Public talk by Chris Drury

Chris Drury – Wandering: earth, art and context

November 1 19.30 – 21.00 • Studio 3, Dartington Space, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL

Renowned environmental artist Chris Drury will talk about his diverse practice over 40 years, working and collaborating with architects, planners, scientists, ecologists and small indigenous communities to make work which has an underlying ecological concern, deeply rooted in place and relevant to many concerns of today.

Chris Drury is a British environmental artist. His body of work includes ephemeral assemblies of natural materials, in the mode associated with Andy Goldsworthy, as well as more-permanent landscape art, works on paper, and indoor installations. He also works on 3D sculptures (three-dimensional).

Chris says: ‘I am an environmental artist, making site specific nature based sculpture, often referred to as Land Art or Art in Nature. I also work in art and science. I make installations inside and make works on paper, works with maps, digital and video art, and works with mushrooms.

My work makes connections between different phenomena in the world, specifically between Nature and Culture, Inner and Outer and Microcosm and Macrocosm. To this end I collaborate with scientists and technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines and use whatever visual means, technologies and materials best suit the situation.’

Chris is also leading a short course, with writer Kay Syrad at Dartington from Monday October to 30 to Friday November 3. For further details visit http://artdotearth.org/context-and-form-art-and-writing/.

For more information visit http://artdotearth.org/chris-drury-wandering-earth-art-and-context/