About

I 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 // Summer 2017

Residencies

2017
August to November 2016:
West Yorkshire Archaeological Service & East Street Arts, Leeds, UK
July:
Deuchar Mill, Yarrow, Scotland
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 & fellowships

2017
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 research visit to US letterpress practitioners

'rights of way' (2017)

'exitblurring' (2017)

'undestroy' (2015)

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