Newcastle University

Paul Elliman is a London based artist whose practice often seems set on disassembling the social impact of graphic design. Following language through many of its social and technological guises, his work reflects on a world in which typography, the human voice and bodily gestures emerge as part of a direct correspondence with everyday forms and sounds of the city. This is illustrated adroitly in his project Found Fount, an ongoing series in which urban flotsam is transferred into a diverse array of alphabet-like signs and punctuation marks.

Here, as always, Elliman implicates language as its own untrustworthy protagonist operating at the limits of what we see, say or hear.

Selected recent exhibitions include: KÕNDIDES MÖÖDA SALATEID (While walking on secret paths or while walking on salads), Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2013; The Social Life of the Record, castillo/coralles, Paris, 2013; Deep Cuts, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Nl, 2012-13; Now Here is Also Nowhere, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2012-13; Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012.