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Threadbare – Embroidery, Eroticism and the Fetishisation of Technology Converge in the Latest Experimental Comic from the Pioneering Gareth Brookes

  • by Andy Oliver
  • August 26, 2019

HCZF FORTNIGHT! Two and a half years ago, Gareth Brookes contributed a story to the ‘BFFs’-themed issue of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ digest-sized š! anthology. It was one of the…

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New Exhibition of the Art of Gareth Brookes to Be Held at 155a Artists Space in November – Includes Work from ‘A Thousand Coloured Castles’ and His New Project ‘Threadbare’

  • by Andy Oliver
  • October 19, 2018

News of a new Gareth Brookes exhibition of embroideries, prints and drawings at London’s 155a Artists Space will no doubt be of huge interest to regular Broken Frontier readers given…

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