Ur-ban adj (relating or belonging to the City) Al-pha-bet n (a set of letters, usually listed in order, used in writing language….)

UrbanAlphabet is an investigative project about the relationship of words with city  landscape: be it down-town city streets, back lanes with ‘gang’ graffiti, retail imagery in all its glitz and splendour or visual blight -  fluorescence and vinyl.  It’s perhaps about poetic interpretation - witness Love, Justice, Soul – shop, street names or games stirring memories of emotions or life experience.

Four artists – Susan Grant, Stuart Johnstone, Ruth Maxwell and David Pettigrew, were invited by GHAT to investigate the urban environment and submit  around 5-6 images each to be exhibited in the Art Gallery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The invitation also extended to submitting the full folio of shots taken, for use in a Plasma Screen presentation which would run at the exhibition opening or in other venues during the Word Festival.



word07 – University of Aberdeen Writers Festival runs from Friday 11 May to Sunday 13 May 2007. 
For full details or to book online go to www.abdn.ac.uk/word