The exhibition of the writing group 26 and LX collaboration has its private view tonight so more details tomorrow!I can now reveal my artwork - I collaborated with Laura Hunter "my poet" . We got the word LINO after stabbing an Oxford dictionary with a butcher's knife in a weird word ceremony at The Betsey trotwood Pub. Here is our write-up:Lino by Laura Hunter and Lin Kerr Laura's Voice: On a warm evening in the depths of the Betsey Trotwood, two strangers – Lin and I – approached the OED. I … [Read more...]
Retro lettering
I am working on the poetry collaboration between lettering artists and poets. Laura is "my poet" and we drew the word "Lino". Laura has written a poem looking back at her Grandmother's lino floor and setting the poem in the mid-fifties and then moving to the present time. It was shortly after this "magical time" that I could have been sitting at Granny's table, aged 14, laboriously copying out lettering from my Speedball catalogue. With this in mind and a cue from one of my favourite … [Read more...]