Installation view of Self Help, In and Outside Writing at The Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium 2010
AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN from Self Help 2010
Black ball point pen ink & white gouache on paper
Home Coming – Reclaiming & championing your inner child from Self Help 2010
Graphite and white gouache on paper
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND from Self Help 2010
Graphite & gouache on paper
Living through personal crisis from Self Help 2010
Pink highlighter ink & gouache on paper
Double your energy and live without fatigue from Self Help 2010
Graphite and white gouache on paper
FUTURE POSITIVE from Self Help2010
Yellow highlighter ink and white gouache on paper
THE TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST HIV/AIDS BOOK from Self Help 2010
Yellow highlighter ink & gouache on paper
Understanding Zen from Self Help 2010
Graphite & gouache on paper
We’re All Doing Time from Self Help 2010
Black ball point pen ink & gouache on paper
BEATING DEPRESSION from Self Help 2010
Graphite & gouache on paper
SPIRIT CONTROLLED TEMPERAMENT from Self Help 2010
Blue ball point pen ink & gouache on paper
90 day success journal from Self Help 2010
Orange highlighter ink, ball point pen ink & gouache on paper
BEATING AGRESSION A Practical Guide for Working Women from Self Help 2010
Blue ball point pen ink & gouache on paper
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The work is based on a collection of twelve second hand ‘Self help’ books. Blackmore specifically searches out books in which lines or passages of text have been highlighted or underlined by the original owner fixing attention on the first thing they marked.