Mapping sydneY, 2009, CURATED BY NAOMI STEAD / EXHIBITION TITLING AND GRAPHICS

“I approached a number of friends, acquaintances and a few strangers, to make an experimental, idiosyncratic map of Sydney that was not necessarily planimetric, to scale or even factual. NAOMI STEAD

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2009 / Mapping Sydney: Experimental Cartography and the Imagined City reveals new faces of Sydney, suppressed, overlooked, or never imagined by conventional maps and tourist guides. Curated and commissioned by UTS academic Dr Naomi Stead, it combines artists, an architect, a visual communication designer, a landscape architect, a writer, and an animator to provide original maps to the harbour city. Sydney-based architect Fiona Young enlisted me as graphic designer on the project, so as a favour, and on the run (as I prepared to leave for several months in Paris ... ), this is my response to Mapping Sydney.