Top image ‘The Arctic’ by Blaise Drummond. Image courtesy of Louis Vuitton

Art and fashion continue to inform one another, endlessly amalgamating in a symbiotic manner. 

Take Louis Vuitton’s Curated Shelf project, which takes this relationship to a literary level by periodically providing a platform for contemporary artists to share the literary influences of their works. Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman, Grayson Perry and Haim Steinbach are all part of the Curated Shelf alum. Last year we saw artist Tania Kovats in the limelight. And now Liverpudlian contemporary-artist Blaise Drummond’s takes the torch.

The Ireland-based Drummond’s aesthetic is inimitably distinct. Minimalist landscapes represent a relationship – or the comparative grandiosity, depending on one’s interpretation – between the form of nature and the opposing force of humanity. It is “an attempt,” he says, “to create some half-remembered vision of balance in the world.”

With this Curated Shelf, Drummond presents a shelf curated around his special travel book The Arctic. Destinations around the theme are expressed through 100 exclusive drawings, a unique vision of contemporary travel – both virtual and real. The collection of prints are works of art themselves and will be accompanied, in Shelf style, by a selection of books that have inspired the display. For Louis Vuitton, a house founded in the luxury potential of exotic travel, here’s a sleek – albeit chilly – fit. 

Curated Shelf by Blaise Drummond runs until May at Louis Vuitton Bond Street, 17-20 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2RB. 

Drummond’s prints will also be on show in a parallel exhibition running until 1st May at Sims Reed Gallery, The Economist Building, 30 Bury Street, London SW1