Journal

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…

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…

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…

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

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….

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?

It was an honour to be selected by the Opera National de Paris to present Synergy as part of the onstage production of La Ronde…

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…

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…

In the summer of 2015 we were invited, along with 10 other artists by the Department of Conservation (DOC) to take part in an extraordinary art and conservation residency in Dusky Sound, Fiordland. The journey, the wilderness environment, the experiences and the friendships we shared were significant to us…

Protecting our rivers, the source of life, has become as urgent as protecting the air we breathe and the climate we rely on. This is what inspired us to create River Guardian recently. The end-of-winter conditions meant that the daytime air temperature rises, causing mist to swirl just above the cold surface of the water. We thought this would be an eerie setting for a temporary installation…

ArtBio is a Brazilian web based nonprofit organisation that develops science communication projects and promotes cultural and educational activities to share knowledge through art. The interview below is one of a series titled Antropocena…

Our collection of land art photographs The Guardians has won 1st prize in the Conceptual category in FAPA, the International Fine Art Awards. The second series we entered In Search of Synergy was shortlisted as a nominee for the same category, Conceptual…

We have travelled so much in the past year but it is always nice to be recognised back home in New Zealand. Thanks to the New Zealand Herald for writing about our work on our Fine Line project. We are on the home stretch now…

Philippa and I have just returned from Venice where Synergy was exhibited as a finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize exhibition The exhibition opening and award ceremony was a glittering affair at the Arsenale Venice…

When a design publication as illustrious as Architectural Digest recently published our land art photographs, we were impressed. Recognition at this international level is gratifying…

IGNANT, the global award winning art-design-architecture website selected some our works for a curated piece on their current weblog…

The Creators Project from New York was impressed with our “man-meets-nature images” describing them as nature sculptures that exist between natural and man-made beauty…