Benedict Drew, Direct to your fucking head, 2022

Direct to your fucking head is the first book to be published on the work of Benedict Drew. 

Ingredients: Pages by Benedict Drew, specially commissioned essays by Kristen Gallerneaux and Jonathan P Watts, design by Sara de Bondt, 118 of images covering a decade of Drew’s practice, installations, paintings, drawings, objects, sculptures, video, music, text, rooms, environments, sound, noise, analogue signals, digital media, loops, viscera, heads, headlessness, faces, noses, eyes, eye holes, politics, politicians, current affairs, psychedelia, ecstatic states, visions, magic, science fiction, space travel, weightlessness, sardonic humour, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Bad Things, feelings, anxiety, architecture, The Great British, shareholders, Richard Branson, ghosts, hauntings, records, tapes, printed matter, timber, tinfoil, Silly String, expanding foam, packing foam, gaffer tape, tent poles, coloured sand, fluoro gravel, masking tape, clay, coloured gels, LED lights, spotlights, strip lights, speakers, headphones, CRT monitors, LCD screens, projections screens, amplifiers, projectors, 16 mm film, video files, DVD players, drums, gongs, tambourines, microphones, slide projectors, newspapers, photocopies, printed banners, shopping bags, wooden crates, PVC strip curtains, foil blankets, Electro Harmonix Big Muff guitar pedals, Electro Harmonix Hoax guitar pedals, latex, plasticine, chicken wire, Swarfega hand cleaner, queen conch shells, direct to your fucking head. 

Price £17.50 (+ £5 P&P)
Binding Soft back, bound
ISBN 978-1-912717-12-5
Pages 151
Edition 800
Size 275mm (h) 190mm (w)
Text Chris Rawcliffe, Robin Klassnik and Tim Dixon, Jonathan P. Watts, Kristen Gallerneaux
Design Sara de Bondt
Published by Matt’s Gallery and Forma