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    • 2012 Catalogue Edsvik Art Gallery
    • 2012 Catalogue: SÍM Sculpture, Models and Photographs 1992 - 2012
    • 2011 A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden, Leicester
    • 2010 ai SIMON TAITS DIARY Greenham - a long time achangin 17.11.2010
    • 2010 Catalogue European sculpture Difference & Diversity
    • 2010 Catalogue 27.June University of Leicester
    • 2010 Articles: Sculpture 98 spring and June 97, Icelandic Medical Journal
    • 2009 Catalogue: Japanese Teahouse Series
    • 2008 Catalogue: Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford
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sculpture-albums   2019 - 1992

Obi 2019

The Icelandic Sculptors Society Winter Exhibition in their Sculpture Garden Reykjavik 7th February - spring. On the agenda of the Winter lights Festival 7th - 10th February. Obi my sculpture on show was the first of many of the same, originally installed 2008 in England and is part of my Japanese tea-house series where I borrow well known Japanese functional forms, exhibit and perform where culture and customs are different.

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the Mountain Series 2014 - 2018

Environmental installation, Gufunes, Reykjavík. The Mountain Series of recycled materials influenced Gudrun by working in her Reykjavík studio on the site of one of Iceland’s leading providers of environmental management services and clean energy.

 

 Hvítafjall / White Mountain 2014

Hvítafjall / White Mountain 2014

 Hvítafjall ei meir / White Mountain no more 2014

Hvítafjall ei meir / White Mountain no more 2014

 Plastfjall / Plastic Mountain 2017

Plastfjall / Plastic Mountain 2017

 Við rætur Plastfjalls / the low hills of Plastic Mountain 2018

Við rætur Plastfjalls / the low hills of Plastic Mountain 2018

 Fjallasýn / Mountain View 2018

Fjallasýn / Mountain View 2018

 Skriður / Landslide 2018

Skriður / Landslide 2018

 Klettar / Rocks 2018

Klettar / Rocks 2018

 Fjallaskarð / Mountain pass 2018

Fjallaskarð / Mountain pass 2018

Hofið 2018

Hofið, the temple is a stopover on people's journey and at the same time a place to meditate or ignore.

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north-east

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detal II timber, colour, paper

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timber, colour, paper, H245 x B208 x L312 cm

Untitled 2017

Permanent installation in 101 Reykjavík

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Shelter 2015

Exhibited in the Factory Hjalteyri north Iceland

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Labyrinth 2015

Labyrinth in the sheltered Prince’s Gardens square, with its landscape garden, is hidden and tranquil though very central and found just off Exhibition Road where countless people pass through every day. The fenced square invites visitors, or passers-by, to walk the path across the green. The path guides one to it’s destination, making entry onto the lawn unnecessary when passing through. But if staying and enjoying the enclosed area, the grass or a garden bench invites one to rest and reflect.

Within the square near the south entrance to Exhibition Road is the installation site for the over life size sculpture Labyrinth. As one walks around the work to view it from a distance, one finds its form and depth change constantly and gets the feeling of its enclosure, the inner space with help from walls opening, entrances or exits and the see through hessian walls. It has been stated that I “choreograph the viewer’s movements and experience, diverting the focus points and resisting the notion of a full overview”. I invite people on a journey to enter the seven wall structure or to just ignore it. On that journey one will have to go out of one’s way from the path to enter the Labyrinth where it expresses it’s being both by form and name.

A publication accompanying the exhibition will be available in June 2015.

On show at the Nordic Exhibition SKULPTUR in London http://rbs.org.uk/exhibitions/skulptur

Previously exhibited in Leicester England, Guernsey, Torino Italy and Reykjavíkin 2010, 2011 and 2015

The work of Gudrun Nielsen attempts to thwart people’s routine sense for their surroundings. We project the identity of a place onto it, depending on recognition and experience. Nielsen contests this detached association of the known with the new. Drawing on geometry and reflecting on Japanese aesthetics, she develops ways to reinvigorate attentiveness. Her background studies in the relationship of art and architecture motivate her position for the sculpture, Labyrinth. She introduces a maze in the Botanic Garden, a structure that momentarily choreographs the viewer’s movements and experience, diverting the focus points and resisting the notion of a full overview. A subtle moment of indeterminacy alerts our senses and gives way to a conscious engagement with the immediate environment.

Catalogue 27.June, 2010 text by Markús Þór Andrésson

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Absent Core 2014

Absent Core is a reference to the way of Zen Buddhism the temples inner world, the core. In this work visitors are led on a journey through blocked corridor and open veranda, partly surrounding the absent core. The repeated row of blocked Noren gates represent the mystic behind entering into the world of Zen the temple with it’s corridors and verandas, courtyard- and the dry landscape gardens the hidden inner world, the unknown behind removable walls of the Shoji paper doors and windows or the Noren that gently moves by a touch or the weather. After each of the five entries one might think, you are there but you are not. The unexpected is still waiting to appear and the past folds gently behind you on the journey. As you are guided slowly further along and higher up to the open veranda, the direction changing and the path leads you along to the steps, that guide’s you down to the ground again. As you turn the Zen garden presents the big ocean... it welcomes you with its inner cam and the previous footpath is the place to rest and reflect to capture the cam of the Zen and joy the end of the journey.

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Blocked View 2013

The idea for the sculpture “Blocked View” is a continuation from my previous work Borrowed View 231, 2012 and Borrowed View 2013 There the installation refers to the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape“ a technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance. In the case of Blocked View, we have the opposite. Completely blocked view, an influence and a reference to the land and man made structures closest to the volcanic eruption in Ejafjallajökull, in south Iceland early 2010 where millions of tons of ash came from the volcano.  The entrapped ash can be looked at as the wall that changed day into night in an instance “Blocked View” Exhibited in Edsvik Konsthall Sweden 19. October – 10.November

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Borrowed View 2013

Borrowed View on show and work in progress, The  Borrowed View sculptural form constructed for the first time over life size. The installation refers to the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape“. A technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance.  Art Exhibition UNDIR BERUM HIMNI / IN THE OPEN AIR 25th May – 25th August - in Þingholtin and Skólavörðuholt.  100 Artists Exhibiting their work in public and private spaces in the heart of Reykjavík. Curator of the exhibition Gudrun Erla Geirsdottir Art Historian.

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Gálgahraun 2012

My sculptural installation Gálgahraun 2012 refers to the lava flow that ran from the askja Búrfell, Hafnarfirði Iceland in 6000 BC a kind and giving neighbour all my life. Búrfellshraun is a place to visit on cold and dark winter days or on bright summers days or nights. This neighbour of mine that is now under a threat has been here for a considerable time and should be allowed to stay on. In days gone by younger lava flows have covered part of Búrfellshraun. Group Exhibition in SÍM Hafnarstræti, Reykjavík 30th November to 20th of December.

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Borrowed View 231 2012

The monumental work "Borrowed View 231" is a 2012 sculptural, video and sound installation. The work consists of 231 repeated sculptural forms, displayed in straight lines on three perspex forms suspended from the ceiling.  Under each sculptural form are equally as many coloured drawings each different from the next one. The installation refers to the Japanese expression „borrowed landscape“. A technique where vistas extend beyond a structure, into the distance. On each coloured drawing is one line from the poem Borrowed View 231 by Gudrun repeated differently on each drawing twohundredandthirtyone times  A vital part of the installation is the projection of the drawings on the gallery wall, constant changes of scenery "the borrowed landscape".  Edsvik Konsthall Sweden - Sunday, January 06, 2013

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Absent Bellfry Shö rö 2011

The Absent Belfry Shö-Rö - Thursday, June 23, 2011

A Decade of Sculpture in the Garden exhibition. Work by more than sixty sculptors on display, from the USA, Germany, Iceland, Italy, France and the UK, with a number of sculptures by members of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.

The Absent Belfry Shö-Rö is a non-functional sculpture influenced by the bell tower within the Töfuku-Ji Temple in Kyoto. The 12 column platform invites spectators on a journey up the steps to an inner raised platform of the belfry where there is no sound source or protection from the elements, what you find there is their absence. On that journey your mind might wonder about the unanticipated changing dimensions of the stairs, with the increasing step working in tandem with the decreasing foothold as you ascend and thus making you work to enter the absent belfry.

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The former RAF Greenham Common 2010

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Paul Craggs Estates Manager of New Greenham Park Ltd Barry Goillau Director of Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd and Gudrun Nielsen at the site.
Paul Craggs Estates Manager of New Greenham Park Ltd Barry Goillau Director of Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd and Gudrun Nielsen at the site.
The Main Entrance to New Greenham Park. The site of installation pegged out, a temporary wooden plinth expressing the scale of the upcoming plinths.
The Main Entrance to New Greenham Park. The site of installation pegged out, a temporary wooden plinth expressing the scale of the upcoming plinths.
Work in progress Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd.Dagenham
Work in progress Benson-Sedgwick Engineering Ltd.Dagenham
Two of the nine forms beeing folded and welded at BSE.
Two of the nine forms beeing folded and welded at BSE.
Changes, the curved edge fold, detail.  BSE Dagenham.
Changes, the curved edge fold, detail. BSE Dagenham.
The Cor-ten steel forms starting to weather, waiting installation in the yard at BSE Dagenham.
The Cor-ten steel forms starting to weather, waiting installation in the yard at BSE Dagenham.
Work in progress on the nine plinths, with the use of  recycled concrete and reinforcement taken from the longest runway in Europe.  The men from HM Roofing and Construction at work.
Work in progress on the nine plinths, with the use of recycled concrete and reinforcement taken from the longest runway in Europe. The men from HM Roofing and Construction at work.
The day of installation 14th of July.  The nine sculptures on the truck.  Drainage can be seen in the centre of the dipped top of the plinths.
The day of installation 14th of July. The nine sculptures on the truck. Drainage can be seen in the centre of the dipped top of the plinths.
Barry Goillau from Benson-Sedgwick Engineering and his team from Mtec start the process of installing the Cor-ten steel sculptures.
Barry Goillau from Benson-Sedgwick Engineering and his team from Mtec start the process of installing the Cor-ten steel sculptures.
One almost down and eight to go.In the rain by the entrance to New Greenham Park.
One almost down and eight to go. In the rain by the entrance to New Greenham Park.
Work in progress.
Work in progress.
The steel form rests on its welded rods on the concrete plinth before lifted for the holes to be drilled.
The steel form rests on its welded rods on the concrete plinth before lifted for the holes to be drilled.
The upper end form in the line on its way.
The upper end form in the line on its way.
Put to rest on the highest standing plinth.
Put to rest on the highest standing plinth.
The heaviest sculpture lifted, two 2 x 2 m folded Cor-ten steel plates in the air.
The heaviest sculpture lifted, two 2 x 2 m folded Cor-ten steel plates in the air.
Checking the distance between plinth and sculpture.
Checking the distance between plinth and sculpture.
The steel plate adjusted on the plinth.
The steel plate adjusted on the plinth.
Guiding the way.
Guiding the way.
The sun is out, we are getting there
The sun is out, we are getting there
The team working on the plinth, drilling for the rods and blowing the dust from the drilled holes.
The team working on the plinth, drilling for the rods and blowing the dust from the drilled holes.
The rods guided into the drilled holes.A mixture in the coffee cup with concrete dust from the drilling, kept to cover the top of the holes when the sculpture have been put in its right position.
The rods guided into the drilled holes. A mixture in the coffee cup with concrete dust from the drilling, kept to cover the top of the holes when the sculpture have been put in its right position.
The sculptures in place.  On it´s second day of installation, detail.
The sculptures in place. On it´s second day of installation, detail.
Birds-eye view along the centre line of the sculpture.Early September.
Birds-eye view along the centre line of the sculpture. Early September.
View down the slope.
View down the slope.
Unveiling 24. September by Sir Peter Michael in the precence of the Icelandic Ambassador Mr. Benedikt Jónsson
Unveiling 24. September by Sir Peter Michael in the precence of the Icelandic Ambassador Mr. Benedikt Jónsson
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Photos: Model of Changes 1998 - Peter MillsThe installed sculpture on site - Leigh Quinnell Work in progress Dagenham 2009 and 2010 - BSE photosInstallation days - Vilmundur Gudnason
Photos: Model of Changes 1998 - Peter Mills The installed sculpture on site - Leigh Quinnell Work in progress Dagenham 2009 and 2010 - BSE photos Installation days - Vilmundur Gudnason

Changes 2010

Changes. Site Specific Sculpture at New Greenham Park, Berkshire, England.

The unveiling of the art work by Sir Peter Michael on the 24th September 2010 in the precence of the Icelandic Ambassador Mr.Benedikt Jónsson

images by Leigh Quinell

Greenham - a long time achangin'

This is Changes by the Icelandic sculptor Gudrun Nielsen, a monumental piece that has just been unveiled at Greenham Common where US bombers used to land – you get the references just by looking at it. Since the Greenham Common women saw off the last of the Right Stuff in 1988 the trees have returned along with the birds and the rest of the flora and fauna, and the military buildings have either been demolished or converted by the Greenham Common Trust which now owns it.  Nielsen won a competition along with the late Michael Kenny, but that was 12 years ago and while Kenny’s large geometric form, Broken Symmetry, was unveiled almost immediately by Ringo Starr (a Kenny fan and local resident), Gudrun’s was a little tardy in taking off, as it were............... 17.11.2010 / Simon Tait's Diary http://www.artsindustry.co.uk/features/simon-taits-diary/45

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Labyrinth 2010

The work of Gudrun Nielsen attempts to thwart people’s routine sense for their surroundings. We project the identity of a place onto it, depending on recognition and experience. Nielsen contests this detached association of the known with the new. Drawing on geometry and reflecting on Japanese aesthetics, she develops ways to reinvigorate attentiveness. Her background studies in the relationship of art and architecture motivate her position for the sculpture, Labyrinth. She introduces a maze in the Botanic Garden, a structure that momentarily choreographs the viewer’s movements and experience, diverting the focus points and resisting the notion of a full overview. A subtle moment of indeterminacy alerts our senses and gives way to a conscious engagement with the immediate environment.

Catalogue 27.June, Leaflet 16.Sept. 2010 text by Markús Þór Andrésson

Labyrinth exhibited:

2010 in the Heart Head and Hands Sculpture in the Garden exhibition, Harold Martin Botanic Garden University of Leicester, England 27th June - 19th September

European Sculpture:  Diversity and difference in practice “Nave Gallery“ parco culturale Le Serre Grugliasco, Turin, Italy.  martin Martini Arte Internazionale in collaboration with Sculpture Network 16th September - 6th November. Curated by Patrizia Bottallo.

2011

Sausmarez Manor Sculpture festival, International Art Parks, Guernsey May – October

Listasalurinn / Art Gallery in IÐA Lækjargötu, Reykjavík 10th January - 5th of February

2015

The Nordic Exhibition SKULPTUR in London.

 

 

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Obi V 2009

Obi V in the exhibition A Celebration of British Sculpture, Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Leicester, England 27th June - 27th September. Selected

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Skylight 2009

Skylight in the exhibition A Celebration of British Sculpture, Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Leicester, England 27th June - 27th September.

Images by Gudrun Nielsen and Stuart Hollis

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Five times one 2009

After visits to Japan some of my recent work is influenced by the old Japanese wooden architecture and their traditions. This is part of my “Japanese Teahouse series” I  borrow well known functional forms, exhibit and perform where culture and customs are different.

Exhibited at the International Art Parks, Sausmarez Manor, Guernsey May - October

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Untitled 2008

The exhibition Figure Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, England 1st April - 31st October Curator Mike Shaw

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Obi 2008

The sculpture sited within a Japanese Garden in the Mount Pleasant Gardens, Kelsall, Cheshire.

The sculpture photographed outside my studio in Reykjavik before transport to England, Mount Esja in the background.

This is my “Japanese Teahouse series” I borrow well known functional forms, exhibits and perform where culture and customs are different.  There have been many different structures.  A teahouse on show in an art gallery in Iceland became functional for a day, another teahouse on show in an English Garden in Leicester.  A teagarden gate where there is no Teahouse, freestanding windowed walls without a purpose, or a structure for drying the Obi that just hangs there day after day, wet or dry.

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Lines 2007

After visits to Japan some of my recent work is influenced by the old Japanese wooden architecture and their traditions. This is part of my “Japanese Teahouse series” I  borrow well known functional forms, exhibit and perform where culture and customs are different.

Installed in Krísuvík Iceland and exhibited at Fortezza da basso, Florence Biennale Italy 1st - 9th December

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Amigasamon 2007

Amigasamon a permanent installation at the Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, England. In Spectrum the RBS exhibition in the gardens 23rd July - September

Images from Countryfile BBC1 17.May 2009

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Memory II 2007

After visits to Japan some of my recent work is influenced by the old Japanese wooden architecture and their traditions. This is part of my “Japanese Teahouse series” I  borrow well known functional forms, exhibit and perform where culture and customs are different.

In the Time exhibition at Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, England 1st April - 31st October and at International Art Parks, Sausmarez Manor, Guernsey April - September

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Japanese Teahouse eight mat 2005

After visits to Japan 2003 and 2005 some of my recent work is influenced by the old Japanese wooden architecture and their traditions. This is part of my “Japanese Teahouse series” I  borrow well known functional forms, exhibit and perform where culture and customs are different.

Japanese Teahouse eight mat exhibited in a Solo show Sculpture and Drawings Gallery Sævars Karls, Reykjavík and a performance a Japanese tea ceremony.

 

 

 

 

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Japanese Teahouse three mat 2005

After visits to Japan 2003 and 2005 some of my recent work is influenced by the old Japanese wooden architecture and their traditions. This is part of my “Japanese Teahouse series” I  borrow well known functional forms, exhibit and perform where culture and customs are different.

Sculpture in the Garden: A Celebration of the RBS Centenary   Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester, England.

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Core 2002

Core site specific water sculpture. University College London, the British Heart Foundation Laboratories, Rayne Institute,  University Street.

 

Stainless steel, water

 Core 2002 stainless steel, water, over life size

Core 2002 stainless steel, water, over life size

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Echo 2002

Site specific sculpture in Harold Martin Botanic Garden, University of Leicester 80th Anniversary. It is sited on each side of a garden path, echoing the forms in the paving and each other.

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Echo 2002 Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Leicester

Time 2002

“Time” monumental 3D, site specific mural.  Westwood High School for Girls London.

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Childhood memory 2000

The Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London.

Childhood Memory 2000
Childhood Memory 2000

Untitled 1997

1997 The Henley Festival of Music and the Arts, Oxfordshire, England.

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Narrow Path 1995

Narrow Path site specific sculpture at the Tidal Basin London.

Mixed media, monumental

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Wheel of progress 1992

Wheel of Progress site specific sculpture at the Design Museum, London. In the exhibition Festival of Scandinavian Design.

The sculpture refers to its surroundings by name and form.  It expresses movement along a path, referring both to the near by river Thames and the Museum. Monumental, mixed media.

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Early work 1989 - 1986

MHR Graduation Exhibition 1989 sculpture  
MHR Graduation Exhibition 1989 sculpture  

The Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Reykjavík. Kjarvalstaðir.

Equilibrium I, 1989
Equilibrium I, 1989

steinsteypa-gifs, H104 x B91 x D91 cm

Motion II, 1989
Motion II, 1989

steinsteypa-gifs, H60 x B60 x L150 cm

Spin III, 1989
Spin III, 1989

steinsteypa-gifs, Ø79 x L200 cm

Hemispheres, 1988
Hemispheres, 1988

gifs, Ø20 x B24 cm

Bird in a cage, 1987
Bird in a cage, 1987

stál, H45 x B10 x D45 cm

Stairs, 1987
Stairs, 1987

timbur, H33 x B20 x D20 cm

Untitled, 1987
Untitled, 1987

timbur-stál, H65 x B22 x D22 cm

Ása Björg, 1987
Ása Björg, 1987

steypa-marmarasalli, 1:1

Ása Björg 1987
Ása Björg 1987
Ása Björg 1987
Ása Björg 1987

plastercast

Girl 1986
Girl 1986

plastercast H85 cm

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Obi 2019
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Hofið 2018
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Untitled 2017
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Shelter 2015
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Labyrinth 2015
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Absent Core 2014
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Blocked View 2013
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Borrowed View 2013
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Gálgahraun 2012
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Borrowed View 231 2012
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Absent Bellfry Shö rö 2011
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The former RAF Greenham Common 2010
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Changes 2010
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Labyrinth 2010
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Obi V 2009
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Skylight 2009
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Five times one 2009
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Untitled 2008
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Obi 2008
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Lines 2007
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Amigasamon 2007
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Memory II 2007
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Japanese Teahouse eight mat 2005
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Japanese Teahouse three mat 2005
 Core 2002 stainless steel, water, over life size
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Core 2002
Echo 2002 Harold Martin Botanic Garden, Leicester
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Echo 2002
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Time 2002
Childhood Memory 2000
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Childhood memory 2000
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Untitled 1997
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Narrow Path 1995
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Wheel of progress 1992
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Early work 1989 - 1986

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