A Tide of Tongues

A Tide of Tongues is an artist’s book by Peter Nadin containing work created between 1976 and 1990. More than a collection of poems and images, this book records the development of Nadin’s idiosyncratic lexicon. As such it is an expression of an artist oscillating between the verbal and the visual realms, and the space in which the two commingle. Using deceptively strict pictorial conventions, such as still life, landscape, and portraiture, Nadin’s sign systems are rooted in a very personal encyclopedia of images and words which resurface consistently as quotations from the body of his work.