Outside installation art

Based on her own recollections of the station, the mural epitomises s and 30s societal optimism in the production of energy. A lively and dynamic break from its neighbours, Power draws inspiration from the station itself. Mysercough painted the marine plywood panels in her traditional palette of strong colours, geometrics and bold typefaces. Each of the blocks was hand cast in the Veneto region; half are clear, while the other 1, were created in a spectrum of 26 colours imbued with a swirling, marbled visual effect.

The name of the work — a monumental 75m long and 2. It is, they state, both art and architecture. Uninterrupted , a short film that follows the journey of the Pacific salmon, highlights an underutilised urban space and returns the natural world to postindustrial Vancouver.

Wild spent four years with a special camera that shoots 2, frames per second, compiling a languid environmental manifesto that unfolds like a dance, with close-ups and graceful motion in the journey upstream. The twist is in the projection, directly onto the concrete landscape of False Creek. With eight digital projectors, Wild has orchestrated a three-month run on the underside of the hulking Cambie Street Bridge; the film will play five nights a week until 24 September.

She designed the spectacle, she says, to show the interconnectedness of nature and urban life and highlight the extent to which we take salmon for granted. Her final edit is a minute salmon ballet, set to an ambient soundtrack of original music by Owen Belton. On opening night last month members of the local Salish tribe of First Nations lowered the bones of a single coho salmon into the waters of False Creek — its own kind of performance art.

Until 31 July. Photography: Corrado. Share your email to receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world. Art 17 Oct Sign Up. You can unsubscribe at any time. Please keep me up to date with special offers and news just by email from carefully selected companies. Edith Meusnier website. Artists Caitlin Easterby and Simon Pascoe head a group called Red Earth, where they create site specific art installations and performances with the goal of reconnecting people with the earth.

They collaborate with other artists and specialists in historic and scientific fields, which seems to be a common trend, for lack of a better word, with environmental artists. Red Earth website Facebook. Seven Magic Mountains is a land art installation consisting of towers of neon rocks set up in the middle of Nevada.

Learn more about this installation by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone here. Rune Guneriussen is a Norwegian artist creating installations in nature and documenting them through photography. My favorites are his groupings of lamps in unexpected remote areas, that look like groups of little creatures. As an artist he believes strongly that art itself should be questioning and bewildering as opposed to patronising and restricting.

As opposed to the current fashion he does not want to dictate a way to the understanding of his art, but rather indicate a path to understanding a story. Rune Guneriussen website Instagram. He uses mirrored surfaces on human and abstract forms placed within different environments. The reflection is purposely distorted inviting the viewer to question their individual relationship with their surroundings.

Rob Mulholland website Instagram. Related: Paintings by Bella Ormseth. His pieces are made with hundreds of saplings, coming together to form dynamic structures that draw you in yet look like they might blow away with you as well.

Patrick Dougherty website. Nils Udo is a Bavarian artist who creates pieces in and with nature, photographs them, and leaves them to the mercy of the elements. Nature is still complete and inexhaustible in her most remote refuges, her magic still real. At any time, meaning any season, in all weathers, in things great and small.

Potential Utopias are under every stone, on every leaf and behind every tree, in the clouds and in the wind. Pitting poetry against the inhuman river of time. Nils Udo website. Jaakko Pernu is a Finnish sculptor who uses mainly willow branches to fashion large-scale installations whose geometric shapes play up the nature of the material.

His use of wood is directly influenced from his time as a boy spent constructing wooden boats with his father. My theme is the influence of humans on nature — the influence of nature on humans. Jaakko Pernu. More about Jaakko Pernu here.

She is considered a pioneer of the environmental art movement. More recently the town has embraced comic strips and images, with annual International Comic Strip Festival January Shall we dance?

On a quiet street, close to the harbour in Oslo, the pavement is painted in a zigzag of white strips with intertwined coloured blocks and a jolly yellow speaker has been installed. You are invited to connect your phone to its wifi hotspot to play music to dance to.

Until , marisa-ferreira. Just a short walk from the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is Paradise Genetically Altered, the edgier, less-romantic sister of the famous water nymph and far more interesting, with her twisted neck and disproportionate, split limbs.

Escape the crowds and spend a while contemplating the statue's grotesque beauty. Free to visit, with nearby parking. Rachel Green. Its multi-coloured collection of barrels were glinting in the sun as I licked my ice-cream, finding myself drawn towards it. This swaying Parthenon is a kinetic sculpture powered by wind and gravity, designed by Penny Saunders, and built by Cornish craftspeople.

After a gentle stroll enjoy refreshments at The Tremenheere Kitchen.