Posts Tagged ‘ecology’

Horizon Line Chamber, Sunderland Point, Morecambe Bay
22/11/2018
Horizon Line Chamber, a work for Morecambe Bay. This is one of the ‘Headlands to Headspace’ Heritage-Lottery-funded commissions for Morecambe Bay, due to be completed by the end of October. The proposed dry stone work will be shaped like an upturned boat or oratory and will have a small lens in the sea-facing wall which projects a […]
2018 | Cloud Chambers, Commissions, Works Outside | Media: cloud chamber, earth on paper, handmade book, lens, Sculpture, stone | Tags: cloud chamber, ecology, environmental, land art, landscape, sculpture, shelter

JIRI MOUNTAIN TEA LINE
24/10/2016
JIRI MOUNTAIN TEA LINE Made for the Jirisan International Art and Nature festival in Hadong, South Korea, the work is about balance. The mountain connects heaven to earth. Water from the Jiri mountains flows down into the Seomjin River. The river gives life and biodiversity to the region. The line of twelve stones aligned with […]
2016 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, plants, Sculpture, stone | Tags: earth work, ecology, environmental, growing, land art, landscape, plants

Ponderosa Whirlpool
30/09/2016
Ponderoas whirlpool has been made for Blackfoot pathways, Sculpture in the Wild in Lincoln, Montana and is the 8th work here to be made in place. It is 46′ in diameter and made entirely of beetle killed pine and fir with stone pebbles in between and one boulder at the bottom of the vortex, […]
2016 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, installation, logs, trees, Whirlpool | Tags: earth work, ecology, environmental, installation, landscape, sculpture, vortex

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

Plant 53
01/09/2014
Plant 53 – 2014 A mono print of scanned plant. A cubit of turf was taken from near the escarpment on Dollens farm, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset. Out of the many thousands of plants within this cubit, 60 clumps or individual plants were taken and scanned in black and white. This is the 53rd plant […]
2014 | Prints, Works For Sale | Media: mono print. | Tags: ecology, environmental, land art, landscape, print

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

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

Albatross
23/01/2008
On my way to Antarctica on the James Clark Ross, albatrosses were wheeling about the ship. I asked the Met Officer on board, also bound for the base at Rothera, if he could give me a wind and pressure chart, pus a satellite image for each day I spent South. The idea for these pieces […]
2008 | Antartica | Media: crayon, pencil, print | Tags: Antarctica, ecology, environmental, maps, science, wind, work on paper

Equinox Line
23/01/2008
A site-specific private commission in Neddernhof, nr Hamburg, Germany The work comprises a mound with a stone lined site line through it, running East west, with marker standing stones either end aligned to the sunrise and sunset on the equinoxes. In 2007 Hans Edmund Siemers asked me to return to Neddernhof to make another proposal […]
2008 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, plants, stone | Tags: earth work, ecology, environmental, land art, landscape, plants, sculptureComments (0)

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 | Antartica, Gene Sequences, Mapping, Uncategorized | Media: earth on paper | Tags: Antarctica, earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, science, text

Under Sky Blu
01/03/2007
Layered echograms from Flight G23, Inkjet print, 888 x 778 mm. edition 2/4, private collection and collection artist This work is made by taking what is a linear cross section of an echogram over Sky Blu and layering them one over the other in Photoshop. The image is never anything you would see, it is […]
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, echogram, ecology, environmental, ice, print, science

Under The Ice, over the Unknown
01/03/2007
Detail from Flight G23, Pencil and ink on an inkjet print on artists’ paper, 2060 x 870 mm – private collection
2007 | Antartica, Mapping | Media: Ink And Pencil, Inkjet Print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, drawing, echogram, ecology, environmental, ice, print, science

Lake Concordia and Ice Wave
01/03/2007
From Flight W34, Biro on an inkjet print on vinyl, 1306 x 1137 mm – Collection artist Lake Concordia 11 – 2018 – GelPoint on print on rag paper 1306 x 1137 mm – the ice here is 4 K thick, but where it meets the land which in places is hot, it forms lakesI […]
2007 | Antartica, Mapping, Maps | Media: inkjet print and biro | Tags: Antarctica, digital, drawing, echogram, ecology, environmental, ice, print, science

Explorers at the Edge of the Void
01/03/2007
Hand written text in ink on an inkjet print from an echogram of East Antarctica, on artists’ paper, 1060 x 2345 mm private collection Not long after I returned from Antarctica my wife and I were invited to CERN to see the new Hadron Collider under construction. The experiment, which is due to take place […]
2007 | Antartica, Mapping, Maps | Media: digital print, hand written, ink, inkjet print and blue ink | Tags: Antarctica, digital, echogram, ecology, environmental, hand written, ice, print, science, text

Everything Nothing
01/03/2007
Hand written text in ink on an inkjet print, from an echogram of East Antarctica, on artists’ paper, 888 x 778 mm private collection Antarctica is the height of nothingness and yet it contains everything, it drives our climate and has our history encoded in the layers of ice.
2007 | Antartica, Mapping | Media: inkjet print and blue ink | Tags: Antarctica, digital, echogram, ecology, environmental, hand written, ice, print, science, text

Above and Below Cararra Nunatac
01/03/2007
Sky Blu, Antarctica, Inkjet prints, one is a layered echogram from under the ice at Sky Blu. 888 x 733 mm Collection artist An echogram is a radar image of the ice and the underlying land formations. The equipment is attached to the underside of the wings of a Twin Otter, which will fly close […]
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Maps, Prints | Media: inkjet prints | Tags: Antarctica, digital, echogram, ecology, environmental, ice, print, science

Antarctic Winds 1
01/03/2007
24th & 25th January, Inkjet print on artists paper with pencil, 752 x 737 mm. – Collection artist
2007 | Antartica, Mapping, Maps | Media: pencil, print | Tags: Antarctica, ecology, environmental, maps, science, wind, work on paper

Antarctic Winds 2
01/03/2007
27 & 28th January, Inkjet print on artists’ archival paper overlaid with permanent ink on transparent film, 752 x 737 mm – Collection artist
2007 | Antartica, Mapping, Maps | Media: ink, print, transparent film | Tags: Antarctica, ecology, environmental, maps, science, wind, work on paper

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 […]