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It wasn't very good--unless you want an exhibition of terrible and unthought-out ways of combining text and art. There were two old Bob Cobbing pieces, tucked away and small. Giles ________________________________ From: Tilla Brading <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Saturday, 22 October 2011, 8:09 Subject: Re: 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! ...give us feedback if you go! Tilla On 20 Oct 2011, at 07:43, GILES GOODLAND wrote: > This looks interesting--has some Cobbing etc > > Giles > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Goodland, Giles" <[log in to unmask]> > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > 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 > Oxford University Press (UK) Disclaimer > This message is confidential. You should not copy it or disclose its contents to anyone. You may use and apply the information for the intended purpose only. OUP does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are those of the author only and not of OUP. If this email has come to you in error, please delete it, along with any attachments. Please note that OUP may intercept incoming and outgoing email communications. > > > <e-invite.pdf> Tilla Brading Shiplap (Flat 2) 43, Quay St Minehead, TA24 5UL 01643 708160