Bruce Munro

Who is Bruce Munro?

Bruce Munro is a British installation artist. Munro is best known for lighting installations such as Field of Light, which was first exhibited at the V&A Museum in 2004. His work was featured as an example of outstanding lighting design in the book by Design Museum titled How to Design a Light, published by Conran Octopus in October 2010.

Bruce Munro was born in London in 1959 and studied fine art at Bristol Polytechnic. He moved to Australia in 1984, where he created a commercial design company providing advertising signage for corporate clients such as Qantas and Honda. On his return to the UK in 2002 he set up as a lighting designer.

Since then Munro has taken part in a group exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York called 'Contemplating the Void' from February–April 2010, celebrating the inspirational rotunda of the building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Shortly after Field of Light was exhibited at the Brilliant! exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004, Munro developed a larger scale version for Long Knoll Field in Wiltshire; a field adjacent to his workshop that is bisected by a public footpath. It remained in place for one year from 2004 to 2005. Munro was then invited to create Field of Light at the Eden Project in Cornwall. Installed between the Mediterranean and Rainforest 'biomes' at the Eden Project, the installation consisted of 6,000 acrylic stems topped by clear glass spheres, each laced with optic fibre and planted into the grass roof of the visitors' centre.