Armelle Caron

The image above fascinates me; the artist has mad a graphic map of Tamarac [LA] but next to it she has then broken down the components that makes a map. Each gren shape has been lined up to create a patter. She has done this with a number of cities e.g. Belin, New York. It is very interesting to see how these cities have all been created differently by viewing the pattern potential solely.

River Roots

[Detail] River Roots

The combination of the rivers stripped from a map and the extension of them in to a plant plays with the idea of macro & microcosms.

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French artist Armelle Caron uses maps in a couple of ways. First, have a look at her organized city maps, executed between 2005 and 2008, in which city blocks are taken apart and organized into neat rows. She does something similar with a world map in Le monde rangé, available as a poster.

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Eve Bailey

Eve Bailey’s recent drawings are, she says, “inspired by the similarities between the infrastructure systems of cities and the human anatomy. I am specifically interested by the organic nature of architectural renderings. The iconography used for urban planning intersects with some modes of representation in drawings of the human morphology. I love how interwoven grids echo muscle tissues. Patterns for buildings evoke cells. Lines and symbols for roads and bridges recall arteries and tendons.”

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Lesley Halliwell

Flying Carpet (Detail), 2010
Collaged envelopes.
Window View (detail) Collaged envelopes
12cm x 23cm x 2cm
Found and donated envelopes

The Unfolding (I) [Mini Star] Detail Collaged envelopes
17cm x 25cm x 2cm
Collaged found and donated envelopes

The Unfolding (I) [Large Star] Detail Collaged envelopes
17cm x 25cm x 2cm
Collaged found and donated envelopes
The Unfolding (I) [Large Star], 2010
Collaged envelopes.
The Unfolding (I) [Large Star] Detail Collaged envelopes
17cm x 25cm x 2cm
Collaged found and donated envelopes

Standard Life (detail), 2010
Collage.
Qui Docet In Doctrina (2010) detail 17 x 23 x 1.5 cms Found and donated envelopes
17cm x 23cm x 1.5cm
Found and donated envelopes

Standard Life (detail), 2010
Collage.
Standard Life (2010) 17 x 23 x 1.5 cms Found and donated envelopes
17cm x 23cm x 1.5cm
Found and donated envelopes

Standard Life (detail), 2010
Collage.
Standard Life (2010) 17 x 23 x 1.5 cms Found and donated envelopes
17cm x 23cm x 1.5cm
Found and donated envelopes


AXIS

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"Lesley Halliwell is perhaps best known for her enormous Spirograph drawings made using a simple and cheap childs Spirograph kit and biro pens from a high street stationers. She is interested in repetition, pattern, geometry, popular culture, process art and the enduring tension that lies between chaos and control.
The Alice-in-Wonderland scale transforms the Spirograph motif from something familiar into works with a contemporary sensibility. Like sophisticated graffiti the Mandala-like tonal drawings impose themselves on the viewer and in the space while their playfulness belies the obsessive and focused application needed for their execution."

[From her Website]

I came across her work in the Oriel Davies Exhibition Lines of Desire but am fascinated by the simple yet effective use of envelopes.

Eskild Beck

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I saw Eskild Beck's work at the Oriel Davies' exhibition "Line of Desire".

Nikki Rosato

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She creates human forms by cutting away at maps, leaving only roads and rivers behind. Here’s her artist statement:

"Our physical bodies are beautiful structures full of detail, and they hold the stories that haunt and mold our lives. The lines on a road map are beautifully similar to the lines that cover the surface of the human body.

In my most recent work involving maps, as I remove the landmasses from the silhouetted individuals I am further removing the figure’s identity, and what remains is a delicate skin-like structure. Through this process, specific individuals become ambiguous and hauntingly ghost-like, similar to the memories they represent"

Stephanie Tuckwell

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"My work is a response to movement through the landscape. It may be glimpses from a train, a view from a mountain top or being airborne in a glider. I seek to arrive at an image that is a distillation of the experience of being present in the world at a particular moment. Through a shifting focus and observations of the landscape, I interpret the land, air and spaces in between. I want to evoke and atomosphere of contemplation and guide the onlooker to breathe the air and find his or her own resting place before moving on.

For me drawing and painting is an activity analogous to music. I orchestrate fluid, sensory explorations of materials, graphite, charcoal, ink and gesso with the more static graphic language of sogn and symbol. Using veils of paint, I create grounds and forms over which arrangements of marks dance across the surface and give a sense of time unfolding."

Stephanie Tuckwell

Old Geology Diagram of Britain