North Façade of Frome Silk Mill Studios, off Vicarage Street

Lawrence Weiner is one of America’s pre-eminent living artists, a pivotal figure in the history of conceptual art and it's attempt to expand the idea of art beyond objects into the realm of ideas themselves. Since his seminal work Statements, 1968, Weiner has dispensed with making paintings or sculpture and concentrated on using language as his only material. In Frome, Weiner’s work will consist of a simple but imposing text painted directly onto the mill’s stone walls that both comments on the building’s position within the townscape and simultaneously suggests the subtle hierarchies of public space.

Venue Partner: Frome Silk Mill Studios