A 168-year-old strikethrough typeface commissioned for printing New South Wales Bill amendments is resurrected, bringing legacies of bureaucratic writing and governmental maintenance into dialogue with contemporary and decolonial applications of the strikethrough. What might be made visible in the space between these two narratives? What forms of new writing might be catalysed using an old typeface?
Therese Keogh and Dennis Grauel invite a constellation of thinkers, poets and artists into conversation around a set of meticulously re-fabricated metal type and a letterpress, configured to print ideas and texts gestated from each conversation, with assorted printed matter accumulating as the exhibition unfolds.
A series of public programs will feature guest speakers, printing workshops and open conversations, aggregating into a collective untangling of colonial administrative writing practices. A body of creative printed works will explore modes of textual refusal and redress within the long shadow of violent colonial documents.
Exhibition by Therese Keogh and Dennis Grauel
Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.
Top image: PICA ERASED, 2026, Therese Keogh & Dennis Gruel
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