Written English import_2022_08_24_155035

Written English import_2022_08_24_155035Taking the form of a composition book a classic style of American notebook Written English is an Allen Jones RA artwork in book form. Over 40 pages, Jones playfully explores the English language, and its use and misuse. Conquest and trade allowed the English language to become the Worlds lingua franca, perhaps because its phonetic and grammatical structure is more pliable than most languages, says Jones. Global, popular culture, advertising and

as well as insights from the artist herself

“Parking markings were introduced during my final years as a student

All of this work is presented in the set of artists’ books

Avery’s oil paintings

telling us what we should NOT do

The six books are bilingual

Harkness employs historic world events and art history as jumping off points from which to explore power dynamics and struggles through an intersectional lens

Trained in the thousand-year tradition of Indo-Persian miniature painting and contemporary Western art and theory

Van Dalen has served as witness

looked at closely

installations and videos

to her lesser known sculptural and photographic works