Map-i: Mercator Revisited and making things…
It has been a little while since I have updated the blog posts here. Not that it has been quiet despite my best intentions… At the end of March I went to Belgium for the well attended re-opening of the Mercator Museum on the 24th March and delivered a talk on Tuesday 26th of March to a [...]
Map-i: Mercator Revisited
Thanks to a concerted effort by many people who have helped me during the last few months, a new body of work has started to emerge in the last few weeks. There is still quite a lot of work to finish but it is great to see some conclusion taking shape. This weekend, a photoshoot of [...]
Map-i: Mercator Revisited
It has been snowing outside, just little wisps of snowflakes delicately fluttering to the ground, and inside the studio is nice and warm as the kiln has been on again. Inside the kiln are some more component pieces cooling down for the two ‘pole’ plates I am making, the two final pieces in the series [...]
Map-i; Mercator Revisited; going global!
On Wednesday I picked up the 14 components which make up the scaled down rapid prototyped model made at A-Map in Sunderland. There are two pole caps and twelve ‘gores’ or segments which make up the proposed glass globe. Over the last few days I have been trying to get the details right as to [...]
Map-i: Mercator
Earlier this week I received confirmation that a book will be published to coincide with new the new work being developed for the Mercator Revisited exhibition, which is fantastic news. However, this does mean that deadline for the work being ready is being brought forward in order to meet the print deadline! So the already [...]
Mercator conference
Yesterday was an inspiring day at the Mercator conference with an incredibly varied audience of speakers and delegates. I met cartographers of course, but also map librarians, mathematicians, map collectors and enthusiasts, art historians, fellow artists and curators. The StEM, the local regional Museum also opened a new exhibition ‘Mercator Digitaal” which features the earthglobe [...]
Mercator Museum Residency
Today was my third day of the one week long residency at the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium. The last two days were spent perusing the archives of the Museum and the Koninklijke Oudheidkundige Kring van het Waasland with much help and enthusiastic support of the staff and volunteers there adding to my basic [...]
Mapping out the future…
Well it has been a while…. Happy New Year! Whilst the year has ended all things Mercator are coming together… I spent the Christmas holiday researching the life of Gerardus Mercator, the cartographer who invented the map projection as we mostly know it today and coined the term atlas. Because of my interest in mapping, [...]
slumping tests…
In preparation for some new work which will be developed over the next year or so, tentatively called Map-i project, to celebrate Mercator and mapping in general, some basic slumping tests are being conducted; placing a sheet of glass over a ceramic ring and then allowed to ‘slump’ through the hole into a mould below. [...]
Mercator
The new mapping project being developed will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Mercator and will be based on the collection of the Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas in Belgium. I have just submitted a conference proposal for a talk about this project so fingers crossed!