IGNIS July 2015 | Page 15

To Munro art is experiential, something in which all become involved. It was while he was on a 4-month tour of Australia, camping at Uluru that he conceived the idea of an artwork “an illuminated field of stems that, like the dormant seed in a dry desert, would burst into bloom at dusk with gentle rhythms of light under a blazing blanket of stars”. A decade later this became his now iconic work, Field of Light, comprising several thousand spheres on stems and miles of optical fibre lit by projected light. This work has appeared with distinct variations at different venues throughout the world. In 2004 the first iteration of this iconic piece was installed in a field next door to his house in Wiltshire. He left the illuminated field up for a year, with a sign reading, “Please turn the lights off when you’re finished.” In 2008 he was asked to create a Field of Light at the Eden Project in Cornwall, 6,000 acrylic stems were fed with fibre optics and capped with frosted glass spheres. In 2013, the art work was installed at the Rothschild Foundation (Waddesdon Manor, Bucks) cascading down the hillside creating a River of Light (as seen on the Ignis front cover). https://vimeo.com/80820765