The Centre is pleased to host a free public lecture by Catherine Griffiths, entitled A Type of Improvisation. Griffiths is a designer & typographer, who in the past has worked with Wellington poet Jenny Bornholdt and ceramic artist Raewyn Atkinson to create typography onto ceramics. In 2000 she created a series of 15 astonishing, large-scale concrete text sculptures that were positioned along Wellington’s waterfront. Writings by New Zealand authors including Bill Manhire, Katherine Mansfield, and James K. Baxter are set in blocks of either Helvetica Extra Compressed or Optima type, to varying but always impressive effect. In 2009, Simone Wolf (Typevents Italy) and Griffiths conceived, curated and organised TypeSHED11, New Zealand’s first-ever international typography symposium.

(Initially, Sarah Maxey was to deliver this opening talk, but unfortunately for personal reasons she had to withdraw.)

Catherine’s talk will launch the 2014 symposium on Book & Art.

You can learn more about Catherine on her website, http://www.catherinegriffiths.co.nz

We hope you can join us for this special evening.

Venue: Dunningham Suite, 4th Floor, Dunedin Public Libraries, Moray Place

Time: 7 pm, Thursday, 16 October 2014

For further enquiries, please contact Dr Donald Kerr, Special Collections, University of Otago.
Email: Donald.kerr@otago.ac.nz
Phone: (03)-479-8330