Posts Tagged ‘landscape’
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
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
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
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
CEYLON II
23/11/2015
1 was born in Ceylon in 1948, the year of independence. Both my parents families worked in tea. My mother’s great grandfather set up Mackwoods – the famous tea growers, still producing world quality tea now. My parents left Ceylon in 1954 when I was 6 and I didn’t return until 1987 when I was […]
2015 | Mapping, Maps, Mushrooms, Text Works | Media: aluminium, Inkjet Print, installation, maps, paper, spore print, work on paper | Tags: digital, hand written, landscape, maps, mushroom, print, spore print
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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)
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, Antarctica, Mapping, Prints | Media: Digital prints, embossed print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, drawing, environmental, ice, landscape
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, Antarctica, 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, Antarctica, 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, Antarctica, 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, Antarctica, 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, Antarctica, Mapping, Prints | Media: digital print | Tags: Antarctica, digital, environmental, ice, landscape
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
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
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
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
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. in two parts
2003 | Photoworks, Prints | Media: Inkjet Print | Tags: environmental, landscape, print
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
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
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 […]
2002 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: lens, steel, stone | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
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)
Coppice Cloud Chamber
30/01/1998
Kings Wood, Challock, Kent. Commissioners: Forest Enterprise, Kentish Stour Countryside Project and Stour Valley Art Project. This chamber was 6m wide and 5m high, made of over three thousand stacked coppiced chestnut logs built into a steep bank over an old flint pit. There was a small Z-shaped passageway in and a lens in […]
1998 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: logs, steel | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Both Nam Faileas: Hut Of The Shadow
30/01/1997
Lochmaddy, North Uist, Western Isles. 1997 Winner of the Natures Prize, Scottish Environmental Award & 1998 commendation from The Association for the protection of Rural Scotland. Commissioners: Taigh Chearsabhagh arts Centre with the Scottish Arts Council. Located on the end of a spit of land and surrounded by sea, islands and sky, the work is […]
1997 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: lens, mirrors, steel, stone, wood | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Cedar Log Sky Chamber
30/01/1996
Okawa Village, Kochi Province, Japan. Commissioners: Kochi District Council, Forest Policy Division. This chamber is 3m wide by 4m high with octagonal ground plan and built in notched logs, thatched with cedar bark. It has a small lens in the top which projects an image of trees and clouds on to a wooden floor. It […]
1996 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: bark, lens, logs, stone | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, japan, landscape, shelter
Wave Chamber
30/01/1995
Kielder Water and Forest Park, Northumberland. ‘Wave Chamber’ was commissioned for the shore of Kielder Reservoir by Kielder Partnership, in particular Northumbrian Water and Forest Enterprise, as part of Visual Arts UK 1996 in the North of England. The 4m tall dry-stone beehive hut, made from 80 tons of stone, works as a camera […]
1995 | Cloud Chambers, Uncategorized, Works Outside | Media: lens, steel, stone | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Tyrebagger Cloud Chamber
30/01/1994
Commissioners: Forestry Enterprise, Aberdeen District Council. Commissioned as part of a Forest Sculpture Trail in a much-used public forest, three miles from Aberdeen. Local reaction to the proposed scheme was sceptical as people didn’t want their trees messed about with. In view of this I put the work underground, making an ‘invisible’ sculpture. The work […]
1994 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: earth, logs, steel, stone | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
St James Cloud Chamber
30/01/1993
St. James, Piccadilly, London. Commissioners: Rebecca Hossack Gallery. Made as a temporary installation in the sculpture garden of St. James. This quiet garden in the centre of London is a place of refuge for the homeless and a peaceful retreat for office workers. The sculpture therefore works as a silent meditative space as well as […]
1993 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: lens, stone, wood | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter, urban
Clohan Cloud Chamber
16/07/1992
Made for a solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. The work is made from 70 tons of rock, with a wooden door and a white screed floor.
1992 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: stone, wood | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Wicklow Cloud Chamber
16/08/1990
Made during a two week ‘Bogland Symposium’ in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland, the work is built into a ruined wall and has a small aperture in the roof. entrance in and out are through curved passageways. I camped out here and the whole work was constructed with stone on the site.
1990 | Cloud Chambers, Works Outside | Media: stone | Tags: camera obscura, cloud chamber, environmental, inner/outer, landscape, shelter
Cloud Chamber
16/04/1990
Made for ‘Builden Buiten’ an exhibition of British and Belgium artists in a walled garden in Tielt, Belgium. This was the first prototype cloud chamber, which I had tried out in my garden using bent sticks, a tarpaulin, an aperture and a sheet of paper on the ground. The shape of the chamber was based […]