Andrew Chalk

Andrew Chalk is an artist and musician whose highly acclaimed body of work spans more than three decades. His oeuvre comprises both eponymously named releases and aliases such as his (now ceased) solo noise project, Ferial Confine, and Nine, as well as a string of elusive collaborative projects with associates such as David Jackman (Organum), The New Blockaders, Darren Tate as Birdcage Walk, Accoy, and the collective Ora (occasionally joined by Jonathan Coleclough, Lol Coxhill, Colin Potter and Daisuke Suzuki), Christoph Heemann as Mirror, Jonathan Coleclough, Giancarlo Toniutti, and more recently with Robin Barnes as Isolde and Marsfield (the latter with Vikki Jackman and Brendan Walls) and Naoko and Daisuke Suzuki (founder of Siren Records) as Ghosts on Water.

In 2005, Chalk established his private label, Faraway Press (successor to, Three Poplars, founded in 2000, with Heemann). The imprint mostly publishes Chalk’s sprawling solo and collaborative musical activity, presented in handmade, special portfolio cases (sometimes clothbound with ribbon fastening) and mini slipcase designs with wooden spines, often with obi strips and original artwork printed by hand – simply beautiful artefacts in their own right.

Related Topics

I am standing in the middle of the Information Highway and laughing – –

Andrew Chalk “monotypes and adapted
paintings“ Statement

Jonas Mekas

Jonas Mekas “Anti-100 years of Cinema” Manifesto