STOP PRESS - You can now purchase our books on Amazon using your credit card.
Click on "Buy now fom Amazon" in the list below, by the title that
interests you, and find us in the list of sellers as FOXANDGILL
Amazon.co.uk charges £2.75 postage and packing on most deliveries within the UK.
Meanwhile, all publications continue to be available by cheque from
foxandgill@btinternet.com.
Prices as stated below plus p&p. Please send us your address plus cheque payable to
Sue Gill The Beach House, Swinestead Lane, Baycliff, Ulverston, Cumbria LA12 9RY.
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Engineers of the Imagination
By - Baz Kershaw and Tony Coult, Methuen, 1983, revised 1990
A book to get thumbmarks and glue on, it explains the basic techniques of Welfare State International's work - the making of processions; large scale puppets; fixed structures; fire and ice technology; processional, theatre and dance music, celebratory food and feasts and much more. Still the definitive work on art in the community.
£12.99 postage and packing in UK £2.50
The Dead Good Book of Namings and Baby Welcoming Ceremonies
£7.50 pp in UK :£2.00
Though in today's society christenings are
no longer as commonplace, there is still a need to formally welcome
a new person into the world.
This book shows you how to design and organise your own ceremony
in a way that is meaningful to you.
The Dead Good Funerals Book
£12.50pp in UK £2.50
Challenging, practical and crammed with
powerful anecdotes, which will enable you
to design a ceremony either for yourself,
or for a loved one. Whatever
your faith or belief system there's something for you
here.
The Dead Good Time Capsules Book
£6.50.pp in UK £2.00
Everything you need
to know to create a successful time capsule.
Practical advice and accounts of actual projects, planning
and creation, artists visions, destiny and materialism
- and - the odd spaceship.
Eyes on Stalks
£14.99 pp in UK. £3.50
An autobiographical roller coaster through three decades of wild inventions.
From in London `Raising the Titanic' to `King Lear' on a Japanese ski slope
the Eyes on Stalks covers the principal and practice of site specific theatre,
extensive community residencies and new rites of passage. It brings `Engineers
of the Imagination' up to date and is a hands on tract
revealing Wellfare State's radial philosophyof Art . Lavishly illustrated with 30 photographs, scripts and over 100 drawings
from John Fox's sketch book. it is an exciting and provocative
manual.
"Thanks to John Fox and his merry men and women, the welfare of theatre in general isin a much better state and all the richer for their innovative approach. Read this book and you willl be able to stand on
the shoulders of a truly eccentric giant and see where he is coming from."
Ted Turton. Youth Drama Ireland.
"WSI have maintained their name and their principles of cultural activism.having provided the reader with such a rich entertaining book Fox could be forgiven a political rant.His final chapter, however is not an angry tirade but a thoughtful passionate call for the use of the arts for cultural change and the power of the artist as a creative catalyst."
Emma Govan. Contemporary Theatre Review.
READ THIS BOOK!, 1 Dec 2003
Amazon Customer Review
"A must for anyone working, or thinking of working, in the community arts area and indeed anyone working in theatre of any sort. Fox's honest and frank style is refreshing and the knowledge that even the best have their problems is comforting.
I found it one of those books that, once I had read it, I spent my whole time recommending it to everyone I know... It would warm the heart of the most devout cynic"! Eilís Nic Dhonncha (Co. na Gaillimhe, Ireland)
Ground
£5 plus £1.50 postage and packing
Poems, woodcuts and linocuts by John Fox, pub. 1998 by Engineers of the Imagination. Edited by Gilly Adams. Designed by Tanya Peixoto and Dot Queen.
Beautifully produced, large format 21 x 23 cm , with 30 pages of strong poetry and images. Printed on heavy art paper, GROUND makes an ideal gift.
published 2009
New Ground Lost Seeds
£5 admin/postage& packing charge
payable by cheque to Sue Gill The Beach House Swinestead Lane Baycliff LA12 9RY Cumbria
published in partnership with 
Mayo County Council
A 10 day arts and ecology project in West of Ireland, set in a therapeutic horticulture centre where associate artists Martin Brockman and Dan Fox worked with Dead Good Guides and Mayo Artsquad in May 2008 to involve local community artists in workshops designed to ask questions about Vernacular Art today. Book design Tim Jackson.
I have wolfed the book down .... Reading John's piece "a new role for the artist" is inspirational - and puts into words what I have been striving to articulate for ages. He's so right about artists having been "hi-jacked" ! Been there, done that and despaired. The relief in seeing these ideas written down not only refuels my dwindling energy reserves but also somewhat salvages my sanity ..... Andrew Kitchen
It's a beautifully designed book and the project it describes sounds amazing. Reading it was inspiring and gave me some badly needed hope. Clarke Mackay Head Dept of Film and Media Queens University Canada
A wonderful creative project & such a well produced book too Jo Ellsworth Univ of Bristol Theatre Collection
A lovely book - your lost and found project - inspirational steps in the future Septimia Kuhlmann community artist Holland
Boardwalk Books UK
A series of small, nearly hand made books in limited editions.
Some with
occasional remedies (practical poems) and some with stories for children.
We expect new titles to emerge in 2009.
Rock in the Sea. STOP PRESS New Edition. New text and additional woodut.
Available NOW
For 3 to 8 year olds.
£5.00. Postage and packing £1
is a fable by Sue Gill about an isolated limestone rock on the west shore of Morecambe Bay. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Fox. 26 pp, 10.5cm x 15cm.
Queen of the Sea
£4.00 .pp in UK £1.00
written and drawn by John Fox, is a mythical tale about a bossy Mackerel
who wins the day but ends up as an evening sky. 16 pp, 10.5cm x 15cm.