Valentine Willie Fine Art is pleased to present Cartographical Lure, an exhibition that explores artistic mapping as a subjective visual representation of our lived environment. The initial idea was premised on interest of getting artists to produce their own cartographical interpretation of the region, using the map as a diving board to explore our shared regional history, culture and memory.

In Cartographical Lure, a group of artists from around the region were invited to explore the idea of maps artistically, as visual representations of our personal lived environments. Artists approached the idea of mapping in various ways, including urban maps, land surveys, and floor plans, but also maps of words and lines rather than territories, or mapping as an objective method for interpreting one’s subjective inner world.