Garden/Art/Garden | What on Earth is Land Art?

Tim Richardson is the author more than 25 books on landscape topics including the contemporary scene. In his work he has always operated at the intersection of art and the garden. He is currently art critic at The Idler and also continues his work on gardens and landscapes, which have included books on the work of Tom Stuart-Smith and Martha Schwartz, and a genre-defining work on landscape conceptualism entitled Avant Gardeners. He was founder and director of the Chelsea Fringe Festival.

Chris Drury has been described as a Land Artist but he himself says that he seeks to make connections between: Nature and Culture, Inner and Outer, Microcosm and Macrocosm. 

To this end, he collaborates with scientists and technicians from a broad spectrum of disciplines and technology and uses whatever visual means and materials that best suit the situation. 

He has made works all over Europe and America, and in 2007, a British Antarctic Survey residency in Antarctica and a solo exhibition, Mushrooms|Clouds at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2008. His work, Carbon Sink in Wyoming, sparked a worldwide furore about the burning of fossil fuels in connection with dying forests in the Rockies. In 2016 he completed 3 international commissions in Western Australia, Montana and South Korea and in 2025, he made a large piece on the Rhine in Germany.  

Ben Tufnell is a curator and writer based in London. He has published widely on art and artists engaging with ideas of land and nature. A selection of his essays are collected in In Land: Writings Around Land Art and Its Legacies (Zero Books, 2019). He is also the author of two novels, The North Shore (Fleet, 2023) and Paradise (Influx, 2026).