Chris Drury has been described as an Eco-Land Artist but he himself says that he seeks to make connections between:
- Nature and Culture
- Inner and Outer
- Microcosm and Macrocosm
To this end he collaborates with scientists and technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines and technology and uses whatever visual means and materials that best suit the situation. Context is everything. Context gives rise idea, form, method and material. Context can be a piece of land or an idea from science. Running through all of it is a sense of the fragility of our planet and the need to live and work lightly.
His has made works outside on every continent on earth, including Antarctica, where he was artist in residence with The British Antarctic Survey in 2007. In 2019 he was given a Lee Krasner Lifetimes Achievement Award by the Pollock/Krasner Foundation in New York, and last year he was awarded a Gotleib Foundation award for the arts.
He has a long fascination with fungi dating from the early 1980’s. They can feed you, kill you, cure you and alter our minds. Fungi are what connect us to everything else on the planet. They break down dead matter into soil on which new plants grow, so as such they represent life, death and regeneration. The spore print on the Gable end is taken from Amanita muscaria, the red capped mushroom with white spots – both poisonous and hallucinogenic.