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Journal

Posts in 2017
Being in our our backyard

Perfect weather in Mt Aspiring National Park made for a delightful relaxing walk to camp in the bush clad Matukituki River valley. It is great to see that vegetation and native bird life is being protected by an extensive pest eradication programme managed by the Department of Conservation and many volunteers…

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Outdoor exhibition - China

A small but unique photography festival featuring 18 Chinese and foreign photographers' works in the valley of Tiantai Mountain in the province of Sichuan presented our land art prints in the beautiful natural landscape…

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In good company

Snow Circle was recently included in a curated gallery of Land Art on the Art Agency Partners (AAP) website. We are pleased to be placed among the world’s most significant Land Artists…

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2017
Beauty celebrated

In a world currently focused on so much conflict, hatred and ugliness it was inspiring to be featured in website BeautifulNow where beauty is a guide to wellbeing and happiness…

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2017
PhotoWorld China - feature

In April 2017 PhotoWorld China published an interview about our environmental art by Alasdair Foster, an eminent cultural development consultant based in Sydney, Australia…

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2017
Symbol of hope

In 1996 Philippa and I made Snow Circle on Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand. More than 20 years later Kate Raworth has drawn the same shape as the model for the economics we need for the 21st century to become safe, fair, distributive and regenerative….

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Vision for the future

Sky Stone Circle was made by floating pumice stones on the calm surface of Lake Taupo in New Zealand in 1993. I wanted the stones to appear to float in the sky so I made the image without showing the surrounding landscape and focused on the clouds reflected in the lake. I wanted to achieve the impossible appearance of stones in the sky. The sculpture to refers to the carbon in the atmosphere causing global warming. The circle refers to the design of a circular regenerative economy modelled on nature as its solution…

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Nature - stable, delicate or random?

Recently Yale Programme on Climate Change Communication has chosen to use Stone Circle again for an online report they are releasing for Earth Day this week titled Is Nature Stable, Delicate or Random?

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2017
Rich experiences

Fifty years ago today my friend Andy and I left UK on an overland journey to Everest, driving through the Middle East and India in an ex army truck and walking from Katmandu to Mt Everest and back. Last week I returned to serious mountaineering…

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Circular design - mainstream

When I made Stone Circle in 1994 it was because I believed that sustainability would be achieved by “circular” design. I am delighted to announce that the Circular Design Guide by the top international design company IDEO has been launched at Davos, Switzerland…

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2017