Gareth Fuller is an artist and explorer. His work acts as a layered gaze into the identity of urban and rural places, transcribing their personal, geographical, and social meanings into what he calls ‘maps of the mind’. The results of these transcriptions are vast and intricate hand-drawn compositions – a series of visual portraits that express his personal and purposeful wanderings.
A flying fist outside the gates of Lu Xun Park depicts the scene from Bruce Lee’s film, Fist of Fury, set in 1910, where he destroys a sign telling Chinese people that only foreigners can enter the gardens. Inside the park, a bomb and flags signify an explosion set by a Korean activist that killed members of the Japanese army in 1932.
Pink Floyd floated Algie the pig above Battersea Powerstation in 1976 to create their album artwork. A gust of wind broke Algie free, the pig eventually landing in a field in Kent, upsetting a herd of cows.
Emily Hahn, an American journalist and writer, led an adventurous life. Remembered here by a typewriter on the Bund, where she worked for the North China Daily News. The female gender symbol represents her commitment to feminism, and her pet gibbon, which accompanied her to Shanghai’s high society parties, is swinging from the building’s roof.
