She is telling me this all in one voice, impersonating all the characters, and its like a single line describing the shape of two figures, three figures, a bed, the contour of a room. The other line, the other part of this fiction is the listening itself. Im listening to her tracing the line of the story, so this story can be rehearsed again and again.Sadie MurdochImitating SomethingI was never much of a story teller until I discovered that you could tell the truth. Of course, the trouble then is finding out what the bloody truth is. And the more you look into the truth the more you find fiction weaving its way in and out of everything.Dave BeechTrue Stories, Fictional Realities and Philistine Art: Drawing on the World of Brian Dawn Chalkley

Dawn in Wonderland is the title of Brian Dawn Chalkleys recent book published by Platform in May of this year. The publication includes 84 drawings, a CD of audio works and commissioned texts by Dave Beech and Sadie Murdoch.