Chris Drury

Chris Drury (b.1948) is an environmental artist, known internationally for his site-specific naturebased sculptures. He also makes gallery-based installations and sculptures, works on paper, and digital and video art. Drury’s work makes connections between different phenomena in the world, specifically between Nature and Culture, Inner and Outer and Microcosm and Macrocosm. To this end he collaborates with scientists and technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines. Recent projects include a residency at The Nirox Foundation in The Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, working with palaeontologists, geologists and anthropologists, and a British Antarctic Survey residency in Antarctica.

For After Nature, Drury shows works on paper from ‘Exchange’, a project made on farms in West Dorset, alongside a monumental wall-drawing depicting a mushroom spore print, made with dust and ash from CLOSE.

Chris Drury has exhibited internationally since the 1980s. Notable solo exhibitions include Les Jardins Des Arts, Chateaubourg, France (2022), Salon Vert, Geneva (2019), Oppland Art Centre, Lillehammer, Norway (2014), Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh (2011) and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2008). Recent group exhibitions include Groundwork, King’s Lynn (2021) and Nevada Museum of Art (2020). His work is held in international collections including V&A, London, British Museum, London, Arts Council Collection, London, Government Art Collection, London, Wellcome Collection, London, Leeds Art Gallery, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, North Carolina Museum of Art and the Nevada Museum of Art.