Fletcher's Almanac

Illustrated by Stephen Fowler, an artist and illustrator specialising in primitive DIY printmaking with alternative printing technologies, including rubber stamps and printing with tetra-paks. His work is held and exhibited in galleries and museum collections across the UK, Europe and North America. He is a keen teacher of his methods at many popular workshops. Author of the book Rubber Stamping: Get Creative with Stamps, Rollers and Other Printmaking Techniques. 
Stephen Fowler’s art practice has focussed on rubber stamping and DIY printmaking for the past 15 years. Stephen specialises in public engagement using life drawing, book making, printmaking and rubber stamp making and he has run collaborative and experiential workshops at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Birmingham Library, the V&A, the Wallace Collection, Hayward Gallery’s Wide Open School, and Margate’s Turner Contemporary. He is a lecturer on Worcester University’s Illustration degree course, a visiting lecturer at UWE’s MA print course and runs master classes in the summer months at the University’s Centre for Fine Print Research. Stephen has worked with many UK/International galleries and artists, including Jeremy Deller for The Strawberry Thief exhibition at the Fine Art Society in 2011. Stephen’s zines and artist books are held in collections around the world including the Tate Gallery and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, White Columns in New York, and Arnolfini in Bristol.

What if clothes, more than just something to wear, can act as entry points to relationships with the dynamic living world? The loudest voice in fashion is capitalism. Fletcher’s Almanac Volume II practices deeper ways to listen to other voices, languages and practices, those of Earth.

In short vignettes tied to the changing seasons, fashion and sustainability pioneer Kate Fletcher, challenges the illusion that humans and garments are somehow separate to the rest of nature. Drawing out relations and responsibilities between fashion and natural systems, Fletcher invites a change in perception that can profoundly influence ways of how we think and act – including with clothes. Writings and predictions for each month entangle nature encounters with dressed bodies, upending fashion’s usual tendency to disregard, devalue and extract the very natural systems it depends on. 

A beautifully illustrated pocket-sized book to take with you on your forays into nature. This will be a limited edition following the success of Fletcher's Almanac Volume I