Spokenwrittendrawn is a collection of sketchbook pages created by Sally Noall in response to the use of language in the workplace. Noall is the Programme manager for young people at Tate St. Ives, and this 6 month project explores language as an aspect of “organisational change” in this role. As an artist working within an institution, Noall explores how the dos and don’ts of institutional language are carried out in reality, and questions how these restrictions can complement an artists’ working practice. Noall has scanned in pages from her sketchbooks and made them into a single digital publication that can be seen as a book online. This process has allowed her to eliminate irrelevant notes and scribbles, but also highlight her own thinking process; “Content which I would previously have considered unimportant, unfinished, or just the beginning of an idea, exists independently. The digitisation process has been as significant as the original pages. Editing has removed some of the white noise and scribble, and brings pages together to create a new work suitable for sharing.” All of the pages have been scanned in and turned into flattened images, yet even as a 2D document the pages still resemble book pages, with shadows and lines indicating their origin. There is a strange sense of a barrier here- the digital programme lets you turn the pages with the press of a button yet the viewer cannot hold the pages themselves. The data on these pages has been frozen and can no longer be altered. The sketchbook is transformed into a spectacle. Noall has turned her personal, inward-looking sketchbooks into an outward-facing public document. The editing process that she has gone through to produce the publication makes a completely new piece of work, with the categorising of pages into chapters, addition of digital text and the blocking out and layering of other pages. The full document can be viewed here.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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