British artist Bruce Munro was born in 1959 and is known internationally for his immersive light-based installations. Bruce completed a BA in Fine Arts at Bristol in 1982, and then moved to Sydney, where he worked in design and lighting, inspired by Australia’s natural light and landscape. He returned to England in 1992 and settled in Wiltshire.
Bruce’s work has been shown at Museums and Botanical Gardens internationally, including Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania; The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Waddesdon Manor for the Rothschild Collection, Buckinghamshire; Beyond Limits 2016 for Sothebys at Chatsworth House; Messums, Wiltshire, and the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne. His work Field of Light continues to be exhibited at Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia and at Sensorio, California, USA. Bruce’s work is held in private and public museum collections internationally including Cheekwood Garden and Art Museum, Tennessee; the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Texas Tech University TX and Montalvo Arts Centre, California.
As an artistic diarist, Bruce Munro has spent over 40 years collecting and recording ideas and images in his sketchbooks, which he returns to over time as source material for his ongoing practice. Language, literature, science, and music have also greatly influenced his work. Frequently, Bruce’s subject matter is his own experience of fleeting moments of rapport with the world and existence in its largest sense of being part of life’s essential pattern. His reoccurring motif is the use of light on an environmental scale in order to create an emotional response for the viewer.