Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’
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
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
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
Earth Library
05/08/2016
Earth Library is a collection of over 100 labelled jars containing soils from all over the world, collected over 35 years. The jars are displayed on glass shelves within a steel frame. 86 cm x 20 cm x 206 cm high.
2016 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: earth, glass, steel | Tags: earth, sculpture, Vessel
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
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
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
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
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
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
Salmon Paddle
18/03/2010
Canoe paddle wrapped in salmon skins. 135 x 15 x 3.5 cm
2010 | Mapping, Vessels | Media: salmon skins, wood | Tags: sculpture, Vessel
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.