Artists Spend 5 Months Creating Enormous Pen and Ink Map of Inverness

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It is on display in the museum's cafe where exhibitions officer Cathy Shankland was among the first to take a look.

"It's lovely to have it here," she said. "I think it is going to take a long time before it reveals all its secrets."

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The City of Perth is the 4th Scottish city and 7th in the series of the #69Cities Portrait of the UK Project to be sketched by artist Carl Lavia, working in partnership with Lorna Le Bredonchel, and is currently on display at Perth Museum & Art Gallery.

The giant Perth Sketch is a unique interpretation of Perth City Centre and the surrounding area.

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It takes approximately 2-4 months for Lavia to create each drawing in the expansive project, with Le Bredonchel documenting the entire process from his wall-sized sketches to their time exploring each city by foot.

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In 2016 Lavia paired with photographer Lorna Le Bredonchel to form the project “#69Cities,” which aims to create a portrait of the whole United Kingdom through large-scale drawings of its 69 cities. It takes approximately 2-4 months for Lavia to create each drawing in the expansive project, with Le Bredonchel documenting the entire process from his wall-sized sketches to their time exploring each city by foot.

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“We have fallen completely for Scotland. Its dramatic beauty, the people themselves and the epic history of the country make for an almighty love affair.”

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London-based self-taught artist Carl Lavia aka “Sketch” has teamed up with photographer Lorna Le Bredonchel. Together, known as Sketch in the City, the pair formed the ambitious #69cities of the UK project—an epic road trip across Britain, where they plan to create large-scale sketches of all 69 cities in the UK. While Lavia sketches each cityscape, Le Bredonchel works to document the entire process.

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The sketch of Perth - "The end result – mysterious, sprawling rainclouds of ink – mesmerise in a way that conventional maps and photographs simply can’t, and do so with an indefinable energy all of their own". - Ronnie Kerr

Last month Carl completed a stunning depiction of Dundee – a work that took him over 100 pens and around three months to polish off.

Teaming up with photographer Lorna Le Bredonchel, the pair plan to complete large-scale impressions of every city in the UK, documenting the intricate process in a series of stunning photographs.

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Councillor Ian Perry, Education, Children and Families Convener for the City of Edinburgh Council, said: “We’re delighted to be able to host Carl’s wonderful piece of work here in the Central Library

“As one of the city’s prominent historical buildings, the Central Library itself features in the sketch, alongside the fantastic variety of architecture and attractions that span Edinburgh, and this piece provides a great new perspective".

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Visitors to The McManus, Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum, will be able to see their city mapped out in a huge, aerial drawing by artist Carl Lavia, aka Sketch. Remarkably made from memory, the work conveys key landmarks and intricate details of the UNESCO City of Design. This exhibition marks the artist’s fourth stop on an epic road trip to sketch all 69 UK cities, and will be on display for 6 months from Saturday 17 February 2018.

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Artist’s incredible 3D drawing of Dundee from above goes on display at the McManus

It was in 2016 while mapping the city of Birmingham that he joined forces with photographer Lorna Le Bredonchel and together they formed the '69 cities of the UK' project. The cities of Manchester and Edinburgh were completed and displayed in 2017 and at the end of last year, they turned their sights to Dundee, a city Carl had previously not visited.

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The sprawling spider’s web of Stirling’s sloping streets which flow out and around the unique, iconic landmarks which make up the city centre have been painstakingly mapped out in hand-drawn black ink and are currently on display at the city-centre venue for live music and the arts.

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Artist now working on huge sketch of Perth after completing incredible drawing of Dundee

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Sinclair Aitken, Chair of Leisure & Culture Dundee said

"We are delighted to be showing Carl's portrait of Dundee at The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum. The work is Carl's largest to date and covers 6 miles of Dundee's cityscape. I am sure that visitors will enjoy this wonderful artwork and be able to pick out some of their favourite buildings across the city”.

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Artist embarks on huge and incredible hand-drawn map of Dundee.

Lorna Le Bredonchel, project co-founder, said its timing was “perfect”.

She said: “We are amidst a palpable cultural momentum.

“With Scotland’s first design museum opening in Dundee in 2018, Carl and I think it’s the perfect time for a portrait of this remarkable city.”

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