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Let’s Talk About Text

LET’S TALK ABOUT TEXT

Let’s Talk About Text

16 March - 16 June 2017 - Sydney
Past Exhibitions

Curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham and Miriam Kelly

Angela Cavalieri, Sarah Contos, Lane Cormick, John Demos, Peter Dudding, Emily Floyd, Newell Harry, Thomas Jeppe, Alice Lang, Clinton Nain, Nasim Nasr, Rose Nolan, Anthony Johnson and Eugenia Raskopoulos.

Let’s Talk About Text presents work from the Artbank collection that harness text based communication as a pictorial device. From sloganeering statements to vernacular fragments and found fonts, this exhibition focuses on how artists respond to and encourage the visual pleasure of inventive typographic forms for personal and political ends.