Artists and Projects

Liverpool-to-Liverpool: Chronicles of an aimless journey | Simon Faithful

In 2008, traveling by container ship, train and bus, the artist Simon Faithfull made an epic journey from Liverpool (UK) to Liverpool (Nova Scotia). The purpose of this absurd endeavor was to create 181 digital drawings that record the daily details of a journey from the old world to the new. Making an average of six drawings a day, the minutia and randomness of travel is described in a way that builds to become an elliptic graphic essay - describing the dislocation of one person along the historic paths of trade and exodus across the Atlantic. Unveiled in April 2010 the journey has now become the basis for a permanent public artwork for the city of Liverpool (UK) - the drawings themselves having now been etched into the york-stone paving and glass of a new public site at the centre of the city. The book Liverpool-to-Liverpool brings together all these drawings and Faithfull’s diary entries made along the way, to tell the story this aimless quest. Accompanying the book is a specially commissioned essay by the Liverpool based writer and academic Joe Moran.