Layla Curtis



		Layla Curtis NewcastleGateshead 09.2005
		NewcastleGateshead is a collaged map compiled from regional namesakes taken from city maps worldwide. In the form of a generic folded map, the collage mimics the existing, familiar structure of NewcastleGateshead. Composed of all the Monktons, Wallsends, Heatons etc. across the globe, the collage layers various map-sections into a multiplex of Newcastle-Gateshead. Like any other city visitors map NewcastleGateshead provides a full map index and advertises things to do and see. 30,000 copies of the map were distributed across the UK. A limited edition print is also available. Details are available on our multiples page. laylacurtis.com
		Polar Wandering 27.10.2005 - 25.01.2006
		www.polarwandering.co.uk After leaving London on Thursday October 27th 2005 Layla Curtis will spend the next 3 months carrying out an extensive psycho-geographical exploration as she travels through Madrid, Santiago, the Falkland Islands and remote islands in the Southern Ocean headed for Antarctica. Recording this journey using a personal GPS tracking device, Layla Curtis will create a continuous line drawing charting her passage to and from Antarctica. Regularly logging longitudinal and latitudinal data generated by the GPS system onto the website, Layla’s movements will grow into an interactive line drawing embedded with photos, videos, sound recordings, and text. As the project progresses the live GPS drawing will develop into a complex data map through which viewers can personally explore this multimedia survey of the relatively sparsely mapped continent of Antarctica. Layla Curtis has been awarded the 2006 Artists and Writers Fellowship Award, a joint partnership between the British Antarctic Survey and Arts Council England's International Artists Fellowships Programme. This project has been developed in collaboration with Locus+.