NEVERODDOREVEN
Dyslexia and the Arts
29 March – 9 April 2007
Launch Event
Wednesday 28 March
5.30 – 7.30pm
The Sackler Centre of
Arts Education at the
Serpentine Gallery
Serpentine Gallery Projects build dynamic relationships between art, artists and people. Projects and events vary in scale, duration and location. They challenge expectations of where art can be encountered and by whom.
NEVERODDOREVEN, an art and literacy project with Dyslexia Action. It was initiated to test the relationship between creativity and dyslexia and to research links between language, learning and ordering systems.
Artist Abigail Reynolds worked with people with dyslexia to create a pack of playing cards that adapt linear and numerical systems to propose open-ended forms of game playing.
Artist Michaela Ross has worked with primary schools to develop a new online learning resource offering a creative approach to teaching literacy, available online soon.
NEVERODDOREVEN Playing Cards
Available from the Gallery Lobby Desk
Price £5
Conference
Playful Experiments
Dyslexia and the Arts
28 March 2007
11am – 5pm
Venue
Goethe-Institut, London
To mark the launch of NEVERODDOREVEN, this conference brought together leading artists, film-makers and specialists to consider innovative solutions that can be turned into advantages.
Speakers included:
Spartacus Chetwynd, artist based in London.
A.A Gill, Writer.
Sophie Fiennes, film-maker based in London.
Ken Follett, author and the president of Dyslexia Action.
Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor in Cognitive Development at University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Julia Peyton-Jones, Director of the Serpentine Gallery and Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes.
Dr John Rack, Head of Assessment Services and Evaluation, Dyslexia Action.
Richard Wentworth, artist, curator and director of The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.
NEVERODDOREVEN
Playing Cards, Abigail Reynolds, project
participants and åbäke
Artist-led school’s workshop. Photograph © 2007 Declan O’Neill
Artist-led school’s workshop. Photograph © 2007 Declan O’Neill
