Eighty-Something

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Eighty-something is a new book from artists Sue Gill and John Fox MBE two 80 year olds whose lifelong creative partnership has been spent seeking a role for art that weaves it into the fabric of our lives. Illustrated with drawings by John Fox.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A broad perspective which covers location health hands-on work gifts religion celebration and ceremony with acknowledged influences and examples of the Fox Family aged 9 - 84 working together from time to time as musicians inventors visual and sound artists and performers.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Framing significant episodes rooted in memory part polemic part visionary part wake-up call in later life it is an idiosyncratic collection of personal values anecdotes sorrows and surprises. Derived from well-worn experience it offers a glimpse of homegrown wisdom and creativity.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As full of love and art as you'd expect from the people who founded Welfare State International in the 1960's</em> Franc��ois Matarasso</p>