Imaged Words & Worded Image
A mail art exhibition curated by David Dellafiora for Field Study International, featuring 170 artists from 25 countries.
Saturday 2nd July, until 12 August 2022.
Imaged Words & Worded Images takes it title from a book edited by Richard Kostelanetz in 1970 which promised "poetic imagery, artful poetry, concrete poetry, and beat wordsmithing" by artists including Claes Oldenburg, John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
The invitation to send visual/text works on paper at A5 size (14.7 x 21cm) or 3D bookworks up to a size of 21x29x25cm was sent out through David's mail art networks in mid 2021 as a collaboration between WordXimage and Field Study.
Mail art has a long history in Australia,and we are delighted that many well known contributors both internationally and from Australia are included in this exhibition.
See full list from 25 countries below on this page.
A MAIL ART INTRO from the Tate Modern site: "Mail art began in the 1960s when artists sent postcards inscribed with poems or drawings through the post rather than exhibiting or selling them through conventional commercial channels. Its origins can be found in Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters and the Italian futurists. But it was the New York artist Ray Johnson who, in the mid 1950s, posted small collages, prints of abstract drawings and poems to art world notables giving rise to what eventually became known as the New York Correspondence School."
DAVID DELLAFIORA is the coordinator of the correspondence art group Field Study International. Through Field Study he produces the assembling publications Field Report, KART, WIPE and ReSite. Educated in the UK in the 80's and relocating to Australia in 1998, David has been active in the mailart community for over 30 years. Dellafiora's own practice includes public art, community-based art and artist books. His artist books are in numerous international collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Tate Britain and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry now held at the University of Iowa, USA.
DAVID'S OPENING TALK (audio, 17 minutes)
FULL LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Imaged Words and Worded Images: an international Mail Art exhibition at WordXimage from 2 to 23 July 2022.
Curated by David Dellafiora for Field Study International.
WordXimage gallery director Richard Kelly Tipping.
ARGENTINA
Rosa Gravino
AUSTRALIA
Geoff Aldridge
Helen Amyes
Andrew Bennett
Simon Blau
Arjun von Caemmerer
Sandy Caldow
Anna Couani
Dave Cubby
David Dellafiora
Caren Florance
J Hardaker
Susan Hartigan
David Hawkes
Brian Kirby
Avril Makula
Chris Mansell
Denis Mizzi
Peter Murphy
Monica Oppen
TT.O.
Terry Reid
Alex Selenitsch
Janice Slater
Glen Smith
Zoe Snyder
Beverley Southcott
Richard Tipping
Les Wicks
AUSTRIA
Alexander Charistos
Gerald Jatzek
BRAZIL
Hugo Pontes
CANADA
Carlyle Baker
Kurt Beaulieu
Susan Gold
Toan Vinh
Mailarta
Theo Nelson
Snappy
BELGIUM
Luc Fierens
Jean-Philippe Gilliot
FRANCE
Christian Alle
Cristophe Massé
Michel Della Vedova
GERMANY
Lutz Anders
Hanna Bayer
Norbert Böckmann
Brandstifter
Hans Braumüller
Thorsten Fuhrmann
Dr Klaus Groh
Uli Grohmann
Elke Grundmann
Nula Horo (Wolfgang Günther)
Sugar Irmer
Eberhard Janke
Sonja Knecht
Constanze Kreiser
Peter Müller
Andrew Maximilian Niss
Jurgen O. Olbrich
Bernd Plake
Ptrzia (TICTAC)
Peter Schubert
Lars Schumacher
Horst Tress
GREECE
Karkatselis Vasilis
HUNGARY
Pál Csaba
ITALY
Nino Barone
Vittore Baroni
Viviana Buttarelli
Angela Caporaso
Bruno Cassaglia
Mimmo di Caterino
Bruno Chiarlone
Carla Crosio
Albina Dealessi
Marcello Diotallevi
Antonella Gandini
Guido Gecatti
Annamaria Gelmi
Ivana Geviti
Cudin Giampietro
Claudio Grandinetti
Adriana Kobor
Alfonso Lentini
Silvia Lepore
Pino Lia
Oronzo Liuzzi
Serse Luigetti
Morice Marcuse
Ruggero Maggi
Pietro Romano Matarrese
Annitta di Mineo
I Miradebora
Maya Lopez Muro
Giuliana Natali
Teo de Palma
Cristiano Pallara
Linda Paoli
Silvano Pertone
Marisa Pezzoli
Riccardo Pezzoli
Veronique Pozzi
Becci Revena
Gaetano Ricci
Antonio Sassu
Roberto Scala
Luigino Solamito
Lucia Spagnuolo
Ada Eva Verbena
Daniele Virgilio
Giovanni Strada
Rolando Zucchini
JAPAN
Tohei Mano
Keiichi Nakamura
Mukata Takamura
LITHUANIA
Mindangas Žuromekas
NETHERLANDS
Piet Franzen
Magda Lagerwerf
Michiel Romme
Anneke Stil
Rod Summers
Willemien Visser
NORWAY
Torill Elisabeth Larsen
PAKISTAN
Muhammad Shehzad Majeed
POLAND
Piotr Szreniawski
Maria José Silva-Miz*é
Antonio Mousinho
ROMANIA
Carmen Racovitza
SPAIN
Pedro Bericat
Antonia Mayol Castelló
Ferran Destemple
Antonio Gómez
Rafael Gonzalez
Miguel Jimenez
Beltrán Laguna
Felipe Lamadrid
Martina Loiarro
SWEDEN
Henry Grahn Hermunen
TAIWAN
William Mellott
TURKEY
Mustafa Cevat Atalay
UK
Julian Beere
Sarah Bodman
Mike Clements
Michael Leigh (A1 Waste Paper Co)
Marie Lister
Emily Lucas
Jude Maguire
Mireille Ribiére Suncroft
Alan Turner
Sue Vallance
URUGUAY
Clemente Padin
USA
David Stanley
John M Bennett
Gary A Bibb
Daniel C Boyer
buZ blurr
Fluke Publishing
Rosalie Gancie
John Held Jr
Douglas Holleley
Lewis Koch
Scott McCarney
Joey Patrick
Stephen Perkins
Mimi Shapiro
RoCola
Mark Sonnenfeld
Carol Stetser
David Stone
Reid Wood (State of Being)
