Conrad Shawcross

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Lightworks

Patterns of Absence “O”, [2021]
Patterns of Absence “O”, [2021]
In Light of the Machine [2017]
In Light of the Machine [2017]
Slow Arc Inside A Cube VII [2014]
Slow Arc Inside A Cube VII [2014]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube VI [2013]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube VI [2013]
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 – ]
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]
Trophy [2012]
Trophy [2012]
Machina [2012]

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

Machina [2012]
Limit of Everything (5:4) [2011]
Limit of Everything (5:4) [2011]
The Blind Aesthetic [2011]
The Blind Aesthetic [2011]
The Limit of Everything [2010]
The Limit of Everything [2010]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube IV [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube III [2009]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube III [2009]
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]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube II [2008]
Slow Arc Inside a Cube II [2008]
Dark Heart [2007]
Dark Heart [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]
Binary Star [2006]
Binary Star [2006]
Counterpoint [2006]
Counterpoint [2006]
Loop Rotations [2006]
Loop Rotations [2006]
Loop System Quintet [2005]
Loop System Quintet [2005]
Counterpoint (Piano) [2005]
Counterpoint (Piano) [2005]
Light Perpetual II [2004]
Light Perpetual II [2004]
Light Perpetual I [2004]
Light Perpetual I [2004]
Skelter [2003]
Skelter [2003]