ever since going on that trip to firstsite/colchester, I've had this urge to push text-based ideas more in my work... it has always been there... but now it is just clawing its way out, for real... I HAVE so much to SAY... some of them nonsensical but probably will make their own sense as it creates itself.. some of them just plain and There. I was inspired last year by tracey emin's use of language as well. elise, in my group tutorial yesterday recommended me to go to JD malat to see the show there, because robert montgomery plays with text too, and i am definitely going, and in the exhibition introduction on their website, they mentioned several other contemporaries I am going to look into.
https://jdmalat.com/exhibitions/shiny-coloured-amusements-for-the-walls-of-the-bourgeoise-robert-montgomery/
Whilst many artists become synonymous with one artistic medium, Robert is rather synonymous with a particular kind of poetic phrasing — loosely applying the principle of “concrete poetry” across an array of media, he brings words alive in watercolour, fire poems, solar powered light installations, woodcut panels, billboards and paintings. His work sits somewhere in-between a tradition of contemporary language art seen in artists like Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer and Lawrence Weiner, and an older tradition of concrete poetry that goes back to Guillaume Apollinaire and in Britain to Ian Hamilton Finlay and Edward Lucie-Smith.
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/lawrence-weiner
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jenny-holzer-1307