Bibliography

Index of authored works, reviews, catalogues and books. Click on an item for more detailed information about each bibliography.

A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond

2017
What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived together on the planet,...

A People's History of Pakistan

2016
An anthology of papers, essays and articles following the International Conference convened by the Trust for History Architecture ...

A Splash of Colour

1999
Faced with the task of consulting with a diverse community of 55,000 people in East Birmingham, architects and urbanists Shillam +...

Arcade: Artists And Place-Making

2006
The role of the artists in the context of urban environments is becoming even more central to both art practice and urban planning...

Art and Ideas

2006
The show opened on Friday August 4th with an accordion hootenanny by ‘Silky Toss’ of Breman, Germany in her Wild West ...

Art in the Danger Zone

2008
Commissioned photo-essay for RSA Journal. Artists are providing new perspectives on the subject of war, says RSA head of arts Mic...

Artist Links 2002-2006

2006
The book presents an overview of all the projects that have taken place between 2002-2006 that were supported by Artist Links in b...

Arts and Regeneration

2007
The arts and artists have a long history of contributing to places and communities experiencing change. The arts in their many for...

Back from the Front, Memory and the Aftermath of War

2015
In the year which marked the centenary of the start of the First World War, a series of creative projects in Bristol considered pa...

Beck's Futures 2002

2002
Beck's has been a major sponsor and a commissioner of cutting-edge art since 1985. The book is a presentation of the work of the a...

Bloody Reality

2008
Article published within The Guardian G2 Supplement on the 25th November, 2008. The photo-essay was included to offer context to t...

Creative Brain Week : Join The Conversation

2023
Contribution of the chapter, ‘High Security, Long Stay’ to a publication produced to follow Creative Brain Week, a Glo...

Dead Reckoning: William Bligh

2005
A catalogue that offers both an account of William Bligh's life and death, and discusses Cotterrell's work Latitude; an immersive ...

Dislocations

2011
Dislocations is a catalogue that presents the artworks by Charles Csuri, David Cotterrell, Danielle Roney & Jeff Conefry, Matt...

Eurasia One

2007
Today when people talk about the increasing exchanges between the regions, "Globalization" is the optimistic keyword. Ho...

Exhumed

2003
This catalogue presents the six artists that were commissioned by Parabola to work with the Museum of Garden History. The exhibiti...

Fathom

2005
The catalogue documents five audio visual works that were exhibited in Fathom.

Grey Goo

2004
Grey Goo attempts to address some of these ideas through the artists’ works and a publication, which will serve as both exhi...

Guardami - percezione del video

2005
Catalogue linked to exhibition of commissioned work by international artists working with video. Abstract: Guardami.Percezione de...

Hart 2001

2001
Catalogue for exhibition which included artists Paul Collinson, Brendan Fletcher, Jayne Jones and Adam Scott. 'Hart 2001' was prod...

Il Palazzo Delle Liberta

2003
The current use of the Palazzo delle Papesse as a contemporary art centre, after years as headquarters of the Bank of Italy, repre...

installation and the Moving Image

2015
Film and video create an illusory world, a reality elsewhere, and a material presence that both dramatizes and demystifies the mag...

ISEA 2015, Art and Disruption

2015
Art and Disruption catalogues the artistic program featured at the 21st Symposium on Electronic Art being held in Vancouver, Canad...

Krajina Zivlu Countryside of Elements

1996
Catalogue of the exhibition that took place in 1996 in the Czech Republic. Cotterrell was one of the international artists invited...

Krieg und Medizin

2009
A German language publication produced to coincide with the launch of the Krieg und Medizin exhibition at the Deutsches Hygiene Mu...

Less Travelled

2006
To travel is to discover and exchange, to carry with you, to leave behind, mix, grind and rediscover. Through reflection and intro...

London/Seoul

2000
The exhibition brings both established and emerging artists from Britain and Korea and introduces the current trends of the Britis...

Machinic Alliances

2008
Descartes said that animals were like machines, mechanical clocks without reason. Today we have travelled far from this view in ou...

Map Games: Dynamics of Change

2008
Map Games was published alongside the exhibition in the Today Museum in China. The exhibiting artists created work that focused on...

Monsters of the Id

2012
Derived from the artist's journeys to Afghanistan, Monsters of the Id tests our expectations of cinematic and media representation...

Remote / Control : Interactive and Multimedia Art

2007
'Art is a game between all people of all periods' - Marcel Duchamp. In the lexicon of art, you have been given many names. As soo...

Risk and Regulation at the Interface of Medicine and the Arts: Dangerous Currents

2017
This book brings together an edited selection of presentations from the Association for Medical Humanities annual conference 2015,...

Routledge Handbook of the Medical Humanities

2019
Contribution of the Chapter, 'Thought Curfew: Empathy’s Endgame?' to this major publication. This authoritative new handbook...

Searchlight

2009
Searchlight is the story of a politically influential art event. Offering an alternative public art model to the monumental sculpt...

SEEING : What Are You Looking At?

2016
Exhibition catalogue for SEEING which was held at Science Gallery Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and ran 24.06-2016 - 25.09.2016. ...

Slipstream

2011
With support from Peckham Space, Cotterrell worked with a small group of Peckham residents to chronicle their memories of the vist...

Tatton Park Biennial

2008
The inaugural Tatton Park Biennial is accompanied by this catalogue, presenting both art works and artists as well as information ...

Tatton Park Biennial: Flights of Fancy

2012
The third edition of Tatton Park Biennial commissioned artists and writers to develop new works considering flight, the human ambi...

Tempered Ground

2004
Exhibition of 23 commissioned artworks at the Museum of Garden History, to coincide with 2004's the Year of the Garden. This book...

The Arts in Your Church: A Practical Guide

2001
A practical book that focuses on why art should be in churches. It discusses diverse tools on how to engage church communities wit...

The Impossible Project

2003
The first book to chronicle the work of British artist David Cotterrell, The Impossible Project explores Cotterrell's fascination ...

The Making of Meeting

2013
In August 2009, cultural practitioners from around Asia and their ARTHUB ASIA-integrated, match-made peers from the rest of the wo...

Transmission: Host

2009
This chapbook documents the relationships between Breda Beban and David Cotterrell's works and explores possible common themes in...

Uncontainable: Leonardo Electronic Alamanac

2011
Published in conjunction with ISEA2011 Istanbul, the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art (14-21 September 2011), t...

Visions of War

2024
IWM holds one of the most significant collections of British art anywhere in the world – a collection whose artists and artw...

War and Art : A Visual History of Modern Conflict

2017
In times of crisis, we often turn to artists for truth-telling and memory-keeping. There is no greater crisis than war, and in thi...

War and Medicine

2008
This richly ilustrated book is published to coincide with exhibition War and Medicine, organised by Wellcome Collection, London, i...

War Culture and the Contest of Images

2012
War Culture and the Contest of Images analyzes the relationships among contemporary war, documentary practices, and democratic ide...