Geranium collected writings by chloe cooper and jackie chettur

After a two year writing collaboration with artist Chloe Cooper we designed and published our collection of pandemic writings which we launched at the Jupiter Gallery, Newlyn last year. The launch was a packed evening of readings paper marbling and a Q&A with Faye Dobinson. We also presented geranium at the Pages book fair in Leeds and the Dublin Art Book Fair 2022: A Caring Matter.

This collection of accounts and stories was written through the early stages of the pandemic when we were struggling to adjust to an altered way of living. As visual artists it took a leap of faith to use the medium of writing to digest, process and articulate the changes we were experiencing. We’ve invented worlds close to our own and written about things in the actual world like mundane daily routines, intimate relationships, joy in nature, encounters with strangers and moving house.

Chloe Cooper and Jackie Chettur.