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PAUL NOBLE: Nobson
14.02.98 – 29.03.98

For his Chisenhale commission, Paul Noble's exhibited a series of ambitious, large-scale pencil drawings. These formed the extraordinary visual chronicle of Nobson, a place of the artist’s own invention.

Nobson is a new town with old customs and beliefs, complete with chemical works, quarry, slums and a palace by the sea. There is also a hospital (Nobspital) and a building called Trev.

Paul Noble has constructed his vision of Nobson using a specially designed font, the letters of which are used as the building blocks of this extraordinary town. The drawings, which measure up to 6ft by 27ft, were the ination of two years work by Paul Noble and form a dark and humorous conception of a strangely familiar landscape.

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