Erica Van Horn

In the work of Erica Van Horn, books collect and transform remnants, remembrances, remainders and reminders. From fragments that might otherwise be forgotten, she makes new inventories and series in intrinsic yet unexpected ways. ‘I use the portability of the printed sheet, mostly in book form,’ she...

Facsimiles of 13 painted-out postcards following the life of St. Anthony with narrative captions opposite. Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor. Known for his 13 miracles, He is especially invoked and venerated all over...

Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were originally written by hand, then later typeset for printing and publication. Here they are handwritten again by Erica Van Horn.  Writing someone else’s list has been a joy. Handwriting these sentences by Stein has provided me with...

Coracle has been producing books and other printed artefacts displaced from the page, often leading to installations for walls and other settings. A Table of Books in Ballybeg gathers most of the Irish projects produced by Coracle, working from the townland of Grange, west...

Rare & Collectible 32 stories of about a page or so that tell of “the plight of birds encountered in local circumstances”. Erica Van Horn recounts episodes from her life in rural Ireland in which birds play a prominent role; she talks about Michael...

Em was a sheepdog who never lived far from where she was born in Cahir, County Tipperary. She had a sense of place and a gentleness of temperament, and a way of making all events rituals with an eagerness for them to happen again....

Made at the time of the epidemic lockdown in all of Europe, but where life in our valley was much as it usually is, but with no visitors. We have endured almost a year eating our own food, with no abatement. No cafés to...