Search results
Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross RA (born 26 April 1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. When he was elected, Conrad Shawcross was the youngest living member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Lives and works in London. Imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality, Conrad Shawcross’s sculptures explore subjects that lie on the borders of geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics. Attracted by failed quests for knowledge in the past, he often appropriates redundant theories and methodologies to create ambitious ...
Oct 9, 2023 · By Clara Strunck Published: 09 October 2023. "A lot of my pieces have this cloak of the rational, but there's a more poetic heart beneath the surface." The artist Conrad Shawcross is...
Conrad Hartley Pelham Shawcross (born 26 April 1977) is a British artist specializing in mechanical sculptures based on philosophical and scientific ideas. When he was elected, Conrad Shawcross was the youngest living member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Sep 3, 2019 · Artist Conrad Shawcross on Acid House and a New Sculpture in London. Home. ARTnews. ‘We Are a Blight on Nature’: Machine Master Conrad Shawcross on Artificial Intelligence, Acid House,...
Light Perpeptual. Conrad Shawcross. Housed in a giant cage like a wild, unpredictable experiment, The End of the Particular (Perpetual Light I) has an inherent sense of danger; the laboratory result of Conrad Shawcross’s anorak enthusiasm for science.
Conrad Shawcross is critically acclaimed for his sculptural practice which probes the intersections of art, science, maths and philosophy. In his early career, he became renowned for his vast mechanical works, often made in homage to great scientists but in recent years, he has ‘matured’ into the making of static works.
