Stephen Walter’s drawings are a tangle of signs, words and images that draw the viewer into the artist’s intricate worlds. A graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University and the Royal College of art, he is best-known for his series of hand-drawn maps, done in enormous detail and layered with both visual and textual information. Each work is an intricate world in itself; a tangle of words and symbols that make up a complex of hidden meanings and wider contradictions. Through drawing, photography and printmaking, his artworks explore the meaning of objects, the glory of maps, our place in the world, and the potential legacy that we bequeath to future generations.
This year the Business Design Centre was buzzing with architects, interior designers, manufacturers and artisans – showing off their new designs, scouting out the latest products or looking for surface materials to specify for projects. Our design team got their cameras out to seek out the latest trends, and he’s what we found…
