An Apt Turn of Phrase by Ann Noel is both an artist book and poetry book. Staple bound and published by Boekie Woekie in 2014, this publication features 23 typographic works by the artist Ann Noel which were originally exhibited at the Galleria AT in Poznan, Poland in the exhibition titled Windows On the World in 2000. Each work is a poem, made of news headlines from many issues of the Times Literary Supplement, published in London. The work as a whole becomes a poetic zeitgeist of London at the end of the twentieth century.
Ann Noel is an artist from Plymouth, England who lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Bath Academy of Art in the 1960s and went on to work with Hansjörg Mayer at Something Else Press in New York City. Her work has been shown internationally and she published several artist books. Noel is also an esteemed professor, and has taught at Harvard, California Institute of the Arts and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Boekie Woekie is an Amsterdam based publisher. Since the 1980’s, Boekie Woekie has been producing artist books and poetry as well as holding readings and exhibitions in their gallery space. A mainstay at art book fairs all over the world, Boekie Woekie continues to serve as a platform for both Amsterdam and international artists.
