Shanghai, a new work by Gareth Fuller, released as part of his ‘Purposeful Wandering’ exploratory series

A nice opportunity to highlight Gareth Fuller’s latest work, an amazing Shanghai map….more details and more images of this fantastic map here…

Artist-explorer Gareth Fuller releases his latest large-scale drawing: a portrait of Shanghai as experienced through the Covid-19 pandemic. As part of his ongoing ‘Purposeful Wandering’ series, Gareth Fuller unveils a new intricate place-drawing – a work that captures the city of Shanghai as China moved in and out of lockdowns between 2020 and 2021. Fuller distils the visual curiosities one of Asia’s most significant
megacities into one canvas, collecting stories, research and visual anecdotes over a period between two of the world’s strangest years. The artist’s work manifests as illustrative transcripts of places he
explores and inhabits over time, unfolding through a doublephased process of pedestrian discovery and meticulous handdrawing. As with all of his work, Shanghai builds a topography of all
that is real and imagined within a specific place, at a specific time.