Material is a journal started by artists interested in the writings of other artists. Founding editors Ginny Cook and Kim Schoen wanted to create a space for divergent opinions, uses, and appropriations of language, encouraging ‘speculations and appreciations, rantings if need be, phantasies, lectures, nocturnes… and inventions’ to quote 20th century poet Robert Duncan. Material solicits friction and conviviality both, from a wide community of artists.

This first issue features texts from an international selection of artists including Becky Beasley, Olivia Booth, Andrea Büttner, Nicholas Grider, Marie Jager, Peter Kirby, Darren O'Donnell, Katrina Palmer, Hirsh Perlman, Oliver Richon, Charlotte Smith, and Roman Vasseur.