Field of Light by Bruce Munro

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Bruce Munro’s Field of Light
At the Holburne Museum, Bath

Visitors to the beautiful city of Bath this Christmas are being treated to the site of one of Bruce Munro’s most magical illuminated sculptures.

Munro’s ‘Field of Light’ is now installed in the garden of the Holburne Museum in the garden at back of the new glass and ceramic extension, and will remain in place until January 8th 2012.  Best seen in the dark, it will be switched on at 4pm and remain lit until 7pm daily. The sculpture first came to public attention when a scaled-down version was exhibited at the V&A in 2004 and it went on to have huge success at Long Knoll Field and at the Eden Project in Cornwall in 2008/9.

“I’m really delighted to be working with the Holburne Museum” says Munro “The director Alexander Sturgis and his team have injected so much energy into the place, and are making this beautiful little museum into a genuinely world-class and exciting destination.”

Munro was inspired to make this piece during a trip through the Australian red desert with his fiancé (now his wife) 18 years ago. Driving along the Stewart Highway he would stop at night at roadside campsites, which are often in stark contrast to the barren desert that surrounds them: sprinkler-fed oases of green, each one displaying a larger than life sculpture of surreal design and proportions-perhaps a giant banana, pineapple or Merino sheep.

Munro was transfixed by the way the red desert was barren until it rained and then, as if from nowhere, dormant seeds would burst into bloom. He made a series of sketches in the notebook carried in his pocket since his student days, and the idea refused to dislodge from his mind.

Field of Light, like a giant surreal camp-side banana, is an alien installation in the midst of nature. And like dry desert seeds lying in wait for the rain, the sculpture’s fibre optic stems lie dormant until darkness falls, and then under a blazing blanket of stars they flower with gentle rhythms of light.  ‘Field of Light’ is about the desert as much as the roadside campsites- and like much of Munro’s work is characterised by an almost mystical passion or nature teamed with a robust sense of humour.

First opened in 1893, the Holburne has a permanent collection including Renaissance bronzes, silver and ceramics as well as superb paintings by Gainsborough, Stubbs, Turner and Zoffany. After three years of renovations, it reopened in May this year to record numbers of visitors, who came to admire the critically acclaimed new extension, and stunning new displays. It is currently showing the exhibition Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations and new landscape photographs by Mark Edwards.

Alexander Sturgis, the Holburne’s Director, “The park in which the Museum sits was famous for its illuminations in the eighteenth century so we are delighted to be able to surround our new building with Bruce Munro’s Field of Light. It works beautifully on our site and really lifts the spirits at the darkest time of the year.”

Over the years, the design format and technology of Field of Light have evolved and it has been shown in many places. It is made of acrylic stems, through which fibre optic cables run, each topped by a frosted acrylic ball. Each cluster of stems is illuminated by an external projector on a colour wheel and the stems themselves hold no electric power at all. At the Holburne, there are 5220 stems of light. To maximise reflections in Eric Parry’s glass extension, Munro has placed narrow sets of extra stems indoors, topped with clear spheres and fixed in small plinths.

In the Pipeline from Bruce Munro
In December 2011 Bruce Munro’s newest installation will be unveiled across the large street frontage windows of the Telefónica headquarters in Madrid. His first ever one-man show, on an unprecedented scale, will take place over 10 acres of Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania USA, from June to September 2011.

这一片光安装在Holburne 博物馆，展览时间是2011年的11月末到2012年的1月8日，每天下午从4点亮到7点。

Bruce Munro为能在这个世界一流的地方展示这个作品非常兴奋，他表示这里虽然不大，但是非常的美丽。他的创作灵感来自18年前与他现在的妻子在澳大利亚约会时所见到的场景：那是在沙漠中驾车旅行，沙漠间的绿洲与沙漠形成强烈反差，这些绿洲看起来就像是超现实的雕塑。Bruce Munro呆呆的看着，直到下雨，接下来他把这些感触画在随身带的小本上。

Holburne 博物馆的Alexander Sturgis表示，在这个从十八世纪就以灯饰出名的博物馆能够迎来Bruce Munro的“光场”是非常荣幸的，那些精美的作品遍布在场地中，在今冬最黑暗时刻燃起振奋人心的光芒。

这个作品的展出得益于技术的发展，每个亚克力球里面的丙烯酸连着电缆，在这个项目中，运用了超过5220个单位，为了让效果更好，很多设备隐藏起来。

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