Here's a Press Release from CICO Books!
Not sure quite what has been written or which actual images have been chosen to be used. Wish me luck.
A WOMAN’S SHED
Spaces
for women to create, write, make, grow,
think
and escape
(....featuring Maddy Pikarsky...!)
by Gill
Heriz
Hardback
"Why should men have all the sheds?"
"Every
woman deserves a shed of her own, somewhere to retreat to for some quiet time,
to create or grow, to write or paint, or just to contemplate the view.
Gill
Heriz has interviewed over 70 different women, and Nicolette Hallett has
photographed their sheds inside and out, to collect together this unique
insight into why women have sheds, and what they do in them. There are sheds
for puppet-makers, sculptors, and writers, as well as farmers,
furniture-makers, and woodcutters. There are sheds that can be lived in, sheds
that are full to the rafters, and sheds that are simply sheds, with the usual
collection of gardening tools, lawnmowers, and seed packets.
Virginia
Woolf once argued that, for women, writing fiction required “a room of one’s
own.” These women have taken that premise a step further – to the end of the
garden – to find their own very personal space.
Gill Heriz is an artist and writer who was once an
interior designer, and has a passion for architecture
and
design. She is also self-confessedly nosy, and loves nothing more than
exploring other people’s
houses.
Her interest in women’s sheds was first sparked by some fine examples in her
local area, and
now extends across the world. Her current shed is a
studio built from old flint, where she can work,
create, and relax. The author is based in Suffolk, UK.
Nicolette Hallett went from painting at
art school to photography college, and a 30-year career in
commercial photography. She prefers observational
photography, and has photographed everything from stone masons to stately
homes. She has an “off the peg” shed, which is her painting studio in summer.
The photographer is based in Norfolk, UK"
A Woman’s Shed is published by CICO at £19.99 & is available
from all good bookshops from April/May 2014 or call 01256 302699.
For further information or a review
copy, please email publicity@cicobooks.co.uk
For further
details about CICO new titles, please visit our website www.rylandpeters.com and/or follow us on twitter @CICOBooks
