John Balance: MOON’S MILK
1st 2024 224pp Strange Attractor square hardback. Illustrated in colour throughout. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper.
Ltd. ed. 1000 copies. In 2002 Coil released Moon’s Milk, a double CD collection of four EPs comprising improvised performances recorded over successive equinoxes and
solstices. For friends and collectors, Jhonn Balance painted 300 CD-R sleeves in an extended moment of what his friend Gavin Semple describes as “psychic disjuncture and epiphany” to form “the largest piece in the substantial body of drawing and painting he created over the years.”
Before his untimely death in 2004, Balance and Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson had considered compiling these 300 unique artworks into a single print volume, a
project that Sleazy, alongside his friend Andrew Lahman, revisited in 2010, before he himself passed away.
This posthumous edition features over 200 paintings, Polaroid
photographs and drawings culled from these intensive sessions. With
a foreword by Andrew Lahman, and an afterword by Gavin Semple, the Moon’s Milk project is finally complete.

