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‘Consider the Badger’ Floating WorldTalk/Performance: duration 30mins In the 1961 film The Rebel Tony Hancock plays a down trodden clerk who although lacking any discernible talent, harbours the ambition to become a great artist. The film gently mocked what it saw as the pretensions and high ideals of the contemporary art world of the 1960’s although a […]

Floating World presented a survey of recent collaborative projects with particular emphasis on the project ‘Unfolding The Archive: Floating World artists respond to the collections at NIVAL and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio’.  The exhibition was curated by Donna Romano, Librarian at NCAD and Dr. Riann Coulter, Curator of the F.E. McWilliam Gallery & Studio. In […]

We gave a short ‘motivational’ talk at this years Small Publishers Fair in London, entitled “Fail to Succeed”. The talk developed from our book The Rebel(s), which is based on Tony Hancock’s 1961 film The Rebel, which explores what it’s like to be an artist.         Here’s an excerpt from the talk: […]

We gave a short ‘motivational’ talk at this years Small Publishers Fair in London, entitled “Fail to Succeed”. The talk developed from our book The Rebel(s), which is based on Tony Hancock’s 1961 film The Rebel, which explores what it’s like to be an artist.     Here’s an excerpt from the talk And here […]

Using a specially constructed Rebels devotional object and a cardboard Andy Parsons, Glenn presented The Rebel(s), or ‘it’s a sign of true greatness when nobody buys your work’ at Turn The Page in Norwich. Glenn’s presentation is part of an ongoing series of events we are staging in 2018 to explore themes emerging from The […]

Floating World will be taking part in Turn The Page Artists Book Fair 2018 MAY 25th and 26th 10.00am-5.00pm at The Forum, Millennium Plain, Norwich NR2 1BH We will be showing a selection of books, and will be launching a new publication by Glynis Candler, entitled ‘Remnant’ Glenn Holman will be presenting: ‘The Rebel(s) or […]

On Thursday the 1st of March we will be staging the first of our Rebels Days. Hosted by Winchester School of Art. Our theme for the day is: It Might Be Just a Coloured Splodge to You Mate… which will investigate ideas of appropriation, originality, style and content within contemporary practice and how these themes are […]

Thanks to VAI for inviting us to write about our book The Rebel(s) in this months Visual Artists’ News Sheet. We have written the piece in the same conversational style as the book and hopefully it explains some of the thinking behind the project. It’s out now, if you’re not in Ireland we can send […]

This weekend we launched The Rebel(s) at the Small Publisher’s Fair Conway Hall London. We had a great response to the book and to the associated artworks we displayed alongside it. On Saturday we presented an excerpt from the book as part of a programme of readings presented by John Macdowall and organised by Helen […]

We have set up in Conway Hall with our new books. We’ll be here from 11 – 7pm today, Friday the 10 and tomorrow Saturday the 11th.