Window Text: Hing Loong

The next in our series of window text commissions is Hing Loong by Hattie Godfrey and David Campbell. Ten artists/writers were invited to create one page of text; a completely open brief. The texts range from dense, deeply personal accounts to bold slogans, personal, political, observations or a call to action, each capturing the different thoughts and feelings of the author. The texts have been designed by different artists and designers and printed in a risograph edition by Derry Print Workshop.

The texts are visible from CCA's windows, each for two weeks, as well as visible online here and distributed across our region. All ten will be available later in the year as a bundle edition available to buy from CCA's shop as a fundraiser.

Hing Loong, 2022–24
Author: Hattie Godfrey
Designer: David Campbell
Printer: Derry Print Workshop
Risograph edition of 200

About the author & designer:

Hattie Godfrey is an artist and researcher whose work utilises a range of mediums including performance, writing and collaborative practices to create works that consider her own and society’s increasingly complicated relationship with concepts of illness, care and convalescence. Recent displays of Hattie’s work include The Irish Cultural Centre in London, The McManus in Dundee and Platform Arts Belfast. Hattie studied BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, holds an MSc in Psychological Science from Queen’s University Belfast and is about to begin training as a Counselling Psychotherapist.

@hattiegodfrey

David Campbell is an artist and designer from Derry. He has worked extensively in promoting and supporting the comic book art form and culture in Ireland, founding 2D, the NI Comics Festival (2007–2013) and ComicCity in 2015, a festival celebrating comics & creative arts, which ran until 2018.

A keen advocate for visual storytelling, he previously worked with a broad range of schools and colleges teaching about art and illustration. He was Art Director for the Celtronic music festival, from 2001 to 2015. He currently works as a designer for Games Workshop, home of Warhammer and Lord of the Rings.

'Hattie's words beautifully captured that dreamlike state of drifting along on bus journeys, with the random nuggets you pick up and the strange details you half notice. I tried to complement them on the page, with a scattered arrangement of visual elements.
I've worked with Derry Print Workshop in the past, they're brilliant, so it's really good to work with them again on the Riso project, using a limited colour palette.'

davidcampbellart.co.uk

This project was made possible thanks to support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Derry City & Strabane District Council and Art Fund.