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).
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