ABSTRACT
Chapter 1, Tremenheere: Place of the long stones, looks at the evolution of Tremenheere Sculpture Garden over its short history, and relates Land Art to Cornwall and its ancient past. It draws freely on conversations with the maker of Tremenheere, Dr Neil Armstrong, who aims for equality between the landscape, planting and sculpture. While the Sculpture Garden in general is widely recognised as relating in some way to Land Art, plants rarely feature prominently at all in discussions of either of them, so that the overall implications of broadly new materialist thinking is not considered. Artists discussed here include James Turrell, Richard Long, Bernar Venet, Kishio Suga (all represented at Tremenheere), plus Jannis Kounellis, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.
