Nat Faulkner
Limited edition of 50
Paperback in slipcase
30.5 × 24.5 cm
Camden Art Centre and Brunette Coleman, 2026
A special edition version of 1:1, produced on the occasion of Nat Faulkner’s exhibition Strong water at Camden Art Centre, 16 January 2026/22 March 2026.
For this 50 piece special edition of 1:1, silver leaf has been applied to the publication’s cover, which retains a trace of the artist’s fingerprint. Like the dust and fingerprints that appear in the large-scale prints presented in the exhibition, these books – each one unique – integrate and expose elements of the processes that take place in Faulkner’s studio. Moreover, over time the silver leaf will darken and tarnish, reflecting the artist’s fascination with material transformation and state changes – a primary theme that runs throughout his exhibition at Camden Art Centre.
Each edition is accompanied with an embossed black dust jacket.
Inside, 1:1 presents an extensive series of hand-produced contact prints by the artist, derived from a single large format image taken by Faulkner of a peppered moth (Biston betularia) – a widely studied example of ‘industrial melanism’. During the Industrial Revolution soot from factories darkened the bark of trees and through a process of natural selection the lighter form of this moth, once well-camouflaged, became more visible to predators and its numbers diminished. Meanwhile, a darker (melanic) variant became more common, due to being better camouflaged against the soot darkened trees. This phenomena the artist has observed holds resonances with the processes of photography itself – in the production positive and negative images.
Through the pages of this publication, the image of the moth both alternates between its positive and negative versions, and gradually progresses from a sharp detailed image towards abstraction as the original image ‘degrades’ with each repetition.
The publication also includes two essays, from Gloria Hasnay (Director of Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf) and artist Sean Steadman.
Designed by George Haughton.