Signs of Life exhibition | Redland Art Gallery | 4 Dec – 29 Jan
I’m having a small exhibition in the toilet corridor of a gallery far, far away … But, hey, you have to start somewhere, right?
This is the first time my stuff has been exhibited collectively in a solo show. Well, it’s the first time I’ve had enough stuff to constitute a show of any sort. It’s also the first time my work has been exhibited in a public gallery.
There’ll be the road sign stuff, along with new works in other media—again, multiples—plus some one-off textual assemblage things I’m calling “sign writing”.
Hope to see a few of you at the opening. Hope a few others can get along to see the exhibition. Would love your thoughts and feedback.
Middle & Bloomfield Streets
QELi 2011 annual report
Highlights from our first year
Editing Queensland Education Leadership Institute’s 2011 annual report.
Client: QELi. Design: designfront.
Multi Span corporate profile
Spanning many years, services and industries
A diverse corporate profile for a diverse design-construct business.
Client: Multi Span Australia. Design. The Letter D.
Bligh Tanner website
Designing innovative solutions to complex challenges since 1992
A rather smart website for a rather smart engineering firm.
Corporate profile too.
Client: Bligh Tanner. Design: Entica. Development: QMG.
Waterwheel
Powered by water—and you
Exploring water—as a topic and metaphor—Waterwheel is an interactive, collaborative platform for sharing media and ideas, performance and presentation.
Client: Suzon Fuks. Design/development: Inkahoots.
Some pics from the launch at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in August …
Suzon, the woman behind Waterwheel, and Jason from Inkahoots.
Bligh Tanner profile
Designing innovative solutions to complex challenges since 1992
A rather smart corporate profile for a rather smart engineering firm.
Website too.
Client: Bligh Tanner. Design: Entica.
New verbal art: YOU ARE HERE … not quite here, but on the way …
The concept …
- A large, wall-mounted wayfinding dot
- 1500-ish mm diameter
- Red with white text
- Bulging convex shape
- Edition of 100
- Working title: “Mindfulness 101”
Dot Dash nutting out the design spec …
Looking at different sizes and type heights …
Where would we be without Dot Dash? Lost!
Signs of Life exhibition at Redland Art Gallery
Photo: Tim Pasmore
Signs of Life: text-based artworks by Alan James
4 December 2011 – 29 January 2012
Opening 11 am Sunday 4 December
Redland Art Gallery
Middle & Bloomfield Streets Cleveland
Alan James is a freelance copywriter, based in Brisbane. He puts his pen to everything from marketing communications to interpretive display.
In 2003, Al “wrote” an artwork—a stop sign that said “LOVE” instead of “STOP”. He called it “Stop! In the Name of Love”. The multiple edition piece became affectionately known as the “Love Sign”.
Since that time, Love Signs have been hung in group exhibitions and sold at galleries and shops in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. More than 400 have been produced to date. They hang in bedrooms and boardrooms from Noosa to New York—some 50-something cities and towns in a dozen or so countries.
More recently, Al has been creating more verbal artworks. Some more roadsigns. Some in other media. Again, multiple editions.
Al’s artworks spring from a love of the iconography and vernacular of roadsigns—a desire first sparked by the work of Rosalie Gascoigne.
Conceptually, they respond to what the author sees as an increasingly heartless, mindless, humourless world—encouraging us to think, care and smile a bit more. Or to chill out, wise up and lighten up a little.
The Signs of Life exhibition at Redland Art Gallery will bring Al’s various text-based artworks together for the first time.
Nothing to fear but fear itself
Photo: Erik Williamson
Nothing to fear but fear itself
[HERE BE DRAGONS]
- Reverse-cut & retroreflective film on aluminium
- 1500 x 750 mm (approx. 10 kg)
- Open edition
- Labelled, number-stamped & signed on back
- Rigged & ready to hang
- Weatherproof—safe to hang outside
- Can be securely anchored to wall or post
- Securely packaged for safe delivery/storage
Price
Special intro price on first batch of 10
- A$1650 (up to #10)
- Then A$1980 (from #11 on)
- Price includes GST & delivery within Australia.
Collins Hume website
Web content for accountants and business advisers based at Lismore.
Client: Collins Hume. Design: Entica.