Chris Dury is a land artist whose body of work includes ephemeral assemblies of natural materials. His work has a primal style due to techniques typical of prehistoric lifestyles, this is shown through bones carvings, woven sculptures, cairn structures and mark making using peat and pigments to create concentric designs.






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