Adam Dant, an artist best known for his stunning graphic-style cartographic drawings, came to us in 2014 with an unusual request:
‘I hope to augment my exhibition with some descriptions provided by archaeologists of how the urban environment appears in their dreams and nocturnal reveries.’
Through his work, Dant intends to preserve the history of the Temple of Mithras. What he has created is a stunning series of hand-drawn, sepia ink artworks detailing life throughout the two millennia of the City of London.
MOLA is uniquely placed to provide Adam with a glimpse into the dreams of the some of the people most intimately connected with the site, the archaeologists. Impassioned by the Bloomberg London finds being researched by MOLA specialists, Dant’s artwork explores archaeologist’s dreams.
