Journal

After the award winning success of the Watershed exhibition at Pingyao International Photography Festival in China last year, Inter Art Center Gallery Beijing is to exhibit Beyond: the Watershed at the invitation of respected photography curator Na Risong...

These are milestones for me on my road to recovery and a new more active life in the mountains with Philippa. Yesterday we joined friends at a local crag and I managed my first rock climb on my new "bionic knees"…

As invited exhibiting artists Philippa and I will attend the opening of the first Andorra Land Art Biennale where 27 large works in an exhibition titled Beyond: the Watershed will be shown outdoors in the heart of the city…

The best thing I can do to wear in my two new knees three months after the operations is mountain biking. There couldn't be a better place to start than Mount Cook where we spent last weekend with friends at Unwin Lodge. Next time I hope to climb something there…

After more than 50 years of climbing, my knees are ready for an overhaul. Next week I go into hospital for patella femoral operations on both of them. I look forward to being able to walk down mountains without pain and maybe even achieve high steps when rock climbing after I am 70…

I have tried to build a reflective quality into the stance of the guardian figures above. As two dimensional drawings I am implying that we can redraw ourselves as guardians…

In the past few months there has hardly been a pause between the extraordinary projects and places we have experienced. And it is only now that we have a chance to pause and reflect on two expeditions - Antarctica and Dusky Sound…

A journalist with the Christchurch Press interviewed and photographed us while we worked on the Fine Line sculpture in Antarctica.

This month Antarctic New Zealand's Scott Base became our home for 12 days…

It is only a matter of days now before Philippa and I embark on our long awaited journey supported by Antarctica New Zealand to make the 10th Fine Line sculpture on the ice of McMurdo Sound…

The latest issue of Kosmos Journal features a gallery and article about our work for the second time…

My art comes from my love of nature and the nature of good design. It is therefore an honour that website Archi Expo has presented our environmental sculpture photographs in their inspiration section…

On our way back home from China we spent some days in Tokyo. Our agent in Japan, Hisae Koyanagi had organised a two hour presentation at Seikei University eco campus…

We began with an improvised exhibition space in a disused diesel engine factory built within an ancient walled Chinese city and ended with an international award at a ceremony that seemed to us to rival the Oscars…

SYNOPSIS OF THE MOVIE

When it comes to climate change, why do we do so little when we know so much?

Ever felt so stressed out by things not going right? So that you feel like just giving up? Last week Philippa and I nearly hit rock bottom when my laptop stopped working in the middle of building a presentation I am due to give at a Tokyo university. After trying everything possible to fix things we decided to end it all - but not literally.Ever felt so stressed out by things not going right? So that you feel like just giving up?

Philippa and I are soon to head to China to attend the Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP) which opens 19th September. A selection of 12 large prints of our environmental sculptures, including some from Watershed will be part of a joint exhibition…

We have just learned from the Antarctica New Zealand CEO that we have been selected to go to Antarctica this coming season. Fine Line has been our creative journey for nearly 20 years so it is a huge milestone for us and our project…

We all spend our lives as visitors on Earth so it is our responsibility to leave the environment at least as good as we find it. Like me, the latest commissioned sculpture is rooted in this place, Wanaka…