This incredible sculpture is from artist Richard Shilling. He creates his sculptures using only naturally occurring colours, shapes and objects. As he states in his bio “There are different forms of it, Robert Smithson famously created a massive spiral in the Great Salt Lake in Utah and coined the term land art. My work, however, mainly consists of small scale ephemeral sculptures using natural materials found near by. No glue or string is used, only what I can find in nature.”
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That cairn looks very similar to something I found in the Brecon Beacons some years ago:
http://simonbradley.net/photos/albums/userpics/10001/040309-1530-49.jpg
It also looks a lot like Wales. I wonder if I stumbled across one of his creations.
The cairn above is very similar to the work of Andy Goldsworthy, who is based in southern scotland, although his cairns tend to be a bit more egg-shaped. He also does a lot of transient work with clay, leaves, stone, twigs, ice, grass etc. etc and photographs it as it subsequently decays. He has done sculptures around the world too.
http://www.sculpture.org.uk/image/504816331403/
You can check out some images of his work here. I highly recommend him
Just wonderful…..
LC x
A lot of this work is very similar to Andy Goldsworthy….and I find Goldsworthy’s work to be much more beautiful and intriguing.
http://danielleslentz.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/andy_goldsworthy1.jpg
Wow! That leaf-wheel is absolutely beautiful!
The stones in that ditch .. someone with too much time on his hands? Hahaha … Very nice, all things he does. I wonder whether they are there only for a limited period (probably). Didn’t we all try to built piles of stones, and didn’t they all fall down too soon, not to mention that they def. did not look as nice as this guy’s piles of stones. I wonder how he started with these things. Did he do that stuff already when he was young, etc. Hm, read the bio?
Yes, I was thinking that Bletherskite, the similarity to Andy Goldsworthy’s work is striking, but I love this artist’s work too. There’s something very satisfying about creating from the nature around you. I did a few pieces of this nature (pun intended) myself a long time ago and it was great fun.
It’s fascinating reading about how he creates them and what inspires him on his blog too:
http://www.jrlandart.blogspot.com/
a thousand years from now some archaeologist is going to be incredibly confused by finding a stone cairn amongst discarded ipods and chip packets
Glad to see so many other Derren fans aware of Goldsworthy – I prefer his to this work, I have to say.
I love Mr Shilling’s land art. There are similarities to AG and I think in the beginning that is where he got his inspiration from,, but even though it is still land art he has definitely created his own style the past couple of years, I love following his blog and also find his writing very soul seaching and has depth.
There are lots of land artists about, have you seen any of Chris Dury’s work or Nils Udo. All great stuff.