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Jim Buchanan
New Harmony Gallery Artist in Residence
November 2010

Originally trained has a landscape architect, Jim Buchanan has installed over 50 different commissioned artworks throughout Europe and as far south as Argentina. The majority of Buchanan’s work focuses on the image and history of the labyrinth. Buchanan has created labyrinths out of light projections, concrete, stone, earth, plastic cuterly, sand, candles, cloth and bamboo numerous other materials. His projects include a “Light Catcher” labyrinth created out of bamboo and cloth at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield England. A light labyrinth was created out of 800 tea lights and 3 tons of sand in Writtle College in Essex England in which a large group created a human chain and walked through the labyrinth together. “Mallum Labyrinth” an earthen labyrinth created in Eibergen in the Netherlands, in which 4,500 tons of soil were moved in order to create a labyrinth that spanned 115 feet and rose 5 feet high. This labyrinth sat on the site of an old castle of which there were no remains, and was designed to replicate the labyrinth at Knossos.

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