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MIND THE MAP

Mind the Map is an ambitious collaborative exhibition by London-based artist Marc Craig, bringing together over 55 artists to transform 110 vintage Ordnance Survey maps into a vast psychogeographic tapestry of imagination, memory, and place. Each map has been reimagined through paint, ink, collage, and storytelling—revealing how geography, identity, and creativity intertwine.

Hosted at Waterloo Sidings from October 19–26, 2025, with an extended online exhibition from October 18–November 30, Mind the Map invites visitors to journey through reinterpreted landscapes—both literal and emotional. From abstract topographies and mythic beasts to political cartographies and urban dreamscapes, every piece becomes a portal into how artists see the world and their place within it.

The exhibition continues Craig’s exploration of Dream / Make / Void, his creative cycle that frames each map as a living dialogue between chaos and clarity, collaboration and solitude. Mind the Map is more than an exhibition—it’s a collective act of navigation, tracing where we’ve been, where we are, and where imagination might yet lead us.

UPCOMING AND PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

EXQUISITE CORPSES - WELL HUNG GALLERY

Marc Craig has had the honour of collaborating with Skeleton Cardboard over the years and is grateful to be invited to take part in this group exhibition organised by Skeleton Cardboard at Well Hung Gallery.

As one of the original pioneers of using maps as a backdrop to create his distinctive imagery, Skeleton Cardboard has been a significant influence on Craig’s work. The connection feels full circle now that Craig is developing his ongoing IT VOIDS project, which continues to explore maps as a canvas for imagination and layered narratives.

On display in the exhibition are two of their collaborative works, ALL LEFT HAND, NO RIGHT ANSWERS and TICKLE MY FANCY AND I WILL SHOOT, both of which highlight the playful and experimental spirit at the heart of their practice.

EXQUISITE CORPSES runs from 18 September to 18 October at Well Hung Gallery, Hoxton, and features an exciting line-up of artists including My Dog Sighs, Donk, Sweet Toof, Jo Peel, Kev Munday and many more.

For more information and to connect directly, visit Well Hung Gallery’s website

WELL HUNG GALLERY

INNERCIRCLE GALLERY EXHIBITION/GLOUCESTER 15TH AUGUST 25

MY BIG BEAUTIFUL TANK SERIES 1–5

Fragments of Maps of Naples mounted on canvas

40 x 50 cm each

Mixed Media, 2025

This exhibition at the Innercircle Gallery in Gloucester, opening on 15th August 2025, brings Marc Craig’s newest series into sharp focus. These tank paintings function as a meditation on the endless loop — the tragic fallacy — of trying to persuade the masses that something inherently brutal can somehow be beautiful.

In these works, Craig plays with the unsettling paradox at the heart of propaganda. Tanks, symbols of force and authoritarian power, are presented in riotous colour, layered graffiti lines, and scattered laughter — as though mocking their own spectacle. At first glance, they almost succeed in seducing us, bright and electric, like pop culture made violent. Yet the irony is deliberate: closer scrutiny reveals these pieces as uneasy contradictions, exposing raw edges beneath the polished surface.

This tension mirrors a deeper human cycle, where regimes — fascist or otherwise — wrap violence in visual appeal, manipulating aesthetics to sell an ideology. Craig’s tanks take on this game, initially convincing, then unraveling, until the truth emerges regardless. There is a stark, sometimes painful beauty in witnessing that collapse of illusion.

For Craig, this series is also a personal loop, pushing him to question allure, deception, and the strange magnetism of power. As part of the Innercircle Gallery’s inaugural exhibition programme, it challenges Gloucester’s art audience to grapple with what attracts them — and what ultimately unsettles them. It is an invitation to look harder, to confront paradox, and perhaps to laugh at the hollow grandeur before seeing it clearly for what it is. Details of exhibiton coming soon.

MAPPA MUNDI-ONLINE EXHIBITION

Mappa Mundi marks the first exhibition of Marc Craig’s map paintings, a body of work born in a flurry of creative urgency during May and June 2025. This initial series emerged almost compulsively, fed by a stream of donated maps that arrived from friends, acquaintances, and strangers. Each offered map seemed to unlock a new threshold, propelling Craig deeper through the layers into an increasingly raw and intense creative space — one that left him hungering for more.

These maps became portals. As Craig worked over them, they revealed darker, more liberated energies that had long sought a voice but remained suppressed. Old city grids, country borders, and forgotten tourist trails dissolved under instinctive mark-making, becoming psychological terrains where personal mythologies took shape. Jungian threads run through these works: the shadow emerges in raw gestures and fractured landscapes, archetypal figures seem to haunt certain spaces, and there’s a sense of old symbols trying to surface through the chaos.

In many ways, this process has been deeply therapeutic. For Craig, finding a voice on these maps — especially when the world often feels determined to silence or constrain it — is an act of defiance as much as healing. It’s a way to stand inside the murk of the subconscious and still claim authorship over it.

Already, Craig is moving into a second chapter of these map paintings, continuing the journey into shadow, instinct, and the half-remembered spaces that insist on being seen. Mappa Mundi offers just the first glimpse.

ENTER EXHIBITION

BOOMER GALLERY EXHIBITION 11TH - 17TH JULY

BOOMER GALLERY EXHIBITION

This marks Marc Craig’s first unveiling of his map paintings in London—a debut uncannily aligned with The Dark Side’s exploration of shadow and solitude. There is a certain gravity to these works arriving in the Tower Bridge district, a place whose own layered histories seem to resonate with Craig’s cartographic canvases.

In SMOKINCATBAT (2025, 77 x 58cm), a distorted figure snarls through jagged teeth and blood-bright eyes. Part jester, part revenant, this trickster spectre teeters between comedy and dread, mocking and menacing in equal measure. Nearby, BARRETT TWINS (2025, 73 x 98cm) presents mirrored skeletal forms sprawled across faded bureaucratic plans—suggesting inherited sorrow, twin anxieties, or the splintered dualities that haunt identity.

Craig’s paintings are visceral, irreverent, and profoundly uneasy. By embedding his unsettling figures into historical maps, he forges a dialogue between personal shadow and collective memory. The maps serve as literal anchors—known geographies over which psychic dramas unfold. It is as if familiar places are being re-haunted by half-buried fears and obsessions.

There are no tidy resolutions here. Craig’s work resists easy interpretation, lingering instead with the uncomfortable questions at the heart of The Dark Side: does a latent shadow dwell in every act of creation? Can one wrestle that darkness without being consumed?

In this first London presentation, Craig draws viewers into that fragile theatre where the studio’s silence becomes a crucible. It is here, amid the uneasy laughter of his painted spectres, that sanity hangs by a thread—and strange beauty is born from the depths.