GLOSSARIES is an image text dictionary for an ongoing conversation between artist Elene Shatberashvili and writer Lillian Davies. Exploring a shared lexicon, Davies’s alphabetized definitions and her Essay, “Apple to Chapel,” accompany Shatberashvili’s twenty-one drawings (2019-2025). The number corresponds to the date of the summer solstice, the moment this project was born, while on residency at Villa Atrata in Southwest France.

Launched at Chapelle Sainte Croix, Angles-sur-L’Anglin. Available at Pompidou Metz Bookstore; Kona Books, Tbilisi and The Red Wheelbarrow, Paris. On shelves at Bibliothèque National de France, The American Library of Paris; AWARE Women Artists Research Centre, Paris; Beaux-arts de Paris; Royal College of Art, London; School of Visual Arts, New York.

COLLAGES is a reflection on creative production, specifically the transformative potential of interruptions, distractions and rupture. Like a game, in response to artist Lauren Coullard’s twelve figurative collages (2022—2024), writer Lillian Davies’s twelve word collages shuffle citations from her work as a writer and mother. Her Essay “Hybrid Super° Heroines” explores the history & power of the intimate medium of collage. Fragments of Coullard and Davies’s ongoing dialogue appear in “Transcribble Conversations.” A Readings Index, Collage Reference Index and a Paintings Index complete the publication.

“Feminism as a method for art historians and critics ... demands more complex modes of knowing by encouraging us to always situate ourselves in specific historical, cultural and economic contexts, and thus to generate knowledge from concrete, gendered everyday experiences.”*

* Jacqueline Millner and Catriona Moore, Contemporary Art & Feminism, Routledge, 2022. p.4

Launched at Florence Loewy Gallery & Books. Available at Mountains, Berlin; Librairie Yvon Lambert & The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, Paris. On shelves at Bibliothèque National de France, The American Library of Paris; AWARE Women Artists Research Centre, Paris; Beaux-arts de Paris; Royal College of Art, London; School of Visual Arts, New York.

PLAYGROUNDS brings together artist Chloe Briggs’s series of fourteen drawings, “Playgrounds” (2019); an Essay by writer Lillian Davies on the modern history and artistic development of playgrounds around the world; a Conversation between Briggs and Davies about the creative potential of playgrounds; as well as a comprehensive bibliography for further research. Both raising children in Paris, Briggs and Davies also consider playgrounds as mothers, and reflect on playgrounds they grew up with in the UK, Texas and Mexico. This publication is a proposal to playfully reimagine public space.

Launched at Cometa, Paris. Available at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore, Librairie Yvon Lambert & After 8 Books. On shelves at Bibliothèque National de France, The American Library of Paris; AWARE Women Artists Research Centre, Paris; Beaux-arts de Paris; Royal College of Art, London; School of Visual Arts, New York.

PORTRAITS sketches, in words, drawings and visual research, the project of capturing a likeness. As if to reflect artist Rebecca Dolinsky's three portraits (illustrated in dialogue with contemporary and historical references in the genre), writer Lillian Davies proposes three different forms of rendering an artist's production in words. In an Essay, an Exhibition Review, and a Conversation recorded in Dolinsky's Parisian studio, this book considers the personal resonance of an historic form.

Launched at Made Anywhere, Fondation Fiminco. Available at The Red Wheelbarrow, Paris. On shelves at Bibliothèque Nationale de France, The American Library of Paris; Beaux-arts de Paris; AWARE Women Artists Research Centre, Paris; Royal College of Art, London; School of Visual Arts, New York.