Posts Tagged ‘plants’
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
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
Destroying Angel Nevada
02/03/2011
The work is made from two related species of desert plant, Lycium pallidum and Lycium andersonii, which grow on The Nevada Nuclear Test site, and which were collected for me by Dr Lynn Fenstermaker. Over 2000 pieces of this thorny plant are suspended on nylon thread within a Perspex box. 70 x 70 x 216 […]
2011 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: plants, Sculpture | Tags: mushroom, plants, sculpture, strung
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
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)
Boletus Circle and Howling at The Universe
01/09/2004
Boletus Circle – 2004 Mud screen print on artists paper, signed and numbered. 120 x 100cm. Ed. 2/6 £75000 Howling at the Universe, A homage to Kurt Schwitters 2009 Screen printed porridge on black paper. 120 x 100 cm. Ed. 2/6 – […]
2004 | Mapping, Mushrooms, Works For Sale | Media: earth on paper, screen print | Tags: mushroom, plants, print
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
Spore Grid
01/04/2000
35 R type prints on 2mm. aluminium, from 2 cm. spore prints on glass slides. Each 39 x 39 cm. Overall grid – 101 x 81 cm – £25,000 available also as digital reprints in any combination – […]
2000 | Exhibitions, Mapping, Mushrooms, Works For Sale | Media: digital print, Inkjet Print, spore print, work on paper | Tags: digital, mushroom, plants, print
Five Sisters
02/03/1994
Willow and cow dung. Largest – 58 x 81 cm. Smallest- 40 x 33 cm. collection artist
1994 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: cow dung, willow | Tags: cow dung, environmental, installation, plants, sculpture, Vessel, willow, woven
Kayak Bundles
02/03/1994
Willow and willow bark – 198 x 15 x 10 cm – private collection
1994 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: bark, willow | Tags: environmental, plants, sculpture, Vessel, woven
Air Vessel
02/03/1994
Willow, suspended on nylon thread – 518 x 56 x 30 cm – collection artist
1994 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: hazel, willow | Tags: environmental, installation, plants, sculpture, Vessel, woven
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 […]
1991 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: Bronze, heather, Peat, PVA | Tags: cast, earth, horn, plants, woven
Twenty Places, twenty herbs, twenty stones
27/01/1986
Basket made containing a stone from twenty places and made of plants collected from those places. Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland – silverweed. Mount Caburn, Sussex – Salad Burnet. Glastonbury, Somerset – Yarrow. Auvernes, France – Ginseng. Cevennes, France – Broom. Friston Forest, Sussex – Wayfaring tree. High Rocks, Kent – Yew. Ben Alder, Scotland […]
1986 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: plants, stones | Tags: environmental, plants, Vessel, woven
Medicine Wheel
02/03/1982
16th August 1982 – 15th August 1983 One natural object for each day of the year. twelve segments of paper, one for each month, made during that month from the pulp of particular plants. a mushroom spore print. 230 cm. diam. x 8 cm. deep – collection Leeds City Art Gallery