ABSTRACT
A hundred years ago, Marcel Duchamp hugely influenced painting and sculpture when he showed that unexpected things can be turned into art. Munro was born in England but also has roots in Australia, which has influenced his distinctive artistry. Munro, who comes across in person as both solidly grounded and wide open to any kind of inspiration, felt what he calls an “ever present zing of something special” at Uluru. The site energized him, he writes, with a vision of life springing out of the desert, as when rain makes the arid environment suddenly blossom. In 2004, he expressed this vision in the installation “Field of Light.” Munro creates “bottled light” by filling the water bottles with the same kind of optical fiber as in “Forest of Light.” “Beacon,” located near the Garden’s Great Lawn, works in both daylight and darkness.
