Julie Brook
Firestack, Autumn: Aird Bheag, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 2016
Photographic print on aluminium
108 x 194.5 cm (Unframed)
68 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
68 7/8 x 78 3/4 in
Edition 2 of 7
For the past 25 years Julie Brook has lived and worked in a range of wild, remote places in her quest to connect to the land and nature. Her commitment...
For the past 25 years Julie Brook has lived and worked in a range of wild, remote places in her quest to connect to the land and nature. Her commitment to her work has taken her all over the globe to remote and uninhabited parts of Scotland, the deserts of central and south-west Libya, the semi-desert of north-west Namibia and most recently an abandoned quarry in Japan.
Bringing the four elements of earth, wind, fire and water together in one striking piece Brook’s Firestack series asks us to reconnect with nature and take note of the rhythms of tide, time; darkness and light; the power of the weather; making and destruction. Each Firestack takes three to four days to build between the tides using the same techniques used for drystone walls. The firings are documented by film and their duration depends on the weather conditions of that season occasionally reaching a powerful climax where the stack crumbles with the force of the wind and waves and the fire is extinguished.
Bringing the four elements of earth, wind, fire and water together in one striking piece Brook’s Firestack series asks us to reconnect with nature and take note of the rhythms of tide, time; darkness and light; the power of the weather; making and destruction. Each Firestack takes three to four days to build between the tides using the same techniques used for drystone walls. The firings are documented by film and their duration depends on the weather conditions of that season occasionally reaching a powerful climax where the stack crumbles with the force of the wind and waves and the fire is extinguished.