The History of Typewriter Art
Humans are always trying to create art in the most
impractical ways. The first typewriter
was released to the public in 1870 and it only took us awesome artists a few
years to start playing with the keys and strokes to produce art, not just
letters.
Flora F.F. Stacey
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| It is believed that the very first known example of typewriter art appeared in 1898. This is a mechanical “drawing” of a butterfly by Flora F.F. Stacey |
Flora was an English stenographer is considered one of the
oldest artists to practice this type of art.
People created typewriter art with backgrounds in secretarial studies;
this is how they tended to make art while studying in school. It’s like
doodling!
Paul Smith
Paul Smith is a typewriter artist that was born with
cerebral palsy. Despite his physical ailments, Smith was a determined man with
a passion for art. Paul Smith has had no limitations with his typewriter art
since the age of 11 when he captured his first typewriter from a neighbor’s
trashcan.
Keira is a London-based Typewriter
Artist. She aims to travel the world using different typewriters and typing
pictures of people and places along the way. Keira
sees her vintage manual typewriter’s characters purely as marks, stripped of
their conventional purpose. Keira has exhibited across Europe and the
United Kingdom over the years.
Leslie
Nichols uses a variety of found and original text to create images.
She
uses the early tool of secretaries (typewriter) to craft images of women. Her images
of women emerge from historical texts and are featured as a series called
Textual Portraits: Envisioning Social Heritage. Leslie states, “Each woman's
image emerges from the chosen text, just as she emerges as a person into a
specific context of time and place that is influenced by past thinking and
action.”
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