Posts Tagged ‘earth’
The Energy of a Stone Row
02/05/2022
The Energy of a Stone Row, Les Jardins Des Arts, Chateaubourg, Brittany, France This is a garden connected to the hotel Ar Millin with the La Villaine river running along its border. Gisele Burel has been running this annual sculpture exhibition in the garden of their hotel for 20 years. This was her last year as […]
2022 | Commissions, Exhibitions | Media: installation, logs, Sculpture, stone | Tags: earth, earth work, ecology, environmental, ephemeral, land art, landscape, sculpture, vortex, whirlpool
Earth Library
05/08/2016
Earth Library is a collection of over 100 labelled jars containing soils from all over the world, collected over 35 years. The jars are displayed on glass shelves within a steel frame. 86 cm x 20 cm x 206 cm high.
2016 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: earth, glass, steel | Tags: earth, sculpture, Vessel
EARTH
11/03/2016
NEW EXHIBITION BY CHRIS DRURY Opening this March, ONCA is delighted to host EARTH, a new commission plus selected artworks by internationally acclaimed land artist and ONCA patron Chris Drury. Renowned for his site-specific, natural world sculpture – including patterns cut into fields, stone cairns on hill tops, raked designs in dried-out lakes and […]
2016 | Exhibitions | Media: earth, installation, plants, print, Sculpture, spore print, work on paper | Tags: earth, environmental, mushrooms, sculpture, work on paper
Exchange
22/08/2015
EXCHANGE – Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Castle, Swanage, Dorset, UK August 15th – 31st, 2015 The Exhibition is the result of two years collaboration between myself and Kay Syrad about 3 farms in Dorset for The Art and Climate Change organisation – Cape Farewell. The work is centred around a Leather bound A2 sized book, […]
2015 | Artist Books, Exhibitions, Mapping, Maps, Portraits, Text Works | Media: audio, digital print, earth, grass, handmade book, paper, plants, work on paper | Tags: audio, earth, ecology, environmental, landscape, maps, plants
The Worm Forgives The Plough
15/05/2015
Made for the exhibition – Exchange. The work is comprised of a line drawn map of Europe, Scandinavia and Greenland with John Morris’ fingerprint superimposed in Sydling earth. In the centre are two woven maps of Sydling St Nicholas and Europe pushed into a bowl. The fingerprint is plough furrow, weather isobars and a the close touched […]
2015 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps, paper, work on paper | Tags: earth, ecology, fingerprint, maps, woven maps
EXCHANGE
16/03/2015
Exchange was produced in collaboration with Kay Syrad and was commissioned by Cape Farewell to look at sustainable ways of living and farming in relation to three farms in Sydling St Nicholas and Godmanston, West Dorset. The two farms in Sydling St Nicholas were Huish sheep farm and Dollens organic dairy farm. The other organic dairy […]
2015 | Artist Books, Mapping, Uncategorized, Works For Sale | Media: handmade book, paper | Tags: earth, environmental, language, maps, plants, text, work on paper
Life in the Field of Death 3, The Methane Eater
15/07/2010
The Methane Eater – Life in the Field of Death – Methylocapsa acidiphila Methylocapsa acidiphila is a microrganism living in the acid conditions of peat bogs and burning methane for energy. Methane is a lethal greenhouse gas, so this organism helps to regulate the presence of this gas. The work is part of an ongoing […]
2010 | Gene Sequences, Mapping | Media: earth, peat on paper | Tags: earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, science, text
Mushroom Cloud
05/07/2010
An installation in The Malga Costa barn, Arte Sella, in the Sella Valley, Borgo Valsugana, Italy, Funded by Arte Sella. A mushroom cloud of over 6000 pieces of dried fungi slices, sealed in acrylic and suspended between a steel frame and the floor on nylon thread – lit from beneath. Digital print in an edition […]
2010 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: desert, earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, installation, nuclear, print, science, text, wall drawing
Rhone Camargue
02/05/2010
Found snake skin from the Camargue, on Rhone mud, on paper. – 191 x 55 x 8 cm – collection artist
2010 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, Found objects, paper | Tags: earth, environmental, found objects, maps
Boletus Circle
04/02/2010
Boletus Circle Mud screen print on artists’ paper – 100 x 120 cm. – ed. 3/6 – Howling at the Universe, a homage to Kurt Schwitters, screen printed porridge on Black paper – 100 x 120 cm – ed. 6 /6 –
2010 | Mushrooms & Fingerprints, Prints | Media: earth, porridge, screen print | Tags: earth, environmental, mushroom, print, work on paper
Shake Before Using
01/06/2008
Installation view of Of Earth and Blood – fingerprints made with hand prints in two colors of local earth. Museum Artiumof Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
2008 | Exhibitions | Media: earth | Tags: earth, environmental, fingerprint, installation, landscape, micro/macro, political, vortex, wall drawingComments (0)
Winnemucca Whirlwind
05/05/2008
Made for The Exhibition Mushrooms | Clouds at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2008 The work, based on a native basket design, was raked by hand over 18 hours, mostly by moonlight, on the dried out lake bed of Lake Winnemucca and although it was placed the far side of the fence on Government […]
2008 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: earth, earth work, environmental, ephemeral, land art, land drawing, political, print, sculpture
Life in the Field of Death 1
05/05/2008
Made in Collaboration with Dr Lynn Fenstermaker, the work shows a microscope image of Microcoleus vaginata which is growing in the soils of the Nevada Nuclear Test site where 100 atmospheric bombs were tested. Next to it is an image from space of the that same test site. Microcoleus vaginata is a cyanobacteria, which were […]
2008 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: desert, earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, installation, nuclear, print, science, text, wall drawing
Life in the Field of Death
02/03/2008
Life in the Field of Death 1 2008 Inkjet print, ed 3/6 410 x 610 mm. Collection Nevada Museum of Art and Desert Research Institute, Reno Life in the Field of Death 11 Stenciled Nevada test site soils on the wall or on paper. Dimensions variable. Collection Nevada Museum of Art 559 […]
2008 | Gene Sequences, Mapping | Media: digital print, earth, rocks | Tags: desert, earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, installation, nuclear, print, science, text, wall drawing
Winnemucca Whirlwind
30/01/2008
Made for The Exhibition Mushrooms | Clouds at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2008 The work, based on a native basket design, was raked by hand over 18 hours, mostly by moonlight, on the dried out lake bed of Lake Winnemucca and although it was placed the far side of the fence on Government […]
2008 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: raked earth | Tags: earth, earth work, environmental, ephemeral, land art, land drawing, political, sculpture
Life in the Presence of Death
02/03/2007
Antarctic earth on paper, 1310 x 1000 mm – private collection and collection artist This is the gene sequence of a proteobacteria found in the soil of the Ellsworth Mountains, one of the most lifeless places on earth.
2007 | Antarctica, Gene Sequences, Mapping, Uncategorized | Media: earth on paper | Tags: Antarctica, earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, science, text
Time and Strata
02/03/2006
Gealogical and OS woven maps and earth pigment. Lewes – South Downs ,73 x 73 cm – two exist, woven in opposite ways – private collections
2006 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps, paper | Tags: earth, environmental, maps, woven maps
Whorls
01/01/2005
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, California This was a project with a large woven work around a redwood tree outside, highlighting the flow of sap in trees and two installations in the gallery; one of the vortices in the body, as fingerprints from 25 local people in earth on the walls, and the other as […]
2005 | Exhibitions | Media: earth, pine needles, sticks, stone | Tags: earth, environmental, fingerprints, installation, landscape, micro/macro, vortex, wall drawing
Heaven and Earth
06/07/2004
UV sealed inkjet print from a satellite photograph, superimposed with a map from a 6 day walk from Porsmork to Landmanlauger in July 2003. The background is made of lava dust in acrylic emulsion, etched down to the aluminium, all mounted on 16 sheets of 2mm aluminium. 200 x 250 cm Collection artist
2004 | Heart, Mapping | Media: aluminium, digital print, lava dust | Tags: earth, environmental, heart, maps, micro/macro, print, satellite, weather
Volcanoes of Iceland
02/03/2004
Hand written text in ink, listing the volcanic mountains of Iceland, on an inkjet print of a map from the Landmanalauger area, overprinted onto an ink cap spore print and peat impregnated paper, with Lava dust in acrylic emulsion. 140 x 98.5 cm. – Collection artist
2004 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, ink, maps, paper, spore print | Tags: earth, environmental, hand written, maps, mushroom, spore print, text, woven maps
Tumulus and Dew Pond
02/03/2003
Two maps of the same area of the south Downs with the relevant tumulus and Dew pond centered, and one stained with sheep shit, were cut into strips and woven together. The resulting woven maps were pushed into concave and convex bowls. 50 x 47 x 7 cm. Private collection
2003 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps | Tags: earth, environmental, woven maps
Four Scottish Mountains
02/03/2002
Enlarged fingerprint fragments in peat on watercolor paper, digitally overprinted with enlarged OS maps In four parts, each 100 x 100 cm – collection artist
2002 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps, paper | Tags: earth, environmental, maps
Hand on Heart
01/03/2002
monoprinted echocardiogram on watercolor paper from a digital print, with a finger print in iron oxides and blood superimposed. 140 x 200 cm. – Collection artist
2002 | Heart, Mapping | Media: print, work on paper | Tags: blood, earth, echocardiogram, environmental, fingerprint, heart, mico/macro, print, weather
Echo 6
21/02/2001
Canvas backed, peat impregnated watercolor paper applied by walking across the paper in bare feet, then digitally overprinted with an echocardiogram, blurred with a garden mister. 100 x 230 cm. – Collection artist
2001 | Heart, Mapping | Media: print, work on paper | Tags: earth, echocardiogram, environmental, heart, mico/macro
Heart River 1
01/03/1999
Blood and river mud on paper with a transfer from a photocopy of a diagram of a cross section of the apex of the human heart, superimposed. 56 x 76 cm – collection artist – there are 3 variations
1999 | Heart, Mapping | Media: work on paper | Tags: : heart, blood, earth, environmental, flow pattern, mico/macro
Nubra 2
02/03/1998
Earth pigmented paper and map, cut into strips and woven into a convex bowl, set into paper with earth pigments and water color. 59 x 59 cm. There were seven of these made, all different – private collection and collection artist
1998 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps, paper, water colour | Tags: earth, environmental, woven maps
Ladakh 1
02/03/1998
Earth pigmented paper and maps woven into a convex bowl, mounted into paper covered board with blue water color and charcoal. 122 x 122 x 11 cm – private collection
1998 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps, paper, water colour | Tags: earth, environmental, woven maps
WIND – North Uist
04/09/1997
CHRIS DRURY – DRAWINGS IN PEAT – 6 CARDS – peat drawings and prints – Edition of 100 – 32 left – £25
1997 | Books & Cards, Prints, Works For Sale | Media: card, ink, Peat | Tags: books, earth, environmental, hand made, language, maps, text
Mani Stone, Ladakh
02/03/1997
Woven maps. earth, with an earth and wax rubbing from a prayer stone along the way, during a two week trek in Ladakh. 76 x 66 cm – private collection
1997 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth, maps, paper | Tags: earth, environmental, woven maps
Whale Bone
02/03/1993
Etched Whale bone and ochre. – 25 x 28 x 10 cm – collection artist
1993 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: ochre, Whale bone | Tags: Bone, Bundle, earth, environmental, found object, Vessel
Adharc 1
02/03/1992
Ireland 1992, two bronze and 56 peat & PVA cast rams horns, dimensions vary – Collection artist Adharc is Irish for horn. Bronze horns were found in Irish peat bogs and are thought to be from 2000 BC and were maybe played like a didgeridoo. I head one played at a Bogland symposium. That same […]
1992 | Gene Sequences, Mapping | Media: peat and bronze | Tags: earth, ecology, environmental, peat, sound
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 […]