Susie Lieper News
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The Living Mountain
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Read More →: The Living MountainSpecial Edition A beautifully illustrated, handwritten edition of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain, a text that blazed the trail for nature writing, by award-winning calligrapher and painter Susie Leiper. The original bindings and their custom made clamshell boxes are on show at The Crafts Council gallery in Londonuntil the 13th of April 2924 as part…
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Susie Leiper The Living Mountain campaign
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Read More →: Susie Leiper The Living Mountain campaignThames & Hudson are hoping to publish an exclusive edition of Susie Leiper’s handwritten and illustrated edition of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain. You can subscribe here to be sure of your copy: vol.co/collections/the-living-mountain Susie’s endeavour is described by Robert Macfarlane as ‘simply thrilling’ and by Elizabeth James of the National Art Library, V&A, London,…
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Words Made Beautiful
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Read More →: Words Made BeautifulSusie Leiper This is how the earth must see itself Artist book: oil, resist, graphite and gold leaf on board 20 x 10 cm Susie Leiper is participating in ‘Words made beautiful’, the centenary exhibition of the Society of Scribes & Illuminators at the Mall Galleries, London SW1, from 1 – 9 February 2022. A…
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Library: new work by Susie Leiper
Read More →: Library: new work by Susie LeiperExhibition: Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 3 – 27 April, but open to view indefinitely online. A library is a collection: of thoughts, of interlocking spaces and laden shelves, books, documents, letters. Wood rubs shoulders with leather, vellum, paper, thread. Susie Leiper has a new exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh showing new work…
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One never quite knows the mountain …
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Read More →: One never quite knows the mountain …Susie’s exhibition at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh is inspired by Nan Shepherd’s seminal work The Living Mountain. Quite serendipitously Nan and Susie appear together on the new RBS fiver: Nan is the face of the note and it is Susie’s calligraphy on the reverse. Works on show include small tablets with silverpoint lettering…
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Susie Leiper at the RSA Open Exhibition
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Read More →: Susie Leiper at the RSA Open ExhibitionSusie Leiper’s book The granites and schists Of my dark and stubborn country is on show, laid open beside its box, at the RSA Open Exhibition in the National Gallery Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh, until 30 August. http://www.royalscottishacademy.org