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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
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Origins: The Memorial
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Lettering by Alec Peever
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i.m. Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Rupert Clamp, Newcastle
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Gordon Young, Carlisle
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Hadrian Bridge, Newcastle
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Linda France & Bridget Jones
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Liz Lochhead, Sofia
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Looking Down
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Katrina Porteous, Blyth
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W.N.Herbert, Newcastle
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Lawrence Weiner, Amsterdam
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Looking Up
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Charles Jencks, Dumfries
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Alec Finlay
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Shaun Pickard
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Glass
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Julia Darling & Cate Watkinson, Newcastle
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Julia & Cate, South Shields
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Linda France & Bridget Jones, Hexham
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Wood
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Ian Hamilton Finlay, Little Sparta
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Metal
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Linda France & Colin Wilbourn, Rockliffe Hall
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Linda France & Craig Knowles, Sunderland
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Philip Gross & Alec Peever
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Jackie Hardy, Sunderland
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Hangings
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Alec Finlay, Gateshead
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Ceramics
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Francoise Schein, Paris
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Urban Interventions
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Stencil graffiti, Paris
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Shakespeare & Co
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KesselsKramer, Amsterdam
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Cath Campbell & Miles Thurlow, Gateshead
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Visual Artists who use Text in The Public Realm
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Robert Indiana
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Claes Oldenburg
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Jenny Holzer
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George Condo
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A Poet’s Work sets the Agenda
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W.N. Herbert at West Park, Darlington
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Poetry incorporated into the fabric of the buildings and landscaping
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Alphabet as Map & Metaphor
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Linda France & Alec Peever, Rockliffe Hall
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‘Look at what is there’
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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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