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

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Under Construction

This etching depicts a scene from Paul Noble’s imaginary metropolis known as Nobson Newtown, an ongoing project that Noble has worked on since the mid-1990s. Noble has portrayed his fictitious city in a variety of media, including large-scale drawings, prints, and sculptures. Each section of the town is custom-made for the person or being who dwells in it, creating a bizarre utopia comprised of unique structures. Although these are presumably inhabited spaces, Noble does not depict the residents who live there. However, we see indications of ongoing construction and figures carved into tree stumps-evidence of the creative individuals who live, or used to live, in this fantastical city.

Cryptograph: An Exhibition for Alan Turing

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 “town planning as selfportraiture.” 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.

Exhibition Label:
"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.