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Issue 22 – April 2022

Thames River Works Edited by Shalini Le Gall and Justin McCann

Installation. About a dozen masted ships and sailboats hang from the ceiling of a white-walled gallery to create a continuous procession. Some of the sails seem darkened with age, and the cabin of one long boat is rusted. Vines hang down from the boats.
Installation view, Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing (dithered detail), 8 March–2 June 2019, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Digital image courtesy of the artist and Ikon Gallery. Photo: Stuart Whipps (all rights reserved).
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
By Shalini Le Gall
and Justin McCann
ARTICLE
“The Surrounding Great Work”
By Aleema Gray
and Danielle Thom
ARTICLE
Ships and Souvenirs
By Shalini Le Gall
ARTICLE
Printed Ecologies
By Sarah Mead Leonard
ARTICLE
“The River Seemed Almost Turned to Blood”
By Nancy Rose Marshall
ARTICLE
Women in Whistler’s Images of Chelsea and the Thames
By Patricia de Montfort
ARTICLE
Whistler and Battersea
By Jon Newman
ARTICLE
“Over London at Night”
Jennifer Tucker