David Armes West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
I create typographic artworks that range in scale from large scroll installations to prints and artist's books.
I am a visual artist working with print, language and geography, primarily using letterpress printing to make typographic artworks that range in scale from artist’s books to art prints to large scroll installations. My work is often site-specific and considers how experience of place can be represented. I frequently show at book and print fairs around Europe and in recent years have been artist-in-residence at Industriemuseum (Gent, Belgium, 2021), Bodleian Library (University of Oxford, 2019) and Wells Book Arts Center (New York state, USA, 2017). My work is held in collections internationally, including the British Library, (UK) Bodleian Library (University of Oxford, UK), Museum für Druckkunst (Leipzig, DE) and the University of Bergen (NO). I am a current Visiting Fellow at the British Library.
Artwork
vezels, Letterpress, 2021, £30
the stone remembers, Letterpress, 2022, £30
The Circumnavigation of Preston Docks, Letterpress, 2021, £40
WE WILL BREAK YOUR CHAINS, Letterpress, collagraph, 2020, £125
Projects and exhibitions
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The Inchoate Schematic01/02/2023 — 28/02/2023 The Inchoate Schematic is a series of 20 drawings created while artist-in-residence at TopShed in Norfolk, UK, 2018. The drawings use a typewriter, carbon copy paper, watercolour ink and a Tekagraph as tools to respond to Bruno Munari's famous 'Design As Art' essays. |
The Six Shot Gallery, Online | Details |
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"I Am A" - part of the Danielle Teale Dance exhibition01/06/2021 — 18/12/2022 “I Am A” is a paper installation that uses the movements of dancers as source material for mark-making. The dancers’ thoughts about their experience are distilled down to a single word, overlaid onto those marks but emerging from a matrix of letters, mirroring the way movements emerge from complex experiences and feelings. The work was... [Read more] |
UK-wide, UK-wide | Details |
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the action of water01/09/2017 — 17/12/2017 For The Action Of Water, I worked with West Yorkshire Archaeological Services to use their 2013-14 survey of the Victoria Gate site in central Leeds as the starting point for new work. I was especially interested in the archaeological classification systems that look at overlapping categories and with the layers of material uncovered during... [Read more] |
East Street Arts, 130 Vicar Lane, Leeds | Details |