Эд родился в Шропшире в 1955 и провел детство среди лесов, полей и озер. С 1973 по 1975 он учился в художественном колледже, где прочитал Властелина колец и навсегда остался под большим впечатлением от мира Толкиена. Сначала Эд работал графическим дизайнером и рекламным иллюстратором.…

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This is an image from the Imperial War Museum Collection. THE BRITISH ARMY IN GREECE 1941© IWM (E 2535) Original photo link here - www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205203481# A British Army 15-cwt truck in Greece, 21 April 1941.

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English artist Ed Fairburn (previously) uses vintage road maps and star charts as canvases for drawn portraits. Cross-hatched patterns and shaded regions inside roads, borders, and rivers assimilate into the contours of faces as if the images had always been secretly hidden in the map’s topography. “In his hands, both built infrastructure and natural phenomena echo the organic human form,” shares Mike Wright Gallery. “National highway systems become capillaries, and the tangle of Paris’ alleyways become the wrinkles that give the face history and individuality.” Fairburn opens a new show of work alongside artist John Wentz today at Mike Wright in Denver. More

Using a wide variety of canvases including railroad blueprints, star charts, geological and street maps, Welsh artist Ed Fairburn (previously here and here) uses additive and subtractive techniques to create portraits that seem pefectly integrated with the topography of streets, mountains and rivers. It’s been almost a year since we last checked in with Fairburn whose process and approach to creating these stunning portraits continues to evolve. One of his most striking methods is to carefully follow map contours with a pen creating rows of lines that vary by width to create individual forms and shadows. More

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