The Heart of Reeds

Chris Drury talks about The Heart of Reeds, his environmental installation at The Railway Lands

Chris Drury has been described as a land artist but he himself says that he is an eco land artist, seeking to make connections between:

Nature and Culture

• Inner and Outer

• Microcosm and Macrocosm

• His interest is in ecology and land and to this end he collaborates with scientists, technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines and technology. He works with small local communities the world over re-presenting the special qualities of their particular places back to them and uses whatever visual means and materials that best suit the situation. 

His has made works outside on every continent on earth including Antarctica. He held a major solo show at the Nevada Museum of Art entitled Mushrooms|Clouds. And his work Carbon Sink in Wyoming sparked a worldwide furor about the burning of fossil fuels in connections with dying forests in the Rockies. He is currently putting together a retrospective book looking back at over 40 years of work and was awarded A Lifetimes Achievment Award by the Pollock Krasner Foundation in New York.

Placement:

Railway Land, Lewes, East Sussex

Research:

Chris Drury

Acknowledgments:

With thanks to Chris Drury, The Railway Lands and William Andrews for recording and production.