Two Ponds Press | Ken Shure in conversation with Cig Harvey, Liv Rockefeller, Anneli Skaar and Kat Stefko

We are thrilled to present a conversation with the creative team behind the Maine based independent publisher Two Ponds Press, presenting the work of Cig Harvey Eat Flowers.

This beautiful volume was awarded the Fine Press Book Association Judges Choice Award for the best book in the show at the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair oin April of 2022. The prize was for books produced in the last two years and it took first place in a field of 40 entries from some of the top fine presses in the US.

Join us online in the Griffin Zoom Room Thursday June 2nd, at 7pm for an online conversation with publishers Ken Shure and Liv Rockefeller, artist Cig Harvey, book designer Anneli Skaar and Kat Stefko, who produced the afterword for the book.

This event is FREE for Griffin Members and $10 for all Non Members

About Eat Flowers –

Text and photographs by Cig Harvey. Eat Flowers is a contemporary florilegium told through a calendar of blooms. Thirteen 8″ x 10″ jewel-toned original C-prints each accompanied by a letterpress printed vignette exploring what it is to feel through the language of flowers. Each unique copy of Eat Flowers includes a separate 11″ x 14″ archival pigment print of Wisteria, 2021.

About Cig Harvey –

Cig Harvey (b.1973) is a British-born artist and writer living in Maine, USA, and working in large-format color photography and poetry. Rich in implied narrative, saturated in color, and deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel.

Cig has published five sold-out books: Blue Violet (Monacelli/Phaidon, 2021), Reveal (with Debbie Fleming Caffrey and Andrea Modica; Yoffy Press, 2020); You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017); Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015); and You Look at Me Like an Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012).

Cig’s photographs and books are in the permanent collections of museums across the world, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York); The Library of Congress (NewYork, New York): Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas); the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine); and the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House (Rochester, New York). She is represented by galleries worldwide and has exhibited at Paris Photo, Art Miami, and at AIPAD (New York) for the past fifteen years. She had her first solo museum show at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway (2012), and more recently at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine (2019).

Cig was awarded the Prix Virginia Laureate (2018) and the Farnsworth Art Museum’s Maine in America Award (2021). She has been a nominee for the John Gutmann Fellowship, the Santa Fe\ Prize, and the Prix Pictet, and a finalist for the BMW Prize, the Estee Lauder Collection, the Karl Lagerfeld Collection at Paris Photo, the Clarence John Laughlin Award, and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. Most recently in 2022 Eat flowers won the Fine Press Book Association’s Judge’s Choice Award for Best Book in Show at the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair,

Cig lives in a farmhouse in Maine with her husband Doug and daughter Scout. The slow passing of time and the natural surroundings of her rural home has made her alert to the magic in the mundane.

About Two Ponds Press –