The Map of Connections 3.1

During many surveys I discovered that Ireland's Border is full of holes. Gates are set in hedgerows for the convenience of farmers, stepping stones and community-built bridges span rivers, walkers� routes and muddy by-ways go wherever they please. These kinds of connections have always been there, although their numbers have increased during the last 20 years of peace. On the local level cross-border movement is quietly happening. It has been unmapped, until now.

The Map of Connections 3.1 is 60 x 85 cm. It is a gicl�e print, an inkjet technique using fade-resistant, pigment-based archival inks. It is £170, including delivery to Ireland or the UK. I sign and date each map.

Please contact me if you would like to buy a map print: garrettcarr [at] gmail [dot] com

Fictional Ulster

If you spend a few hours reading about a fictional place, doesn’t it become as real as places that actually exist? Ballybeg, the fictitious setting for Brian Friel�s plays, is more famous than most actual villages in Ulster. Despite not existing, the village has taken on a geographic life.

This map covers the nine counties of Ulster, locating fictional places invented by writers. I have attempted to make a map that is entertaining and intriguing but that might also offer an insight into how we see ourselves and how others see us.

Fictional Ulster is 50 x 60 cm and is a giclée print, an inkjet technique using fade-resistant, pigment-based archival inks. It is £150, including delivery to Ireland or the UK. I sign and date each map.

Please contact me if you would like to buy a map print: garrettcarr [at] gmail [dot] com

A View of the Border

This is the map that illustrates The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland's Border. It looks at how power is expressed on a landscape. Defensive architecture along the border is charted: walls, forts, gun placements, but much else besides. Power comes in many forms and not all of them are so obvious.

A View of the Border is 70 x 78 cm and is a giclée print, an inkjet technique using fade-resistant, pigment-based archival inks. It is £170, including delivery to Ireland or the UK. I sign and date each map.

Please contact me if you would like to buy a map print: garrettcarr [at] gmail [dot] com