The Cooper Gallery Blog holds the views, reflections, documentation and ideas from a wide group of authors, all involved in being active audience members for Cooper Gallery at DJCAD. This post presents the ongoing collection of responses, recollections and reviews of Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far) & Invisible Residency written by Cooper Gallery Assistants and audience members.

Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far) & Invisible Residency installation detail

Below are excerpts from some of the responses, recollections and reviews of Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far) & Invisible Residency received so far:

I previously worked with Bruce in 2011, as part of the Exhibitions DJCAD team, on a large-scale project ‘a comic opera in three-parts’ entitled ‘A Cut A Scratch A Score’ and was intrigued to discover another facet to Bruce’s creative repertoire in a partnership which has spanned nearly three decades.
Holly Knox Yeoman

What struck me about this exhibition was how the idea of a book can be adapted to fit whatever is its purpose, in this case an artwork. The exhibition is largely made up of books, which is not normally what you would expect from an art exhibition.
Katy Christopher

This year’s Cooper Summer Residency is an Invisible Residency, where both Bruce and Mel converse, daily, via email which is then displayed each day at the exhibition. Conversations are really fun and down to earth as they bounce ideas off one another.
Lauren Howat

But there is something unmistakably unique in Bruce and Mel’s collaborations, a colourful element of humour and playfulness in their work that provides a very humane context for a variety of investigations, ranging from the pragmatic (Ladder: ordinary object; humble; necessary) and laudatory (Potato: Peru’s greatest legacy to the world; an object of contemplation), to the metaphorical and ecstatic (Scone: No scone without fire. Potato: Skull-like / memento mori. Ladder: Breughel’s ladders are the tongues of Babel.)
Lucas Battich

Continue reading the exhibition responses online here.

Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far) & Invisible Residency, showcasing the artists’ books of Bruce McLean and Mel Gooding can be visited in Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee until 21 Sept 2013.

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Also opening this week:
Cut and Paste: Investigating the materiality of information – Student Curatorial Team

Katy Christopher, Lucas Battich and Dan Shay are members of Exhibitions Student Curatorial Team and will present Cut and Paste: Investigating the materiality of information, an exhibition that investigates the materiality of information today curated in response to Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far) and Invisible Residency.

Preview: Thursday 12 September 5-7:30pm
Exhibition continues until 28 September
Cooper Gallery Project Space is based in Crawford Building, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.