Posted: October 2022
We are excited to publish our first creative ebooks, sharing project artwork with online audiences at: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Shallalstudios
The two innovative digital books are bursting with colour and full of surprises. Visual art from our exhibitions at Falmouth Art Gallery and Kresen Kernow is mixed with videos, animations and audio elements including sound art and artists narrating their own poems. Audiences can interact with the ebook to bring up additional sounds and visual effects and some pages link to further artwork online.
‘These are our first ebooks and they’ve been so fun to make, it’s been a revelation’, says Shallal Studios co-manager Phoebe Barnicoat. ‘We’ve been really lucky to collaborate with Stuart Blackmore of Cling Clack who has designed the ebooks with us and shared our vision of exploring the potential of ebooks to make art more accessible’.
The ebooks are part of Shallal Studios’ artist-lead Underworld project, researching and celebrating Cornwall’s unique natural habitats and focusing on bats and seaweed. ‘Now our artists can share their artwork with people across Cornwall and all over the world’, says Shallal Studios co-manager Lou Brett, ‘We can’t wait to see what people think of the ebooks – we definitely have plans for more’.
The ebooks are designed to be accessible and are free to download.
Shallal Studios is grateful to project funders Arts Council England, FEAST Cornwall, Awards for All and The RTR Foundation.
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