Title: Tack – Tack, artist book
Authors: William-Alexander
Tack – Tack is a visual game played by William-Alexander and documented in this book. Wilma had the throw-in with a print on Hessian. Alexandra kicked it back with a photograph from Iceland. The game was on…
William-Alexander is an artist duo whose collaborations are inspired by the islands and coastal landscapes of the north-eastern Atlantic. They combine the work of Wilma Vissers and Alexandra Huddleston, playing with abstraction and figuration in the representation of space and place.
Status: published, August 2024
Imprint: none
Photographs: 5
Works # 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 © Wilma Vissers
Works # 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 © Alexandra Huddleston
Text: a sequence of emails sent between Wilma Vissers and Alexandra Huddleston as they were making the book
Language: English
Medium: Soft cover, laser print
Size: 5.8125 in by 5.8124 in by 0.125 in think (148 mm by 148 mm by 3 mm)
Edition: 50
For details on purchasing contact the artist directly at: kyoudaipress {at} gmail.com
About the Authors
Wilma Vissers was born in Heerlen. She lives and works in Groningen in The Netherlands. She was educated at Royal Academy of Art and Design, Den Bosch, 1984- 1985 ( second year ) Direction: Graphic Arts and Painting. Academy of Visual Arts Minerva, Groningen, 1985-1989 Final examination: 1989 Direction: Graphic Arts and Painting. Wilma creates paintings, sculptures, drawings, artist books and installations. Space and emptiness inspires her. Spaciousness and infinity must be present in even the smallest work. For the last 15 years, staying at artists residencies has become part of her work process. She went alternately to artist residencies in Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Through staying in foreign surroundings she steps out of her comfort zone. It allows her to experiment and take important artistic steps around the question: What do we call a painting? Traditional painting is a linen or cotton canvas on a frame. She likes to practice painting without using these classical means and create something more experimental.
A few residencies were Skaffelt Art Centre in Seydisfjordir Iceland and the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island, Ireland. She participated in “Artsland” in Fermanagh Lakelands Northern Ireland. She received a grant from the Gerbrandy Foundation for her travel to Iceland. Her work is in the collection of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, the Sunda Municipality on the Faroe islands, ARTisBOOK in Groningen and Nival in Ireland.
Alexandra Huddleston is a photographer, writer, and walking artist. Her recent works move the viewer through time and space, expressing what it’s like to be walking within an ever-changing landscape. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, and Bamako, Mali, her upbringing has led her to explore landscape and culture from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. Between 2009 and 2014, she walked thousands of kilometers on pilgrimage in Spain, France, and Japan – journeys that led to her current walking art practice.
Alexandra presents her work to the public through books, exhibitions, and lectures. She holds a Masters of Letters in Fine Art Practice from the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. She studied broadcast and print journalism (MS) at Columbia University, USA and fine art and East Asian studies (BA) at Stanford University, USA. Her books are collected in libraries around the world, including the British Library, the Brooklyn Museum, Harvard University’s Hutchins Center Library, New York University’s Bobst Library, and University of Cape Town’s Oppenheimer Library. As creative director and co-founder of the Kyoudai Press, Alexandra’s major publications include Lost Things (2012), 333 Saints: A Life of Scholarship in Timbuktu (2013), East or West (2014), Vertigo (2016), Traces of Time (2022), and A Walk in the Park (2023).
