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On 20 Oct 2011, at 07:43, GILES GOODLAND wrote:

> This looks interesting--has some Cobbing etc
>  
> Giles
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 15:16
> Subject: FW: Invitation to PRIVATE VIEW at Art Jericho Sunday 30 
> October 2-4pm to clebrate QWERTY - Text Art exhibition. Enjoy the work 
> of four + artists - and a glass of wine!
>
>  
>  
> From: Patricia Baker-Cassidy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 19 October 2011 15:15
> Subject: Invitation to PRIVATE VIEW at Art Jericho Sunday 30 October 
> 2-4pm to clebrate QWERTY - Text Art exhibition. Enjoy the work of four 
> + artists - and a glass of wine!
>  
>  
> QWERTY 27 October- 19 November 2011 at Art Jericho
> Opening party Sunday 30 October 2-4pm - bring a friend!
>  
> There is a long tradition of artists exploring the visual power of 
> text and print, so
> this exhibition of contemporary text art has distinguished 
> antecedents. From the
> beauty of medieval illuminated manuscripts, to Lewis Carroll's Mouse's 
> Tale in
> Alice In Wonderland the energies of words combined with imagery have
> attracted many artists.
>  
> In the 20thc avant garde artists enlisted the potency of text art, 
> bringing the poetry
> of imagery into the forms of text. As well as the four main artists, 
> the show offers
> examples of Bob Cobbings' Typestracts from the 60s, and an account of 
> a reconstruction
> of William Blake's techniques of relief etching -revealed in a dream 
> -for his poems of
> Innocence & Experience, and others.
>  
> Hellmut Preiss from Tuttlingen, Germany, extracts classic literature 
> to create visual
> patterns that build strong blocks, else scatter and swirl fragments of 
> Milton, Shakespeare,
> Emily Bronte, Lewis Carroll and others.
> Alastair Hogg, from Oxford, created slogan pieces, that inherit the 
> media and polemic
> strands of text art, so highly developed through the 20thc.
> Alison Gunn combines text & images, woven together & reinforcing each 
> other to create
> strongly emotional pieces. From Milton Keynes, Alison now studies & 
> curates in Manchester.
> DRC is a well-known Oxford artist, with a totally unknown body of new 
> work...
>  
> EVENTS – current & 2012 ...
>  
> COLLATERAL DAMAGE- video installation by Doke Ostle running with QWERTY
>  
> 18 November – the Jericho Poets return – an evening of words & wine. 
> FREE event.
>  
> 24 Nov – 22 Dec HALCYON – beautiful paintings to bring us to the end 
> of the year.
>  
> Coming in 2012:
> January About Town: Photography – Group show Oxford photographers
> April 2012 Susan Avery 70 x 70 x 70 New Water Colours, 70 at £70 
> each...
> May- June 2012 ANDREW LANYON Photographs & other art works from the 
> Cornish artist
> June-July CERI RICHARDS Lithographs - original prints from the great 
> 20thc Welsh artist
> September Society of Wood Engravers Annual National Exhibition
> December 2012 Norman McBeath Black & White Photography
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