Paul's Place

I.C. Editions, a division of Susan Inglett Gallery, publisher

Mike Ward, printer

Hugh Stoneman, etcher

Paul Noble, artist

born 1963

Paul's Place, 2002

Where object was made: Atlas Print Studio, London, England, United Kingdom

Material/technique: etching

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 476.25 x 730.25 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 18 3/4 x 28 3/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 660.4 x 901.7 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 26 x 35 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 36 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2009.0174

Not on display

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"Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing," Mar-2012, Stephen Goddard
For much of his career Paul Noble has been at work on an expansive and detailed visualization of his fantastic and personal city, Nobson Newtown, which the artist described as 37 "town planning as self-portraiture." In some passages of the enormous drawings that form part of this effort, the individual structures take the form of letters allowing words to be teased out of clusters of buildings. The artist described this wordplay as "the painstaking design of a special font based on the forms of classic modernist architecture." The two prints exhibited here form a contiguous landscape that features the letter “A” and "Paul's Place," the artist's private domain with an outdoor sculpture studio and a spindly jungle gym that may be inhabited by an encrypted message.