Journey art

Trust & follow Him

With the invent of GPS technology and map applications, paper maps are waning in use - but they are an essential material to English artist Ed Fairburn, who uses them as the canvas of his detailed portraits. Fairburn's work is an imaginative incorporation of the human form and topography. He's used maps of places from all over the world. The winding layouts of streets and rivers are enhanced to form wrinkles, veins, and other features of his subjects' faces.

Click on a thumbnail to view the image and for further information. This series began as a tongue-in-cheek response to the artist’s experience of being a commuter. The work is both a record of a single journey and an exploration of a wider shared experience that draws on each viewer’s personal memories and associations to train travel. The works imply a narrative that is never told in full, encouraging the viewer to invent their own stories. Some of the series are commissioned pieces…

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Fan piece inspired by Journey, a game by thatgamecompany for sony's Playstation3.

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Artist Ewing Paddock's three-year project of painting people on the London Underground.

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Images by Simone Ridyard of Urban Sketchers, a worldwide group of more than 60,000 people who create drawings of the places they visit