Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”

Very Expensive Maps

London artist and mapmaker Stephen Walter on two decades of drawing and painting “the semiotic residues of humankind,” an invitation to map an Ivorian national park (and why you should wait for the dry season before attempting this), approaching six years of work on an NYC map, interpreting Michael Drayton’s 17th c. topographical poem Poly-Olbion into a 6x5 ft. folkloric tour of England and Wales, walking the territory, the origins of “north up,” the souls of places, a half-day's research to place a single label, and his vision of Utopia. See his work at stephenwalter.org

• In-progress map of Manhattan
• London Subterranea, 2012
• Nova Utopia, 2013
• Albion, 2016
• Brexitland, 2019
• Map of Comoé (La carte de la Comoé), 2019
• Henry Dreyfuss’s Symbol Sourcebook
• Jerry Brotton
• Gerardus Mercator
• Jacopo de' Barbari’s 1500 View of Venice
• Abrahram Ortelius’s 1595 map of Utopia
• The 1648 Klencke Atlas of England (5x5 ft.!), presented by Joannes Klencke to Charles II on his 1660 restoration to the throne
• John Rocque’s 1746 map of London
• Greenwood’s 1830 map of London
• Egbert L. Viele’s 1865 Manhattan map
• Bodleian Library map collection
• Paul Noble
• Layla Curtis
• Katie Patterson
• Alighiero Boetti
• Grayson Perry
• Ed Fairburn
• Ewan David Eason
• Emilio Isgò
• Justine Smith
• Paula Scher
• Other Fabrications

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