Gareth Fuller (British, b 1980)  It's all too much - Stokes...

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Gareth Fuller (British, b 1980) 
It's all too much - Stokes Croft 
Screen print on paper
Signed 
Unframed
40 x 38cm (16" x 15")

Gareth Fuller (British, b.1980) was born in Carmarthen, Wales, and is of British and Irish heritage. He is self-taught as a visual artist, with a career that has taken circuitous paths through journalistic and exploratory contexts, beginning with an early working life as an apprentice in broadsheet newspapers. Inspired by the magnitude of the newsroom, he moved through roles in production, graphic design, and, eventually, adventure travel and documentary film production. This combined professional rearing remains a foundational, if subconscious, thread in his artistic career, his work composed through the lens of an outsider-observer – a storyteller cognisant of the multiplicity of truth.

Fuller’s art manifests as illustrative transcripts of place. Through a double-phased process of pedestrian discovery and meticulous hand-drawing, he builds topographies and cultures as mapped visions of all that is real and imagined within specific places. He weaves his compositions through first-hand urban and rural exploration – walking at times for several miles at a stretch – partnered with extensive research, and a deep excavation into local knowledge and lived experience.

Fuller is best known for his series Purposeful Wanderings, which constitute a decades-long journey – both physical and creative – into documenting his understanding of the world through art. His pieces give particular focus to the emotional connection between people and place, and the inherent phenomenology that exists around being embedded in the world. Works in this series include London Town (2005-2015); Bristol (2014); Beijing (2018); Tourist Map of Pyongyang (2019) and Shanghai (2022). Fuller’s prints have been acquired for the permanent collections of The British Library, the Museum of London, and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. 

Fuller has exhibited at Art Beijing, the Royal College of Art, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Beijing is currently on display at the British Ambassador’s Residence, China. A renderer and pedestrian without portfolio, Fuller has lived and worked in the UK, Ireland and China. He is currently planning new journeys in the United States and South America. 

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