Between 2019 and 2021 I published a weekly newsletter every Thursday, called Will Dalton on Thursday. A reimagining of the newsletters I used to distribute among my friends when I was a child, I wanted a time-dependent format that would encourage me to create new work, or be a place to document ongoing projects. The brief was simple: a double-sided sheet of A4 document with writing on the front and images on the back.
The front of the newsletters featured the first drafts of many short stories I have since expanded (The Bald Spot, On the Motorway). And the back featured paintings, drawings, photographs, frames from videos I was working on (Ending, The Ballad of Tom Barrow, Questions for the Trees) as well as work made specifically for the newsletter. Sometimes the two sides showed two different pieces, and sometimes they worked together towards one theme.
No.4: The Length of Acre Lane
No.6: The Waving maypole / Morris movements
No.8: The accordion man / Polling stations
No.30: 88 / If I had a banjo
No.43: I lost my glasses / The parts of the guitar
No.52: A Guide to the Motorway
No.53: Kite
No.58: Sardines
No.66: My commute / Herne Hill station
No.71: How to sew a pillowcase