Imprints: Art Editing Modernism explores the impact and meaning of modernist literary works in the present day. The exhibition asks ‘What does it mean to edit a modernist text?’ and examines the creative potential packed into that practice through a series of newly commissioned artworks. The exhibition is part of the Imprints of the New Modernist Editing project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Professor Bryony Randall, University of Glasgow; Jane Hyslop, Edinburgh College of Art; and Edwin Pickstone, Glasgow School of Art.

Thompson’s work Food Lovers based on excerpts from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons was commissioned for the exhibition, which runs from 29 August to 11 September 2021 at Shandy Hall, York, the former home of proto-modernist Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.

Avant Kinema / Barbara Balfour / Eloise Birtwhistle & Ane Lopez / Brass Art / Becky Brewis / Anna Chapman Parker / Joey Chin / Maria Fusco / Chris Kohler / Scott Myles & Edwin Pickstone / Gill Partington / Steve Rigley / Carolyn Thompson / Ane Thon Knutsen / Sam Winston