New exhibition at Walsall Art Gallery maps world artists' work
A new exhibition at Walsall Art Gallery maps out work from artists across the world.
The Land, Sea and Air exhibition brings together artwork using maps as a base for their pieces.
Walsall Art Gallery's marketing manager Chris Wilkinson said: "Maps have continued to provide a potent source material for artists for many years.
"They provide attempts to create order from a world that is ever in transformation; whether in terms of physical manifestations such as the erosion of land masses or the rapid expansion of cities; or through shifting or contested borders, betraying evidence of conflict, resistance, negotiation and power.
"Maps also serve to support a sense of identity or an engagement with a specific time and place.
"This exhibition brings together a diverse selection of international artists, engaging in different ways with maps, and by extension, borders and territory.
"Paintings, drawings, prints, video, sculpture and installation combine to create a visually powerful and thought-provoking exhibition.
"The selected artists vary in approach and their works span a period of over 40 years. Consistent within all of these works is a combination of the personal, the poetic and the political."
