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Meet Artist Dave Ball at Gallery Oldham
Contact Information
OLDHAM
Lancashire
OL11AL
T: 01617704653
Description
Meet Artist Dave Ball
Saturday 9 February, 1pm Gallery Oldham: FREE
Meet artist Dave Ball and enjoy a tour of his exhibition. Dave is seven years into a 35 year project to make an image for every word in the dictionary. The gallery is currently showing the letters A – C, which are the first 1,771 drawings and photographs.
It’s a great chance to find out more about this fascinating project. It’s free and there’s no need to book, just meet in the exhibition space.Gallery Oldham's monthly lunchtime talks and tours are a great way to find out more about exhibitions, collections and specialist exhibitions. Talks are free, informal and last around 40 minutes with time for discussion afterwards.
Gallery 2 – A to Z: The First Seven Years by Dave Ball
1 December – 2 March
Dave Ball always wanted to make art about the world. The problem was though, that hte world was frustratingly large and complex. Where could he possibly begin? In 2011 Ball embarked upon his project of visualising every word in the Concise Oxford English dictionary in alphabetical order. Starting with “Aardvark” and limiting himself to words he already knew the meaning of, a total of around 10,000 visualisations would need to be made, taking an estimated 35 years to complete.
This new exhibition presents the first three instalments of the project: From Aardvark to Axle, comprised of 461 drawings of the “A” words; Babble to Byte (from Memory), a sequence of 479 “B” drawings made without the aid of any visual source material; and All the Cs (through the lens of My Camera), which features over 800 photographs of words beginning with “C”.
Road Directions
Free town centre parking : You can park for free for up to 3 hours on all Council owned town centre car parks (listed below) every Saturday and Sunday. To qualify for this offer you must take a ticket from the pay and display machine for the length of time you are intending to stay.
Council owned town centre car parks: Civic Centre, Waterloo Street, Southgate Street, Bow Street, Bradshaw Street, Rock Street, Tommyfield (No Return Within 3 Hours) and New Radcliffe Street
What to do:
To take advantage of this offer you must take a ticket from the pay and display machine for the length of time you intend to stay. The ticket must be clearly displayed in the windscreen of your vehicle before you leave the car park. If you want to park for longer than 3 hours you must pay at the pay and display machine for the entire length of your stay. You can also park for up to 30 minutes on-street, seven days a week when you take a ticket from the pay and display machine.
Public Transport Directions
The Metrolink route through the heart of Oldham drops you just two minutes from our door. Gallery Oldham provides a wide range of exhibitions and activities targeted at different audiences of all ages within Oldham and the surrounding area. From Oldham Central stop head towards Sainsbury’s car park and almost immediately you’ll see the building. Trams operate at least every 12 minutes in both directions. For more details visit www.metrolink.co.uk or follow @MCRMetrolink
