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Time Spindles, 2024
Time Spindles, 2024
MICAS Beacons, 2023
MICAS Beacons, 2023
Manifold (Major Third) 5:4, 2023
Manifold (Major Third) 5:4, 2023
Patterns Of Absence – Desert Beacon 2022
Patterns Of Absence – Desert Beacon 2022
Fracture (R45S33) – Enwrought Light, 2021
Fracture (R45S33) – Enwrought Light, 2021
Study for the Patterns of Absence; [Ukraine 11], 2022
Study for the Patterns of Absence; [Ukraine 11], 2022
Tricameral, [2022]
Tricameral, [2022]
Perimeter Studies, [2021]
Perimeter Studies, [2021]
Fracture Array (T14C33), [2021]
Fracture Array (T14C33), [2021]
Beacons, Ramsgate [2021]
Beacons, Ramsgate [2021]
Patterns of Absence “O”, [2021]
Patterns of Absence “O”, [2021]
Bicameral Study, [2020]
Bicameral Study, [2020]
Fracture (R4A21), [2020]
Fracture (R4A21), [2020]
Fracture (R4A22), [2020]
Fracture (R4A22), [2020]
The Patterns of Absence, [2020]
The Patterns of Absence, [2020]
Schism (Château La Coste), [2020]
Schism (Château La Coste), [2020]
Paradigm – B Chamfer (Solid), [2019]
Paradigm – B Chamfer (Solid), [2019]
Paradigm – B (Structural), [2019]
Paradigm – B (Structural), [2019]
Schism (F24YB3) [2019]
Schism (F24YB3) [2019]
Schism (A), [2019]
Schism (A), [2019]
Schism (F45MB1) [2019]
Schism (F45MB1) [2019]
Bicameral [2019]
Bicameral [2019]
Bicameral study [2019]
Bicameral study [2019]
Manifold Studies (The Chromatic Spectrum), [2019]
Manifold Studies (The Chromatic Spectrum), [2019]
Perimeter Study (Arrangement 5) [2019]
Perimeter Study (Arrangement 5) [2019]
Fracture (R24S15) [2019]
Fracture (R24S15) [2019]
Fracture (R14C14) [2019]
Fracture (R14C14) [2019]
Paradigm B [2019]
Paradigm B [2019]
Golden Lotus (Inverted) [2019]
Golden Lotus (Inverted) [2019]
Paradigm – B (Structural) [2018]
Paradigm – B (Structural) [2018]
Paradigm – B (Solid) [2018]
Paradigm – B (Solid) [2018]
Fracture (R24O6) [2018]
Fracture (R24O6) [2018]
Exploded Paradigm (Philadelphia) [2018]
Exploded Paradigm (Philadelphia) [2018]
Murmuration Sequence [2018]
Murmuration Sequence [2018]
Slow Fold Inside a Corner [2018]
Slow Fold Inside a Corner [2018]
Study for Exploded Paradigm (Philadelphia) [2018]
Study for Exploded Paradigm (Philadelphia) [2018]
Fracture (R24R2) [2018]
Fracture (R24R2) [2018]
Fracture (R24W4) [2018]
Fracture (R24W4) [2018]
Fracture (B24B3), [2018]
Fracture (B24B3), [2018]
Paradigm Optic (Silver) [2018]
Paradigm Optic (Silver) [2018]
Aberrations [2018]
Aberrations [2018]
Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I) [2018]
Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I) [2018]
Study for The Interpretation of Movement (98 in Blue) [2018]
Study for The Interpretation of Movement (98 in Blue) [2018]
Paradigm Optic [2017]
Paradigm Optic [2017]
The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) [2017]
The Interpretation of Movement (a 9:8 in blue) [2017]
In Light of the Machine [2017]
In Light of the Machine [2017]
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow [2017]
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow [2017]
Monolith (optic) [2017]
Monolith (optic) [2017]
Catastrophe Sequence [2017]
Catastrophe Sequence [2017]
Study for Optic Cloak [2017]
Study for Optic Cloak [2017]
Paradigm Slender 2 (Solid) [2017]
Paradigm Slender 2 (Solid) [2017]
Paradigm Optic [2017]
Paradigm Optic [2017]
Paradigm Optic [2016]
Paradigm Optic [2016]
Paradigm Slender 2 (Structural) [2016]
Paradigm Slender 2 (Structural) [2016]
Formation Study VIII (Reflected Light of the Hudson) [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) – black oxide [2016]
Formation Study I (The Dappled Light of The Sun) [2016]
Formation Study I (The Dappled Light of The Sun) [2016]
Optic Cloak [2016]
Optic Cloak [2016]
Paradigm Black Oxide (Structural) [2016]
Paradigm Black Oxide (Structural) [2016]
Paradigm Black Oxide (Solid) [2016]
Paradigm Black Oxide (Solid) [2016]
Paradigm [2016]
Paradigm [2016]
Surface Disruption Prints (Dusk) [2016]
Surface Disruption Prints (Dusk) [2016]
Surface Disruption Prints [2016]
Surface Disruption Prints [2016]
Paradigm Chamfer (Solid) [2016]
Paradigm Chamfer (Solid) [2016]
Manifold 5:4 [2016]
Manifold 5:4 [2016]
Paradigm Slender (Structural) [2016]
Paradigm Slender (Structural) [2016]
Paradigm Slender (Solid) [2016]
Paradigm Slender (Solid) [2016]
Manifold Study 4:3 [2016]
Manifold Study 4:3 [2016]
Paradigm Broad (Structural), 2016
Paradigm Broad (Structural), 2016
Paradigm Broad (Solid) [2016]
Paradigm Broad (Solid) [2016]
Formation I (The Dappled Light of the Sun) [2015]
Formation I (The Dappled Light of the Sun) [2015]
Formation I-V (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]
Formation II (The Dappled Light of the Sun) [2015]
Paradigm Exploded [2015]
Paradigm Exploded [2015]
Paradigm Chamfer (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Chamfer (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Chamfer (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Chamfer (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Broad (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Broad (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Broad (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Broad (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Slender (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Slender (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Slender (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Slender (Solid) [2015]
Manifold Study 9:8 [2015]
Manifold Study 9:8 [2015]
Manifold Study 5:4 [2015]
Manifold Study 5:4 [2015]
Paradigm Study (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Study (Solid) [2015]
Paradigm Study (Structural) [2015]
Paradigm Study (Structural) [2015]
Three Perpetual Chord Studies [2015]
Three Perpetual Chord Studies [2015]
Three Perpetual Chords [2015]
Three Perpetual Chords [2015]
Paradigm Study (Solid) [2014]
Paradigm Study (Solid) [2014]
Paradigm Study (Structural) [2014]
Paradigm Study (Structural) [2014]
Slow Arc Inside A Cube VII [2014]
Slow Arc Inside A Cube VII [2014]
Paradigm [2014]
Paradigm [2014]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube VI [2013]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube VI [2013]
Paradigm Decay (Solid) [2013]
Paradigm Decay (Solid) [2013]
Paradigm Decay (Structural) [2013]
Paradigm Decay (Structural) [2013]
Ada Project Spline Prints [2014]
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.

The ADA Project [2013 – ]
Lattice VII [2013]
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.

Timepiece [2013]
Plosion 3 Sequence (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue) [2013]
Plosion 3 Sequence (Yellow, Green, Red, Blue) [2013]
Plosion 2 (Yellow) [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.

Plosion 1 (Yellow) [2013]
Seven Days [2013]
Seven Days [2013]
Manifold 9:8 [2012]
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.

Canopy Study [2012]
(Perimeter Study) Arrangement 2 a-d [2012]
(Perimeter Study) Arrangement 2 a-d [2012]
Pre-Retroscope VIII (Amsterdam Journey) [2012]
Pre-Retroscope VIII (Amsterdam Journey) [2012]
From That Which It Came [2012]
From That Which It Came [2012]
Trophy [2012]
Trophy [2012]
Machina [2012]

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

Machina [2012]
Fraction [2011]
Fraction [2011]
Harmonic Manifold 1 (5:4) [2011]
Harmonic Manifold 1 (5:4) [2011]
Limit of Everything (5:4) [2011]
Limit of Everything (5:4) [2011]
Arrangement 3 [2011]
Arrangement 3 [2011]
The Blind Aesthetic [2011]
The Blind Aesthetic [2011]
Hyperbolic Swarf Drawings [2011]

Installation views at Protomodel, Science Museum, London

Hyperbolic Swarf Drawings [2011]
Skein Cone [2011]
Skein Cone [2011]
(Perimeter Study) Arrangement 1 [2011]
(Perimeter Study) Arrangement 1 [2011]
The Nervous Systems (Inverted) [2011]
The Nervous Systems (Inverted) [2011]
Lattice Cube Sequence [2011]
Lattice Cube Sequence [2011]
Lattice VI [2011]
Lattice VI [2011]
Perimeter Study – Bronze Set [2010]
Perimeter Study – Bronze Set [2010]
Fraction [2010]

Installation in Oxford Science Park, Oxfordshire, UK

Fraction [2010]
Lattice Cube [2010]
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 Nervous Systems (Inverted) [2010]
The Limit of Everything [2010]
The Limit of Everything [2010]
Arrangement 6 a-d [2010]
Arrangement 6 a-d [2010]
Time Rule 221 Minutes [2009]
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 (Tower) [2009]
Axiom 3 [2009]
Axiom 3 [2009]
Chord [2009]

Temporary installation in Kingsway Tram Tunnel, London

Chord [2009]
New York Harmonics [2009]
New York Harmonics [2009]
Axiom (Offcut) [2009]
Axiom (Offcut) [2009]
Pre-Retroscope (New York) [2009]
Pre-Retroscope (New York) [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV [2009]
Tetra-Shadow [2009]
Tetra-Shadow [2009]
The Celestial Meters [2009]
The Celestial Meters [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube III [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube III [2009]
Arrangement 2 a-d [2008]
Arrangement 2 a-d [2008]
Lattice Cube Sequence [2008]
Lattice Cube Sequence [2008]
Lattice V (Basel) [2008]
Lattice V (Basel) [2008]
Lattice III and IV [2008]
Lattice III and IV [2008]
Offcut [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.

Palindrome [2008]
Pavilion [2008]
Pavilion [2008]
Portrait (Thorel) [2008]
Portrait (Thorel) [2008]
Pre-Retroscope 5 (Lea River Journey) [2008]
Pre-Retroscope 5 (Lea River Journey) [2008]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube II [2008]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube II [2008]
Dark Heart [2007]
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.

Harmonic Drawings [2007]
Lattice I and II [2007]
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.

Slow Arc Inside a Cube I [2007]
Space Trumpet [2007]

Installation at Unilever House, 100 Victoria Embankment, London

Space Trumpet [2007]
Binary Star [2006]
Binary Star [2006]
Counterpoint [2006]
Counterpoint [2006]
Loop Rotations [2006]
Loop Rotations [2006]
Paradigm (Ode to the Difference Engine) [2006]
Paradigm (Ode to the Difference Engine) [2006]
Etymology E (Octagon) [2006]
Etymology E (Octagon) [2006]
Loop System Quintet [2005]
Loop System Quintet [2005]
Counterpoint (Piano) [2005]
Counterpoint (Piano) [2005]
Continuum [2005]
Continuum [2005]
Harmonic Drawings [2005]
Harmonic Drawings [2005]
Harmonic Tower [2005]
Harmonic Tower [2005]
Real, Symbolic and Imaginary [2005]
Real, Symbolic and Imaginary [2005]
Space Tesselation (Demi-Sphere) [2005]
Space Tesselation (Demi-Sphere) [2005]
Space Tesselation (Triple Helix) [2005]
Space Tesselation (Triple Helix) [2005]
Inversal [2004]
Inversal [2004]
Light Perpetual II [2004]
Light Perpetual II [2004]
Light Perpetual I [2004]
Light Perpetual I [2004]
Pre-Retroscope (Out at Sea) [2004]
Pre-Retroscope (Out at Sea) [2004]
Pre-Retroscope (Sea Kayak, River Fal) [2004]
Pre-Retroscope (Sea Kayak, River Fal) [2004]
Winnowing Oar [2004]
Winnowing Oar [2004]
Skelter [2003]
Skelter [2003]
The Nervous Systems [2003]
The Nervous Systems [2003]
Pre-Retroscope (Terrestrial) [2002]
Pre-Retroscope (Terrestrial) [2002]
Measurement and Control for the Infinite [2002]
Measurement and Control for the Infinite [2002]
Yarn [2001]
Yarn [2001]
IBLS [2001]

Investigative Bureau into the Location of the Soul

IBLS [2001]