Exhibition 'Entropie Books: 2014-2024' in Meffan Museum and Art Gallery
Barbara A Morton established Entropie Books in 2014 to publish unique editions of her poetry, literature, pamphlets, and artist books. Her artistic and literary practice incorporates the arts of poetry, printmaking, bookbinding, typography, papermaking, chine-collé́ and calligraphy to present her literary texts and
abstract geometric drawings in an exact and deliberate visual form. The environment, the home of the text, is critical. Likewise, typography ~ how the text resides on the page ~ is crucial. Resisting uniformity of design each published title is hand-crafted and intuitively considered to achieve an equilibrium of artistic form and literary content.
This exhibition at the Meffan Museum and Art Gallery recognises ten years of Entropie Books and represents the most comprehensive public presentation to date of the Entropie Books Catalogue 2014 ~ 2024. Each chapter of creative composition attains extension of intention and originality in the expression of poetry, book-making, drawing, and design. Each exhibit, likewise, demonstrates ambition and creative reach, both technically and imaginatively, and serves to maintain and develop an ongoing purpose of bringing poetry and poetic text to its aesthetic and accurate environment ~ to encourage the reader to look and to encourage the viewer to read. To look closely. To look again. To look ~ for longer.
Barbara A Morton’s writing is also published widely in national and international journals and anthologies. Books and prints are exhibited by the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Drawing School, McNaughtan’s Antiquarian Bookstore, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Meffan Museum and Art Gallery, Birnam Institute, and Edinburgh College of Art Library. She is recipient of literary and artistic awards, including the prestigious Meffan Institute Purchase Prize for The Word Itself is a Musical Sound.Entropie Books are collected to private and national collections, and to the Edinburgh College of Art Library and the Edinburgh University Centre for Research Collections. The National Library of Scotland holds the most significant collection and may be consulted at the Special Collections Reading Room, Edinburgh.
