“In the fall of 2019, before any rumours of a strange new virus that had taken root, far away in China, Ralph and his family sat down to a pub lunch at their local haunt, The Chequers Inn in Loose. With them was Steve Crist, publisher of Proud to Be Weird keen to discuss the idea of a retrospective book covering Ralph entire 60 year career, from his student days to his most recent work. The project began as one might expect, with calls to agents, contract negotiations and the sharing of extensive visual files from the Ralph Steadman Art Collection Archives. The book would be 300 pages long so Steve Crist spent November 2019 until January 2020 slowly whittling down the choices ready to have originals photographed during the first week of February. A local photographer, Ollie Harrop, who had previously photographed Ralph for a book called The Artist in Time was hired to take the stills while the studio elves would scurry around locating the selected artworks. ...”
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