Title

Image as text. Text as image. A survey of bookworks by Ken Orchard 1982 to present.

Venues

Wudinna Artspace (? – 22 April 2002)

Middleback Theatre Foyer (1 May 2002 – 5 May 2002)

Roxby Downs Art Gallery (14 June 2002 – 21 July 2002)

UTS Gallery (4 March 2003 – 28 March 2003)

Artspace Mackay. (30 January 2004 – 14 March 2004)

Date

(2002 – 2004)

Summary

Multi-artist travelling exhibition. Located: Australia. Book arts

Documentation

catalogue 2002

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

This survey exhibition of ‘bookworks’ by South Australian artist Ken Orchard, reveals a long-held preoccupation with the printed word and image. Image as Text / Text as Image showcases a large body of works on paper including meditations on poetry, a collage series, acetate-based manipulations of published images and a series of magisterial woodcuts.

Created over a twenty-year period the work retraces a very personal artistic journey through the interplay between text and image. From the tightly controlled reworkings of found materials and enormous woodblocks created with sheets of plywood from the 1980s and 1990s to the looser, more spontaneous surface irritations of antique books made more recently with brush, ink, pastel and shellac, Image as Text / Text as Image mirrors the chronology of significant changes in the artist's life. [gallery media]