Art Terrains


Fourth Door Review and Unstructured's art related focus makes multiple connections between art, the environment, sustainability, nature and culture and other broader themes

Spanning land art, new media, social sculpture and avant- ecological performance, Fourth Door is one of the few spaces you can find such a fertile compost all within a single art basket

Artscapes I - Ragna Róbertsdóttir – Iceland’s volcano artist – by Oliver Lowenstein
The Paper Folding Art of Katherine Rose – by Jonathan Rose
Artscapes II – El Anatsui, October Gallery, and its pioneering Global Africa artist agenda

DOCUMENT TWO - A special FDR Book within a Book


El Anatsui - In-depth interview feature with the Global African art scene – by Neil Thomson
Emergent October - from El Anatsui to LR Vandy: The October Gallery and Artists of Global Africa – by Chris Spring
The Benchmarks prints – El Anatsui’s hi tech and hands-on new works - Oliver Lowenstein
October & Africa past to present – the creative directors cut - by Elisabeth Lalouschek
Transvangarde – How October redefined the avant-garde future – by Oliver Lowenstein
On Slowness by Lutz Koepnik

Related on Annular and Unstructured

Limber Lines - Ruth Maclennan‘s video artwork on the tree line reviewed by Bryony Bodimeade
Invisible Dust’s science, technology, and climate show - UnNatural History
Alice Sharp, Invisible Dust’s founder, profiled
Dalziel + Scullion's Corpus and other medical works
Knut Wold – Sculptor of Norway’s National Tourist Routes
David NashAlchemist of the woods



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Sandra Kantanen - Finnish photographer, Chinese landscapes, and the blur tendency
Murmur - Complexity  the art of flocking: Eberhard Ross, Lukas Felzmann, Fiona McDonald
Tremenheere: Cornwall's Atlantic Edge Garden – by Neil Armstrong
The Fine art of Japanese Fibre Art by Tochimichi Kuwayama
Chris Drury Complexity and the edge of land art: Drury's art & science turn

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Jem Finer An orchestra of the elements Score', 'Longplayer' and other digital-earth time pieces
Susan Collins In Conversation with 'Sean Cubitt: Fenlandia and other pixel landscapes
Walter Bailey Natural Form, Human Endeavour By Kay Syrad


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Red Earth’s CHALK ritual By Rand Harmann



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Red Earth’s wild structures of the land by Red Earth’s Caitlin Easterby & Simon Pascoe  



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Andy Goldsworthy Part 2 Beauty and the brand               




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Rivers & Tides – Thomas Riedelsheimer: On making the Andy Goldsworthy documentary

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Dalziel + Scullion Meltwater Channel: the juxtapositional art of Scotland’s multi-medium practice
Through the SurfaceLesley Miller on her most ambitious cross-cultural fibre-art showcase
Machiko Aganothe Japanese fibre-artist featured in the Transition and Influence exhibitions
Anniken Amundsen the Norwegian textile artist highlighted in Through the Surface
Whatever happened to land art? Land art in the twenty first century - David Nash, Chris Drury, Red Earth

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Andy Goldsworthy  Part 1 - Downloading a path by the light of a silver moon: Goldsworthy’s new and multimedia experiments

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Art Station
Paperweight Lighthouses: Craft, computers and cybernetic systems art
Russell Mills Layers of Texture, layers of space
Natalie Jerimijenko One Tree Planet: An electronic biological Climate Change sensor experiment
Artscape Nordland  Another Side of North The Nordic high north’s 40, 000 white square km sculpture trail
Earth Art, Consciousness and the Thing itself: Consciousness, art and environment
by Tracy Warr
The Space of TexturesLesley Millar on the cross-cultural exhibition Textural Space, exploring Japanese and British fibre-art
Helena Hietanen’s fibre-optic technolace: Angel hairs in the ambient   
Brian Eno  Ambient lightworks
Sculpting the luminous- the radical holography of Dieter Jung
Susan Derges - The Dream-Life Of Water
Red Earth - Interfacing Spirit World’s - Avant-Eco art performance
Chris Drury's empty vessels - Land art on the Sussex downs

Complete article available

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William Latham - Generative Art, form & mutability Latham’s algorithmic worlds
Art Kites  Pictures for the Sky

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Dreaming with Open Eyes: Michael Tucker’s influential book on art and shamanism reviewed

Photo credits: 1) David Nash, 2) Lukas Felzmann, 3) Sandra Kantanen, 4) The Morison's, 5) Akio Hamatani, 6) Neil Armstrong