@ Bury Art Gallery
Opening: 30th April 2011 / 11.30am
30th April – 9th July 2011

For centuries artists have used language in visual art. This has usually taken the form of single words, found text and sentences. In contemporary art, the sentence has been a dominant form since...

@ Bury Art Gallery
Preview: 30th April 2011 / 11.00am
30th April – 2nd July 2011

The history of the word as image, the visual poem, stretches back to ancient times, but in the last hundred years has been punctuated by seminal moments allied to breakthroughs across artforms, such...

@ Bury Museum & Archives
Opening: 30th April 2011 / 11.30am
30th April – 27 August 2011

The period 1880 to 1930 represents a golden age of not only for the British cotton industry, but also the complex and unique graphic language that evolved alongside it: hundreds of thousands of individual...

@ The Met Arts Centre
30th April – 28th May 2011
 

One of the most popular artists of the 2009 Text Festival, Liz Collini is a printmaker who explores ideas of language as a system underpinned by assumptions of authority. Her work investigates reading...

@ The Fusilier Museum
Preview 30^th April 2011 / 1.00pm
30^th April – 18^th July 2011 

The Fusilier Museum is home to the collection of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, commemorating over 300 years of history and military heritage. With the regiment currently...

@ The Transport Museum

Preview 30^th April 2011 / 2.00pm
30^th April – 27^th May 2011

Bury’s newest museum opens its fascinating space and collection to interventions and installations secreted as playful gestures and paratactic commentary. The show will feature works by Matt...