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Blaise Drummond was born in Liverpool in 1967, but has lived and worked in Ireland for many years. His influences include 1960s American land art, punk rock, the characteristic architecture of Le Corbusier and Alvar Alto, the notes made by writer Henry D. Thoreau during his stay at Walden, and the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. These sources of inspiration may at first glance seem widely disparate, but all are concerned with contradictions between nature and culture, i.e. the civilised versus the uncontrollable. The contradictions are further emphasised by Drummond's fondness for primary materials (earth, plants and water), which he often uses in the exhibition room, and which thereby give the exhibition a more interactive character. Drummond's motifs are empty of human beings, but there are usually clear signs of human influence in his natural scenery. His characteristic buildings, rocks and trees take the form of detached fragments against an entirely white background, and thereby create a sometimes disquieting effect; or, as the German cultural historian Viola Weigel puts it, they resemble "fragments of a no longer stable modernity". Bliase Drummond's works are represented in several public collections, including the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. He has recently opened a major solo exhibition at the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld, Germany.