“As opposed to landscape based art of earlier times [environmental] art was not a depiction or representation of land, it was an interaction with space.”
- Michael Shiell

For environmental artist Michael Shiell art has increasingly become a celebration of process in which site and material are inseparable. Persuaded that the experience of art can be both fleeting and private, a surrender of notions of audience and permanence has been the basis for a flourishing art practice. When understood as a profound exchange between the artist and their environment Shiell’s installations invite our participation with that interaction…
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This essay was first published by Horsham Regional Art Gallery in March 2010 in the exhibition catalogue for Times Four as part of the Art is…elemental Festival.