Carat

Title: ^ (caret/wedge/tô bach) Digital Print ^ is temporary pillar consisting of 100 selected books from the gallery stores. Ranging from guides on how to paint as a hobby to monographs on modernist masters and reference books on Art History, they span a period of around 70 years. The ‘^’ symbol has many names and uses. It is called specifically a caret, generally a circumflex, a wedge or informally a tô bach in Welsh. The caret is used in proof-reading to mark something that is missing, the name coming from the Latin caret meaning 'it lacks'. Currently the gallery is missing art, it is in creative limbo. The wedge refers to the insertion work into the space between floor and ceiling, while a tô bach is a little bridge, which relates to the process of transition the redevelopment of the Art Gallery brings to the life and history of the building. Part of The Book Project. Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Transition