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Purposeful Wandering

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. 

JOURNEYING INTO THE ART OF PLACE. UNRAVELLING STORIES. BECOMING LOST IN DISCOVERY.

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Shanghai

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2022

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By the sixth ring road of Beijing, I witnessed an unusual marriage proposal. The bride-to-be’s ring was delivered by an aeroplane. This eye-witness story has been future proofed – the ring bearer is now a drone.

Beijing
(
2018
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The Malcom X Community Centre, marked here by his glasses and fictional mural, is at the heart of Bristol’s African Caribbean community. The venue is used during the famous St Paul’s Street Carnival – the carnival’s historic logo, a decorative mask, and nearby sound system, symbolise the celebration of Afro Caribbean culture since 1968.

Bristol
(
2014
)

This detail shows the headquarters of Chinese Central Television, a building that resembles a pair of trousers. To the right, it includes Citic Tower, known locally as China Zun - Zun meaning a type of ceremonial Chinese wine chalice, thus the image of the wine bottle, with glasses at its base.

Beijing
(
2018
)
British map artist Gareth Fuller spent a year walking and bicycling the roads and back alleys of Beijing, logging more than 800 miles and 1000 hours of drawing time to make this remarkable map.
National Geographic

Journaling

the spirit of the age.

Building palimpsests

of the past, present

and future