Author(s): Sam Melser; Deborah Walker-Morrison; Billie Lythberg

NZ Art & Artists

The publication Apocrypha: The maps of Roger Mortimer is edited by Sam Melser, Billie Lythberg, Deborah Walker-Morrison. With essays by Corentin Celbert-Chaudet, Jade Kake, Sam Melser, Lara Thomas, Leonard Bell, Marco Senzogni. Published by Index. August 2021. 195 x 295mm, 160pp. Apocrypha looks at the distinctive and singular painting practice of Roger Mortimer. Through his enigmatic and surreal juxtaposition of medieval imagery on current marine charts from around Aotearoa, Mortimer presents metaphorical, timeless and universal stories of navigation and transformation, drawing on 15th century illustrated manuscripts of the famous poem The Divine Comedy by the Italian poet Dante.