Conrad Shawcross

Time Spindles, 2024

MICAS Beacons, 2023

Manifold (Major Third) 5:4, 2023

Patterns Of Absence – Desert Beacon 2022

Fracture (R45S33) – Enwrought Light, 2021

Study for the Patterns of Absence; [Ukraine 11], 2022

Tricameral, [2022]

Perimeter Studies, [2021]

Fracture Array (T14C33), [2021]

Beacons, Ramsgate [2021]

Patterns of Absence “O”, [2021]

Bicameral Study, [2020]

Fracture (R4A21), [2020]

Fracture (R4A22), [2020]

The Patterns of Absence, [2020]

Schism (Château La Coste), [2020]

Paradigm – B Chamfer (Solid), [2019]

Paradigm – B (Structural), [2019]

Schism (F24YB3) [2019]

Schism (A), [2019]

Schism (F45MB1) [2019]

Bicameral [2019]

Bicameral study [2019]

Manifold Studies (The Chromatic Spectrum), [2019]

Perimeter Study (Arrangement 5) [2019]

Fracture (R24S15) [2019]

Fracture (R14C14) [2019]

Paradigm B [2019]

Golden Lotus (Inverted) [2019]

Paradigm – B (Structural) [2018]

Paradigm – B (Solid) [2018]

Fracture (R24O6) [2018]

Exploded Paradigm (Philadelphia) [2018]

Murmuration Sequence [2018]

Slow Fold Inside a Corner [2018]

Study for Exploded Paradigm (Philadelphia) [2018]

Fracture (R24R2) [2018]

Fracture (R24W4) [2018]

Fracture (B24B3), [2018]

Paradigm Optic (Silver) [2018]

Aberrations [2018]

Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I) [2018]

Study for The Interpretation of Movement (98 in Blue) [2018]

Paradigm Optic [2017]

The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) [2017]

In Light of the Machine [2017]

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow [2017]

Monolith (optic) [2017]

Catastrophe Sequence [2017]

Study for Optic Cloak [2017]

Paradigm Slender 2 (Solid) [2017]

Paradigm Optic [2017]

Paradigm Optic [2016]

Paradigm Slender 2 (Structural) [2016]

Formation Study VIII (Reflected Light of the Hudson) [2016]

Formation Study I (The Dappled Light of The Sun) – black oxide [2016]

Formation Study I (The Dappled Light of The Sun) [2016]

Optic Cloak [2016]

Paradigm Black Oxide (Structural) [2016]

Paradigm Black Oxide (Solid) [2016]

Paradigm [2016]

Surface Disruption Prints (Dusk) [2016]

Surface Disruption Prints [2016]

Paradigm Chamfer (Solid) [2016]

Manifold 5:4 [2016]

Paradigm Slender (Structural) [2016]

Paradigm Slender (Solid) [2016]

Manifold Study 4:3 [2016]

Paradigm Broad (Structural), 2016

Paradigm Broad (Solid) [2016]

Formation I (The Dappled Light of the Sun) [2015]

Formation I-V (The Dappled Light of the Sun) [2015]

Formation II (The Dappled Light of the Sun) [2015]

Paradigm Exploded [2015]

Paradigm Chamfer (Structural) [2015]

Paradigm Chamfer (Solid) [2015]

Paradigm Broad (Structural) [2015]

Paradigm Broad (Solid) [2015]

Paradigm Slender (Structural) [2015]

Paradigm Slender (Solid) [2015]

Manifold Study 9:8 [2015]

Manifold Study 5:4 [2015]

Paradigm Study (Solid) [2015]

Paradigm Study (Structural) [2015]

Three Perpetual Chord Studies [2015]

Three Perpetual Chords [2015]

Paradigm Study (Solid) [2014]

Paradigm Study (Structural) [2014]

Slow Arc Inside A Cube VII [2014]

Paradigm [2014]

Slow Arc Inside a Cube VI [2013]

Paradigm Decay (Solid) [2013]

Paradigm Decay (Structural) [2013]

Ada Project Spline Prints [2014]

The ADA Project [2013 – ]

Inspired by the life of the Victorian mathematician, Ada Lovelace, Conrad Shawcross has transformed an industrial robot into a choreographic light sculpture that with its abstract and moving forms embodies both the scientific ideas that Lovelace pioneered and the extraordinary times she inhabited.

Lattice VII [2013]

Timepiece [2013]

This major commission uses the unique architecture of the Roundhouse, London as its source of inspiration, and continues Shawcross’ long- term investigation into the perception and measurement of time. The installation seeks to turn the ubiquitous familiar clock back into the primeval celestial experience it once was.

Plosion 3 Sequence (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue) [2013]

Plosion 2 (Yellow) [2013]

Plosion 1 (Yellow) [2013]

This work continues the artist’s ongoing series that investigates the radiant geometry of the five Platonic solids. Conceptually driven, these works refer to notions of the Big Bang and the way we envision such phenomena. Another way of seeing them are as diagrams of expansion or recession, explosion or implosion.

Seven Days [2013]

Manifold 9:8 [2012]

Canopy Study [2012]

Canopy study 1 (rule of 3 and 2) installation at Victoria Street and Canopy study 2 (rule of 3 and 2, tapered) installation at Cathedral Plaza Entrance, London.

(Perimeter Study) Arrangement 2 a-d [2012]

Pre-Retroscope VIII (Amsterdam Journey) [2012]

From That Which It Came [2012]

Trophy [2012]

Machina [2012]

Set Design for The Royal Opera House, London. Cultural Olympiad commission

Fraction [2011]

Harmonic Manifold 1 (5:4) [2011]

Limit of Everything (5:4) [2011]

Arrangement 3 [2011]

The Blind Aesthetic [2011]

Hyperbolic Swarf Drawings [2011]

Installation views at Protomodel, Science Museum, London

Skein Cone [2011]

(Perimeter Study) Arrangement 1 [2011]

The Nervous Systems (Inverted) [2011]

Lattice Cube Sequence [2011]

Lattice VI [2011]

Perimeter Study – Bronze Set [2010]

Fraction [2010]

Installation in Oxford Science Park, Oxfordshire, UK

Lattice Cube [2010]

The Nervous Systems (Inverted) [2010]

Installation in the public atrium at 590 Madison Avenue, New York. An elaborate, hand-wrought rope machine in wood, steel and cord, The Nervous System (Inverted) hangs 50 feet above the ground, the intricate structure of axles, gears, and drive shafts spanning 25 feet in diameter.

The Limit of Everything [2010]

Arrangement 6 a-d [2010]

Time Rule 221 Minutes [2009]

Axiom (Tower) [2009]

This complex, spiralling wooden structure, built for the atrium at the Ministry of Justice in London, rises up from the basement of the building to tower over all surrounding levels and structures. Emanating majesty and banality in equal measure, Shawcross’s tower is a monument to uncertainty and infinite possibility.

Axiom 3 [2009]

Chord [2009]

Temporary installation in Kingsway Tram Tunnel, London

New York Harmonics [2009]

Axiom (Offcut) [2009]

Pre-Retroscope (New York) [2009]

Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV [2009]

Tetra-Shadow [2009]

The Celestial Meters [2009]

Slow Arc Inside a Cube III [2009]

Arrangement 2 a-d [2008]

Lattice Cube Sequence [2008]

Lattice V (Basel) [2008]

Lattice III and IV [2008]

Offcut [2008]

Palindrome [2008]

Blending ideas from quantum mechanics and linguistics, Palindrome is a symmetrical machine that plays on the two viewing points of this corner window. The shape extruded by the four moving points of light forms a double ended horn that the artist regards as the perfect diagram of a hole.

Pavilion [2008]

Portrait (Thorel) [2008]

Pre-Retroscope 5 (Lea River Journey) [2008]

Slow Arc Inside a Cube II [2008]

Dark Heart [2007]

Harmonic Drawings [2007]

Drawings made by a machine based on the Victorian ‘Harmonograph’, which involves two pendulums of variable length, one holding a pen, one holding a piece a paper.

Lattice I and II [2007]

Slow Arc Inside a Cube I [2007]

Slow arc inside a cube is inspired by a description by the scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, responsible for working out the structure of pig insulin, a complex protein chain.