Posts Tagged ‘ephemeral’

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

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

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

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

Snow Vortex
14/02/1999
Bopeep, Selmeston, Sussex Downs, rolling five snow balls in a dew pond.
1999 | Commissions, Works Outside | Media: dewpond, snow | Tags: environmental, ephemeral, land art, snow, vortex

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

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

Four Spheres
14/04/1984
Ben Alder, Grampian Mountains, Scotland.