AboutI am an artist working with letterpress printing, language and geography. I publish through the Red Plate Press imprint. My work is frequently site-specific and considers how sense of place can be represented, with specific source material including automatic writing, accidental conversations and oral history. I consider my practice to be socially engaged and frequently work in public situations using the spectacle of printing as both physical installation and production space. In all my work I use hand-set metal and wood type, overlapping the elemental rules of letterpress with more expressive approaches incorporating elements of art, craft and design.
David Armes // West Yorkshire // Spring 2017 Residencies2017
April: Wells Book Arts Center, Aurora, USA January & February: Found In Blackburn (with BBC Radio Lancashire), Lancashire, UK 2016 December: Staithes Studios Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK October & November: Starshaped Press, Chicago, USA May & June: Huddersfield Art Gallery, West Yorkshire, UK 2015 October: Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Maryland, USA April to July: The SHOP, Nelson, Lancashire, UK 2014-2015 October 2014 to July 2015: Artists' Access to Art Colleges (AA2A), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, UK 2012-13 June 2012 to February 2013: Hot Bed Press, Salford, UK Grants & fellowships2017
April: Two week visit to New York state funded via Artists' Inernational Development Fund grant from Arts Council England and British Council 2016 October & November: Four week visit to Chicago and Wisconsin funded via Artists' Inernational Development Fund grant from Arts Council England and British Council May to November: Random String post-digital technology fellowship, Ludic Rooms, Coventry, UK 2015 July to October: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowship - 11 week trip to USA |
'Chicago Loop language' (2016)
'exitblurring' )2017)
'undestroy' (2015)
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