Saint Work Art Installation
Exhibition
Commercial Artists Go Rogue
Works
Calligraphy Mural, Lettered Halo
Monday welcomes us to the start of the week at The Cult of Work. We recite motivational mantras whilst sending out emails with empty words. Hustle hard / kind regards. Will our devotion to workism allow us to achieve transcendence?
I had the pleasure of creating this typographic artwork as part of the Saturday exhibition at the Maitland Regional Art Gallery. Through the mundane repetition of writing the word “work”, I built toward a piece of art that was greater than the sum of its parts.
The audience is invited to step in front of the wall to become Saint Work with the halo glowing behind their head
The word “work” was sketched in gothic blackletter, then vectored and rotated to create a halo. The vectored halo was sent to be laser cut out of gold stainless steel.
The word “work” was hand written in the shape of a stained glass church window. Liquid gold metallic paint was used with paint markers with various nib sizes and shapes.
Email cliches like “kind regards” were hidden amongst the mural.
