Posts Tagged ‘text’
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
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
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
Cradle of Humankind
28/05/2014
While doing a residency at The Nirox Foundation, within the Cradle of Humankind outside Johannesburg in 2012, I asked nine people I came in contact with, to either write something about themselves, hand written or typed, or I interviewed them and transcribed the interview from notes. I took a photograph of each of the nine […]
2014 | Prints, Text & Words | Media: digital print, Inkjet Print, photography, text | Tags: digital, hand written, ph, print, text
Drawing on Ideas
10/02/2012
Royal British Society of Sculptors With William Mackerell and Simon Linington This was an open submission show which featured two sets of work based on an idea. I showed Destroying Angel Trinity and Destroying Angel Nevada.
2012 | Exhibitions, Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: hand written text, nylon thread, Perspex box, spore prints, thorn sticks | Tags: installation, Mushroom clouds, mushrooms, suspended, text
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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 | Antarctica, Gene Sequences, Mapping, Uncategorized | Media: earth on paper | Tags: Antarctica, earth, ecology, environmental, gene sequence, science, text
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 | Antarctica, 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/Ice River Echo Wave
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 | Antarctica, Mapping | Media: inkjet print and blue ink | Tags: Antarctica, digital, echogram, ecology, environmental, hand written, ice, print, science, text
Amanita phalloides
02/03/2006
Amanita mushroom spore print on Artist black card with radiating lines of, hand written text in white ink. collection artist
2006 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: ink, spore print | Tags: hand written, mushroom, spore print, text
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
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)
Destroying Angel Trinity
02/03/2003
Digitally printed mushroom spore prints and hand written words in white ink and pencil on canvas. In three parts, each 170 x 170 cm – collection artist
2003 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: canvas, ink, pencil, print | Tags: ecological, hand written, mushroom, spore print, text
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
Mushroom Wheel
02/03/2001
Mixed media, hand written text and a mushroom spore print on paper, mounted on board in 12 segments. Specifically: – 365 found objects one for each day of the year on the two outer circumferences. Hand written diary entries in radiating lines from the central mushroom Spore print. 260 cm diam. 3 cm. deep – […]
2001 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: Found objects, ink, spore print, wood segments | Tags: environmental, found object, hand written, mushroom, spore print, text
Rhythms of The Heart
01/03/2001
Monoprint from a digital print of an echocardiogram on canvas backed watercolor paper, with a rust spore print and radiating hand written text in rust ink, of all the herbs used for heart conditions, interwoven with a transcribed, Dictaphone diary of a 12 hour nursing shift on a cardiac ward at Conquest hospital, Hastings. 140 […]
2001 | Heart, Mapping, Maps, Mushrooms | Media: ink, mono print., spore print | Tags: echocardiogram, environmental, hand written, heart, mico/macro, mushroom, print, spore print, text, work on paper
Poison Pie
02/03/2000
Amanita muscaria spore print on black card with radiating lines of handwritten text in white ink listing all the poisonous fungi and their effect on the body. – 82 x 82 cm – private collection
2000 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: card, ink, spore print | Tags: environmental, hand written, mushroom, spore print, text
Ceylon 1- 3
02/03/1999
A linen backed copy of 1945 map of Ceylon from Charles Mackwood, with spore print and radiating hand written text in ink of childhood memories. Ceylon I – 100 x 62.5 cm – private collection – Ceylon II an enlarged version mounted on 25 aluminium panels – each 64.5 x 40,100 x 62.5 cmoverall, 325 x 200 cm […]
1999 | Mapping, Maps, Mushrooms, Mushrooms & Fingerprints, Prints, Text & Words | Media: digital print, ink, map, spore print | Tags: environmental, hand written, maps, mushroom, spore print, text
Edge of Chaos
01/03/1999
Ink cap spore print and hand written words in ink on canvas backed paper impregnated with peat and ink. The pattern on the left is from a cross section through the apex of the human heart and the words list all the winds from different cultures in the world. On The right the pattern […]
1999 | Heart, Mapping | Media: work on paper | Tags: environmental, heart, mico/macro, pattern, text, weather, wind
Nature Culture
02/03/1998
spore print with words in rust ink overlaid with Japanese tissue paper and black ink (Chinese character kokoro means mind / heart / soul). made in collaboration with Myojin Ok, – 82 x 82 cm – private collection
1998 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: ink, paper, spore print | Tags: environmenta, japan, l hand written, mushroom, spore print, text
WIND – North Uist
04/09/1997
CHRIS DRURY – DRAWINGS IN PEAT – 6 CARDS – peat drawings and prints – Edition of 100 – 32 left – £25
1997 | Books & Cards, Prints, Works For Sale | Media: card, ink, Peat | Tags: books, earth, environmental, hand made, language, maps, text
Ink Caps
02/03/1995
Ink Cap 1 1995 – Ink cap spore print and hand written text (ink cap) in spore ink on watercolor paper. – 56 x 76 cm Inc Cap 2 1996 – Ink Cap spore print and hand written text in Ink Cap ink on card. – 56 x 76 cm. collection artist.
1995 | Mapping, Mushrooms | Media: card, ink, paper, spore print | Tags: environmental, hand written, mushroom, spore print, text
Mushroom Circle
02/03/1993
Spore print and hand written text in radiating lines in brown ink on white paper. The text lists all the names of European brown-spored mushrooms. – 56 x 56 cm. – private collection There is also a twin work with white spores on black card