Gallery Talks:
12pm Peninsula Arts Gallery
28/04: Lizzie Ridout
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THE ART OF
LOST WORDS
19 March – 28 April
The Art of Lost Words was originally inspired by the annual words review
undertaken by editors of the Collins dictionary. Just as new words are added,
reflecting the dynamic nature of language, other words fall out of use.
Whatever happens to these lost words, languishing in language’s landfill while
The world sweeps on in pursuit of new phrases?
We asked designers, artists and illustrators - all of whom deal with the visual
interpretation of text and language - to choose from a list of lost words with
an open brief to create an original work inspired by their word. Their responses
reflect the diversity of media in which they create, including letterpress,
silkscreen, laser-cut objects, photography, artist books and animation,
and their interpretations range from the literal to an echo of the original
inspiration.
‘Antihithalian’
adj. opposed to fun or
festivities
Andy Altmann, designer
framed original digital print
‘Famelicose’ (II)
Adj. often of very hungry
Daniel Pudles, illustrator
woodcut print
‘Latibule’
n.hiding place
Sarah Roesink, designer
framed pinhole photography
‘Spalliod’
Resembling a harp or
stringed instrument
Spyrus Zevelakis
‘Antelucan’
Adj. before dawn or daylight
Geoff Grandfield, illustrator
chalk drawing
Flosculation’
n. an embellishment or
ornamentation
in speech
Susanna Edwards, designer
limited ed. letterpress print
‘Morsicant’
adj. producing the sensation of
repeated biting
Viviane Schwarz, illustrator
limited ed. Screenprint
‘Tudiculate’
meaning 'to bruise or
pound'
Sam Messenger, artist
and illustrator
original typewriter art
‘Bimarian’
‘Fubsy’
adj. short and stout; squat
Studio April, design collective
digital print
‘Nubivagant’
Moving through or among the
clouds.
SPIN, design collective
digital print
‘Yestreen’
n. yesterday evening
Leah Fusco, illustrator
original illustrated
concertina book
‘Boustrophedon’
adj. alternating from right to left
and left to right, as in ploughing
oxen
Sue Doggett, artist and
illustrator
limited ed. folded digital print
book
‘Blateration’
n. unceasing chatter; babbling
Evelin Kasikov, designer
hand stitched framed print
‘Griseous’
adj. streaked or mixed with grey
Lila Szagun, designer
limited ed. Screenprint
‘Obrumpent’
adj. breaking or bursting
Kate Gibb, artist and illustrator
hand printed limited ed.
silkscreen print
‘Visotactile’
adj. involving both touch
and vision
‘Hirquitalliency’
n. strength or loudness of voice
Sam Winston, typographic
illustrator
limited ed. Screenprint
‘Rogitate’
v. to ask frequently or
repeatedly
Fraser Muggeridge, designer
full scale billboard
‘Caliginosity’
meaning dimness
Andreas Pohancenik, designer
digital print with light-sensitive
ink
‘Inergetical’
Adj. having no energy, sluggish
Andy Smith, illustrator
limited ed. Screenprint
‘Skirr’
n. a whirring sound, as of the
wings
of birds in flight
Lizzie Ridout, artist and
designer
artist book with photographs
‘Cameranious’
'relating to a room or chamber'
Calum Storrie, designer
original collage
‘Inocciduous’
Adj. of a star, never setting
Russell Mills, artist
original painting with oxidised
paper, acrylic and coal dust
‘Plegnic’
adj. acting by a blow; striking;
percussive
Brian Webb, designer
letterpress print
n. of two seas
Lydia Wong, illustrator
limited ed. digital print
John Morgan
Collage with tactile
paper using all 12 ranges
of paper for blind and
partially-sighted people.
Animations
‘Venustation’
n. the act of causing to
become beautiful
Jens Janson, designer
‘Manseutude’
Loftmatic, design
collective
adj. gentleness or
mildness
‘Dehisce’
v. to burst or gape open
(botanical and medical)
Mark A Webber, artist
and designer
‘Cosmogyral’
adj. whirling round the universe
Mark Pavey, designer
limited ed. Screenprint
‘Ipsographic’
Adj. self recording
Helen Ingham
Letterpress on bible paper
‘Echinated’
adj. prickly, like a hedgehog
Ceri Amphlett
Acrylic on card
’Kexy’
adj. dry, bristle, rustling as in
dead leaves
Rama
Photographic Print
‘Fabrefaction’
n. the act of fashioning a work
of art.
Freda Sack, typographic
designer
mosaic artwork
‘Labascate’
David Pearson, designer
rubber stamp set & print
‘Pocilliform’
meaning 'shaped like a little
cup'
Marion Deuchars
Gouache on paper
‘Pseudisodomous’
adj. pertaining to a style of wall
Kelvyn Laurence Smith,
designer
letterpress print
‘Redamancy’
meaning 'act of loving in return'
David Quay, typographic
designer, gold-plated necklace
‘Habroneme’
Meaning ‘having the
appearance of fine
threads’
Johnson Banks, Perspex
and a single piece of
invisible thread
Selected art works are for sale. Please enquire at the Peninsula Arts Gallery desk for more information.