We were recently filmed by BBC2 for inclusion in a three part TV series titled Nature and Us , A History through Art, presented by the eminent art historian James Fox.
We chose to make an ephemeral sculpture on Albert Burn Saddle near Mt Aspiring which we knew would provide an awe-inspiring visual landscape…
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At this moment in time the world seems to be reaching tipping points within natural systems, climate, and societies. As the world becomes more dangerous and unliveable for many, G7 leaders are meeting in UK to plan actions that could tip the world towards a safer sustainable future, or hold us on the old path leading toward climate and social disaster…
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I have been processing events in the world, as has everyone. For the past few months I have found it difficult to post anything. We are lucky that in New Zealand the government’s Covid response was swift and decisive…
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The European parliament has declared a climate and ecological emergency. So what urgent actions should governments take?
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n October in spite of three days’ of continual storms Philippa and I with our longtime friends Len Gillman, Lea Wilson and David Newstead made the final sculpture on our Fine Line project on Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park. Huge lenticular clouds driven by the storms rose over the Pinnacles and Mt Ngauruhoe was barely visible until late in the afternoon…
Read MoreAt last a young leader who tells it like it is - Greta Thunberg. For the last thee decades the world has watched as political leaders have tiptoed round the edges of the world’s climate crisis caused mainly by global carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels…
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Last week after 18 month’s planning a delightful group of 14 students from Bowling Green University Ohio arrived at our studio…
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We are delighted to have received samples of three perfumes in our collaborative perfume project with Celine Verleure of Olfactive Studio in Paris. Celine’s concept is to team up a perfumer - in this case Bertrand Duchaufour - with a photographer to create a perfume evocative of an image…
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For a sculpture commissioned by a family in Wanaka blackened kanuka trees stand supporting a steel circle. The sculpture is designed to evoke a harmonious relationship between human systems and nature. In nature the circle is sacrosanct. Everything that lives must die, everything that eats is eaten…
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This month Polis magazine Germany invited presented our environmental sculptures and invited me to write about my design philosophy for their international publication…
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Vente - Privee has requested to feature 15 ephemeral sculpture photographs in a looped slideshow on the giant digital facade of their new building in Paris…
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Opening a lens to our ideas creates an exposure. The digital revolution has meant that lens-based artists can expose their work to an ever widening audience around the world…
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Perfect weather in Mt Aspiring National Park made for a delightful relaxing walk to camp in the bush clad Matukituki River valley. It is great to see that vegetation and native bird life is being protected by an extensive pest eradication programme managed by the Department of Conservation and many volunteers…
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A small but unique photography festival featuring 18 Chinese and foreign photographers' works in the valley of Tiantai Mountain in the province of Sichuan presented our land art prints in the beautiful natural landscape…
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Snow Circle was recently included in a curated gallery of Land Art on the Art Agency Partners (AAP) website. We are pleased to be placed among the world’s most significant Land Artists…
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In a world currently focused on so much conflict, hatred and ugliness it was inspiring to be featured in website BeautifulNow where beauty is a guide to wellbeing and happiness…
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In April 2017 PhotoWorld China published an interview about our environmental art by Alasdair Foster, an eminent cultural development consultant based in Sydney, Australia…
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In 1996 Philippa and I made Snow Circle on Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand. More than 20 years later Kate Raworth has drawn the same shape as the model for the economics we need for the 21st century to become safe, fair, distributive and regenerative….
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Sky Stone Circle was made by floating pumice stones on the calm surface of Lake Taupo in New Zealand in 1993. I wanted the stones to appear to float in the sky so I made the image without showing the surrounding landscape and focused on the clouds reflected in the lake. I wanted to achieve the impossible appearance of stones in the sky. The sculpture to refers to the carbon in the atmosphere causing global warming. The circle refers to the design of a circular regenerative economy modelled on nature as its solution…
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