Price: £10.00 + P&P Category: Art, Artists, Lettering Publication date: October 2005 RRP: £10.00 Full colour throughout Paperback with flaps 72 pages 215 mm x 162 mm (8 1/2” x 6 3/8”) ISBN 1-904880-19-3

Heavens Above

• Unique expression of new
concepts in word and stone
• Inspiring and informative
account of an artform
• Fully illustrated in full colour
throughout
• Clear description of
working practice
• Published to coincide with
Incisive Letterwork’s exhibition
of new work

Heavens Above features the recent letter-cutting work of Incisive Letterwork – the inspirational professional partnership of Brenda Berman and Annet Stirling, leading practitioners of the art of letter-carving. Incisive Letterwork has fulfilled commissions for original hand-carved lettering on stone surfaces such as portals and plaques for major public institutions, including the Kunsthalle, Hamburg and the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and Royal Opera House, London. Heavens Above accompanies a new touring exhibition of their work. In this dramatically illustrated book, designed by Ron Costley, Berman and Stirling reflect on the context, the aesthetic and the practice of their work through detailed descriptions of some of their most important public and personal projects.

In the text, David Whiting, curator and critic, summarizes the career and achievements of Incisive Letterwork; Charles Saumarez Smith, Director of the National Gallery, covers their recent major work at the National Gallery in London; Gerald Cinamon, design historian and Trev Haysom, Purbeck quarry-owner add specialist contributions.