A work in progress by Christian Edwardes
Image courtesy of the Christian Edwardes – all rights reserved
The drawing above is one of a series of works on paper that Christian Edwardes has been working on, towards an exhibition organised in partnership between the Russell-Cotes Museum and The Arts Institute at Bournemouth.
The Russell-Cotes drawings are part of a larger investigation into the possibilities of developing a cartography of imagined and utopian spaces. Starting from smaller sketches done whist walking through the building (detailing architectural features as well as objects and furniture), the larger drawings are then composed into a more complex image (remembered and imagined) of the space previously mapped during the walk.
You can find out more about this project and view more images at:
http://www.christianedwardes.co.uk/
Christian Edwardes recommended reading and artists:
Reading
Geographical imaginations – Derek Gregory
Some cities – Victor Burgin
Urban fragmentations and constructions – Edited by GUST (Ghent Urban Studies Team)
Civics as applied sociology – Patrick Geddes
Maps and spaces – J.M. Blaut
Towards a geography of a world without maps: Lessons from Ptolemy and Postal Codes – Michael Curry
Space – Nigel Thrift
The poetics of space – Gaston Bachelard
Topology of a phantom city – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Artists
Guillermo Kuitca, Lordy Rodriguez, Kathy Prendergast, Alighiero Boetti, Marlene Creates, Joyce Kozloff, Pablo Di Bello, Yoko Ono, Janet Cardiff, Thompson and Craighead, Simon Faithful, Keith Bunting
