Published by the Kunstverein Augsburg e. V. in the wake of the solo exhibition 'alighting'. This artist's monograph of 88 pages contains 53 self-portrait analogue photographs and essays by renowned art and photography experts, Anne-Marie Bonnet and Klaus Honnef in German and English. ISBN 9783000672316
The sequence title refers to barking, as:
a. to express a guttural cry as that of a dog when outraged, frightened or calling for attention
b. to remove the skin or bark, of a tree, exposing the smooth wood in preparation for use.
and willow, as:
willow:
a. a tree known for its flexible branches used to weave basketry
b. considered to be a witch's tree, source of contraceptive and fever-reducing agent.
The sequence title refers to barking, as:
a. to express a guttural cry as that of a dog when outraged, frightened or calling for attention
b. to remove the skin or bark, of a tree, exposing the smooth wood in preparation for use.
and willow, as:
willow:
a. a tree known for its flexible branches used to weave basketry
b. considered to be a witch's tree, source of contraceptive and fever-reducing agent.
78 self-portrait photographs & text, published by MAB Books commensurate the exhibition at Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA.
sample image page from 78 self-portrait photographs & text, published by MAB Books commensurate the exhibition at Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA.
Heather Sheehan’s Sylta, the Whaling Widow Who Wails (2020–2024) is a visual and verbal narrative composed of a sequence of 40 black-and-white self-portrait photographs, a short story and the costume she sewed by hand. Isolated with an analogue camera and typewriter in a thatch-roofed house on the coast of an island in the North Sea, Sheehan found herself in the role of a whaling captain’s pregnant widow. With the short story, Meeting Sylta, she reveals the stunning synchronicity between a fiction and the experience of its creation. The hardcover book in English and German has been published by Verlag Kettler on the occasion of the exhibition at Sölring - Sylt Museum, island of Sylt, Germany. A 12 minute video of Sheehan reading chapter 1 may be viewed here.
Heather Sheehan’s One Woman, One Stone, (2023) is a sequence of 11 black and white self-portraits combined with a poem. (book) Shooting with an analogue film camera on location in Novigrad-Cittanova, HR, Sheehan isolated herself in the Galerija-Galleria Rigo, Muzej-Museo Lapidarium, dressed in costume for an extended period of time in order to directly engage the spirits of the ancient stones.