The Seasons drawing is a limited edition work from an annual series of prints made from the GPS tracks captured on a lawn mower. It charts the growth cycle of a lawn throughout the four seasons of 2008.
Jeremy Wood started GPS drawing to explore the expressive qualities of digitally tracing his daily movements. For over ten years he has been exploring GPS satellite technology as a tool for digital mark making on water, over land, and in the air. His work binds the arts and sciences by using languages of drawing and technology to present a personal cartography. By revealing ones tracks the technology can introduce new approaches to travel, navigation and local awareness. GPS drawing engages a range of creative applications and challenges perceptions of scale by travelling as a geodetic pencil.
Wood specialises in public artworks and commissions with an original approach to the reading and writing of places. His work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the London Transport Museum, the V&A, and the University of the Arts in London. He has conducted numerous GPS drawing and mapping lectures and workshops in schools, museums and galleries and continues to make drawings and maps of his daily travels with GPS.
He holds an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin’s in London and a First Class Fine Art Degree from the University of Derby. He was born in San Francisco in 1976 and grew up in Berlin and England. He is currently based somewhere between his studios in Oxfordshire, England and Athens, Greece.
I am a fan of of GPS drawing and more specifically the work of Jeremy Wood. The above article is from his excellent website which can be found at www.gpsdrawing.com.
