Ed Fairburn is an English artist based in Cardiff, Wales, UK (featured previously). The freelance illustrator graduated from the Cardiff School of Art and Design in 2012 and his work has app…
German artist EVOL transforms urban surfaces into miniature lifelike buildings, he is known for creating a city within the city. Looking at photographs of
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
"the aim of every artist is to arrest motion…" -Faulkner
"the aim of every artist is to arrest motion…" -Faulkner
German artist EVOL transforms urban surfaces into miniature lifelike buildings, he is known for creating a city within the city. Looking at photographs of
