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 are vast and intricate hand-drawn compositions – a series of visual portraits that express his personal and purposeful wanderings.
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.
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.
Unlike Boris Johnson, whose fate was to throw himself and the UK off a cliff, his hero Winston Churchill fell from a rickety bridge that crossed a steep ravine in Bournemouth as a child. The event is commemorated here by the symbol of his iconic Homburg style hat.
