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 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

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