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Sheffield gallery opens map exhibition

04 January 2008

A city-centre gallery in Sheffield will open a new exhibition that will challenge people's perceptions of maps in the new year.

Millennium Galleries' On the Map exhibition will open its doors to the public on 16 January and run until 15 June 2008, examining through craft and design the concept of mapping, exploring what a map is, what can be mapped and how maps can be used and manipulated.

As well as more conventional maps, the creation of complex networks of links through various techniques, from physical maps of geographic representations to more abstract responses from contemporary craft design makers, will be represented.

Emerging talents Stephanie Posavec and Paula Amaral will display their work at the exhibition along with that of the celebrated designer of the A-Z®, Phyllis Pearsall.

Textile artist Pauline Burbidge, jewellery designer Betty Pepper and artist Susan Stockwell have all been commissioned to produce pieces for the exhibition using their different mediums.

A digital montage of maps showing territories resized according to their subject interest, produced by internationally recognised mapping firm Worldmapper, will also feature in the exhibition.

 A-Z is a registered trademark of Geographers’ A-Z Map Company Ltd.

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