Artist Inspiration

Here are some Artists that i've taken inspiration from, some using maps as a medium to create works.

Luis Dourado

"Untiled Map 1"

Dourado manipulates maps to form new interesting works via collage and Photoshop. 

"Untiled"

Dourado was born in Portugal in 1984 and lives and works in Berlin. He has explored digital and analogue techniques in art making, his works are two-dimensional and explore themes such as control, memory and illusion.

Stephen Walter

"Hub" 2007-10, archival inkjet print with gold and silver leaf

Walter creates large scale maps in extreme detail using mainly drawing, painting, photography and printmaking. 

"London Subterranea" 2012, archival inkjet, screen print and gold acrylic on paper 

Born in 1975, Walter lives and works in London, Walter gains inspiration from his hometown in creating maps of London. His works explore obsessive drawing techniques, semiotics, the glory of maps, and the use of landscape and its meaning, both shared and personal. 

Matt Cusick

"Blue Horse" 2011, Inlaid maps on panel 

Cusick not only uses maps but atlases, encyclopedias and school textbooks as mediums to create his bold works. 

"Cat's Wave" 2015, Inlaid maps and text on panel 

Born in New York in 1970. 

"I like to catalog, archive, and arrange information and then dismantle, manipulate and reconfigure it. I use maps as a surrogate for paint and as a way to expand the limits of representational painting. Through a process of cutting up and reassembling fragments of maps from different places and times, I am attempting a more complete representation of an existence, one that incorporates the geographical and historical timelines of that existence within the matrix of it's image" - Cusick