the tiny press

The tiny press is an independent studio for the production of work about 'material language'. Sheena Calvert has made such work about language, engaging with it through the medium of letterpress printing, for over 40 years.

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She is a 'word-based' artist, designer, writer, and educator. At the tiny press she uses the collection of over 450 cases of metal and wooden letters and other printed ephemera to explore our changing relationship with language past, present and future. The tiny press is both a historical archive and a functioning studio for Sheena's creative explorations of language.

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An entirely Artificial Intelligence non-compliant studio, no form of AI is used there to generate language. it's a place where she (and the people she collaborates with), can express their deep love of human language, using only human language.

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