ANN NOËL

Curated by artist Stephen Bann, this city-wide project saw verse, rhythm and rhyme take physical form via a series of outdoor typographical structures. In the Laines visitors experienced a communal project on the ‘five vowels’ produced by the students of Bath Academy and a setoff ‘typographical columns’ designed by German Hansjörg Mayer, whilst on a board outside the Royal Pavilion the word ‘seas’ appeared repeated with the word ‘ease’ in the middle. The project also saw two early poems erected by Ian Hamilton Finlay, who would later become critically acclaimed for his poetry, art and writing. These particular structures became feted in the press who praised this new poetic form, hailing that it could compare with the ‘direct method of Concrete Art’.