Slow Time by Hollie Douglas
Designed in collaboration with the curator and writer Hollie Douglas who was the Curatorial Trainee at Towner Gallery working on the third and final year of Future Collect, iniva’s partnership project to transform the culture of commissioning and collecting within museums to better reflect the diversity of Britain.
The typefaces used in the publication are KTF Olivier (Kyiv Type Foundry), Telas (Seb McLauchlan/Counter Forms) and Parnaso Mono (Feliciano Type Foundry).
Through the design, layout and production of the publication we sought to explore notions of linear time and the effect certain interventions could have on the experience and atmosphere for reading Hollie’s essay — mapping the block in unusual ways across the spreads, warping repeats of imagery, experimenting with white ink onto silver paperstocks and so on.
Hollie’s work is largely concerned with diversifying exhibitions and collections, and how curatorial processes and activism can change this by embedding narratives of overlooked artists into art history. She is currently the Curatorial Projects Coordinator at Towner Eastbourne and studying an MA in Material and Visual Culture at University College London.
Back in November 2023, Hollie gave a presentation at iniva, sharing her research on how imagination, dreaming, and memory can function as an expression of resistance and freedom. Since then, she has written an essay that combines conversations with artists, artworks she encountered, as well as theories of radical imagination and black utopias, in hopes of encouraging a different perspective on how we view time.
Slow Time was recently published and is available to pick up at the Stuart Hall Library.
Shelf photograph by Thomas Adank.
