Bruce Munro
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Field of Light, Eden Project, UK 2008
I used to get in lots of trouble for daydreaming,
and I found that daydreaming is an excellent
way to see different parts of your brain working.
I always thought that there was some magical
recipe to creating art, in fact it’s not, it’s the most
simple thing, what is in front of our eyes every day.
By the age of 9, Bruce Munro knew that his future
lay with art, having “a natural ability for it and less
aptitude for other endeavours”. After studying art
at college he worked in an art gallery in London
and then moved to Australia for a 6 month working
holiday that lasted 6 years; finally returning to
live in the UK in 1992. He worked in commercial
and domestic lighting design before taking the
plunge into creating multimedia art. Munro is
now a world-renowned Artist working with Light
as his medium. He is best known for large-scale,
immersive light-based installations, inspired
by his interest in shared human experience.
Munro knew that he had a sensitivity to the art and
emotion of light. A sensitivity that was lacking in
the work of many of the engineers and technicians
Having kept sketch books throughout his life,
Munro uses them to help conceive his ideas.
Opening a sketchbook draws him back to the
emotion and inspiration experienced at the time.
It is from this memory that he extracts feelings
of happiness or joy to create the narrative;
connecting people with feelings and memory.
Munro has exhibited in Art Museums, Botanical
Gardens, Cathedrals and City environments around
the world. Working with a team of 12 in his UK
based Studio, and his clients, Munro insists that
he is only part of the creation of the artwork.
All images courtesy of Bruce Munro
14 IGNIS
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involved commercially with light at the time. He
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