Author: richardhiglett

Contemporary artist, curator, musician, writer, designer and active dreamer. Richard Higlett is currently based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. He works equally in a gallery setting or in the public environments, on works and projects that he describes as acts of folly. Examples of previous work are the creation of a dog choir, a series of fiddle jigs inspired by water flow, a digital typeface from eighth century Welsh handwriting, a minimalist sculpture using 10,000 pennies, a zebra crossing designed for cats and a 10 metre mirrored bill board hidden in a forest. His practice is dependent on humour and chance and he rarely exhibits the same work twice. This makes him difficult to define or catalog as an artist as his methodology and ideas are what he describes as his intangible medium and he is not known for a signature type of work. As a curator, he was one half of Mermaid and Monster an agency which represented Contemporary Welsh artists in the late noughties. In twenty-ten, he founded Goat Major Projects an artist-led project space in Cardiff which hosted a number of off-site projects and events. He also presents mobile sound art/bands/poets via a speaker system mounted on a car roof. Richard Higlett also exhibits under the names, RE: Higlett, Wally French and Manyfesto. He is a member of the Ironirock Art Pop duo Starlings Planet, his stage name is Elton Braces.

Demonstration of the ‘teilo’ typeface 16/11 at Llandeilo Fawr

A drop in workshop to discover more about a typeface based on the Surexit Manuscript written in the 9th Century in the margins of the St Chad Gospel, these words/letters by an unknown hand writing in Old Welsh is now a Free typeface offering the opportunity to keep the work of this unknown person alive…

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New project

Creation of two new global phrases to promote world harmony. Both phases having calming empathetic tone in any language, created to bring people closer.

Revisiting Jack

Here is the manuscript for the voice of Angus, a Jack Russell Terrier from A Song For Jack 2008. Looking at properly archiving this project. R.

Proununproun

Endless Kiss installation unassembled and re-arranged 10/13

Duchamps

On-going: available as A2 Giclée Print Over the past 5 years I have been collecting wire sculptures made by street vendors in a number of cities. Each time the request is the same, I ask for the name Marcel Duchamp, which I usually write on a piece of paper and request a blue flower to…

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Colm Cille’s Spiral Workbook

The Book http://www.colmcillespiral.net/the-book/ Workbook for Project. In Passing 2013 work at Strensham Sevices Southbound M5 part of ‘the book’ project. Llandeilo Horse based on an actual horse currently for sale in Lichfield and Lichfield horse based on a horse currently for sale in Llandeilo. Image from the install on 28/10/13 and 29/10/13 Proposed new piece…

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