Image © Imogen Harvey-Lewis
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
Silent or spoken. Meaningful or meaningless. Sober or funny. Telling truth or lies. A salmagundi of artists comes together to play with words. Seriously.
Don't gobblefunk around with words! Roald Dahl
Close to thirty artists come together at the 44AD artspace to make use of a full range of techniques – including painting, carving and print, video, performance and odd machines, plus books of all shapes and sizes.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. Gabriel García Márquez
VENUE : 44AD artspace, BA1 1NN
27 May to 12 June - open 11am to 6pm daily
(6pm ‘til late on 27th May - 11am to 3pm on 12 June)
On weekend days and holidays wordplay artists at 44AD artspace will get together to take about their work and associated ideas and intentions - with each other and with members of the public who wish to join in.
wordplay ARTISTS A to Z
DAVID ARMES engulfs us in a flood of words
LISI ASHBRIDGE carves new languages in stone
VICTORIA BONE eats other people’s words
FIONA CLARK places emotion above meaning
JOHN CLARK presents a work that plays with words - playfully
ANWYL COOPER-WILLIS shares her good humour
GEOFF DUNLOP reveals the language of trees
ALICE SHEPPARD FIDLER walks and talks the plank
JANE GLENNIE resurrects a forgotten goddess
NICOLA GRELLIER hangs on every word
IMOGEN HARVEY-LEWIS invents a language of renewal
GIOVANNA IORIO invents a poetry machine
ROSIE JACKSON puts poetry into space
EMMA LAMBERT and others act local
IBBY LANFEAR tells an intimate story – in bones
MATT LEE talks nonsense, or maybe not ...
PETA LLOYD communicates with her head in a box
MAIJA THE CAT plays to type
KATE McDONELL rants, regrets, repeats
CAMILLA NELSON laughs out loud
STACEY POTTINGER produces a body of work
STEFANIE RELING-BURNS concentrates on the comma
EVA RUDLINGER enlightens
BATOOL SHOWGHI creates a language of memory and loss
MARTIN THOMAS and JO CURD tell a story of courage
LINDA TOIGO creates a language of desperately seeking refuge
STELLA TRIPP creates a language of displacement
DAVE WEBB & PETER CRANBIM celebrate the language of exquisite obsolescence
LISA WOOING unlocks intimacies
Curated by Geoff Dunlop
Geoff Dunlop is an Artist, Curator, filmmaker and writer. He is a frequent contributor to FaB, as both an Artist and Curator. As well as exhibiting prints large and small, individually or in installations, Geoff explores the use of words in exhibition, print and online.
Geoff is in the early stages of investigating the possibilities of a webzone (located somewhere between a website and webzine) as a medium for creative expression, communication and conversation.
Headshot of Geoff Dunlop