Mixed media (optical fibre, glass, stainless steel, LED light source)
In 1992, journeying to Uluru through the Red Desert in Central Australia, I felt a compelling connection to the energy, heat and brightness of the desert landscape, which I recorded in my ever-present sketchbooks. Field of Light is the embodiment of this experience. I wanted to create an illuminated field of stems that, like the dormant seed in a dry desert, would burst into bloom at dusk with gentle rhythms of light under a blazing blanket of stars. Having developed the idea for over a decade the first Field of Light was created in the field behind our family home in Wiltshire. In 2016, I returned to the landscape that first inspired me for the installation of the Uluru Field of Light.
