Chris Drury

Not of clear relevance to what I am looking at but this artist came to my attention as he belongs to the process movement and he uses the body in his works. It is generally really interesting how he connects nature with human form. He brings to the light the similarities between us and the plants, trees, landforms etc. It makes you feel that we really are one entity.

This is taken from his personal website:

"A problem with modern societies is that we see ourselves as separate from nature and therefore at liberty exploit it. The result is that we destroy the very ground of our existence. However, it is obvious that we are nature and that systems in our bodies obey the same laws as systems in the universe. So I have continued to explore this using a number of different media, materials and scales; the largest, Heart of Reeds being several acres. During a residency at Conquest Hospital in Hastings I explored wave patterns in echocardiograms in works on paper, and later incorporated these same patterns into courtyard garden designs for hospitals. Two have so far been built and another should be completed in 2007.

My continuing interest has been systems of flow in the body, notably in the heart, and similar systems in rivers, glaciers and weather patterns on the planet. I have made a number of works from Iceland using satellite images of storms experienced on the ground. In Antarctica scientists have been collecting echo-recordings of the icecap from aircraft and the resulting echo-images are remarkably similar to echocardiograms and give us a unique picture of the last 900,000 years, laid down in layers in the ice. It is my intention to work with this data to make new links."



'High Desert Wind'





'Echo 6'





'Four Scottish Mountains'





'Hand on Heart'