{"id":476,"date":"2019-03-18T12:54:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/?p=476"},"modified":"2019-03-18T13:56:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:56:14","slug":"light-artist-showcase-bruce-munro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-d19\/kafrance\/light-artist-showcase-bruce-munro\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Artist Showcase: Bruce Munro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bruce Munro is an artist based in Wiltshire, England, who is known for creating immersive light art installations around the world. He seeks to capture his responses to various stimuli with his installations, finding inspiration in stories and literature, music, and sometimes more spiritual themes. Munro’s pieces tend to be larger-scale, experiential installations using optical fibers and light sources, arylic, and glass. Many of his pieces draw light through translucent mediums, or reflect light off of components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Predominately featured below are several works from a recent exhibition at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California, called “Stories in Light”. While the exhibition contains several more pieces than are shown here, those selected offer a good taste of Munro’s style and approach (In fact, the spectacle features the largest number of Munro’s works ever gathered at a single venue). The collection was inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, beloved by Munro from a young age. Munro’s hope was to bring the lands of Narnia to the already beautiful grounds of Montalvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gathering of the Clans<\/em>, Acrylic, UV light, Sound. Colored acrylic clips represent the colors of native cockatoos in Sydney. Inspired by the talking animals of Narnia and the constant audio backdrop of Munro’s time in Sydney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Silver Sea<\/em>, Optical Fiber, Glass, Acrylic, light source. A take on Munro’s classic Field of Light<\/em>, Munro transforms the lawn into a beautiful freshwater sea of lilypads from the book The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reflections<\/em>, Animated Projections, Sound. A series of media presentations are cycled from Munro’s Light and Language<\/em> series, representing themes and information such as Morse code, meditation practices, and the equation for photosynthesis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Reepicheep’s Wave<\/em>, Optical Fiber, Animated Projections, Sound. An impressive display of 12,000 filaments of optical fiber and 18,000 cast mussel shells form a standing wave accompanied by a seeming continuously rising sound track. Inspired by the mouse character Reepicheep (again referring to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader<\/em>) whose adventures bring him to an enormous, unmoving wave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n