Rose Meyer

Tāmaki Makaurau’s 53 Volcanos, Ink on paper in bound book, 90 x 190 x 210mm

Hand-etched ghost printed topographic contour maps from Auckland Council’s GeoMaps, aligned with Dr Ferdinand von Hochstetter’s 1859 map of the isthmus of Auckland. 

What started as a wondering about the volcano outside my window grew into a way of wandering the isthmus through map lines and contour drawings, discovering limitations in the language of drawing to ever encompass something as vast and ever changing as the landscape.

Here in book form, the maps are combined as one, each map when unfolded centred and aligned, a condensed landscape of line, mark making and history.

Shown at Parkin Drawing Prize, NZ Academy of Fine Arts, Wellington