2024–2025
Models is a multi-faceted project unfolding from a book-length poetic work, which manifested through a series of public works, an exhibition and a typeface. Although initially temporary and working, the title ‘ Models’ began to propose a framework for a larger body of work of combined forms. By definition, the word ‘models’ speaks to a proposed structure and the work is generated through a process of building and unbuilding; it is through an exploration of form as a container and how subjects are expressed and survive within them. Adrien’s practice is concerned with text as a hybrid object and this often manifests in a multi-dimensional and poly-sensorial approach to writing through a visual language and the exploration of the poetic space through different mediums and field recordings.
Alongside the exhibition at Glasgow Project Room in March 2025 part of the project appeared across billboards on Osborne Street and West Graham Street supported by JackArts. These images documented a process of working with designer Maeve Redmond to develop a typeface in response to the project. The type combines textures and forms found across this body of work, such as imagery within the poem and printmaking marks; these elements have been transformed into the foundations of the type and thinking through the visual encounter of a written language.