Over a twelve month period, Richard Steadman-Jones (School of English at The University of Sheffield) and John Clark (Creative Director at Bank Street Arts) have collaborated on a number of projects where the common theme is the relationship between text and art. This Exhibition, and the accompanying two day Symposium, saw this collaboration further develop. Along with other academics from Leeds, Leicester and Sheffield, Artists and Writers in Residence at Bank Street Arts, and other related professional practitioners, the Exhibition and Symposium drew upon works and texts as diverse as Anglo Saxon Manuscripts, Scottish concrete poetry and Sol Le Witt's 'Sentences on Conceptual Art'. The Exhibition comprised new work created for the ArText programme, documentation from academic and artist's research as well as a diverse practice-based strand drawing on sonic art, photography, poetry, artists' books and graphic design.

The Exhibition was designed to stand alone, but to be 'read' as as a series of min-exhibitions rather than a coherent whole. Works on show include:
Bryan Eccleshall - 35 x 12 = 420. Sol LeWitt's Sentences On Conceptual Art Traced and Re-traced
Rebecca Fisher - Word sindon minne maðum ('Words are my treasure')
Adam Piette - Scottish Concrete
Angelina Ayers - Experiments in Ekphrasis (A Residency by Angelina Ayers)