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Texta Texens
Texta Texens

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Artist Sue Lawty created 'Texta Texens' for the Yorkshire Year of the Textile programme, which celebrates the rich textile heritage of the University of Leeds and wider region. The work marks a 60th anniversary response both to, and in dialogue with, Mitzi Cunliffe’s 'Man Made Fibres' of 1956 situated high on the façade of Clothworkers South Building. The artwork 'Texta Texens' explores the link between text and textile, evoking the interwoven nature of life and learning, research and education, people and place. The words 'text' and 'textile' have a shared origin in the Latin verb Texere: to weave, to fabricate. 'Texta Texens' was produced in collaboration with the sculptor and stone carver Dan Jones and the poet Helen Mort. Dan Jones lives and works in Yorkshire creating work for public spaces and rural environments.

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

Leeds

Title

Texta Texens

Date

2016

Medium

Kilkenny limestone

Accession number

LEEUA 2017.002

Acquisition method

commissioned, 2017

Work type

Sculpture

Inscription description

inscribed poem by Helen Mort: Texere / This lettering / is weft or woof. / (These brackets / are a loom). / This emphasis / is careful warp / inside each / stanza’s room. / The gaps we leave / are shedding. / This punctuation / is a kind of twill / and dots the page / like picking, / the core of every / word held still. / The campus round us / is the thread, / inside our city, / story-scored. / You are the shuttle / through the shed. / These making hands / are yours. / Helen Mort 2016

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