart, Siouxsie &amp; The Banshees; The Twelve Revelations and Visions, Steven Severin; Ghost Train,Marisa Carnesky; and Murmurations, Urthona and the Asterism.  <a href="http://www.catharyneward.com" target="_blank">www.catharyneward.com</a>

<strong>Eric Wright </strong>was born in Mt Gilead, Ohio, United States of America. He graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 1984, afterwards relocating to New York City. Since 1992 he has resided in London, UK.

Eric has exhibited in galleries and museums in the US and Europe including Life/Live at the The Musée d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris (with City Racing, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist); Sociable Realism at The Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Interesting Painting at City Racing, London.

His portraits of Country and Western stars garnered much acclaim and are found in collections in Europe and Nashville, USA, including that of musician George Jones. <a href="http://www.eric-wright.net" target="_blank">www.eric-wright.net</a>.