Author Description

Since the late 1960s, artists in the Land Art movement have been creating art in nature, composed primarily of the natural elements available at hand. Materials such as rocks, leaves and water are the medium, and the terrain is the canvas. Intentionally impermanent, these works are created and then left to change, erode and eventually be reclaimed by the elements. The Land Art wall calendar presents the work of environmental artist Martin Hill, whose ephemeral sculptures articulate his sustainable design philosophy. Hill recognises our human lifestyles have become unsustainable and that this can only be reversed through better design informed by the way nature works. He uses circular forms and processes that reflect natures cyclical system, the principles of which are now being used by some as a model for industrial ecology. Hill works with natural materials gathered from the site so that his sculptures can be absorbed back into the natural cycle without harm, transformed in time by natural processes into biological nutrients from which new life will grow.