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Prés du Goualoup

23. Chris Drury

"Carbon pool"

published at 12/11/2018
Carbon pool, installation de Chris Drury au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander

British land artist Chris Drury makes installations which, even before being works, are constructions in keeping with ancestral techniques, anchored deep in cultures and imaginations.

He primarily takes an intuitive approach to his work.

Reflecting the places in which they are designed, his pieces come to life through materials found on-site that are in symbiosis with the natural surroundings. Usually erected in magnificent, completely empty settings, his work is expressed in various forms: first, shelters and "covered cairns". These structures mark a time and a place and are sometimes topped with bones like relics – symbols of a sacred spot. Second, the artist also produces finely woven compositions with interlacing leaves, feathers, bones, stones and other matter pocketed at random during his outings. His most striking pieces take the form of spheres, domes or cones.

Drury's transparent, openwork cabins or huts, woven out of material that quickly degrades, stem from this questioning of the border between inside and outside, culture and nature, indoors and out, yin and yang, life and death, space and solid.

In Chaumont-sur-Loire, the artist has designed a mighty spiral apparently magnetically sucking up some of the Goualoup Park's secrets, in a clever dialogue with the big cedars from the time of Princess de Broglie.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Chris DRURY
SRI LANKA
 
 

Born in Colombo in Sri Lanka in 1948, Chris Drury graduated in Art and Design, Sculpture from Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, London in 1970.

Initially figurative in style, his work soon turned more towards nature, where he worked directly. Drury has gained world renown as one of the leading artists of the Land Art movement.

awards

2004
Art in Health Award – University College, London
 
1998
Commendation, Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland
 
1997
Nature’s Prize: Scottish Environmental Award – a joint initiative of Scottish Natural Heritage; Shell World, UK; and STV North Ltd
 
1995-1996
Pollock-Krasner Award

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


British Antarctic SurveyHenry Moore Study CentreVictoria & Albert Museum, London
British Museum, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Arts Council England
Leeds Art Gallery
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Henry Art Gallery, Faye G. Allen Center for the Visual Arts, University of Washington, Seattle
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Wellcome Collection, London
Complete Biography

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2014
Chris Drury, Lloyds Club Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Chris Drury – Mini retrospective and installation, Oppland Art Centre, Lillhammer, Norway
 
2011
Land Water and Language, Dovecot, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
2010
Mushroom Cloud, Installation and Videos, Arte Sella, Italy
Water, Land and Language, Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, Western Isles, United Kingdom
 
2008
Chris Drury: Mushrooms|Clouds, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA
Chris Drury—Antarctica: A Heartbeat of the Earth, Beaux Arts, London, United Kingdom
 
2006
Chris Drury: Inside out, Outside In, Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA
 
2005
Chris Drury: Whorls – Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, USA
 
2003-2004
Heart of Stone (multiple installations), Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Walles; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University, Walles; Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 
2002
Chris Drury, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, United Kingdom
 
2000
Journeys on Paper, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 
1999
Shelter, Fabrica, Brighton, United Kingdom
 
1998
Silent Spaces, Janus Avivson Gallery, New York, USA
Silence Art Espace, FNAC, Les Halles, Paris, France
 
1995
Vessel, travelling exhibition: Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, United Kingdom; Rochdale Art Galler ; Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
1993
Stones and Bundles, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
 
1991-1992
Chris Drury, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
 
1989
Chris Drury: Cairns and Bundles, Prema and Cairn Gallery, Uley Nr Dursley, United Kingdom
 
1987
Shelters and Baskets, travelling exhibition:  Foyle Centre, Londonderry, Ireland; Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom; Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, United Kingdom; Seagate Gallery, Dundee, United Kingdom; Peacock Artspace, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
1985
Medicine Wheel, Coracle Press Gallery, London, United Kingdom

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Carbon Pool, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre of Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Ashland Water Serpent, The Parks Trust, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
The Birth of Energy, Neddernhof, Germany
Walk On – 40 years of Art Walking - MAC Birmingham, The Atkinson Southport, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, United Kingdom
VANISHING ICE, The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, USA; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada
 
2013
Window on Blood and Water, Festival Jumièges à ciel ouvert, Rouen, France
The Way of Trees, Earth and Water – Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
 
Walk On – From Richard Long to Janet Cardif – 40 years of art walking, PMG London, NGCA Sunderland, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom
Vanishing Ice – Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art -1775 – 2012, Watcom Art Museum, Bellingham, USA
 
2012
Mushroom Cloud, Schloss Werdenberg, Buchs, Switzerland
Rythms in the Heart, Papworth Everard, United Kingdom
Traces, International festival of art and sound, Schloss Werdenberg, Buchs, Switzerland
Antarctica, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National Universiy, Acton, Australia
 
2011
Time and Flow, Thixendale, United Kingdom
Carbon Sink, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA
Drawing on Ideas; Chris Drury, Simon Langton, William Mackerell – Royal British Society of Sculptors. Landscapes of Exploration: at Peninsula Arts Gallery, Plymouth University. Work from the British Antactic Survey Artist and Writers program
Drawing on Ideas, RBS Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Traces, 3 installations for the Schloss Werdenberg Festival Buchs, Switzerland
Pertaining to things Natural, Chelsea Physic garden, London, United Kingdom; John Martin Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
EcoArt, Pori Museum of Art, Pori, Finland
Art Paris with Galeria Repetto, Paris, France
Carte Blanche à Philip Hughes, Gallerie Gimpel Muller, Paris –Chris Drury, Nicholas de Stael, Philip Hughes-
Figure in The Landscape, Discovery Centre, Winchester, United Kingdom 
 
2010
Sky Mountain Chamber, Arte Sella, Italy
Rhine Mosel Slate whirlpool, Koblenz, Germany
Echoes of the Heart, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Experiments, GV Arts, London, United Kingdom 
Between Ice and Snow, The processes and Energies of Nature, Centre St Benin, Aosta, Italy
 
2008
Equinox Line, Neddernhof, Bucchholz-Sprotze, Germany
 
Shake Before Using, ARTIUM of Álava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Moving Toward a Balanced Earth, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New-Zealand
 
2007
Geumgang Nature Art Pre- Biennale, South Korea
 
2006
Fingermaze, Hove Park, United Kingdom
Star Chamber, Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
 
2005
Redwood Vortex, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, USA
Turning, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom 
River Styx, Hiram College, USA
Heart of Reeds, Lewes, United Kingdom 
Vinyl, Cork City Council Capital of Culture festival, Ireland
Out There, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom 
Palm Beach 3, Browngrotta Arts at SOFA, Palm Beach, USA
 
2004
Eco-Photo, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York, USA
Rivers of Stone and Fingerprint, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, United Kingdom 
 
2004-2005
In Praise of Earth – Salisbury Festival, United Kingdom 
Organic Matters, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh, USA
 
2003
Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky, North Carolina Museum Of Art, Raleigh, USA
Tender Landscapes: Artists Respond to Human Involvement in the Natural World, The Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, USA
The Common Thread: Finding Fiber in Contemporary Art, Westport Arts Center, USA
In Praise Of Trees, Salisbury Festival and Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
 
2002
Time Capsule, South Carolina Botanic Garden Sculpture Program, Clemson, USA
Willow Domes on the Este, Neddernhof, Bucchholz-Sprotze, Germany
Eden Cloud Chamber, Eden Project, Cornwall, United Kingdom 
Reed Chamber, Arundel Wetland Centre, United Kingdom 
 
2001-2002
From Across The Pond, Browngrotta Arts, USA
 
2001
Yew Spheres, Ickworth House, United Kingdom 
Coming Full Circle, Irwell Sculpture Trail, Stacksteads Community Woodland, United Kingdom 
ArtBarns: After Schwitters, Forest of Bowland, United Kingdom 
 
2000
High Touch/High Tech, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Just Paint, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
 
1999
herman de vries and Chris Drury: Works from There and Here, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA
 
1998-1999
European Art/Nature Triennial – Odsherreds, Kunstmuseum, Denmark
Trilogy: A Confrontation with Creation, Kunsthallen Brandt Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
 
1998
Tree Vortex, Dragsholm Castle, Odsherred, Denmark
 
1997
Hut of the Shadow, Lochmaddy, North Uist, The Hebrides (Scotland), United Kingdom 
Shimanto River Spheres, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
Coppice Cloud Chamber, Kings Wood, United Kingdom 
 
1996
Cedar Log Cloud Chamber, Okawa Village, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan   
Wave Chamber, Kielder Reservoir, United Kingdom 
Mind, Wave, Botanic Garden, Copenhague, Denmark
The Edge of Town, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, USA
 
1994
Tree /Mountain Shelter – Arte Sella, Italy
Vortex, Lewes Castle, United Kingdom 
Earth Chamber for the Trees and Sky, Sculpture at Tyrebagger Project, Kirkhill Forest, Aberdeen, United Kingdom 
 
1995
Chalk Vessel, Towner Art Gallery, United Kingdom 
Stone Vessel, Watergrove Reservoir, United Kingdom 
Open Vessel, University of Hartford, USA
Shelter Project, Beara Peninsula, Ireland
 
1993
Covered Cairn, TICKON / Tranekær International Centre for Art and Nature, Langeland, Denmark
Beeskep Shelter, Seeley Copse, Goodwood, United Kingdom 
Différent Nature: Visions de l’art Contemporain, Galerie Art 4 de l’Esplanade, Place de la Défense, Paris, France
 
1990
Beelden Buiten, Tielt, Belgium
 
1989
Distant Echoes: Chris Drury and Aase Goldsmith, Scottish Arts CouncilTraveling Gallery; travelling exhibition: Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles (Scotland), United Kingdom
Art and Nature, Dundee City Art Gallery, United Kingdom
 
1987
Unpainted Landscapes, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom 
The Unpainted Landscape, travelling exhibition: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Dundee City Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Aberdeen Art Gallery, United Kingdom
 
1986
Land, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Landscape, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
1985
Second Nature, Newlyn Orion Art Gallery, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Landscape Interior, Coracle Press Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Land, Air, Sea, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
 
1984
Salon d’Automne, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Repeat, Coracle Press Gallery, London, United Kingdom
British Art: New Directions, Coracle Press Gallery, New York, USA
 
 
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