Neil Drabble – Closer (signed) The Eriskay Connection

Neil Drabble – Closer (signed) The Eriskay ConnectionDouble Obelus Editions 2024 The body of work evolved from a series of regular night walks Neil Drabble undertook over a 12 month period (2020 2021). All of the pictures were made within a 1 mile radius of the artists home in south London. The contiguity and darkness in the work creates a tension between interior and exterior, mind and world, familiar and strange. The sequence and edit, knits together an uneasy psychogeography of fact and fiction,

From the start

This activity is a kind of spectacle in itself

Bischof was inspired to become a journalist after the ruin of World War II left him unable to remain a passive observer

In Dream About Nothing

in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past

revealing that we learn as much about the people charged with looking after this resource as the people portrayed in it

Small Town

everything intertwines and clashes

This book is first in a series on types of London housing

others left to rot on the side of the road by themselves

The atmospheric narrative portrays the artist's state of mind during a transitional event

documenting the deprivations of lives in a state of emergency