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REFLECTING 19 MUNRO CDsea / Long Knoll Wiltshire UK / 2010
INTERVIEW: BRUCE MUNRO Internationally renowned British artist Bruce Munro will open Light, an exhibition of 10 breathtaking, large-scale outdoor and indoor lighting installations coupled with indoor sculptures, at Nashville’s Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art. The exhibit will include four installations never before seen in the U.S. Using an inventive array of materials and hundreds of miles of glowing optical fiber, Munro will transform Cheekwood’s magnificent gardens, manicured grounds and rolling hills into an enchanting, iridescent landscape that emerges organically at nightfall. Aesthetica spoke to Bruce on his latest exhibition and what to look out for in the future. A: Firstly, your art practice is centred on light, what is it about light that you feel drawn to use as your focal medium? BM: It took me a number of years to come to this conclusion and once I had made my decision to work with light I stayed with it. Choosing a medium was incredibly helpful as it gave me a structure to work within. I have quite a wide ranging imagination and this containment has allowed me to retrace my steps when I have ended up a blind alley! One beautiful quality of light is that it captures the ephemeral. This illusive, seemingly no physical quality has a spiritual essence about it and makes it ideal as medium to use to express abstract concepts such as emotion and connection. A: Your work is centred around light installations within natural landscapes and iconic buildings. Where do you draw your inspiration from for such large scale projects? BM: Working with large scale landscapes and buildings was very much “wishful thinking,” I never imagined that I would get the opportunity to realise many of my ideas. The inspiration, and the ideas that follow, are changing constantly and vary in scale, medium and longevity. For example , Field of Light was inspired during a journey through the Australian Outback; Water towers was inspired by a book that I read when I was twenty one and CDsea by a Sunday afternoon sitting on a rocky peninsular in Sydney Harbour. As I get older I am inspired and drawn to simple things. I endeavour to express these experiences in the same way. A: You work with both light sculpture and installations – do these varied mediums perform different roles in the narrative of your work? BM: I do not have a set approach so I would say that all pieces; small and large 20
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