An exhibition of Adam Dant’s artwork at Rich Mix London

05/10/2018 9:00 am – 21/12/2018 11:00 pm | Rich Mix, 5-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA

To celebrate the publication of Maps of London & Beyond, Rich Mix will be hosting an exhibition of Adam Dant’s intricate, intimate and immensely original drawings between Friday 5th October and Friday 21st December. The exhibition is free and is wheelchair accessible.

From his Club Row studio in London’s East End artist and cartographer Adam Dant creates maps of the city in an imaginative fashion far removed from the familiar A to Z and ubiquitous Google street views.

Dant’s deftly rendered maps transform Shoreditch into Manhattan, depict the neighbourhood according to the dreams of its inhabitants, and elsewhere re-creates the place as a self-contained medieval globe. Further afield the back alleys, pubs, coffee houses and forgotten London characters of old are reborn and collide with the concerns of the present such as in ‘London Enraged’, where 2000 years of the capital’s riots, from Boudicca’s revolt to ‘The Cereal Killer Cafe clashes’ explode, volcano-like from Westminster. ‘Where to dig’ helpfully describes the pre-industrial grand mansions of Old Hackney for the benefit of shovel wielding hunters of buried treasure and A Journey to The Heart of East London seeks out the opinions of visitors and locals alike as to the location of this mythic site (in fact a bin in Westfield, Stratford).

When: Friday 5th October to Friday 21st December
Where: Rich Mix, 5-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA
Price: Free

For more information please visit the Rich Mix website.