Clementine Barnes, Sophie Coombs, Christine Dean, Dara Gill, Barbara Halnan, Andrew Hurle, Deliah King, Emma Langridge, Kate Mackay, Michael McIntyre, Jane O’Neill, Luke Parker, Robert Pulie, Elvis Richardson, Nick Strike and Simon Yates.
Word blindness/ cacographical bents/ sleight of hand typographic fall off/ ecstatic distortions/ an illiterate dalliance/ Freudian lips/ neuro- electric optic hallucinatory reverb/ the winsome fox jumped over the ironic pun/ a slow reading between the lines…
Bad Spelling came into being through a conversation between Affiliated Text and Robert Lake about how his dyslexia has informed his work as a curator. This resulting exhibition examines language through the prism of visual distortion. The works in Bad Spelling highlight the abstract forms of language and the processes required to interpret these forms. Comprehension is interrupted by optical illusions, misreading and deliberate misspellings. In the working bookshop setting of Cross Art Books, reading is made visible as an activity of disruption and creative compensation.
June 3 – July 10, 2015
Curated by Robert Lake.
Photo credits: Felicity Jenkins
download roomsheet for Bad Spelling
- Bad Spelling exhibition. Curated by Robert Lake. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Bad Spelling exhibition. Curated by Robert Lake. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Bad Spelling. Curated by Robert Lake. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Dara Gill, Deliah King, Christine Dean, Sophie Coombs and Dara Gill (L to R, top to bottom). Download roomsheet for full details. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Bad Spelling. Dara Gill, Kate Mackay, Jane O’Neill and Andrew Hurle (L to R, top to bottom). Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Barbara Halnan, Nick Strike, Dara Gill. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Nick Strike, Dara Gill. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Robert Lake demonstrating Nick Strike’s work. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Emma Langridge, Elvis Richardson, Robert Pulie, Dara Gill (L to R, top to bottom). Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Dara Gill, Michael McIntyre, Luke Parker, Clementine Barnes, Simon Yates, Dara Gill. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
- Bad Spelling guest curator, Robert Lake. Photo credit: Felicity Jenkins
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