Bruce Munro

British artist Bruce Munro (1959) is best known for immersive large-scale light-based installations inspired largely by his interest in shared human experience. Recording ideas and images in sketchbooks has been his practice for over 30 years. By this means he has captured his responses to stimuli such as music, literature, science, and the world around him for reference, reflection, and subject matter. This tendency has been combined with a liking for components and an inventive urge for reuse, coupled with career training in manufacture of light. As a result Munro produces both monumental temporary experiential artworks as well as intimate story-pieces.

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Field of Light Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Serena Munro
Fireflies Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Time and Again Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Christopher John
Whizzpops Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Gone Fishing Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Reflections Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Chindi Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Icos Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Snowball Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Bell Chandelier Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
Time and Place - Sunrise Road Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall
C Scales ‘I’ Copyright © 2020 Bruce Munro. All rights reserved. Photography by Mark Pickthall

The Sublime Nature of Being’ is an immersive, multi-sensory group exhibition of innovative works by contemporary artists that explore the universal human experience of awe and reverence inspired by nature, and its ability to conjure an emotional understanding that transcends rational thought, words and language.

Curated and produced by Ambika Hinduja Macker, artist, founder and creative director of art and design firm Impeccable Imagination, in collaboration with ICD Brookfield Place, 'The Sublime Nature of Being' invites the viewer to participate emotionally, imaginatively and sensorially while exploring our relationship to the surrounding environment. From the ethereal and divine to the ephemeral and personal, the exhibition is an Alchemic Sonic Environment that features a variety of sculptures, modular components and spacial sound to stir hope and deep reflection.

What is the sensation we experience while interacting with nature when words fail or we find ourselves awed beyond reason? How does an artist convey the indescribable and translate the metaphysical to material? ‘The Sublime Nature of Being’ explores the humbling, purity of the natural cosmos and our relationship to it by creating imagined, transportive worlds, conjured through the magic of creativity.

For centuries, scholars have debated the term ‘Sublime’ in relation to works of art, and artists have sought to evoke or respond to it. But what is ‘The Sublime’? The sublime is a philosophical approach and state of mind often defined as having the quality of such greatness, whether spiritual, physical, aesthetic or moral, that our ability to perceive or comprehend it is temporarily overwhelmed by a sense of the wonder and impermanence of the universe.

The Sublime Nature of Being’ explores aspects of this philosophy and the modern interpretation of the Japanese term ‘Ukiyo’ meaning ‘living in the moment, detached from the bothers of life,’ and examines the belief that contemplation of these themes leads to the subsequent feelings of admiration and responsibility. This allows for the intertwining of aesthetics and ethics, two key elements that are relevant to society today, especially in light of change and apprehension as we consider the future of humanity.

Creating an immersive and multisensory experience that includes three-dimensional installations, sound and scent, a play on time and space, contrasts of light and shadow, elemental materials and fluid forms, ‘The Sublime Nature of Being’ invites the audience on a unique journey with a contemplative dimension – a search for a higher truth. By stepping into the space, one is transported into a utopian sanctuary of tranquility and beauty, providing a temporary reprieve and poetic antidote to the external chaos of the present day.