59:(Ayers Rock) he conceived of an artwork that would bloom at night, like dormant desert seeds responding to rain, and recorded the idea in his sketchbook. In 1993 he and his wife Serena moved to the country in Dorset, where he intended to make a living as a painter, which proved to be an unrealistic goal. In 1994, his second child was born. Aware of his family commitments, he started a tile business and in 1995 joined Kevin McCloud design studio. In 1996 Munro once again embarked on his own business realizing mostly residential projects in paint, tile, and lighting and began a series of bespoke designs.
24:(born 2 June 1959) is a dual nationality English/Australian artist known for producing large immersive site-specific installations, often by massing components in the thousands. Frequently, Munro's subject matter is his own experience of fleeting moments of rapport with the world and existence in its largest sense, of being part of life's essential pattern. His reoccurring motif is the use of light on an environmental scale in order to create an emotional response for the viewer.
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Sydney, missing his family a half a world away. The artist has returned to the use of reflected light through CDs in other projects, notably
Waterlilies, 2012, at Longwood Gardens, Blue Moon on a Platter and Angel of Light, both 2013, at Waddesdon Manor, the Rothschild Collection and The Ferryman's Crossing, 2015,
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Munro's work has also been presented in urban public locations, including St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, Scotland; Simbionte
Festival, Parque Lincoln, Mexico City (both 2013); Discovery Green, Houston, Texas (2014; reprised 2015); and Hans Christian Andersen Haven, Odense, Denmark, 2017-2018. Munro's
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In 1985, Munro started an illuminated display business in Sydney, which he sold in 1988 and went on to work for its new owners, learning about manufacturing and production techniques. He purposely left his fine art ambitions aside, as he reasoned he needed career experience, but while in
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Australia, Munro was chagrined when a colleague referred to him as having 'a butterfly mind,' meaning his mind was unsettled and scattered, but the comment struck a chord. In response, he decided to narrow his vision to the medium of light. The artist said, "when I decided to work in
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transmitted by pulses of light. He was intrigued that by employing Morse code to translate texts, he could produce both pattern and a decipherable message. Each piece in this series reflects a phrase, words or equations that have meaning to the artist and to the subject matter of the artwork. The
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In 2008, Munro developed this artwork for a residential commission in Loch Ossian, Scotland and it has been exhibited in its largest configuration in the Spire
Crossing nave on Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, England from 29 November 2010 until January 2011. It has been recreated in site-specific
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In 1999, his father died on 12 August. As a result, Munro was beset with anxiety, fear, and a loss of confidence for six months to a year, and began to think again about simple experiences of connection as source material for making personal work. In 2003 the Munros, now a family of six, purchased
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Americans for the Arts' Public Art Network. During 2017 his work was presented by the City of Gothenburg, Sweden at the City's garden locations of the Palm House,
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In June 2010, Munro with 140 helpers created an inland sea on Long Knoll field in
Wiltshire, using 600,000 recycled compact disks, donated from around the world. The project was inspired by Munro's memory of the play of light on water one afternoon in the 1980s, as he dreamed beside a beach in
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In 2015, Munro was invited to return to Uluru to mount the largest version of his Field of Light to date, at the place of its first inspiration. In March 2016, Munro and his team installed the immense land art sculpture, Uluru Field of Light covering an area of over 49,000 square meters. The
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Munro first solo exhibition was at
Longwood Gardens, the DuPont estate in Kennett Square, PA. It spanned 23 acres and was commissioned to run from 9 June to 29 September 2012. The exhibition received the 2013 American Alliance of Museums Excellence in Exhibition Award â Special Distinction,
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light, almost 30 years ago, I chose it very carefully because I knew I needed some kind of focus. I thought that working in a medium that was very pure and true would simplify my ability to express all the different ideas that filled my head."
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Long Knoll, a sixteenth-century derelict farmhouse and outbuildings, with a ten-acre large field bisected by a public footpath. Also in 2003, Harvey Nichols, the London retailer, commissioned a window display of 10,000 illuminated stems.
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