Stephen McNeilly

Stephen McNeilly (born 1968) is a London based artist and writer whose research-lead practice includes photography, filmmaking, curating and book publishing.^[1] He is Editor of the Swedenborg Society, London,^[2] and Curator of its annual Swedenborg International Short Film Festival^[3] and Artist in Residence programme.^[4] In 2010 he curated Fourteen Interventions,^[5] a multi-disciplinary site responsive exhibition at Swedenborg house, which included work by Jeremy Deller, Bridget Smith, Iain Sinclair, Ben Judd and Olivia Plender.^[6]

His long-standing interest in the work of Emanuel Swedenborg informs much of his recent work^[7] and he has published on writers as diverse as Ralph Waldo Emerson^[8] and Arthur Cravan. In 2011 he set up the Swedenborg Archive imprint,^[9] a collaborative project which has included contributions from the writers Iain Sinclair^[10] and Brian Catling,^[11] and the publisher Book Works. As series editor of the Journal of the Swedenborg Society^[12] he has produced a number of volumes exploring the cultural influence of Swedenborg including Between Method and Madness,^[13] The Arms of Morpheus,^[14] In Search of the Absolute^[15] and On the True Philosopher.^[16] Notable contributors to the Journal include the poet Czeslaw Milosz and the Cambridge linguist John Chadwick. Annalisa Volpone has described the Journal as a 'mapping of the impact of Swedenborg's thought on the western literary imaginaire from romanticism to contemporary times'.^[17]

McNeilly is a founding editor of Dedecus Press,^[18] an interdisciplinary and collaborative publishing project, and is the overseeing editor for the Dedecus Dictionary and the Dedecus Picture Archive. Between 2004 and 2012 he was a visiting lecturer in Art, Philosophy and Critical Theory at the University of Creative Arts (Canterbury).^[19]

Selected works

• 2013 Swimming to Heaven: The Lost Rivers of London, an essay by Iain Sinclair, (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481798
• 2013 Philosophy, Literature, Mysticism: an anthology of essays on the thought and influence of Emanuel Swedenborg (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481613
• 2012 Several Clouds Colliding (book), Editor. ISBN 978-1906012410 ^[20]
• 2012 D T Suzuki: manuscripts and letters (exhibition), Curator, London.^[21]
• 2012 Memoirs of Swedenborg (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481682^[22]
• 2011 Blake's London: the Topographic Sublime, an essay by Iain Sinclair (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481705^[23]
• 2010 Heaven, Hell and Other Places (documentary), Producer, ISBN 978-0854481736^[24]
• 2010 Fourteen Interventions (exhibition), curator, London.^[25]
• 2010 Introducing the Mystic: an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson (publication), Editor/author ISBN 978-0854481569
• 2010 Art lands on Alien Landscape (exhibition/catalogue), Margate.^[26]
• 2008 Dedecus: A Dictionary Pt, 2 (publication), Author. ISBN 978-0955547225
• 2008 Dedecus: A Dictionary Pt, 1 (publication), Author. ISBN 978-0955547218
• 2008 Maintenant, Pt, 1 (publication) Editor/Author. ISBN 978-0955547249
• 2007 Rub-a-dub-dub (three person exhibition with Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan) Switzerland.^[27][28]
• 2007 The Arms of Morpheus (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481507
• 2006 George Berkeley's Commonplace Book (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0955547201
• 2005 Vertigo Gallery (solo exhibition), London.
• 2005 Between Method and Madness (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481453
• 2004 in Search of the Absolute (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481415
• 2002 on the True Philosopher (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481347
• 2001 on the Translator and the Latin Text; essays by John Chadwick (book), Editor. ISBN 978-0854481316
• 1996 Bonnington Gallery, The Margaret Bryan Award, (two person exhibition with Lotte Hammer) Nottingham.^[29]

External links

• Dedecus Press http://dedecuspress.com/
• The Swedenborg Society http://www.swedenborg.org.uk/home

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