Curated Selection

Wave Tumbled Pebbles are Future Mountains, 2021 by Chris Alton

Promises of Things to Come (2021) is a set of three banners, which were commissioned for the 40th Anniversary of Aspex, Portsmouth. Their individual titles are: Wave Tumbled Pebbles are Future Mountains, One Day the Last Rubbish Will Crumble into Good Dirt, & Here We Witness Outlines Promises of Things to Come.

The three banners combine written metaphor, geological imagery, and literary references. One Day the Last Rubbish Will Crumble into Good Dirt quotes Marge Piercy’s feminist science fiction novel, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). The banners are also influenced by Robert MacFarlane’s Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019). These texts carry a sense of the temporary, fluctuating nature of all things, and connect with my ongoing concern regarding our relationship with the living planet.

228 x 200cm

Looking for Lesbians: A Los Angeles Atlas, 2022 by Sarah-Joy Ford

Looking for Lesbians presents a map of my specific encounter with the ONE Archives collection and traces my interactions with the archive and beyond. It chronicles some of the archival material, places, and people I have encountered, and the conversations I had during my artist-in-residency. The map is in conversation with the archival materials on display in the vitrine—my attempt to untangle and re-tangle some of the threads of lesbian history and activism that weave through the collections at ONE. Interwoven with the pulp collection, the map traces the lesbians in Los Angeles who were looking for lesbian literature, and, through this search, created their own literary culture, including writing groups, feminist presses, magazines, newspapers, listings, and published novels and poetry. It highlights some of the significant collections held at ONE Archives, including Clothespin Fever Press (1985-1986), which was a lesbian feminist publishing company run by Carolyn Weathers and the artist Jenny Wrenn. Wrenn additionally published Lesbian Line newspaper, which acted as a catalogue for Clothespin Fever and as a national newsletter and finding aid for lesbian publishing across the USA. The map is in no way comprehensive or representative of lesbian literary activism in Los Angeles. It is only a snapshot--my visualization of my time with the archive and some of the lesbians of Los Angeles. It is an acknowledgement of the deep pleasure that finding lesbian connections can bring, and a reminder of the joy of finding lesbian community.

70 x 400cm
 

Mothers Day '84, 1982 - 1986 by Pen Dalton

The only income many women, including me, had was the weekly family allowance, which we collected from the post office. The print celebrates the friends with whom i shared childcare and facsimiles of contemporary official documents. Screen printed on graph paper.

60 x 70cm

On (repeat), 2018 by Kristy Campbell

On (repeat): completed composition of fifteen changing styles. Closely related to themes on Anxiety. The subtle alteration of the typeface within this practice symbolises the recurring feeling that accompanies this term 'anxiety', and how flexible it can be too. How sometimes it appears and disappears in a single moment, and how sometimes it can evolve quite rapidly. The gentle changes in the green take us on a journey in and out of a mental state, in an attempt to make it seem more manageable/approachable. The repetitive nature of this piece allows the viewer to familiarise themself with the letter forms, with the notion of facing the same challenge again and again.

Notations for a Poem in Voice Font G, 2017 by Caro Williams

Poem in voice font – a typeface I invented using sound bands generated by spoken alphabet

40 x 29.7cm