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From Vietnam to The Environment: The work of Maya Lin
Maya Lin shot to fame when, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, she won an open competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC. An architect, artist and sculptor, Maya Lin...
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Nature is Invited to the Royal Wedding
For the first time ever, 20 foot trees from the Royal Estate were, at the request of the Royal couple, brought inside Westminster Abbey to line the ceremonial passage – particularly appropriate in...
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Why is environmentalism so unimportant? Thomas Hirschhorn at the Venice...
A couple of days of slogging hard through the Venice Biennale this year left one message – the environment doesn’t matter and neither do those concerned with ‘preserving’ it. I spent my days enjoying...
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The Artist and the Land – Richard Long
Richard Long is one of the earliest and best known artists to engage in what has become known as ‘land art’. In an innovative way to engage with the land and the landscape, Long’s work is centred...
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Modernist Autumn – Martin Boyce Wins 2011 Turner Prize
In his winning entry for this year’s Turner Prize, Martin Boyce brings an autumnal park indoors and re-interprets it in classical modernist/constructivist terms. A large room, re-designed in every...
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Ai Weiwei – Human Rights Dissident – Environmentalist?
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has mounted 1200 bicycles in a magnificent floor to ceiling installation as part of a solo exhibition in Taipei. The artist likely has no environmental statement to...
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Environmental Art or Vandalism? Christo and Jean-Claude sued to stop their...
Planning Drawings for "Over The River" Christo and Jeanne-Claude are possibly the best known among those artists who work outside of the gallery in urban and rural environments. Many of their projects...
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What is Real? What is Constructed? The Trees of Myoung Ho Lee
When I first saw these images I thought these were giant images of trees artificially placed in a landscape. Only on further examination did I realize that these were trees in their landscape,...
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The Surreal Sculptures of Myeongbeom Kim
Surreal imagery has some kind of irresistible attraction for most of us. Myeongbeom Kim’s sculptures are surreal. They combine elements that don’t normally belong together and, in doing so, often...
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Squirrel Suicide by Maurizio Cattelan
In this blog I usually review an artist’s body of work rather than a single work. However, Maurizio Cattelan‘s squirrel installation shown above struck me as worth reviewing as a single work on its...
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Using Found Objects – The Sculptures of David Kemp
It’s impossible to look at these dogs and not smile. They are one of a number of public sculptures by artist David Kemp. Kemp makes sculptures out of found or discarded objects. He describes his work...
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