Layla Curtis

Polar Wandering, 2006

Venue: Gimpel Fils
Places: 
London
UK

Solo show

9 May - 10 June 2006 

An exhibition of 8 screen-printed drawings produced as a result of the artist's three-month Arts Council England International Fellowship to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey in 2005. Each drawing is a detail taken from a larger online digital drawing Polar Wandering which used GPS technology to trace the artist's 27,856 mile-long journey to and from Antarctica.

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