About the exhibition

Located in a new gallery just off Lambs' Conduit Street in Bloomsbury, Imaginary Menagerie will feature new work from leading and emerging designers and studios in the UK and internationally.

19 designers were given an open brief to explore language's difficult, tongue-tripping, unpronounceable labyrinths typographically and in their own language. Drawing from Italian, Spanish, English, Russian and Chinese, these works take on a variety of forms: from letterpress and silkscreen prints, to light-based artworks and sculpture.

Participating designers

Barnbrook Design (UK) / Nod Young (China) / Polina Pakhomova (UK / Russia) / Sabine Bockting (Netherlands) / Happycentro (Italy) / Morag Myerscough (UK) / Graham Bignell (UK) / Liza Ramalho / Artur Reblo (Portugal) Astrid Stavro (Spain) / Company (UK) / Atelier Driebholz (UK / Austria) / Catherine Dixon (UK) / Andreas Pohancenik (UK / Austria) / Ryan Dixon (UK) / Cartlidge Levene (UK) / Jim Sutherland (UK) / Hand & Eye Letterpress / Mary Plunkett (UK / Ireland)

Opening times

Opening times:
19 October (private view) 18.00-21.00pm
20 October (late opening) 18.00-21.00pm

We will remain open over the
21 & 22 October from 11.00-17.00 as part
of the Bloomsbury Festival.

Press info

Imaginary Menagerie is the third in a series
of design events produced by text/gallery, a nonprofit platform for explorations of the printed word, beginning with the 2009 exhibition The Art of Lost Words.

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For further information and images please contact press@textgallery.info.