Posts Tagged ‘environmental’
Passage
01/10/2021
A new work for the organisation Causes Aux Balcons, Villard de Lans in the Vercors, France In 2019 I was invited by Jerome Aussibal to make a work in this stunning limestone region in France. Jerome is a sculptor, a climber and an acrobat; a man with a huge drive and energy. I made a site […]
2021 | Commissions, Latest, Uncategorized, Works Outside | Media: earth, installation, Sculpture, stone, Whirlpool | Tags: earth work, environmental, land art, landscape, plants, sculpture, vortex, whirlpool
Five Kanji Collaborations
01/09/2021
These works were made in Collaboration with Myujin OK in Japan. He sent me five Kanji plus the brush: Tsochi/Earth, Kazu/Wind, Hi/Fire, Miss/Water and Kokoro/Heart, Soul, Mind. I responded to each in a work of the same scale – 795 x 725 mm. It is hoped to show them in both London and Tokyo
2021 | Exhibitions, Ideas, Latest, Mapping, Mushrooms, Text Works | Media: earth, earth on paper, ink, Inkjet Print, work on paper | Tags: earth work, ecology, environmental, hand written, mushroom, work on paper
“Seeing Past the Future” online exhibition opens June 10
26/05/2021
Seeing Past the Future, an online exhibition of works by 2019-2020 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipients, will open on June 10. The project was conceived by Shimon Attie, the inaugural Charles C. Bergman Endowed Visiting Professor of Studio Art at Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences, in conjunction with the Pollock-Krasner House and […]
2021 | Exhibitions | Media: digital print | Tags: earth work, ecology, environmental, installation, land art
Tuscany/East Sussex
21/08/2019
A woven map work for a client who has lived in both places most of their lives. The two maps, with added border of rubbed soil from the two places, are cut into strips and woven together using the pattern of a Roman tile. size: 93 x 100 cm.
2019 | Mapping, Maps | Media: earth on paper, maps, work on paper | Tags: environmental, landscape, maps, woven maps
Linden Cloud Chamber
16/07/2019
Linden Cloud Chamber – Tranekaer International Centre for Art and Nature, Langeland, Denmark. On the invitation of Alfio Bonanno I was invited to make another work here in the Park, 26 years after Covered Cairn https://chrisdrury.co.uk/covered-cairn/, made in 1993. That first work was destroyed and eaten by deer. This work, an underground chamber set in a ring […]
2019 | Cloud Chambers, Uncategorized, Works Outside | Media: earth, installation, logs, plants, Sculpture, stone, wood | Tags: cloud chamber, environmental, growing, installation, land art, landscape, sculpture
t|here
03/04/2019
t/here: a poetic glossary of human and non-human migration A collaborative small book of poems by Kay Syrad and images made around Chris Drury’s Horizon Line Chamber, at Sunderland Point, Morecambe Bay. Published to coincide with Chris Drury’s exhibition at Avivson Gallery, Highgate, London. edition of 150
2019 | Artist Books, Mapping, Works For Sale | Media: handmade book | Tags: book, environmental, land art, spore print
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
Sri Lanka 2018
19/09/2018
This project for a new Tea House in a small tea estate in the Southern province of Sri Lanka was conceived and made in 2018. The commission was for a piece outside the new house being built in the trees and tea plantation. A bridge from the first floor library and veranda stretches over and […]
2018 | Commissions, Latest, Mapping, Maps, Text Works, Works Outside | Media: earth, Inkjet Print, maps, plants, Sculpture, stone, work on paper | Tags: environmental, growing, installation, land art, landscape, maps, plants, sculpture, text, vortex, woven maps
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
THE WANDERING
21/05/2016
THE WANDERING A work commissioned by the State of Western Australia for the site of the new Perth Stadium, sited on the south bank of the Swan River, overlooking the city to the west. The wall was made by three Cornish hedgers from Roger Clemens Ltd, Cornwall: Dan Murray, Alan Wherry and Jamie Merrick. Alan […]
2016 | Commissions, Uncategorized, Works Outside | Media: earth, grass, plants, stone, trees | Tags: earth work, environmental, land art, landscape, sculpture, vortex
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 Birth of Energy
12/06/2015
At the weekend we opened the Birth of Energy at Neddernhof, the last in a trilogy of works for the Edmund Siemers-Stiftung. There is a small exhibition of drawings in the gallery close to the house. The trees are planted and the work is on its way. I predict that in 60 years when the trees are […]
2015 | Commissions | Media: Earth work, growing, print, stone, Stone Whirlpool | Tags: environmental, growing, land art, landscape, plants, sculpture
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
The Birth of Energy at Neddernhof
10/09/2014
The Birth of Energy is the third in the trilogy of works by myself, commissioned by the Siemers Stiftung at Neddernhof, South of Hamburg in Germany. It is constructed out of 30 tones of white/grey sandstone laid in a whirlpool pattern within an 18 m. diameter circle, with 15 glacial boulders spiraling into the circle […]
2014 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, stone, trees | Tags: earth work, environmental, land art, landscape, sculpture, vortex, whirlpool
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
Installation for Oppland Artcentre, Lillehammer, Norway
15/06/2014
Landscapes, The Social Construction of Nature and The Environment Curator – Patrick Huse The opening show of this new artist run gallery in Lillehammer. Inside: Chris Drury and Svein Flygari Johansen Outside around the town: Jannecke Lønne Christiansen, Anna Widén, Marit Hosar, Marit Arnekleive, Egil Martin Kurdøl, Ådne Løvstad. The Exhibition runs from 15th June […]
2014 | Exhibitions | Media: installation | Tags: echogram, environmental, landscape, print, science, text
Log Wave, Ashland community project, Milton Keynes
30/05/2014
This work was made for the Ashland housing development community project in Milton Keynes. The project started in October 2012 and was finally constructed in May 2014. The idea was to make something which kids and adults in the community could use and to look at the whole piece of adjoining Parks Trust land. The […]
2014 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: logs, wood | Tags: environmental, installation, land art, landscape, sculpture
The Way of Trees, Earth and Water
07/05/2013
As part of my 2013 HC Combs Creative Arts Fellowship at the Australian National University School of Art, I was commissioned to make an environmental work for the ANU Sculpture Park, for the Centenary of the Founding of Canberra. The Installation was a collaboration between myself, the ANU School of Art Sculpture Workshop, an ANU […]
2013 | Commissions, Latest, Works Outside | Media: rammed earth, stone, trees, wood | Tags: environmental, growing
Carbon Sink, The Dispute continues – An article by Daniel Frosch in the New York Times today
27/10/2012
Art That Irked Energy Executives Is Gone, but Wyoming Dispute Whirls On Chris Drury The University of Wyoming removed “Carbon Sink,” by Chris Drury, after receiving complaints. By DAN FROSCH Published: October 26, 2012 LARAMIE, Wyo. — The idea behind the sculpture that appeared on the University of Wyoming campus about 16 months ago was […]
2012 | Latest, News | Media: coal, logs | Tags: Carbon Sink, energy, environmental
On the Ground, above and below Wyoming
02/02/2012
Topographical and geological maps, cut into strips and woven together with a border of Wyoming earth and coal dust. 102 x 126 cm – collection artist
2012 | Mapping, Maps | Media: maps, paper | Tags: environmental, woven maps
Land Water and Language
05/09/2011
Taigh Chearsabghagh Museum and Arts Centre, North Uist, Western Isles – 4th September – 30th October 2010 Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye – 27th November 2010 – 5th March 2011 Dovecot, Edinburgh – 5th August – 5th September 2011 Funded By Taigh Chearsabhagh and Creative Scotland, curated by Andy Mackinnon The project began […]
2011 | Exhibitions | Media: heather, print, salmon skins, willow | Tags: canoe, environmental, installation, landscape, print, text, works on paper
Carbon Sink
23/07/2011
University of Wyoming campus, Laramie, USA Commissioned as part of the University of Wyoming Art Museum sculpture program. The piece is 14 m. in diameter and is made from beetle killed pine logs and coal. Both these materials were once living trees and died during times of climate warming. At this time the burning of […]
2011 | Commissions | Media: coal, logs | Tags: environmental, land art, political, sculpture, vortex, whirlpool
Waves and Time
23/01/2011
Thixendale, Wolds Way, Yorkshire, UK. Commissioned as part of Wander – Art on the Yorkshire Wolds Way. Wander was initiated by Visit Hull and East Yorkshire (VHEY) and is a partnership project managed with the local authorities (East Riding of Yorkshire Council and North Yorkshire County Council) along the Wolds Way and Natural England. […]
2011 | Commissions | Media: earth, grass | Tags: earth work, environmental, growing, land art, sculpture
EcoArt
01/01/2011
Pori Museum of Art, Pori Finland Curated by John Grande and Pia Hovi-Assad. This was a survey exhibition with historical work (Smithson, Christo etc) with more contemporary artists around the theme of ecology.
2011 | Exhibitions | Media: ashes, dust, logs, print | Tags: digital print, environmental, installation, landscape, mushroom, vortex, wall drawing, whirlpool, works on paperComments (0)
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
Looking South From Eaval
05/05/2010
An image made up of all the names of lochs and hills visible from this point on Eaval, North Uist. Printed onto archival artists paper in 6 point. 107 x 148 cm. – edition of 3 – £8000
2010 | Prints, Text & Words | Media: digital print | Tags: canoe, environmental, landscape, language, text
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
Looking North from Eaval
05/04/2010
a work in 5 parts, the total image is the same as land and Water, but it is made up of all the names of all the lochs and hills visible from this same point, printed onto archival artists paper in 6 point. The work is in 5 parts; Sections 1,3 and 5 are in […]
2010 | Prints, Text & Words | Media: digital print | Tags: canoe, environmental, landscape, language, text
Arte Sella, Mushroom Cloud
01/04/2010
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. 230 x 500 cm
2010 | Exhibitions, Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: dried fungi, nylon thread, steel, wood | Tags: cloud, environmental, installation, mushroomsComments (0)
Land and Water
02/03/2010
A photogravure in 5 parts from a view looking north from Eaval on North Uist, prior to canoeing across this flow country over the following two days. – Each 45 x 61 cm, 225 x 61 cm overall – Edition of 7 various collections – 5 available
2010 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Photogravure print | Tags: canoe, environmental, landscape, text
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
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
Rhine Mosel Slate Whirlpool
23/01/2010
Koblenz, Germany. Curated by The Heike Strellow Gallery in Frankfurt and commissioned by the Koblenz Garden Festival, it is hoped this work will remain permanently. It is sited in the grounds of the Fortress which overlook the confluence of the Rhine and the Mosel. The cliff itself is made of slate which underlies most of […]
2010 | Commissions | Media: slate | Tags: earth work, environmental, land art, sculpture, vortex, whirlpoolComments (0)
Sky Mountain Chamber
01/01/2010
Arte Sella, Sella Valley, Borgo Valsugana, Italy (artesella@yahoo.it +39 461 751251) Made as a permanent installation for Arte Sella in the Trento region of Italy, this work is built from 150 tons of limestone and sits within a group of pine trees in the beautiful high Sella valley. The work pays homage in its shape […]
2010 | Cloud Chambers | Media: steel, stone | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Breath / Anail
14/03/2009
Made in collaboration with Andy Mackinnon at Taigh Chearsabhagh in North Uist, this is a looped video of a continually breaking wave, with the words BREATH and ANAIL (Gaelic for breath), fading in and out of the wave on a 1 minute 40 second cycle. Silent, HD Video. Edition of 50.
2009 | Videos | Media: HD video | Tags: climate change, environmental, landscape, video, wave
September 23rd 2009
02/03/2009
This work came out of a two day canoe journey with Andy Mackinnon across North Uist. It comprises a satellite image for that day over part of the Northern Hemisphere with the line of the lochs and the canoe journey superimposed. Digital print laminated on dibond. 120 x 120 cm. – collection artist
2009 | Mapping, Maps, Photoworks, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: digital, environmental, maps, satellite
Mushrooms | Clouds
01/08/2008
CHRIS DRURY Mushrooms | Clouds – Nevada Museum of Art, Reno A one person show about use and abuse of land in Nevada with an over reaching theme of life, death and regeneration. Funded by Nevada Museum of Art and the For-Site Foundation. The work was a result of several collaborations: With the Staff and […]
2008 | Exhibitions | Media: mixed media, print, video | Tags: environmental, gene sequence, installation, landscape, mushrooms, photoworks, political, prints, text, videos, wall drawing, works on paperComments (0)
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
Shattered Peace, Broken Promises
14/03/2008
A column of smoke from a burning sage bundle, subjected to the sound of an explosion. HD looped video in sequences of 10 minutes. Silent. edited with Alice Ross.
2008 | Videos | Media: HD video | Tags: environmental, flow pattern, landscape, video, vortex, wave
The Way of White Clouds
07/03/2008
A looped video of a white cloudy liquid entering into still black water. HD video in a looped sequences of one minute 20 seconds. Silent. Edition of 6. Edited with Alice Ross
2008 | Videos | Media: HD video, video | Tags: environmental, flow pattern, landscape, video, vortex, wave
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
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)
Moving Towards A Balanced Earth
01/01/2008
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, Tongarewa, Wellington Installation view of Spore Waves a projection of a mushroom spore print onto the surface of a mirror pool. The pool has an electrical pulse going through it, which distorts and creates waves in the reflected image on the wall.
2008 | Exhibitions | Media: projection, video, water installation | Tags: environmental, installation, landscape, mushroom, projection, videoComments (0)
Albatross Print
04/08/2007
Digital print on archival rag paper, with a hand drawn blue crayon line. The image is of one day of wind over Antarctica, with the line of the flight of a tagged Albatross over 18 months, drawn in blue crayon around the central circle. This bird lives on the wing, often just 2 metres above […]
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints, Works For Sale | Media: digital print, work on paper | Tags: albatross, albatrossenvironmental, Antarctica, environmental, wind
Wind Vortices
04/07/2007
Wind Vortices – Sky Blu, Antarctica – Inkjet print – 717 x 1506 mm – edition 2/4 Wind Vortex – Sky Blu, Antarctica – Inkjet print – 975 x 716 mm – edition 4/4 sold out Wind Vortices Drawing – embossed artists paper – 760 x 670 mm. edition 3/4 Sky Blu is an […]
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: Digital prints, embossed print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, drawing, environmental, ice, landscape
Echoes of the Heart
30/06/2007
ACAD extension Courtyard, Central Middlesex Hospital. Commissioned by the the North West London Hospital trust, and funded by Arts Council England, Arts & Business, Capsticks and the Central Middlesex Cardiac unit. The idea is based around flow patterns in the heart and images from an echocardiogram in both hard landscaping (slate pieces laid on edge) […]
2007 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: aggregates, grass, plants, slate, stone, trees | Tags: environmental, growing, hospital, land art, landscape architecture, micro/macro, 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 | 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
Double Echo
01/03/2007
From Flight W38, Inkjet print. 1340 x 1140 mm, edition of 4 – Collection artist and Central Middlesex Hospital One of the scientists working on the echograms and with whom I spent some time out on the ice, showed me some of the echograms in his computer and he, knowing of my interest in echocardiograms […]
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Heart, Mapping, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: echogram, ecocardiogram, environmental, heart, mico/macro, science, weather
Iceprint 1, 2, 3
05/01/2007
Iceprint I – Sky Blu, Antarctica, – Inkjet print – 662 x 868 mm Iceprint 2 – Sky Blu, Antarctica, – Inkjet prints – 652 x 888 Iceprint 3 – Sky Blu, Antarctica, – Inkjet prints – 648 x 888 mm
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: inkjet prints | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
Icedagger
05/01/2007
Sky Blu, Antarctica, Inkjet print, 919 x 678 mm, ed. ¼
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
Cloud Igloo
04/01/2007
Antarctica – Inkjet print – 1970 x 1658 mm – edition 2/4
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
Icevoid
04/01/2007
Antarctica, – Inkjet print – 920 x 900 mm – edition 3/9
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
Iceprint
04/01/2007
Iceprint 1 Sky Blu, Antarctica, – Inkjet print – 662 x 868 mm – edition 2/4 Iceprint 2 Sky Blu, Antarctica, – inkjet print – 652 x 888 cm – edition 2/4 Iceprint 3, Sky Blu, Antarctica, – inkjet print – 648 x 888 cm – edition 1/4
2007 | Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
Brocken Spectre
04/01/2007
Lanzarote Nunatac, Sky Blu, Antarctica, – Inkjet print – 692 x 888 mm
2007 | Antarctica, Antartica, Mapping, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
Fingermaze
10/07/2006
Commissioned by Brighton and Hove City Council Hove Park, The work is made of random York stone in lime mortar set into the turf and was made with Second Land. The pattern is a Cretan labyrinth set into the central whorl of a fingerprint, so to walk it is a meditative journey to the interior. […]
2006 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: grass, stone | Tags: earth work, environmental, fingerprint, growing, land art, maze, sculpture, urban
24 Hour Mountain and 24 Hour Iceberg
14/03/2006
24 Hour Mountain, Antarctica 2006 A mountain filmed from across the bay on Rothera Point at the British Antarctic Survey base, for 3 minutes every hour, for 24 hours on the longest day of 22nd December 2006. A looped HD video – 30 minutes 24 Hour Mountain, Iceberg 2006 An iceberg filmed in the bay […]
2006 | Videos | Media: HD video | Tags: climate change, ecological, environmental, ice, landscape
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
Star Chamber
01/01/2006
Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The work is a collaboration with astronomers at the Dyer Observatory, connected to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The idea was to try to demonstrate how the Earth moves around the sun in an ellipse. If you were to photograph the sun from the same spot, at the same […]
2006 | Cloud Chambers | Media: logs, steel, stone | Tags: analemma, astronomy, camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Turning
10/07/2005
Sainsbury Centre for The Visual Arts, University of East Anglia Made for an exhibition called ‘Out There’ curated by The Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, on the campus of The University of East Anglia. The work was 45m in diameter made from mown grass in the pattern of a coiled basket whirlpool, with an […]
2005 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: grass, logs | Tags: earth work, environmental, ephemeral, growing, land art, sculpture, vortex, whirlpool
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
SPORE WAVES
14/03/2005
A mushroom spore print on a glass slide, projected at night onto the surface of a small creek in Ohio, and bounced onto a stone wall lining the water. The image on the wall, with wave patterns flowing through it, is filmed in low definition video. Looped video in 3 minute cycles. Edition of 6. […]
2005 | Videos | Media: SD video | Tags: environmental, flow pattern, landscape, mushroom, spore print, video, vortex, wave
Heart of Reeds
10/03/2005
Lewes, East Sussex, UK A work designed for a local Nature Reserve to increase the Biodiversity of the site. Made in collaboration with the Railway land Wildlife Trust and Lewes District Council. Funded by Viridor Plc, Arts Council South East and Harveys Brewery. The design is taken from patterns of blood flow in the heart, […]
2005 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, paths, plants, reeds, water | Tags: biodiversity, earth work, environmental, growing, land art, micro/macro, sculpture
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
Rivers of Stone and Fingerprint
10/09/2004
Russell’s Hall Hospital, Dudley. Both these works were commissioned by Dudley group of Hospitals trust, in collaboration with Dudley Council, Sir Robert Mc Alpine and West Midlands Arts Council. The works are situated either side of a three story passageway within courtyards in the new PFI built extension. River of Stones fits into the existing […]
2004 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: earth, paths, plants, stone, trees | Tags: earth work, environmental, fingerprint, growing, hospital, land art, landscape architecture, micro/macro, sculpture
Heaven and Earth 1
15/07/2004
UV sealed inkjet print from a satellite photograph, superimposed with a map, plus a background of lava dust in acrylic emulsion, etched down to the aluminium, all mounted on 16 sheets of 2mm aluminium. 200 x 250 cm. edition of 1 – unique
2004 | Mapping, Maps, Photoworks, Prints | Media: aluminium, Digital prints, lava dust | Tags: digital, environmental, maps, satellite
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
Crossing and Re-Crossing the Rivers of Iceland
12/01/2004
Hand written text on peat and ink impregnated, canvas backed paper, listing all the rivers crossed on a walk from Porsmork to Landmanlauger in July 2003. The pattern is derived from a satellite photo of a weather system over the area. 74 x 185 cm. The story behind the work is that my friend, […]
2004 | Heart, Mapping | Media: peat and ink on paper, work on paper | Tags: environmental, heart, language, mico/macro, satellite, weather, whirlpool, wind, works on paper
Heart of Stone
01/01/2004
Stephen Lacey Galley, London. Heart of Stone installation – slate on wood frame – dimensions variable. The form is from blood flow patterns in the heart. Also installations at Aberystwyth University Art Gallery and at Oriel Mostyn in Llandudno. Blood flow patterns in Welsh slate on wood frame. 498 x 860 x 30 cm
2004 | Exhibitions | Media: drawing, slate, work on paper | Tags: environmental, installation, landscape, mushrooms, text, vortex, whirlpoolComments (0)
Tumulus and Dew Pond
05/03/2003
Inkjet print in an edition of 6 – 68 x 50 cm.
2003 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: environmental, landscape, print
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
High Desert Winds
01/03/2003
Map of Leh area of Ladakh, inkjet printed over a pattern from a diagram of a cross section of the human heart, in rust on paper. 104 x 138 cm – Collection artist
2003 | Heart, Mapping | Media: digital print, rust on paper | Tags: blood, digital, environmental, heart, maps, mico/macro, weather, wind
Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky
30/01/2003
North Caroline Museum Of Art, USA Partly built under ground, beneath some large trees on a wooded slope in the grounds of the North Carolina Museum Of Art, the work is the first in a series commissioned for the Museums outdoor sculpture trail. The piece was also commissioned to coincide with the opening of their […]
2003 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: plants, steel, stone, wood | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Algonquin
23/01/2003
A seven-day canoe trip in Algonquin Provincial Park Ontario, August 2003 Artist’s book, 24 pages, 15.2 x 21 cm, printed in full colour on Arctic Volume white 200 gsm, hand sewn, typeset in Joanna Published by East Port, editor Kay Syrad, March 2008, Printed by Van den Eynde, Belgium; Design: Chris Drury and Peter […]
2003 | Books & Cards, Works For Sale | Media: handmade book | Tags: bark, books, canoe, East Port, environmental, for sale, language, shop, text
Suilven
05/09/2002
Digital duratrans prints in light boxes. – 228 x 62 x 10 cm overall, – ed. 1
2002 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: digital duratrans prints in light boxes | Tags: digital, environmental, landscape, print
Amanita Phalloides
04/09/2002
Dying out – A death Cap mushroom placed on black card and left for 6 hours, 5 hours, 4 hours, 3 hours, 2 hours, I hour – 14 pages, 6 plates – Sealevel, October Foundation – May 2002 – 2/1 Edition of 300 – only 7 copies available
2002 | Books & Cards, Prints, Works For Sale | Media: handmade book | Tags: books, environmental, mushrooms
Magic Mushrooms
04/08/2002
Digital Duratrans from magic mushroom spore prints on glass. Placed in 5 windows in frames. – Dimensions vary Edition of 6 each – £3,500
2002 | Mushrooms & Fingerprints, Prints | Media: duratrans print | Tags: duratrans, environmental, mushroom, print
Heaven and Earth 2
05/07/2002
Inkjet prints from the land (Iceland) and from a satellite on the same day, UV sealed and mounted on dibond. 241 x 51 cm – Ed1/4
2002 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: digital, environmental, maps, satellite
Spore Grid
04/05/2002
35 R type prints on 2mm aluminium from 2cm spore prints on glass slides. 39 x 39 cm. each. Overall grid 194 x 273 cm. […]
2002 | Mapping, Mushrooms, Mushrooms & Fingerprints, Prints, Works For Sale | Media: digital print, Digital prints, Inkjet Print, plants, print, work on paper | Tags: digital, environmental, mushrooms, plants, print, science, spore prints
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
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
Reed Chamber
30/01/2002
Wildfowl and Wetland Centre, Arundel, Sussex, UK – funded by WWT Arundel, S.E.Arts, West Sussex County Council and Arun District Council. This chamber, made on a floating boardwalk within a reed bed, thatched with reeds and via a lens and mirror, projects the image of waving reed tops within. The structure is made from willow […]
2002 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: lens, reeds, steel, wood | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Eden Cloud Chamber
30/01/2002
Eden Project, Cornwall, UK Made from 120 tonnes of Cornish Slate, the work is sited on the end of a large granite wall (in ‘Wild Cornwall’), which together with a parallel wall forms a cut lane. You walk down this tunnel of a lane and into a passageway in the wall and thus into […]