Exhibition: From the Library of Dr London

'Personification of place' is given literal form in Dant's new series of drawings. In large pictures of open books, Dant represents how various societies have chosen to discuss, conceive and identify their environment, in human form. This is the first time these works have been displayed.

Dant's personifications are not merely symbolic figures of places; they are formed from the actual features and topography of specific locations.

For example, in the title-piece of the exhibition, From The Library of Dr London, London is depicted as a medical diagram of the human digestive tract - the gullet at Whitehall, the rectum at Whitechapel - with various London landmarks corresponding to appropriate internal organs also depicted as integrated into the fabric of London, which are shown as vignettes around the city/body. The image is grotesque, fantastical and quasi-fictional whilst its subject appears strangely familiar in context of everyday London.