MAPPING EARTH at the Royal Geographical Society

Exclusive exhibition tour for London Craft Week 2024

13th - 17th May at 14.00 - 14.45

Join a tour with artist Loraine Rutt of her exhibition in

The Director’s Gallery at The Royal Geographical Society

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. The Director’s Gallery, which is housed within this Grade II listed building, is not open to the public. The Society have generously agreed to host exclusive exhibition tours with the artist Loraine Rutt for London Craft Week.

Tour places are strictly limited and booking is essential. 

Recently elected as a Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society, and, Loraine’s practice is honed by three decades of 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’.

~~~~~~ Please note there is no access to the Director’s Gallery at other times. ~~~~~