Magic in Nature installation

Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger create interactive wonderlands that reference nature. The respond to the environments fragile state and encourage discovery of a paradise lost in the discarded. 

They collaborate together to create 'falling gardens, glistening ponds of motor oil and flowing streams of chemical' to form a story of life and death, hope and despair. 

Gerda Steiner and Jörg Lenzlinger have collaborated since 1997 and are known as being among the most successful of contemporary Swiss artists, bring together made and found objects to create magical fantasy installations which question the small and wonderful in the context bigger environmental concerns.

 

Petah Coyne Creating An Environment

Contemporary installation artist Petah Coyne unfamiliar yet enticing environments which evoke very personal responses. Her work is both figurative and abstract in form, using diverse materials such as mud, feathers, black sand, dead fish and car parts   She transforms spaces into intense physical environments, working within different contexts which shape the characteristics and metaphor of the final sculptures. 

Petahs show ''Fairy Tales,'' consists of layered tableaux which are meant to be dreamy and mystical, evoking spirituality and afterlife.

Fiber artist creating fairy tale installions

Emily Natchinson is a sculptural fibre artist who transforms spaces into other worldly installions. Her work involves materials such as wool, horn, papier-mâché, and feathers. She focuses on mythology and landscape, exploring how nature affects these stories. Through scale she pushes her work from illustrative into reality, creating unnerving atmospheres with sculptures mimicking geological growth beneath imposing tangled webs of fibre. She investigates the cultural creation of landscape. Emily Natchinsons work motivates my own practice in many ways, I want to explore the juxtaposition of nature the artificial and reality using fairy tale as my focus to creating 3d installations which Emily Nachinson also explores, which question our relationship to nature and reality.