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.

Before (B-312 Gallery, 2005)

Before (2005) from Richard Higlett on Vimeo. Earlier animation related to ‘Before’ There from Richard Higlett on Vimeo.

All These Worlds Are Yours Except…

All These Worlds Are Yours Except….. from Richard Higlett on Vimeo. Gallery text for Welcome to Your World:  1  – 15 October 2011 “No-one loves the messenger who brings bad news.” From Antigone by Sophocles Messengers come from many places bearing a variety of news, good bad and indifferent. They tell us of experiences and…

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A Paper by Anna Powell

About Anna Powell LINK Treasure-hunting, Conversation and Chance: game-playing through artistic encounters Anna Powell Key Words: Nicholas Bourriaud, Michael Baxandall, Tacita Dean, Robert Smithson, Marcel Duchamp,contemporary, hidden, concealed, relational, exhibition, treasure-hunt, play, game, hide-and-seek, conversation, dialogue, experience, labour. Abstract Art practice and gallery visiting have been discussed in the context of ‘play’ by cultural theorists,…

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Archiving to WordPress

Interview 2008 Axis Magazine by Anne Powell AP Making your artworks hidden/not easy to see could be seen to suggest a hide-and-seek type game, where a moment of discovery either happens spontaneously by chance or as a result of actively searching for the artwork. Can you say something about how your work might be a…

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Archiving to WordPress

PROP 2004 (left) and what remains 2014 (Right) Richard Higlett’s photograph of his sculpture Prop spells out 2004AD, an elegy to the Countdown font, a typeface designed in 1966 by Colin Brignall. In its day this typeface was aspirational, designed to reflect a futuristic utopia in a decade where space exploration was embryonic. The clumsy…

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