MAPPING EARTH at the Royal Geographical Society

Mapping Earth Exhibition

The Director’s Gallery The Royal Geographical Society

May- September 2024

Maps can excite, engage, inspire, motivate and document history. Playing with scale and volume, whether it’s a pocket globe putting the world in your hand or topography with amplified relief, Loraine’s new work celebrates the craft of Mapping Earth.

The Royal Geographical Society, which was founded in 1830 to advance geographical science, is the UK’s learned society for geography. Loraine was elected a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society in 2024.

Over 30 years her practice has focused on fine clay yielding to fingertips, using improvised tools to create surfaces with map-like clarity. Combining cartography with traditional ceramic techniques, her intriguing limited-edition globes and wall reliefs are inspired by satellite data, astronaut observations, historic cartography and social research.

Her pieces have been described as ‘work which excitingly illustrates the fusion of Concept, Content and Traditional Craft’.

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