Rethinking Civil Society is a 4 year project initiated by the University of York in association with the University of Gottingen and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It aims to re-examine the idea of ‘civilisation’ in a time of post-pandemic societal upheaval, fake news and conflict by asking people prominent in their field to give
The good people of modernist icon of architecture, the De La Warr Pavilion, commissioned me to create a 2.6 x 4.6 mural of a map reflecting the building and its environment. The map was to be created at smaller dimensions and then enlarged to be printed out on archival wallpaper – eventually being shown as
I was commissioned to adapt my original ‘Map of the Winter Stars from the Northern Hemisphere’ into a mural by MMoser Associates. The project was a new premises design and build for their client Unity Technology in Brighton. As reference I researched which constellations could be seen above Brighton at the Summer Equinox (surprisingly some
It’s with great pleasure to announce that ‘We Dream of Blue Whales’, the triptych charting my journey on the Sea Dragon from Iceland to Sweden, will be migrating to dark Northern waters for a month. It will be showing at Left Bank Leeds in a new exhibition focussing on whales: ‘Here be Whales’ in association
A short post to let you know I’m running two hand drawn mapping workshops at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne, Sussex. Both workshops will have the same format so if you can’t make the August date, perhaps the September date might be better for you. As part of the workshop, students will learn: – how
This is a short post to let you know that I’m running a short hand drawn map workshop at ONCA Gallery in Brighton alongside the exhibition ‘The Long View’ by somewhere-nowhere, a creative team comprising of Harriet Fraser and Rob Fraser, a writer and photographer respectively. For more than two years, somehwere-nowhere have been visiting
This is just a short post acting as an update to the last one about my hand drawn mapping workshop held at the award winning Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in Sussex on Saturday 10th March 2018. I had a really interesting day with my 6 students, who came from all walks of life
A quick post to let you all know of a hand drawn map workshop I’ll be running at Ditchling Museum of Arts + Crafts in Sussex on the 10th March 2018. It’s a day long course including lunch and refreshments in a beautiful studio and there’ll be a chance to see the current exhibition about
In the Autumn of 2017, I got picked up for representation by Art Republic, an organisation with galleries both in Brighton and London and with a huge online presence. Initially they took on just a few of my maps; the map of Brighton and also the Moon map. Alongside the standard prints, they suggested creating
This is a short post due to a whole tsunami of deadlines but I just wanted to wish you all a very happy Christmas and year’s end! 2017 has been an exciting time for me – from creating maps for film to drawings for tv; from seeing my first book published that I had both
