Tom Nicholson:
Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty, 2013-2019
Chimney in store (Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty), 2022
Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty, 2013-2019
Chimney in store (Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty), 2022
Matter of Sorts
Vincent Chan, Dennis Grauel
Vincent Chan, Dennis Grauel
Matter of Sorts was commissioned to create a suite of exclusive revival typefaces for artist Tom Nicholson, for use inTowards a monument to Batman’s Treaty, as well as the following artwork Chimney In Store
(Towards a monument to Batman’s Treaty).
10 typefaces were created based on a survey of all available commemtorative typography within the Hoddle Grid. These elements of the work were first shown at Public Meeting, a major retrospecive of Nicholson’s work at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA),
Tom Nicholson’s Chimney in store reflects on the complex meanings of the ‘treaty’ John Batman claimed he signed with Wurundjeri people in 1835. Invalid under both Kulin and Crown law, the so-called treaty precipitated invasion and dispossession in Port Phillip, and the establishment of Melbourne. The artwork is conceived from the position of a non-Aboriginal artist. It attempts to think through the role of monuments and the collective responsibilities that issue from the histories and realities of invasion.
10 typefaces were created based on a survey of all available commemtorative typography within the Hoddle Grid. These elements of the work were first shown at Public Meeting, a major retrospecive of Nicholson’s work at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA),
Tom Nicholson’s Chimney in store reflects on the complex meanings of the ‘treaty’ John Batman claimed he signed with Wurundjeri people in 1835. Invalid under both Kulin and Crown law, the so-called treaty precipitated invasion and dispossession in Port Phillip, and the establishment of Melbourne. The artwork is conceived from the position of a non-Aboriginal artist. It attempts to think through the role of monuments and the collective responsibilities that issue from the histories and realities of invasion.