Anglia Ruskin University

Date: 4 - 20 October 2012
Venue: Various locations, Cambridge

Recent Master of Fine Art graduates from the Cambridge School of Art worked together with artists from across the UK and overseas for this exhibition, which explored relationships between art, language and location.

Each of the 25 artists placed a text-based artwork in a venue specifically chosen to create a dialogue between the work and its location. Locations chosen included a supermarket, a bike shop and a pub, as well as more conventional text-based spaces such as a library and a bookshop.

Two Text&Context artists showed their work on the Anglia Ruskin University campus. Darlington artist Carol Sommer showed 'On Colour', a celebration of the relativity of written descriptions of colour by artists and art critics, in the Ruskin Corridor, whilst current MFA student Marina Velez presented 'Polaroid', an investigation of time-based media in the University's Language Services Unit in collaboration with lecturer Alicia Peña Calvo.

Exhibition organizer Robert Good, a 2011 graduate and winner of the Searle Award for Creativity, said: "Language is endlessly fascinating and problematic, and each artist has approached it in a different way - from speech bubbles to street signs. We are delighted to welcome artists from afar afield as Canada, Holland and Northern Ireland to Cambridge to punctuate the city with text."

Events included:

Thursday 4 October, 19.30
Reception and launch event at the YMCA, Parker's Piece with the Mayor of Cambridge for the switch on of 'Homage to Reality Checkpoint' by Sue Shepherd

Saturday 6 October, 11.00-16.00
Open day at the YMCA, a chance to meet some of the artists and join a guided walk at 14.00

Wednesday 10 October, 19.30
Talk about the exhibition by Robert Good at the Friends Meeting House, Jesus Lane

For full details please visit the Text&Context website.

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