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WORDS IN THE WORLD- text in public art -
This is a sampler of images showing some of the different ways text is used in Public Art settings. Some examples are the work of artists who have created their own words and some are an artist’s interpretation of a writer’s words, involving varying degrees of collaboration in the process.
It is an idiosyncratic collection, acquired over the past ten years, mainly in the North East, but also in various places abroad. Although they are mostly my own photographs, the work they depict can usually be traced on the internet. Searching in this way can also throw up interesting discoveries.
These pieces may spark your own ideas when considering materials, layout, font etc. and help you evolve your own aesthetic. Creating your own folder of images of work you love, or loathe, is an important part of building a practice in this field.
Linda France 2010
Origins: The Memorial
Lettering by Alec Peever
i.m. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rupert Clamp, Newcastle
Gordon Young, Carlisle
Hadrian Bridge, Newcastle
Linda France & Bridget Jones
Liz Lochhead, Sofia
Looking Down
Katrina Porteous, Blyth
W.N.Herbert, Newcastle
Lawrence Weiner, Amsterdam
Looking Up
Charles Jencks, Dumfries
Alec Finlay
Shaun Pickard
Glass
Julia Darling & Cate Watkinson, Newcastle
Julia & Cate, South Shields
Linda France & Bridget Jones, Hexham
Wood
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta
Metal
Linda France & Colin Wilbourn, Rockliffe Hall
Linda France & Craig Knowles, Sunderland
Philip Gross & Alec Peever
Jackie Hardy, Sunderland
Hangings
Alec Finlay, Gateshead
Ceramics
Francoise Schein, Paris
Urban Interventions
Stencil graffiti, Paris
Shakespeare & Co
KesselsKramer, Amsterdam
Cath Campbell & Miles Thurlow, Gateshead
Visual Artists who use Text in The Public Realm
Robert Indiana
Claes Oldenburg
Jenny Holzer
George Condo
A Poet’s Work sets the Agenda
W.N. Herbert at West Park, Darlington
Poetry incorporated into the fabric of the buildings and landscaping
Alphabet as Map & Metaphor
Linda France & Alec Peever, Rockliffe Hall
‘Look at what is there’
Ian Hamilton Finlay
APPENDIX
Image 1 – Alec Peever (text & lettering)Image 2 – Brussels CathedralImage 4 – Martin WenhamImage 10 – Alyson Hallett & Alec Peever, BathImage 22 – Linda France & Karl Fisher, SunderlandImage 29 – Hexham Embroiderer’s Guild, Hexham HospitalImage 31 – Frederic Baron & Claire Kito, Montmartre Images 33/34 – Artists unknownImage 35 – Robert Indiana, Chatsworth House