Art Maps. Art Inspired by maps.

Venue • The Old Post Office • BA1 1BA • click for map
Opening night • Fri 23 May • 6pm until late
Open 11am to 6pm daily • 24 May to 7 June 2025

NB: the deadline has passed, we are no longer inviting submissions

Throughout history communicating a journey has been an artistic challenge and a great many innovations have come out of mapping our thoughts and our world. By taking away the traditional conventions of mapping it can become a liberating artistic starting point.

Journeys, evolutions, timelines. Artistic processes can reinvent how time is expressed. The linear or proportional is not always the most emotive way to describe a journey. Susannah is inviting artists in any mediums to show how mapping or a journey can be expressed. Do you observe evolution, use mind maps, or explore journeys? I am looking for artists for a curated show where each contributor will be selected by their contrasting or evolutionary ideas. The purpose of the exhibition is to engage with the audience on alternative ways of seeing a journey.

Curated by Susannah Peacock

Susannah Peacock has been a professional artist and designer for 30 years. With CityID, Susannah worked on the Bath Walking Maps and City Centre Strategy.

"Each time we would look at expressing a city, we would try to communicate the experience in a way that spoke of this place. It sparked my interest in mapping, journeys and storytelling in my artwork".

For the Art Maps exhibition, Susannah is drawing our attention back to a time before man dominated the planet. In the Medieval maps we see a world of wonder, adventure and a fear of nature. This is in contrast to renaissance mapping where man is dominating the seas and it's creatures. I would like us to consider returning to a state of deference to nature.

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