12 Works by Nicci Haynes

By | 1 November 2019
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Wakewords | shredded paper, A2 with variable extension to floor | 2009 | photograph by Stuart Hay

Those works on the previous page respond to my own sensations of writing but were also provoked by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, which attracted me because of its apparent unintelligibility, and because of the inspirational message I got from Microsoft Word just before my Word copy of FW crashed (see image next page).

The broken grids and fraying bits and pieces relate to the broken writing and peculiar structure of Finnegans Wake. In both, the whole of Finnegans Wake is arranged to fit on an A2 page.



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Nicci Haynes is a visual artist whose roaming practice includes print, drawing, mad-scientist installations and awkward little videos, which are variously brought into service as vehicles for her explorations. With language and communication difficulty as a recurring theme the work often finds itself in the company of poetry. Haynes currently works in the Printmedia and Drawing Workshop at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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