Press & Features
Explore published features and articles highlighting CartographMe’s hand-drawn maps, the stories behind them, and the intersection of cartography, art, history, and personal connection to place.
Cartography or Art? Or Both?
Canadian Cartographic Association | Read the full feature here
In this feature, Phillip Bailey reflects on his practice as a creator of detailed, hand-drawn artistic maps. Drawing from historical cartographic traditions, observation and intuitive mark-making, his work challenges conventional distinctions between a functional map and a work of art.
The article considers how maps can become contemplative objects, encouraging viewers to explore their relationships with place, meaning and perception.
Maps as a Reflection of Us: The Artwork of Phillip Bailey
Canadian Cartographic Association | Read the full feature here
This feature traces the origins of Phillip's artistic practice, from his childhood fascination with atlases in rural Nova Scotia to the development of his distinctive Merge Maps and personalised map commissions.
By combining geographical locations, historical references and elements of individual lives, these works create imaginative landscapes that explore ancestry, identity, memory and belonging.
Phillip Bailey:
Mapping Imagination
ArtSeen | ARTSPLACE | Watch the video here
Explore Phillip Bailey’s imaginative approach to mapmaking, where hand-drawn cartography meets fine art. This artist profile highlights his distinctive Map Merges, which bring geographically accurate places together to create new worlds, explore personal identity, and inspire viewers to see familiar places in unexpected ways.