I first encountered Victoria Bean's work at the Codex International Book Fair and bought herTen Poems for Pandora which is still a favorite. This year she broughtHelvetica Poems and I was delighted with the pure simplicity of these lenticular holograms of punctuation marks as meaningful poetry.

Victoria Bean’s work features self-generated prose and text and has been shown in a number of galleries including the Tate. Her work is about language and reduction. Saying as much as possible by using the minimum to communicate – from text as illustration to the fact that most of her work is self-binding. She is also making poetry a large part of her practice making portraits of people using words.After completing a BA at Camberwell she went on to do an MA in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.

Helvetica Poems : A series of animated poems that can be read in any language. When held and tipped back each page changes from one typographic state to the other. Printed London 2008 in a limited edition of 25.