Sally Buchanan

Sally's Art combines conceptual principles with meticulous craft and a dash of wit to make sculptures, embroidery, installations and land art. Since 2013 she has been concentrating on intricate threaded installations which mirror intuitive responses to the unique atmosphere of individual spaces. Her interests include Jungian Thought, Environmental Issues, Art & Awareness and Art as Medicine.

Gladstone Park Meadow Cut 1 was created after her first solo show "Branch Outing." She realised that the trees wanted their own exhibition and she decided to make a piece of land art that could in fact be better seen from the top of a tree. So she made a piece of low relief land art etched into the grass of the meadow and the image above is a shadow of a tree as seen through a window of the once nearby and recently demolished Dollis Hill House. This interaction with the landscape was created using a domestic lawn mower called Mr Mac Gregor. The artist maintained the work for 3 years between October 2010 and April 2013, she was waiting for it to be photographed for posterity by Google Earth, but as chance would have it on the day the satellite passed overhead a cloud conveniently positioned itself in the line of site directly above the very spot.