The Creative Compass
· Thursday 6 May - Tuesday 10 August
· 10.00 - 17.00 daily
· Free Admission
The compass and imagination have been essential tools for geographers, explorers and travellers over the centuries; resulting in maps and illustrations of encounters and ‘discoveries’ that connect the world’s peoples, places and environments.
In the 21st century, the Society’s Collections of over a million maps and atlases, the earliest dating back 400 years, have provided the starting point for artists Agnès Poitevin-Navarre and Susan Stockwell’s new commissions.
Their engagement with the Society, and its Collections, reveals the map and mapping as a format through which to explore the power, authority and hidden narratives that histories of mapping have produced.
This exhibition and an accompanying programme of talks and workshops is funded by Arts Council England.
Exhibition Catalogue
32 page illustrated colour catalogue, featuring an essay by Dr Harriet Hawkins, University of Exeter and artist interviews by Paul Goodwin, Goldsmiths College and Tate.
Priced at £8 + £1.50 p&p (per copy).
To request a copy please email exhibitions@rgs.org (include a contact number) or call 020 7591 3052.
Further information:
Creative Compass Events:
Crossing Boundaries Symposium »
· Wednesday 2 June from 10.00 - 17.30
A one-day symposium on 2 June 2010, presented by visual arts organisation Iniva in collaboration with the Society, engaging with new approaches to mapping; it aims to blur the boundaries between the art and science of mapping.
More information »
Listen to audio recording from the event »