​​​​​Sculpture in the Parklands

​2002-2010

I have built a walk through work that embodies momentum and the forces of nature. The sculpture will rise above the grove of Alder trees and will include hallways and swirling chambers. This is one of my largest works to date! 

Ruaille Buaille  

2008

Patrick Dougherty (USA)

Nature is recycled, wrapped onto, and the architecture of the trees Dougherty weaves around are part of the art. These spaces reference habitat, yet are dynamic and living, with actual living trees into the forms, and the willow weaves all over. North Carolina-based Dougherty is a fine branch fitter who sense placement as he moves through the sculpture process in each individual work he creates. Dougherty’s approach challenges traditional and avant-gardist approaches to art making simultaneously, because there is no dogma to his approach, and it involves life itself. With the help of 6 local artists and community volunteer this woven willow environment of caverns, swirling chambers and walkways set into an Alder forest. Using over 10 tons of willow from the region, Dougherty’s piece is hands on, a real time environment that engages the viewer for its animated lines of willow drawn in space, one of Pat Dougherty’s largest outdoor sculpture works ever created. This is not purist the purist landscaper’s aesthetic, nor is it the object-based minimalist’s terrain. Instead it is art about life, ephemeral, it will disintegrate and eventually return to the earth. There is no museum, container, encasement to justify this brand of art. It is all about life!!! Life is Art one would hope and presumably we are a living species. 

John Grande  Art/Nature Dialogues