THE BOYS: AN ADVENTURE (2023)
Drawings by David Austen Words by Hisham Matar
15 April – 10 June 2023
THE BOYS: AN ADVENTURE is the result of an unusual correspondence between two friends, the artist David Austen and the writer Hisham Matar.
It began in March 2020, as London closed down, with the exchange of a drawing and a chapter via WhatsApp. Three years later, the conversation has grown into two distinct yet connected bodies of work: a novella from Hisham and a suite of 73 gouache drawings from David. The relationship between text and image is not illustrative; rather, the two share a temperament, and a sense of unfolding momentum.
THE BOYS: AN ADVENTURE will be revealed for the first time at an exhibition in Edinburgh, opening on Saturday 15th April with Austen’s complete suite of 73 drawings exhibited alongside Matar’s text. The words and pictures will be published together as an artist’s book, and the text will be available as a recording read by the actor Khalid Abdula.
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