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Sacred Cartography

Stanley Donwood

Jealous North

08 Feb 2023 — 05 Mar 2023

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Jealous North is so excited to present Sacred Cartography', a solo show featuring Stanley Donwood's latest print editions with Jealous.

These colourful Sacred Landscapes are based on hybrid cartographical and topological forms exploring the ancient landscapes that surround mysterious sites such as Stonehenge, Wayland’s Smithy and the Cerne Abbas Giant amongst many others.

"The idea is that the land and the heavens are intimately connected, both physically, through transpiration and evaporation and precipitation, but also in other, hidden, mysterious ways. It’s not for nothing that people have always worshipped the skies, that our gods dwell above us. So in my paintings of sacred landscapes, each carefully delineated field pours its colour upwards, up into the black heavens"

Stanley Donwood

By using survey ordnance maps to remove modern architectures such as motorways and buildings, Donwood reconnects us to a landscape which ancient society deemed sacred.

Stanley Donwood

Artist

Stanley Donwood has worked with Radiohead since 1994. His evocative and haunting imagery has created their distinctive visual identity. He has created the official artwork for Glastonbury Festival since 2002 and in the most recent artwork, a variation of 'Pilton' from the sacred cartography collection is featured.
Additionally, he has worked with Robert Macfarlane on the Faber bestseller ‘Holloway’ and art directed the film ‘the bomb’ produced by Eric Schlosser and Smriti Keshari, as well as countless book covers and numerous other projects. He is currently working on books to be published by Thames & Hudson and Penguin.