Pinecrest Gardens Blog: New Monumental Arts Exhibition Coming Soon!

Press release from Pinecrest Gardens Blog:

November 01, 2021

 We have big news at Pinecrest Gardens!

This month we welcome the artist team of Bruce Munro to begin installation of Forest and Field of Light at Pinecrest Gardens.

Forest and Field of Light is Bruce Munro's first installation in the Eastern United States this year, and we are thrilled to welcome his team and vision to our community. 

The exhibition runs from December 4, 2021 through June 26, 2022 and will feature thousands of illuminated stems, transforming the landscape into a shimmering sea of splendor. 

What's most exciting to me about this exhibition, is that it will be brought to life by a team of volunteers from our community. If you've followed our monumental art exhibitions in the past, you know we love to include our neighbors in these incredible experiences. Working alongside teams of international artists, together we've built other large scale art exhibits such as Patrick Dougherty's Stickworks, Thomas Dambo's Trolls, and now, Bruce Munro's Forest and Field of Light. If you are interested in working alongside us on this exhibition, please visit the volunteer page here.

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Forest and Field of Light at Pinecrest Gardens requires the work of 'planting' over 6000 stems of light. For the next three weeks of November, staff and volunteers will be lead by artists in design and installation of the exhibit. 

Taking place in both the Lower Gardens hardwood hammock is the 'Forest', and the Upper Garden Lake View is the Field of Light.  Visitors can take a leisurely evening stroll throughout the entire garden during the exhibition window, December through June. It will be an incredible way to experience art in the Gardens like never before. 

 For artist Bruce Munro, this exhibition will be his first opportunity to work in a subtropical environment. Though Field of Light has been created all across the globe at many venues, each installation is site specific and draws inspiration of the landscape. Pods of light reflecting upon the smooth waters of Swan Lake will amplify soft waves at one of Pinecrest Gardens most iconic vistas. In the Lower Gardens, buttresses of 100 year old cypress trees become illuminated, adding a new dimension to our native cypress slough and hardwood hammock.

Bruce Munro is best known for producing large immersive light-based installations, which often employ a massing of components by the thousands. Born in London in 1959, he completed a B.A. in Fine Arts at Bristol in 1982. Shortly after he moved to Sydney where he worked in design and lighting, inspired by Australia’s natural light and landscape. Returning to England in 1992, he settled in Wiltshire, where together with his wife, Serena, raised four children. Following his father’s death in 1999, Munro felt compelled to resume art making on a personal level.  His work has been shown at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild Collection, Buckinghamshire; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Munro’s work is held in museum collections internationally including the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

For more information on Forest and Field of Light at Pinecrest Gardens, and to Purchase tickets to the exhibition, click here.

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Happy Digging!

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