The ninth book in the Four Corners Familiars series, where artists are asked to create new artwork to illustrate a classic novel. For her edition of The Canterbury Tales, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd has selected her favourite tales and produced a heavily illustrated, collaged book that mixes Medieval and contemporary imagery. Marvin Gaye Chetwynd was born in London in 1973 and now lives in Glasgow. She recently changed her name from Spartacus Chetwynd and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012.

An interesting reproduction work: from a technical point of view, the goal was to achieve a replication rather than a reproduction. The many parts making up the collages are photocopies of printed images, with a multitude of different types of printing screens, at several different enlargements. By employing a stochastic printing screen, the reproduction work mainly focused on the replication of the actual screen dots making up the original printed image. Also of importance was to devise a highly and carefully streamlined process to digitalise the 250 original collages to enable a replication.

Published by Four Corners Books, designed by John Morgan studio. Print production by Martin Lee, printing by PurePrint, United Kingdom.
280 pages, softback, 21 x 29.7 cm
ISBN 978-1-909829-00-8