David Lemm

House of Illustration
2015 - 16

Outcomes from a 6 month residency at House of Illustration, London. During this time I mapped the changing environment of King’s Cross, observing relationships between buildings, objects and people in the landscape. I considered how we perceive, quantify and navigate our surroundings in order to make sense of the world, or otherwise. 

Mapping King’s Cross
Paper and wood
30 x 30cm

I presented the gallery as the centre point of my personal ‘map’ of the area; where each wall featured a series of wood and paper collages representing experiences encountered during the residency in each particular direction.

You Are Here
Risograph and interactive event

As part of the residency research, I hosted an experimental mapping project where the public were asked to navigate the King’s Cross development to create their own version of my print You Are Here, finding ‘cairn’ markers in the landscape and following the abstracred map of the area. 

Process