Hit the Wall: Sound Tracks

 

In Sound Tracks, New Zealand typographer and graphic designer Catherine Griffiths explores vowel sounds for the ’Hit The Wall’ space in the gallery. Visitors in the foyer can look up  to be confronted by a large AEIOU emerging out of a network of converging and overlapping white lines, tracking in unison against a jet black background.

Griffiths manipulates her drawing through digital and analogue distortion – printing, scanning and enlarging the image to produce reverberating letterforms.

Sound Tracks is the second installation in the artist’s AEIOU series. The first work – a typographic sound sculpture (AEIOU, 2009) – is a construction of five vowels in steel, stacked five metres high on the first-level terrace of Cubana Apartments in Wellington.

Catherine Griffiths (b. 1966) is a designer and typographer based in Auckland and Paris, widely recognised for applying her practice to distinctly different contexts and environments, from pocket-sized artist books to public sculpture in architecture and the landscape.

This ’Hit the Wall’ site has been produced by the creative team at DAC Group: leading New Zealand display, exhibition and interpretation specialists. DAC Group is a custom manufacturer of large format graphics for interior and exterior applications, and is a provider to major museums and exhibitors throughout New Zealand. Sound Tracks demonstrates DAC Group’s commitment to producing innovative and high quality photographic and inkjet digital imaging solutions.

 

—The Dowse blog

The Dowse Art Museum / October 2011