Exhibition
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Granta Books
Publishing:2nd Jul '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 2nd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A charged novel that delves into the intense friendship between an artist and her muse in the London art scene of the 1990s.
Amid the heady rebellion of London's Young British Artists, Rabble Stone, a photographer, meets the artist, a painter, after renting a room in her Brixton home. Soon Rabble is in thrall to this new world: to the run-down glamour of the Victorian house; to the exhilarating and debauched gallery openings, and to those in the artist's orbit, beautiful and lost. Above all, she is drawn to her new friend's work; raw, unfiltered self-portraits of startling intimacy, which Rabble captures in her uncompromising photographs. But as Rabble's longing tips into obsession, her pursuit of the artist - her fame, her wealth, her life - threatens to consume her. Travelling from London to Algiers, to Berlin and New York, Exhibition is a story of love, ego and destruction, and the dark relationship between authenticity and celebrity, artist and muse.
Sharp, vivid, compelling: a love letter to the last identifiable scene in British Art that captures the energy, grit and luxury and hunger of 90s London -- Lizzy Stewart * author of Alison *
A brilliant, daring novel, about art and devotion and infatuation. I love the way Hyde sneakily inserts well-known artworks into her fiction. But most of all I love the hypnotic rhythm of the language, laced so skilfully with internal rhyme -- Sara Baume * author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither *
Alex Hyde never wastes a word, but her sparing language conjures up a visually rich world in which she explores the complexities of female friendship across boundaries of class, success and creativity -- Caroline Walker
The formidable characters that inhabit the pages of Exhibition and their intense relationships come to life strikingly, through Alex Hyde's crisp and elegant writing. Very moving -- Melanie Vandenbrouck
A thoroughly enjoyable read, the style of writing makes it pacy, I loved making the connections and recognising the artworks and artists I know, as well as a sideways reference to myself, as a tramp at an opening! -- Gavin Turk
ISBN: 9781803514130
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
256 pages