Pinecrest Gardens – Field of Light Exhibition

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From December 4, 2021 through June 26, 2022, visitors to Pinecrest Gardens will be treated to something extraordinary. The Village of Pinecrest and Pinecrest Gardens invited acclaimed British artist Bruce Munro to create a site-specific illuminated installation, inspired by Pinecrest’s unique landscape and vegetation. Titled Bruce Munro: Forest and Field of Light, this exhibition will be the only location in the Eastern United States to feature the artist’s work during the period of its exhibition.

“Every exhibition venue is unique and I am delighted to be invited to exhibit my work at Pinecrest Gardens,” Munro said. For me, light is a medium of expression and conduit to share thoughts, feelings and life experiences with others. I hope this exhibition will inspire a little bit of hope and joy to everyone who visit these beautiful gardens. – Bruce Munro

He has worked in the medium of light since the 1980s, and was one of the earliest adherents to isolate its qualities as a main focus for expression. His interest in its properties predates the emergence of worldwide popularity for illuminated spectacle and immersive art. Munro has produced a diverse variety of illuminated sculpture, based on his interest in science, music, and the world around him, but most frequently as mediations on the nature of time and the effect of memory to condition perceptions of time and place. Our experiences of being connected to the world in its largest sense, as part of an essential pattern, is the artist’s constant subject matter.

Field of Light is Munro’s most iconic expression of this idea. The artwork began as a simple sketchbook notation, made during a 1992 travel experience the artist shared with his then fiancée, now wife in Australia, at its sacred center Uluru (Ayer’s Rock). The artist dreamed of a field of lights that would bloom under night skies, like the desert after a rain. Life and family then intervened and he was not able to execute the artwork until 2004, when it was immediately recognized as emotionally significant, not only for Munro but for others. Subsequent iterations began to be commissioned in places and spaces across the world: England, Scotland, Denmark, Mexico, Korea, Australia itself and in multiple locations across the United States.