Oh dear. All I can think of this year is books at the moment, so I'll start there and see what else comes. Usual terms & conditions - please tell John what you've picked to avoid duplicates (unnecessary with the brush pens - duplicates are welcome!). I can give you his address if you can't find it.
Unfortunately a number of these books are quite pricey because they're academic tomes. Sorry! Partial contributions always welcome, either as cash or amazon.co.uk vouchers
Catherine Malabou Changing Difference: The Feminine and the Question of Philosophy.
Tim Ingold's Redrawing Anthropology: Materials, Movements, Lines or Lines: A Brief History
DVD/Blu-ray of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
I'm absolutely loving the brush pens I've been working with lately - but I can't get them easily in the UK (first found them in Chicago). They're online in Aus (with free AU shipping for orders over $15 and if you use the code BUNBOUGU10 there's 10% off - hopefully. It says "on your next order" but hopefully it'll work regardless) at:
https://www.bunbougu.com.au/pages/search-results-page?q=kuretake+zig+clean+color+real+watercolor+brush+pen
And the colours I've been using that I could do with more of are:
- from the Black/Grey colour range: 010 Black, 095 Dark Grey
- from the Blue colour range: 038 Peacock Blue
- from the Brown colour range: 062 Dark Brown
- other colours welcome too, but these are the ones I particularly don't want to run out of as this project has developed quite a distinct muted palette - the art shop in Sydney says they've been discontinued
[Not to be picky, but other brands just won't do for this - these ones have a real brush whereas every other sort I've found has a brush-shaped felt tip.]
There are a number of volumes in the Whitechapel Gallery's Documents of Contemporary Art series which would be useful to have at home: The Everyday, Sound, or The Studio. Or, frankly, any of them that you feel looks interesting would be a worthy read - very tempted by the ones on Failure, The Object, Materiality, Situation, Time, etc. etc.
Oh, and Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust which is the beginning of a prequel series to his amazing His Dark Materials books. This one will be in most regular bookshops (Dymocks, Abbeys, etc.) but probably not discount shops yet.
For notebooks, I've switched to cheaper, smaller notebooks from Muji - the A5 plain books with recycled paper, which are nice and affordable, nice paper, and as always it's good to have a little stash of them because I do tend to zoom through them. (The product code in the page is on the barcode on the notebook if you're trying to find them in-store).
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