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We're delighted to kick off our events in 2025 with the launch party of AOS of London! Join us for the launch on Friday 31st January 2025, from 7-9pm. Here's a little about the book:
A unique guide to Sparean London with maps in the book, including one gatefold. And a large format fold-out walker’s map.
Presented here is the full interview transcript with Alan Moore conducted by Steve Crabtree for the BBC’s The Culture Show on the occasion of the ‘Fallen Visionary’ exhibition, Cuming Museum, Walworth, London in 2010.
Moore discusses his enduring fascination for Spare in relation to mystical and quotidian London history. He also examines works in the exhibition, discussing the magical implications of Spare’s art, and how it continues to nourish him as a writer and magician. Examples of Spare’s art include a previously unpublished nude study belonging to Moore.
A contextual History by Gavin W. Semple, pin-points the domiciles and haunts of Spare’s South London, along with the taverns that the artist frequented and exhibited in. 23 exquisite illustrations by Ben Thompson evoke characters from Paterson to Crowley, Blake to Blavatsky, that underpin his art and ethos.
As for the fold-out map, Thompson has produced a stunning cartographic puzzle with graphic inter-dimensional implications. When partially unfolded alternate hidden designs are revealed. A new concept in Spare studies? A unique guide for exploring sub-rosa London? You decide, but please keep to the left-hand path…
Contributors to the book Ben Thompson and Stephen Pochin will be here for the launch party on Friday 31st January, from 7pm.
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1 Berwick Street, W1F 0DR London, United Kingdom, 28 Peter Street, London, W1F 0AL, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
