There will be two days of papers and discussion from those engaged in art and book – as artists, book designers, art historians, teachers, book historians, and publishers.
The venue for these papers is at the Dunedin School of Art, Riego Street, room 127, on the ground floor. Importantly: ALL EVENTS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FREE OF CHARGE
The
symposium will open on Thursday evening, 16 October, with a lecture by
Catherine Griffiths, entitled
A Type of Improvisation. Griffiths is a designer & typographer,
who in the past has worked with Wellington poet Jenny Bornholdt and ceramic
artist Raewyn Atkinson to create typography onto ceramics.
In 2000 she created a series of 15 astonishing, large-scale
concrete text sculptures that were positioned along Wellington’s waterfront.
Writings by New Zealand authors including Bill Manhire, Katherine Mansfield,
and James K. Baxter are set in blocks of either Helvetica Extra Compressed or
Optima type, to varying but always impressive effect. In 2009, Simone Wolf (Typevents Italy) and Griffiths conceived, curated
and organised TypeSHED11, New Zealand’s first-ever international typography
symposium. (Initially,
Sarah Maxey was to deliver this opening talk, but unfortunately for personal
reasons she had to withdraw.)
The venue for the talk by Griffiths is at the Dunningham Room, 4th floor, Dunedin Public Library. It will begin at 7.00 pm.
In addition, there is an exhibition ‘Art and Book’, in the Gallery at the Dunedin School of Art, Riego Street. This will open on 13 October and run until 20 October. A catalogue for the exhibition will be available in the Gallery, as well as on this website.
If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Peter Stupples (Peter.Stupples@op.ac.nz)
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