Posts Tagged ‘woven’
Land Water Vessel
02/03/2010
This is a 14’ long open woven canoe made on site at Taigh Chearsabhagh Arts Centre, North Uist, from willow, hazel, heather and salmon skins which are wrapped around the gunwales, struts, keel and paddle. The work was part of a one person show called Land Water and Language, made after the experience of a […]
2010 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: hazel, heather, salmon skins, willow | Tags: environmental, installation, plants, sculpture, Vessel, woven
Redwood Vortex
10/05/2005
Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California. A temporary 70’ structure, woven in willow and Poplar around a Redwood Tree behind the gallery at the Villa and commissioned as part of the outdoor sculpture program. The work formed a part of an exhibition called Whorls with two related pieces inside in the Gallery (see exhibitions – Whorls). […]
2005 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: willow | Tags: earth work, environmental, ephemeral, land art, sculpture, vortex, woven
Time Capsule
10/03/2002
South Carolina Botanic Garden at Clemson Commissioned by The sculpture program at the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson and funded by National Foundation for the Arts. The work comprises two large woven stick domes in a figure of 8 plan. The nucleus of each dome is a rammed earth monolith in a woven stick mould. […]
2002 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, sticks, trees | Tags: earth work, environmental, growing, land art, sculpture, shelter, woven
Willow Domes on the Este
10/03/2002
Neddernhof, Nr Hamburg, Germany The work comprises two woven willow domes on the banks of the river Este, in the private estate of Hans Edmund Siemers at Neddernhof, south of Hamburg, Germany. The domes are made from planted, woven and grafted willow sticks, which are growing and will form one tree in the plan […]
2002 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: Living willow, stones | Tags: earth work, environmental, growing, land art, sculpture, woven
Holding Light
01/01/2000
Fabrica, Brighton, UK A 10m high woven double dome in hazel and willow as a one-month installation on the theme of shelter. Commissioned by Fabrica, funded by National Arts Lottery and Brighton & Hove Council.
2000 | Exhibitions | Media: hazel sticks, willow | Tags: environmental, installation, landscape, shelter, vortex, wovenComments (0)
Shimanto River Spheres
14/10/1997
Higashitsuno-mura, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, spheres decreasing in size from 160 cm diam to 65 cm. diam.
1997 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: bamboo, leaves, moss, sticks, vine | Tags: environmental, ephemeral, land art, sculpture, spheres, woven
Tree Vortex
14/04/1996
Dragsholm Castle, Odsherred, Denmark. 20 m. high x 3 m. diam at base.
1996 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: sticks | Tags: environmental, ephemeral, land art, vortex, woven
Vortex
10/08/1994
Lewes Castle, Sussex. Commissioners: South East Arts and Lewes District Council. Brief: To make a temporary installation sculpture as part of the Lewes Arts Festival. This was the first really big woven work I made and I had no idea at the time if it would work. It was made of woven hazel and […]
1994 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: willow and hazel | Tags: environmental, ephemeral, land art, sculpture, shelter, woven
Tree Mountain Shelter
14/03/1994
Arte Sella, Sella Valley, Italy. Stone on woven sticks, covered by an outer shelter of sticks. – 2.6 m. x 4 m. x 3.6 m. high
1994 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: stone, willow and hazel | Tags: environmental, ephemeral, land art, sculpture, shelter, woven
Five Sisters
02/03/1994
Willow and cow dung. Largest – 58 x 81 cm. Smallest- 40 x 33 cm. collection artist
1994 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: cow dung, willow | Tags: cow dung, environmental, installation, plants, sculpture, Vessel, willow, woven
Kayak Bundles
02/03/1994
Willow and willow bark – 198 x 15 x 10 cm – private collection
1994 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: bark, willow | Tags: environmental, plants, sculpture, Vessel, woven
Air Vessel
02/03/1994
Willow, suspended on nylon thread – 518 x 56 x 30 cm – collection artist
1994 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: hazel, willow | Tags: environmental, installation, plants, sculpture, Vessel, woven
Covered Cairn
14/03/1993
TICKON (Tranekær International Centre for Art and Nature), Langeland, Denmark. This was commissioned as a temporary piece and comprises a cairn of glacial boulders enclosed by a dome of woven sticks
1993 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: stone, willow and hazel | Tags: environmental, ephemeral, land art, sculpture, shelter, woven
Adharc Basket
27/06/1991
A woven heather basket containing rams horns cast in peat and PVA, plus two in bronze. Adharc is Irish for horn. Bronze horns were found preserved in the peat bogs of Ireland and are thought to be 2000 years old. They may have been played like a didgeridoo. – 86 cm diam. x 40.6 cm […]
1991 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: Bronze, heather, Peat, PVA | Tags: cast, earth, horn, plants, woven
Twenty Places, twenty herbs, twenty stones
27/01/1986
Basket made containing a stone from twenty places and made of plants collected from those places. Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland – silverweed. Mount Caburn, Sussex – Salad Burnet. Glastonbury, Somerset – Yarrow. Auvernes, France – Ginseng. Cevennes, France – Broom. Friston Forest, Sussex – Wayfaring tree. High Rocks, Kent – Yew. Ben Alder, Scotland […]
1986 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: plants, stones | Tags: environmental, plants, Vessel, woven
Basket for the moment between Life and Death
27/02/1985
This coil basket with two sheep’s horns interlocked at the top was made for that moment of anticipation in the year between winter and Spring, where the Earth seems to hold its breath. – 36 x 46 x 46 cm
1985 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: Ash bark, Birch bark, sheeps horns, willow | Tags: basket, Vessel, woven
Four Spheres
14/04/1984
Ben Alder, Grampian Mountains, Scotland.