PARK ROYAL ARTBOARDS

Glossarium
—
Pati Starzykowski

A blank image with a diagonal black line running from the top left to the bottom right.

“GLOSSARIUM is a collection of glosses and draft drawings, written with triangles oscillating around their axis. It started out as a script and pattern for a sculptural project, but I found these drawings quite playful as I tested them out. So I was interested to see them in a public setting, particularly as they are marginal notes: comments, attributions, personal annotations that we all do in some form — small side notes contrasting with the weight of the purist, functional script.

The panels are inspired by the ancient form of writing, the cuneiform. The cuneiform was used to inscribe onto clay tablets, developed as an early form of communication in Mesopotamia, modern Iraq and beyond. But they also depicted mundane notes. There is research suggesting that some cuneiform tablets use the Pythagorean theorem model to measure the land and its belonging.”

Script Guide:

A series of black geometric shapes, each labeled with a letter from A to Z, arranged in four rows. The shapes include triangles, circles, squares, lines, and various polygonal forms.

LOCATIONS:

Multiple images of outdoor walls and fences with white panels displaying black abstract symbols, arranged in various urban and industrial settings.
A map showing a rural area with roads named Standard Road, Dragoon Road, Gorst Road, Sunbeam Road, and Park Royal Road. Black numbered circles mark specific locations along these roads.

About the Artist:

PATI STARZYKOWSKI

Pati Starzykowski (b.1982) is an artist, designer and cultural producer working and producing at the intersection of art, science, ecology, and politics. Pati ‘s work addresses locality, historicity and materiality around the question of value with a focus on peri-urban communities' development. Being an advocate for radical urban rewilding as a remedial action for climate emergency-related impact on communities and infrastructure, Pati works with rescued, repurposed and living materials.

Pati graduated from MA Art and Science, Central Saint Martins. Their recent project Meteorite [Park Royal] commissioned by OPDC and the Mayor of London is a community and public art work focused on collective ecological making with living materials and will be shown to public through summer near North Acton Square and within the Park Royal Design District.

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PARK ROYAL ARTBOARDS

15 public art panels, made from reclaimed wooden pallets, mounted on buildings and benches all around Park Royal.

A new exhibition is installed every couple of months, showcasing the work of local artists.

Supported by:

Multiple logos of organizations including Excelsior, Old Oak and Royal Development Corporation, Imperial College London, and City Docklands.